{"id":18035,"date":"2018-07-16T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rhtlawasia.com\/?p=18035"},"modified":"2022-05-30T13:46:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T05:46:27","slug":"rhtlaw-taylor-wessing-managing-partner-tan-chong-huat-featured-in-bts-views-from-the-top-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhtlawasia.com\/rhtlaw-taylor-wessing-managing-partner-tan-chong-huat-featured-in-bts-views-from-the-top-column\/","title":{"rendered":"RHTLaw Taylor Wessing Managing Partner, Tan Chong Huat, featured in BT\u2019s Views from the Top column"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>RHTLaw Taylor Wessing Managing Partner,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rhtlawasia.com\/people\/tan-chong-huat\/\">Tan Chong Huat<\/a>, was featured in the Business Times\u2019 Views from the Top column article titled \u201cA bitter pill that needs to be swallowed\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article was first published in The Business Times on 16 July 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A bitter pill that needs to be swallowed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>THIS WEEK\u2019S TOPIC: Is the latest round of property market cooling measures well-timed or a tad early? What effects, if any, will there be beyond the property sector?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: The Business Times<br>Date: 16 July 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tan Chong Huat<br>Managing Partner<br>RHTLaw Taylor Wessing LLP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AN impressive S$9 billion closed in 2017 and over S$10 billion in the first half of 2018 took Singapore\u2019s en bloc sale market by storm, fuelling runaway property prices. The Residential Price Index is at its highest and developers have seized the opportunity to launch residential properties at never-before-seen prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>En bloc transactions have peaked, so calling the latest round of curbs a cooling measure may be a misnomer. The joint forces of top authorities will freeze the residential market, just like in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last-minute rushed sales, developers\u2019 discounts to soften the impact, property stocks hit hard aside, we will see a correction in property prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest measures may have come too late for our good, but too sudden and harsh for some.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RHTLaw Taylor Wessing Managing Partner,&nbsp;Tan Chong Huat, was featured in the Business Times\u2019 Views from the Top column article titled \u201cA bitter pill that needs to be swallowed\u201d. The article was first published in The Business Times on 16 July 2018. A bitter pill that needs to be swallowed THIS WEEK\u2019S TOPIC: Is the latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>RHTLaw Taylor Wessing Managing Partner, Tan Chong Huat, featured in BT\u2019s Views from the Top column<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"RHTLaw Taylor Wessing Managing Partner, Tan Chong Huat, was featured in the Business Times\u2019 Views from the Top column article titled \u201cA bitter pill that needs to be swallowed&quot;...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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