Daily Briefing: How DBS can gain from One Belt One Road project; Two estates eye en bloc sales

And here are top 5 reasons to use property agents when buying a home.

From Motley Fool Singapore: The country’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) project is a massive infrastructure program that will stretch into 60 countries in Africa, Asia, and Europe. It will cover 60% of the world’s population and represent one-third of the world’s gross domestic product. Companies in Singapore, such as DBS Group Holdings Ltd (SGX: D05), could stand to benefit from the programme. The Asian bank’s chief executive officer, Piyush Gupta, responded to a question on OBOR in its latest earnings briefing: “We do project financing, M&A financing, all kinds of financing. When a company goes overseas, they need money for both buying the asset or doing greenfield projects. We do both.”

From PropertyGuru: Following the recent collective sales of Rio Casa and Eunosville, two more privatised HUDC estates – Tampines Court and Florence Regency – are eyeing the en bloc sales path.The 560-unit Tampines Court is expected to launch its tender next month as almost 82 percent of owners have already agreed to the sale, showed a Facebook page. The owners are looking to sell the 702,000 sq ft site for at least S$960 million.

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