Swee Yong runs International Property Advisor Pte Ltd, a licensed broker/agency in Singapore.
He was the CEO of Century 21 Singapore and the Key Executive Officer of International Property Advisor Pte Ltd. in Singapore. He was a Director in the Real Estate Centre of Expertise at Société Générale Private Banking, responsible for advising clients on real estate investments, the Director of Marketing and Business Development at Savills Singapore, and the General Manager at Far East Organization’s Indonesia office.
He holds an MBA in Marketing from the University of Hull in the UK, and completed his BSc at Imperial College, University of London in the UK and the Institut Louis Pasteur, Université de Strasbourg in France.
Swee Yong’s opinion is regularly featured in the Straits Times, Business Times, 新明日报, 联合早报, Channel NewsAsia, and TODAY, among others. He has published four books on the property market: Real Estate Riches, Building Your Real Estate Riches, Real Estate Realities and Weathering a Property Downturn.
Barring seismic shifts from global political and economic events, what might happen when the upward pressure of excess liquidity combine with the potential increase of resale residences?
Singapore and Malaysia signed off on a Memorandum Of Understanding on 19 July 2016 to build a High Speed Rail (HSR) linking Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.
Land scarcity is a very real problem for Singapore, which explains the ever-increasing land costs and property prices which are driven by pent-up demand.
Where did the close to 4,700 applications for new executive condominiums disappear to?
Singapore - Astute investors will stay on the sidelines, waiting out the poor rental market, higher interest costs
A series of cooling measures progressively introduced in the last 6 years has led to a patchwork quilt covering the property market that is now uncomfortably scratchy and somewhat suffocating.
Given the changes in the economic winds, recent investors in the office segment must be scratching their heads over the wisdom of their decisions.