Auction market slumps 59.7% in 1H2023, lowest sales value in three years: Edmund Tie
The regional real estate auction marketplace effectively sold 11 real estates over the very first six months of this year. A research note released by Edmund Tie mentions that the total sale price for the effectively auctioned real properties was $15.2 million.
The “high-value purchase” was for a three-storey semi-detached residence on Vaughan Street that was negotiated for $6.3 million. Furthermore, 7 of the outstanding properties sold at marketplace were industrialized residential properties, with the rest being three homes along with an office property.
This was the lowest sales market value filed by the auction market since 1H2020, the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, when just one estate was brought $0.94 million. It is also a substantial drop of 59.7% compared to 2H2022 which reported 17 sales value $37.7 million.
Looking ahead, she assumes to see property loan listings pick up only in 2024, given the moment lag in between banks reclaiming real estates as well as putting them up for auction. She as well anticipates commercial listings to gather even more purchasing rate of interest. “Given that commercial transactions are going to not acquire extra purchaser’s stamp duty and with the boost in family offices in Singapore, well-priced business office listings will also likely be very searched for,” she says.
Cognisant of the upcoming brand-new private non commercial jobs readied to reach the marketplace over the following several quarters, prospective customers are holding back on their purchases, states Tan, including that outside factors like fears of an approaching economic downturn together with higher rate of interest are also impacting sales.
According to Joy Tan, head of sell-off and sales at Edmund Tie, the low sales value in 1H2023 was due to “the properties pounded being of low quantum, mostly possibly beneath or simply past the S$ 1 million mark. There was a single high-value transaction that was over S$ 5 million”.
She incorporates that within the past couple of months, financiers are displaying a growing acknowledgment in the direction of leasehold buildings with shorter remaining lease periods of commonly 30 to 60 years. “This is likely because of financiers’ greater possibility tolerance, as economic markets remain unpredictable, and also a noticeable choice shift to alternative investment chances.”
” Additionally, on the back of the high interest rates, the cooling down steps released in April plus the general unconfirmed macro environment, customers have normally followed a wait-and-see position,” claims Tan.
