Aeon Property

Property is an excellent investment, and Singapore has had one of the world's most consistent property markets over the last 30 years. Not only is Sinagpore an outstanding country in terms of lifestyle and climate, it offers many economical and political advantages to today's overseas property investors. Investing in Singapore properties has become popular with overseas investors looking for returns and stability not available in their own country.

This has become an attractive option for many reasons, including:

 

Stability

Singapore's property market has a proven record of stable prices. Overseas property markets such as Hong Kong or the USA have suffered significant crashes that are completely unheard of in Singapore. Singapore is stable both economically and politically, which cultivates a peaceful and secure style of living. Singapore has a well-established legal and property buying system. Investment markets are regulated such that they are transparent and low risk in the Singapore sector.

Since 1900 when records began the Singaporean market has not suffered a fall in median house prices over 20% in one year. This is true even the Global Financial Crisis of 2009 / 2010 that saw property prices in the UK and USA fall significantly. Real estate prices around Singapore actually increased in value during this period.

 

Strong growth performance

Singapore's GDP is on par with most European countries. Singapore's strong economic growth rates are higher than most OECD countries, including the US and UK. Singaporean properties have enjoyed consistent capital growth over the last 100 years, with property prices doubling roughly every 7 to 10 years.One of the reasons behind the growth is Singapore's chronic housing shortage in many of the major cities. Population is growing in a rate much faster than dwellings are being constructed. This causes prices to rise, which in turn results in high rental demand.

 

Singapore is a great place to live

Singapore is well known for its FOOD. Find it on Verdun Road in Little India. If it's edible and fits on a plate, bowl, banana leaf or sheet of paper, we'll wolf it with zeal. But if you truly want to sample Singapore’s food culture, head to any of the hawker centers in the heartlands -- there’s a huge variety of stalls there at dirt-cheap prices.

Singapore's a Garden City, literally. Amid the concrete jungle we call home, there's the Botanical Gardens, HortPark, MacRitchie Reservoir, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve -- each claiming myriad varieties of flora and fauna. But the most common impression left visitors to Singapore concerns the rows of trees that line roads everywhere, from expressways to suburban streets. It's not just a green facade --

Singapore's a champion of environmental initiatives, from the world's largest CNG refueling stationto its first Solar Greenlots for electric vehicles.

Singapore has one of the best health care infrastructures in the world, with various dignitaries and royals from the region patronizing local hospitals -- Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe even slipped in quietly for a 'secret cancer check-up' in 2008. The health care provision system is also one of the world's best, so good that some say it beats the proposed ObamaCare model.

 

Singapore is the first F1 venue to host a night race on its streets, and will do so for several years to come. The inaugural race in 2008 also earned the city-state an unfortunate distinction for being the one in which Team Renault boss Flavio Briatore ordered Nelson Piquet to crash, giving teammate Fernando Alonso the win. It's now known as the Singapore 'Crashgate' scandal -- which might lend some cred to Singapore's squeaky-clean image.

 

Singapore has a crime rate so low, ladies stroll without fear in the wee hours of the night. Neil Humphreys, a UK-born columnist who planned to visit for three months and ended up staying for almost 10 years, commented on how safe the island state was in his book, Notes from An Even Smaller Island. And contrary to Western opinion, there's no strong police presence poised to cane anyone for spitting, chewing gum or scratching cars.

 

It's the pearl of Singapore's eastern end, voted Best Airport by more magazines and organizations than anywhere else. Families plan weekend excursions here, students spend inordinate amounts of time studying and daydreaming within its four terminals, and over 37 million passengers passed through its gates in 2008. There's a great transit hotel in the form of the Hotel Crowne Plaza Changi Airport, an orchid garden complete with a koi pond, free video games and movies 24 hours a day and free wireless internet throughout the airport. Why does anyone ever depart this place?