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Rules, foreign-specific costs, cities and articles for foreign buyers, country by country.
Yes for condominiums; landed houses need Singapore Land Authority approval. Additional buyer's stamp duty is 60 percent.
Yes, with FIRB approval, but foreign persons are generally banned from buying established dwellings until 30 June 2029.
Cities: Sydney
Cities: Tokyo
Cities: Seoul
Cities: Dubai
Yes. In England and Northern Ireland, residential stamp duty is 2 percentage points higher for non-UK residents.
Cities: London
Cities: Toronto
Published work in this section starts with how to choose a city for real estate investment. It weighs demand, supply, rules, net yield, liquidity, financing, and currency.
The rental reading is renting out property abroad: letting rules and tax in five markets. It reads official letting and rental-tax rules across five markets. Tokyo used condos and October paperwork is filed as an individual note, with August asking prices and the October paperwork changes, each tied to a source and a date.
Rentals and letting
From 21 September 2026 Ontario cuts N4 non-payment notices to 7 days, limits N12 compensation and defines persistent late rent, in Toronto and province-wide.
Prices and market data
URA's flash estimate puts Singapore private home prices up 1.4% in the third quarter of 2026, led by suburban condominiums, while sales to mid-September fell.
Prices and market data
Cotality's Home Value Index fell 1.1% in September, a sixth monthly decline that leaves national dwelling values 5.2% below their March peak as the cash rate rises to 4.60%.
Prices and market data
Seoul's north-eastern districts have outpaced the south-east all year on the Korea Real Estate Board's weekly survey, and since early August Gangnam and Seocho have posted declines as reconstruction complexes trade below summer prices.
Foreign-buyer rules
The permit zones, permit, purchase reports, loan limits, acquisition tax and annual holding tax a foreign buyer of a Seoul home meets, under the law read on 29 September 2026 and the holding tax bill now before the National Assembly.
Buildings and developments
Corcoran Sunshine counts Manhattan's unsold new-development stock at its lowest since 2014, while BHSDM expects the most fourth-quarter launches in a decade. How both can hold, and what New York City's new surcharge on non-primary homes adds for a buyer.
All articles on choosing a market
A Singapore price is published with its official source and the date it was read. Cross-border questions, including yield, currency, and who may buy, live in International investing.