This article contains affiliate links. DollarsAndSense may receive a share of the revenue from your sign-ups that goes towards keeping the site sustainable. You can read our editorial policy for more information. Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) is a popular type of investment in Singapore. In fact, it is so popular that Singapore has grown to become the largest REIT market in Asia ex-Japan with a market capitalisation of $108 billion comprising 42 REITs and Property Trusts. While there are many REITs with both local and overseas property portfolio, many REITs with purely overseas properties have also chosen to list on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). Investors in Singapore are mainly drawn to REIT investments for two reasons. #1 REITs Are Essentially Property Investments. Singapore

Technical Analysis of FTSE ST REIT Index (FSTAS351020) FTSE ST Real Estate Investment Trusts (FTSE ST REIT Index) increased from 827.88 to 864.41 (4.41%) compared to the last month update. The Singapore REIT index rebounded off from the support level at 807 3 times, broke the 836 resistance turned support level and is now trading between the 836-890 range. Support Lines: Blue Resistance Lines: Red Short-term direction: Upwards Medium-term direction: Sideways Long-term direction: Sideways Immediate Support at 836, followed by 807. Immediate Resistance at 890. The REIT Index traded between 807 and 836 for much of March, before breaking the 836 resistance on March 17. It has entered a short-term uptrend since then, reaching 864.41 as of now. Previous chart on FTSE ST REIT index can be f

The STI climbed a wall of worry to rise 166 points or 5.1% to 3,408.52 over the month The STI’s first quarter gain was 9.1% The rise came despite was in Ukraine and the US Fed signalling it will be aggressive in raising interest rates Oil prices weakened after news that US will tap its reserves The US Treasury yield curve inverted twice during the week US inflation is still running red hot Banks and hospitality Reits were best performers Sembmarine gave notice of 3 years of losses Market cap rose 2.8% to S$884.2b Stocks managed to climb a “wall of worry’’, STI up 9.1% in 1Q The Straits Times Index managed a 166 points or 5.1% gain at 3,408.52 over the month of March, which might lead to quite a few raised eyebrows given that the war in Ukraine is dragging on, oil prices are sti

Technical Analysis of FTSE ST REIT Index (FSTAS351020) FTSE ST Real Estate Investment Trusts (FTSE ST REIT Index) decreased from 816.11 to 827.88 (1.44%) compared to the last month update. The Singapore REIT index rebounded off 800 in January 2022 and has stayed within the 800-836 range. Short-term direction: Sideways Medium-term direction: Sideways Long-term direction: Sideways Immediate Support at 800, followed by 775. Immediate Resistance at 836. Following the correction from 800, the REIT Index went on a short-term uptrend until the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, when the REIT Index hit the support level of 807 on both February 24th and 28th. In the past 2 months, it has challenged the resistance of 836 a total of 3 times. It is now at 827.88.       Previous chart on FTSE ST REIT

2021 wasn’t a great year for REITs. When everyone thought that the worst was over, the new variants Delta and Omicron emerged. This resulted in the tightening of pandemic measures in Singapore and the rest of the world. The new variants caught everyone by surprise, especially investors with exposure to REITs. REITs with a heavy concentration in the retail and office sectors remained laggards in terms of recovery as workers continued to work from home. Travel bubbles have helped but it wasn’t sufficient to stage a full recovery of tourist arrivals, so hospitality assets remain depressed. Industrial REITs with logistics and data centre assets, which benefited from lockdowns in 2020, did poorly in 2021. Performance of selected Singapore REITs. The returns in the chart don’t co

Technical Analysis of FTSE ST REIT Index (FSTAS351020) FTSE ST Real Estate Investment Trusts (FTSE ST REIT Index) decreased from 853.35 to 816.11 (-4.37%) compared to the last month update. The Singapore REIT index broke the support level of 816 to a low of 799 but has since rebounded to 816.  Short-term direction: Down  Medium-term direction: Down Immediate Support at 800, followed by 775. Immediate Resistance at 816. Due to the recent correction, Immediate Support is now 800 (partially a psychological support since 800 is a round number) and Immediate Resistance is now 816. In order to return to the range the Index was trading in for the past 18 months (between 816 and 890, the 2 thick red lines), the Index has to break above the Immediate Resistance of 816. This has happene

Happy New Year! I recently came back from a holiday in Malaysia via the VTL, and managed to visit Starhill Global REIT’s 2 properties in Kuala Lumpur. A dedicated article on that will come out soon. Technical Analysis of FTSE ST REIT Index (FSTAS351020) FTSE ST Real Estate Investment Trusts (FTSE ST REIT Index) decreased slightly from 843.73 to 853.35 (1.14%) compared to the last month update. Currently the Singapore REIT index is still trading with a range between 816 and 890. As for now, Short term direction: Up. Medium direction: Sideways. Immediate Support at 834, followed by 816. Immediate Resistance at 890. Previous chart on FTSE ST REIT index can be found in the last post: Singapore REIT Fundamental Comparison Table on December 5, 2021. Fundamental Analysis of 40 Singapore

Signs that Omicron may not be that virulent helped push the STI up Wall St hit a new all-time high on Friday despite strong inflation data Volume here was weak, averaging just over S$1b daily Traders also watching China Evergrande after Fitch report Travel, aviation, hospitality and healthcare stocks were in play DBS: “reopening stocks’’ may be close to their bottom Keppel shareholders vote in favour of SPH acquisition As Omicron fears fade, stocks recovered The Straits Times Index rose 34 points or about 1.1% to 3,135.61 last week, helped by a firm Wall Street that rebounded strongly on early indications that the Omicron variant of Covid-19 may be less deadly or dangerous than first thought. On Friday, the S&P 500 closed at a new all-time high of 4,712 despite the release of

Despite spending nearly three decades of his career in the real estate investment and management industry, Desmond Tang has yet to experience a dull day. That’s because the real estate industry has continued to prove its resilience amid disruptive trends. And Tang’s start-up experience – prior to leading Straits Real Estate (SRE), a wholly owned subsidiary of SGX-listed The Straits Trading Company – has come in handy. “Real estate is never boring,” said Tang, the Chief Executive Officer of SRE. “Despite its image as a traditional old-fashioned industry – a common parochial view – real estate is difficult to replace, even as economies evolve, and technology changes lives and businesses.” “People talk about modernising real estate, but the truth of matt

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