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Impact of ABSD hike on housing market could go two ways

Since the COVID-19 pandemic struck, private residential prices in Singapore have continued to surge. The latest round of cooling measures by the Government include an increase in the additional buyer’s stamp duty (ABSD). According to Provost’s Chair Professor Sing Tien Foo from the Department of Real Estate at NUS Business School, the goals of the ABSD hikes are twofold – slow capital inflows that make Singapore residential property a hot investment asset and impose higher costs on price-sensitive local investors buying second and subsequent properties.


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Reimagining workfare to uplift low-wage families

Recent parliament debates on President Halimah Yacob’s address highlighted the need to step up support for the disadvantaged and vulnerable segments in our society, among other priorities. To truly uplift our society, Dr Ong EeCheng from the NUS Department of Economics and Assoc Prof Irene Ng from the NUS Department of Social Work, feel that we need to bolster not just individual workers, but also their families. And the answer to this may come from the reimagination of a policy – the Workfare Income Supplement.


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