Most intellectuals will agree with your comments. But...
1. They have manipulated bankruptcies figures at least for the time being leading to the openings of the 2 IRs.
After that, they will hammer all these POOR SUCKERS have had agreed to AVOIDING BANKRUPTCY because they agreed to STUPID repayment plans.
Just flip through Friday and Monday classified and you will see that bankruptcy filings are down.
Only the bad news are Real and Accurate, and 'good news' are 'lies' and manipulated ?
2. Because of #1, property prices are still seen as 'steady' because there are many FT SUCKERS taken in by our 154th bullish reports, mainly the Indonesians. S'pore has always been the country of choice for INDON CHINESE to park their BIG monies.
Indonesians have been buying SG properties in good and bad times. Their faith in SG is never shaken and wavered.
3. Because of #1 and #2, property prices are still only down around 30% when it should be much more. It's a FIXED scenario. But what to do, there are always MANY FOOLS AND SUCKERS around. Better the FTs than S'poreans.
My 2 cts worth.
It is better to have support in property price. A collapse in property price is not good for most people (maybe a buyer who currently owns no property, has secured job and holds plenty of cash).