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I doubt sales is good and they had to buy it in order to keep the market up and making their development appear popular.
THE sizzling property market is prompting even the developers themselves to snap up units in their new projects, especially high-end properties.
Singapore Exchange filings show that at least four listed developers have sold units in their residential developments to relatives or 'interested parties'.
An interested party can be a director, a chief executive, a controlling shareholder or one of their associates.
Madam Cecilia Kok, wife of City Developments (CDL) executive chairman Kwek Leng Beng, has bought a third-floor unit in the 228-unit Residences at W Singapore Sentosa Cove for $4.6 million after a 22 per cent discount.
At the time the option to purchase was granted, members of the public were being offered a 20 per cent discount.
An additional 2 per cent discount was offered to the company's directors, including their spouses and children, under its preferential discount scheme for buying units in its developments, said CDL in its statutory filing.