{"id":636745,"date":"2026-10-05T05:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/636745\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T05:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:58:12","slug":"as-higher-interest-rates-loom-might-renting-trump-buying-a-private-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/636745\/","title":{"rendered":"As higher interest rates loom, might renting trump buying a private home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-description\">Equity used to buy a home for occupation can be deployed to build a retirement nest egg of quality stocks\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">[SINGAPORE] Interest-rate movements in Singapore are not directly co-related with those in the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Still, could the US Federal Reserve\u2019s hike of its benchmark overnight interest rate in mid-September with indications of further hikes in the coming months herald an era of higher interest rates over a prolonged period in many places including Singapore?<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">For sure, retirees here may welcome higher interest rates as they can get better returns from safe instruments such as Singapore dollar fixed deposits or treasury bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Equity used to buy a home for occupation can be deployed to build a retirement nest egg of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,8331,85,4486,46,7636,287473,287472,287474],"class_list":["post-636745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-housing","tag-il","tag-interest-rates","tag-israel","tag-residential","tag-singapore-mortgages","tag-singapore-residential-property","tag-the-level-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}