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How to Help Your Tweens & Teens with Online Learning

How to Help Your Tweens & Teens with Online Learning

There are seven things we can do as parents to help our teens and tweens with online learning, whether it’s completely remote or hybrid. These things will build skills that will benefit our kids for a lifetime, but they’ll also lower the stress and tension in our homes in the short term.

Turns out watching my child transition to middle school feels almost as much like a terrifying cliff dive as actually going to middle school myself.

My logical brain understood that my junior high kiddo wouldn’t have the same hand-holding and one or two main teachers anymore. But my mom brain still wants to explode at the absurdity that I don’t know his teachers’ names and might still not know all of them by the end of this school year.

My logical self knows that my son isn’t all that different than he was three months ago. But he’s grown four inches in the last year (four more inches and he’ll be looking me in the eye at 5’6’’). He also sounds like a mini-man and IS IN JUNIOR I’m officially hitting a new level of fear of the Internet, Tik Tok, 13-year-old girls that look like women and all mood-altering substances.

And the cherry on top? COVID. Remote schooling.

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We’re learning Schoology and SeeSaw, installing a whole house mesh Wi-Fi system, and figuring out how to manage three kids on Zoom calls and messages from two school buildings while my husband and I both try to do our actual jobs on a daily basis.

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True story: the day schedules were announced and school supply lists were posted, I texted back and forth (a lot) with the daughter of a family friend who is one year above my son in school. I needed her to explain to me what the heck was going on.

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I would be embarrassed if this wasn't so darn funny.

What was my son doing while I stress-texted this responsible 13-year-old family friend? Probably playing Brawl Stars or Clash of Clans or taking pictures of the dog for his iPhone background.

It’s time for me - as a mom and often a control-freak - to face a few facts so that I can do the right things to help my tween and teen sons with online school.

It’s natural and healthy for teenagers to start moving toward independence and leaning more on peers. The tricky part is that teens’ executive functions skills - the parts of the brain needed to work toward goals and accomplish tasks - have a ways to go.

Kids' executive functioning skills aren't really done developing until about age 25 (and that's if someone teaches them). Outside factors like stress, lack of sleep, lack of exercise, sadness and loneliness weaken executive functioning even more. Moms of teenagers everywhere say "Thanks for nothing, COVID!"

But the upside is that the brain is like a muscle - when we work it, it gets stronger. I’ve decided I’m going to trust my kids' teachers with the academics, and I’m going to focus on flexing my kids’ brains in the area of executive functioning (I’m using the 8 pillars outlined by clinical psychologist Dr. Adam Cox):

  • Initiation
    Translation: showing motivation & doing things without being nagged
  • Flexibility
    Translation: reading the room and rolling with the punches
  • Attention
    Translation: ignoring distractions when it’s time to focus
  • Organization
    Translation: understanding that chaos derails progress & causes stress
  • Planning
    Translation: respecting the importance of time, clarifying priorities, meeting deadlines
  • Working memory
    Translation: retaining information and truly learning
  • Self-awareness
    Translation: perceiving how others see you and making purposeful choices
  • Regulating emotions
    Translation: reacting appropriately to a situation

I’m a teacher myself, so no disrespect intended when I say that if my children master this set of skills by the time they leave my house but skimp a little on math or English or history knowledge - I’m ok with that.

There are seven things we can do as parents to help our teens and tweens with online learning, whether it’s completely remote or hybrid. These things will build our children’s executive functioning skills (hooray for long term benefits), but they’ll also lower the stress and tension in our homes in the short term.

1. Hand Over Control

This one goes out to all of my fellow Type A moms because it hurts me as much as it hurts you. We mean well, but hovering over our teens and their online learning has consequences. (We've got another post with the secret to the most successful Type A moms if you don't believe we get how you think.)

A great analogy in the article Hovering at Home: How Well Intentioned put this in perspective:

Picture your child moving through their classes during a typical (pre-COVID) school day. Now imagine what would happen if you were standing in the back of the classroom, prompting them whenever you felt they were off task, not paying attention, or getting distracted. Would your presence distract them, make them self-conscious, and/or possibly make them less likely to participate? Would you want your parent standing in the back of your classroom monitoring you all day?”

