Source document

Policy Changes Affecting the Property Market (Ministerial Statement by the Minister for National Development, Mah Bow Tan), 19 July 2005

Parliament of Singapore (Official Report / Hansard) · Law · 19 Jul 2005 · Singapore

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CompleteReviewed 9 Oct 2026

Reviewed. Everything in it that belongs in the tables has been taken.

What the document holds

Hansard sitting of 19 July 2005 (whole sitting stored); the relevant item is the ministerial statement 'Policy Changes Affecting the Property Market' (cols 925-943): private residential property removed from GIP investments in 1996 and re-allowed under a new S$2m option with up to 50% in private residential property, with immediate effect. The rest (CPF, loan-to-value limits, Residential Property Act changes, and the other questions of the sitting) is out of scope. The S$2m term and both events were already recorded; nothing further in scope. Rules restated from other sources are now recorded from this document too (decision 8).

What it supports

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About the document

What it covers Re-allowing private residential property as a GIP investment (S$2 million option, up to 50% in property); property had been removed from GIP in 1996.

Notes Official Report vol. 80, cols 933-934. Stored file is the whole sitting as returned by the SPRS API (getHansardReport).

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