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The Singapore Property Sector: An Overview

In: THE SINGAPORE BLUE CHIPS The Rewards & Risks of Investing in Singapore’s Largest Corporates

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  • Nandini Vijayaraghavan
  • Umesh Desai

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The real estate sector is one of the pillars of the Singapore economy. Construction and ownership of dwellings accounted for 4.1% and 4.9% of the 2015 GDP at current prices, aggregating 9.2%. The share of these two sectors has progressively increased to 9.2% in 2015 from 8.3% in 2011. Home ownership rate of resident households has progressively peaked to 92% in 2000 from 58.8% in 1980 and has slightly moderated to 90.3% in 2014. Nevertheless, Singapore has among the highest home ownership rates in the world.

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  • Nandini Vijayaraghavan & Umesh Desai, 2017. "The Singapore Property Sector: An Overview," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: THE SINGAPORE BLUE CHIPS The Rewards & Risks of Investing in Singapore’s Largest Corporates, chapter 16, pages 159-170, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789814759748_0016
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    Keywords

    Singapore; Blue Chips; Large Caps; Straits Times Index; STI; Temasek; Stock Performance; Stock Investment; Stock Return; Singapore Banks; DBS; UOB; OCBC; Singapore Real Estate; CapitaLand; SingTel;
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    JEL classification:

    • G30 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - General
    • G20 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - General
    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions

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