We’re stunting our teen’s ability to build executive functioning skills if we do things for them or micro-manage when and how they do things. This might include:

  • Writing things in your teens’ calendar
  • Creating to-do lists for your teen
  • Running around last minute to help your teen finish a project
  • Emailing a teacher to ask a question for your teen
  • Nagging your teen repeatedly about whether a paper is done, or a project complete

There are plenty of times when it’s appropriate to help. Jump down to numbers 2 and 3 for suggestions on when and how to jump in.

This article in Psychology Today talks about how much research supports that “healthy, self-disciplined, motivated teenagers have a strong sense of control over their lives.” It talks about establishing age-appropriate rules as a family and then giving kids freedom to make their own decisions within those boundaries.

Rules will need to change as kids get older, and more and more decision-making can be handed over as teens near adulthood.

2. Encourage Problem Solving

I teach college students, and I’m sometimes frustrated and discouraged by the number of students who didn’t develop a sense of resourcefulness before heading off to college. I’ll estimate that 50% of all of the emails I get from students would be answered if they re-read the syllabus or Googled the question. Another 25% would be answered if they asked a classmate.

News flash: employers want to hire problem-solvers. We’ve never before in history had access to the sheer magnitude of information we now have at our fingertips thanks to Google, Facebook and YouTube. We need to help our tweens and teens learn that the first step in solving a problem is to check their own resources.

And then we can teach our kids the second step of reaching out for help and answers. Tweens and teens should learn how to:

  • Make a phone call to an adult to ask a question (I have a friend who realized her teenage niece “didn’t feel comfortable” calling a restaurant to order takeout. She was floored. She forced said niece to face her fears and order the dang Chinese.)
  • Write a respectful email that addresses the person by name, uses complete sentences and ends with some kind of salutation like Best or Thanks or Sincerely. This requires a solid understanding of the differences between email and texts. Between talking to friends and talking to adults or strangers.
  • Reach out to a teacher to ask a question after making a good faith effort to answer the question on their own.
  • Ask friends when a homework assignment is due or whether they figured out the tricky equation if they’re not sure. Friends are not just there for fashion/video game/Tik Tok/gossip conversations.

3. Teach Time & Project Management

We can trade in the hovering and nagging about daily tasks for a focus on bigger picture skills like time and project management.

I appreciate that our elementary school helps develop time management and organization by requiring planners in both third and fourth grade and making them part of students’ required homework. In third grade, students fill out when they have spelling tests or homework due and they log nightly reading homework and need to get a daily sign-off from parents. In fourth grade, students need to maintain their planner but they aren’t required to get a daily parent signature.

We’re currently in the process of finding a process that works for my seventh grader. I did a tutorial on using Google calendar and added him to all of the family calendar items that include him. He woke up to a deluge of notifications about soccer practices and youth group meetings that were being added to his calendar.

Kristie and I also both whole-heartedly support writing things down as a way to remember. Research in the journal Psychological Science found that students who take notes by hand rather than on a laptop remember it much better.

My son has a print calendar and is considering the best way to use it for assignment due dates. Kristie bought both of her sons this student planner and they love it.

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Other opportunities to teach management:

  • Have an email training session and teach your teen how to use folders and flags to keep email organized. Help them set up key email accounts be easily accessible on their phone and send them needed notifications.
  • If your teen has a big project for school, help them make a list of the tasks it will require and assign by-whens to the smaller tasks to ensure the project gets done on time.
  • Talk to your teen about creating and following a packing list as you get ready for vacation.
  • If you have errands, ask your teen to help you think about the most efficient route or order of stops.
  • If your teen wants to save for a big-ticket item, help them list ways to earn money and plot out weekly or months goals for earning the money by a certain date.
  • If your teen has a lot to do or seems stressed, have a conversation about priorities. Have them write down what they need to do and help them process through which three things need to happen first so they know where to turn their focus.
  • Encourage your teen to try time-boxing. They can set a timer for how long they think a task should take and do their best to finish within that window. Explain that the goal isn’t to cause stress, but to prevent stalling and create some urgency as they race against the clock.

