Housing loans in Singapore grew at 6.4 percent year-on-year in October – or its slowest pace in seven years – on the back of a weak property market as well as a higher base, said Maybank Kim Eng and reported in the media.
“Industry domestic banking unit (DBU) loans for Kingsford Waterbay grew nine percent Tampines Ave 11 Tender year-on-year in October, down from 10.6 percent a month earlier. Business and consumer loans grew at their slowest pace in four and seven years respectively. The former’s slowdown was led by lending to general commerce (+12.3 percent year-on-year), transport, storage & communication (+13.5 percent) and financial institutions (+15.4 percent),” it said.
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“The latter’s deceleration came about as property-market sentiment remained poor. But as we had toned down our loan-growth expectations after Q3 2014 results, especially for DBS, there is no need to revise numbers just yet.”
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