Economics

Singapore’s Housing Shortage Risks Bid to Cool Home Prices

  • Tight supply, resilient demand may undermine cooling measures
  • Developers have little incentive to lower prices, analysts say

Houses in the Holland Park area, near Botanic Gardens in Singapore.

Photographer: Bryan van der Beek/Bloomberg
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Singapore’s property boom has left the tiny island state with a record low number of new homes for sale, threatening to undermine government efforts to calm the market.