4. Identify and Avoid Danger Zones

A big part of effective time management is an awareness of the things that become black holes for your time. If you struggle with this yourself, check out our post on the top way to get more done each day.

It’s important to have a conversation with teens about areas they recognize as time-sucks right now in their lives, even though these things may change over time. Black holes are often things like video games, social media, YouTube, Netflix or even extended text conversations.

All of those things in moderation can be helpful for lowering stress and unwinding. But they’re also hard to stop once you start, so they can eat up time that should be earmarked for more productive things and can throw a schedule wildly out of balance.

Have honest discussions with your kids on ways you struggle with this and your own black hole activities (we all have them!) and share some best practices:

  • Encourage teens to stay away from black hole activities until the day’s important tasks (that could be homework, chores or checking in with a friend) are done.
  • Help teens think up front about setting limits on black hole activities and monitoring when they hit those limits.
  • Remind teens that things like having a cell phone, playing video games and hanging out with friends are still privileges and not rights. Growing up and gaining privileges also requires more mature time management and responsibility.
  • Teach teens that physical activity and fresh air may not be assigned tasks or black hole activities, but they are NECESSARY for good health and good attitudes. Encourage them to show responsibility by factoring those into their daily schedule just as much as homework and chores before jumping into a black hole.

5. Don’t Fear Failure

Our little mini-me’s aren’t us. We didn’t make the right choice every time, and neither will they. We might be able to share a little wisdom and protect them from a few bad choices, but there’s no way to make their path straight and simple. Pretty sure COVID is evidence of that.

We’re working so hard during this mask-wearing, remote-learning, social-distancing time to teach our kids to be resilient and positive, and there will be times they nail it and times they fall short. Failure isn’t the enemy, it’s the teacher.

Kristie and I talk a lot about whether our kids have it too easy. They live in suburban America with plenty of food and plenty of money and plenty of luxuries. They’ve had some challenges, but nothing like kids in so many parts of the world face on a daily basis.

And if we shield and protect them from failures and challenges now, what life skills are we really building? We’re playing a short-term, immediate gratification strategy when we should be playing a long game to raise the adults we want to see.

If you know the StrengthsFinder assessment, Kristie and I both have Achiever in our top 3. We’re Type 3s on the Enneagram - Success-Oriented, Excelling, Driven and Image-Conscious. We don’t like to lose and we don’t like to fail. It doesn’t feel good to see or let our kids fail either, so it’s going to take a conscious effort on our part to not see our kids’ mistakes as failures - on their part or on ours.

Making mistakes is a necessary part of learning. Mistakes are evidence that we’re trying. They are opportunities to learn something and then do better next time.

6. Give More Encouragement & Less Criticism

Our loving guidance as parents can quickly feel like criticism to our teens. The teenage years can be awkward and stressful and confusing, and our kids need reminders that we’re on their side even though we don’t agree with their every choice and mood.

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Kristie left this adorable care package out for her boys on the first day of school with an encouraging note that back to school 2020 kinda succs (see the succulent?!), but that it will be ok. I borrowed her idea.

But we can catch our tweens and teens doing good and let them know we notice with purposeful praise. We can build in incentives for positive attitudes and choices and then deliver on those promises. These can even be quick and simple rewards for things like staying focused during a challenging class or turning in all of a day’s homework on time.

A little extra screen time, a small Frosty or even a handwritten note help reinforce those good behaviors.

7. Encourage Reflection

Today’s families live busy and fast-moving lives (well, we did before COVID at least). An important lesson for our kids is the power of stopping to reflect and ask ourselves why did something work or not work? Where did a project go right or wrong? What did I learn from that experience?

The same goes for online school. You can build a few minutes into your daily routine to ask your teen whether they completed the day’s assignments and then ask questions like:

  • Did your assignments take you about as long as you expected?
  • How did you feel about the work you turned in?
  • What was most challenging part of the day? What made it challenging?
  • What was your biggest win today, or something you just felt good about?

You can also create reflection times at the end of bigger projects:

  • How do you feel about your final project?
  • What aspect do you feel is strongest?
  • Are there things you might do differently next time?
  • What was unexpected about the whole process?

How is online school going with your tweens and teens? What are you doing that’s working well? We would love to hear!!

