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Grace Leong

Senior Correspondent

Grace joined The Straits Times in 2013 after three years at The Business Times. She was part of The Sunday Times’ team that won a bronze award at the Asian Media Awards in 2021. She also received two awards, in 2012 and 2017, from the Securities Investors Association (Singapore). Grace worked in Las Vegas and Utah from 1999 to 2010, during which she covered the impacts of the Sept 11 attacks, subprime mortgage crisis and the 2008 financial crisis. She bagged multiple awards for her reporting during her time in the US.

Latest articles

Subsidy clawbacks could hit 20% for Singapore’s tallest public housing project at Pearl’s Hill: Analysts

The BTO project in Pearl’s Hill, next to Outram Park MRT station, will house about 1,700 two-room flexi, three- and four-room flats and 140 public rental units.

New tool to help businesses estimate Singapore land betterment charges up front

The LBC is a tax levied when planning permission is granted for development, or when land value increases due to improved use.

Frasers Property clinches The Centrepoint’s rear block in $391.9 million en bloc purchase

The Centrepoint's rear block comprises 66 retail units and 66 residential apartments.

City Plaza secures mandate for $970 million collective sale after two failed attempts

City Plaza’s first collective sale attempt was in 2018 at a reserve price of $1.05 billion, but it secured only 53 per cent support.

Tenants await outcome of The Centrepoint’s partial collective sale effort

Developed by Frasers Centrepoint (now Frasers Property), The Centrepoint’s rear block was put up for collective sale at $418 million on Jan 7.

Huttons Asia, property agent, law firm sued over 99-1 deal for condo bought by foreigner and student

Mr Zhang Han Ming and his girlfriend Liu Yu Tong purchased their $1.38 million condo at Ki Residences at Brookvale in May 2021.

City Plaza gunning for third time lucky with $970m collective sale attempt, hoping for CDL support

Zoned for commercial use, City Plaza sits on a 13,146 sq m site, with gross floor area of 33,781 sq m..

Convicted market maker Huang Yiwen testifies to ‘marking the close’ at Goh Jin Hian’s criminal trial

In September 2023, Huang Yiwen, Goh Jin Hian (pictured) and two others were handed more than 130 charges related to false trading offences.

‘No need to break the bank to keep shares up’: Goh Jin Hian criminal trial on market rigging begins

Goh Jin Hian, 56, the son of former prime minister Goh Chok Tong, was chief executive of New Silkroutes from 2015 to 2020.

SLA launches tender for pre-WWII heritage bungalows in Adam Park

The black and white Art-Deco style bungalow cluster in Adam Park, which is zoned for residential use, has a 30-year leasehold tenure.