In what could be a ray of hope for a recovery in resale volumes of private housing transactions, the number of units transacted in this segment rose 8.4 per cent to 2,528 in the second half of last year from 2,332 in the first half, according to DTZ’s analysis of caveats data from URA Realis. Resales refer to transactions of completed properties. In contrast, new sales by developers and subsales (secondary market deals involving uncompleted properties) continued to fall. New sales by developers slipped 36 per cent to 2,520 from H1. Over the same period, subsales eased 9.4 per cent to 260
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