Resale prices of non-landed private
homes dipped marginally in September by 0.3% month-on-month, according
to flash estimates from SRX Property on Tuesday (Oct 14).
When compared with September 2013,
resale prices of non-landed private homes have dropped 4.6%. Compared
with the recent peak in January 2014, prices have declined 5.6%, SRX
said.
Resale prices of private homes in the
Outside of Central Region dropped the most last month, falling 2.1% compared with August. In comparison, prices in the Core Central Region and Rest
of Central Region rose by 0.9% and 2.9%, respectively.
Resale volume rose sharply, with an
estimated 468 non-landed private homes resold in September, up 15.3% from the 406 transacted units in August.
The overall median Transaction Over
X-value (TOX), which measures whether people are overpaying or underpaying the
SRX Property X-Value estimated market value, remained at -$2,000 last month,
up from -$10,000 in August.
For districts with more than 10 resale
transactions, districts 10, 15 and 16 saw a positive median TOX, with district
15 posting the highest median TOX of $65,000, followed by district 16 with $18,000 and district 10 with $10,000.
Conversely, district 9, 11 and 12 had
the lowest median TOX with -$37,000, -$35,000 and -$23,000, respectively.
As for rental transactions, the number
of non-landed private homes rented out last month was 3,171 – a 14% decline from August. Year-on-year, rental volume improved by 8.7% from
the 2,916 units rented in September 2013.
However, rental prices continued
declining, slipping 0.2% from the previous month – the eighth
consecutive month of decline.
The decline was greatest in the Outside
of Central Region at 0.9% and the Rest of Central Region at 0.6%.
Units in the Core Central Region saw a rent increase of 0.3%, SRX said.
Source: CNA
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