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What Transaction Volumes Tell Us About Investing in the Property Market
By Singapore Property Blog  •  July 17, 2012
What Transaction Volumes Tell Us About Investing in the Property Market Transaction volumes can tell us a lot about the current activity and sentiment in the Singapore property market. In general, volume tends to pick up during bull markets and die down during bear markets.

How volumes are affected during bull and bear markets

We can see this quite clearly in Figure 1.1.2a, which looks at the Total Residential Sales Volume (in terms of number of units) on a quarterly basis. Transaction volume in the Singapore residential property market had a pronounced peak during 2007Q2 at just under 13,000 units, one quarter before the end of the Early Bull Market Phase in PropertyMarketInsights.com’s Property Market Cycle Model. Due to the Global Financial Crisis, volumes collapsed after 2007Q2 and hit a bottom in 2008Q4 at under 2,000 units, one quarter after the start of the Early Bear Market Phase. Since then, residential property sales volume recovered quickly and remained ......
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