Condo rents drop by 0.6% in May
Rental volume jumped by 5.8%, however.
Rentals for non-landed private residential units dropped by 0.6% last month, with rents in the core central region (CCR), rest of central region (RCR), and outside central region (OCR), decreasing by 0.8%, 0.4%, and 0.5% respectively.
According to estimates by SRX, year-on-year, rents dropped by 5.2%, and have cascaded by 16.5% from its peak in January 2013.
Meanwhile, condo rental volume has increased by 5.8%, with an 4.400 Non-landed Private Residential units were rented last month.
“Year-on-year, rental volume in May 2016 was 14.4% higher than 3,845 units rented in May 2015,” SRX property said.