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Checking out the organic Mums & Bubs Range at the New Neal’s Yard Remedies

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Organic. In this day and age it’s almost a loaded word, yet it’s used so often that I often wonder if it has any meaning at all (other than extra super expensive in Singapore, that is). Last week I was invited to a workshop at the new Neal’s Yard Remedies shop at Millennia Walk – the first in Singapore – to learn more about their organic ingredients and how they can benefit mums and bubs alike.

Neal’s Yard was founded in the UK in 1981, and has become the country’s largest supplier of certified organic skincare and natural remedies. What does “certified” mean? That they meet the stringent standards of the UK’s Soil Association, which requires that products are at least 70% organic.

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Neal’s Yard was the first certified organic skincare brand in the UK. In addition to their top-quality ingredients, they fully control their entire production process (“from herb to bottle”); their handmade in the UK products can actually vary from one batch to the next.

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  • Drive one knee all the way to the surface of the water and then exchange for the other.
  • Your arms will also be powering through the water as you aim for speed and knee height.
  • Complete 50 reps.

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  • With your back close to the wall, hold on to the edge of the pool with both hands.
  • Lift your body out of the water and then lower it with control.
  • Your feet stay connected to the pool wall.
  • Complete 20 reps.

Tip: Keep your elbows pointing directly behind you (rather than flaring out to the side) to isolate your triceps.

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  • Prop yourself up against the pool wall or on a pool step. Start with your legs straight out in front of you and then tuck your knees into your chest.
  • Hold for 2 seconds and then extend your legs back out.
  • Complete 50 reps. These tuck ins may look super easy but your abs will definitely feel the effects!

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  • Repeat 4 times. When done correctly your quads will feel like they’re on fire! You’ll love it.

Get Ups

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  • Facing the edge of the pool, push your body up and out of the water until your arms are fully extended beneath you.
  • Control your arms as you slowly lower your body back into the water.
  • Complete 12 reps.

Tip: Try not to use your feet by jumping to get out of the water. Isolate and use your upper body strength.

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Guy Fieri and I have at least one thing in common, a dislike for eggs. As an extremely picky eater growing up, just the thought of eggs made me gag. If coerced, I could tolerate a soft boiled one, as long as there was enough buttered toast and I only had to eat the yolk. My son inherited a similar disdain for the egg white, calling it “white and tasteless but in a bad way”. However, as long as the off-putting sulphury taste of the white is well concealed, he manages to actually somewhat enjoy them. That’s where my enjoyment of the egg stands now as well. With Easter around the corner and dozens of eggs to be boiled, colored, and hidden, we are about to be inundated with them. I hate wasting anything, so of course I need ways to use hard boiled eggs which incorporate big, bold flavors or get mixed in with enough other ingredients that conceal their taste.

figure-friendly fix for mayo

Many egg salad or deviled egg recipes use mayonnaise. Though I love the creamy delight of this plain colored condiment, it obviously registers way up on calorie scale. One of my favorite substitutes for regular mayo is using 3/4 c Greek yogurt with 1/4 c of light mayo for 1 c of regular mayo. I find even with full fat Greek yogurt, you lose the creamy mouth-feel that regular mayonnaise provides. That’s why I use a mixture of both, but heavy on the yogurt. Depending on what type of yogurt I have on hand, I usually use about half 2% and half full fat yogurt, but you can play with your ratios and see what tastes good to you and yields your ideal nutrition. Many of these recipes use yogurt, and some use light or regular mayonnaise. I encourage you to try a Greek yogurt and light mayo mixture in any of them to make them a bit more figure friendly.

I’m not a big fan of light products at all, especially ones where fat belongs, like cheese. Frequently I feel the resulting product tastes nasty or includes chemicals that can potentially be more harmful than the calories. I make an exception for light mayo though. With only added water and a couple of binders, like xanthan gum, it delivers the creaminess that coats your tongue like it’s regular counterpart, but with 60% less calories. Obviously it doesn’t taste exactly like real mayonnaise but when you’re mixing it with other ingredients, and you’d rather not have include a fat bomb in your meal, light mayo is my favorite figure-friendly fix.

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The obedience will be alternated with the protection work at the stadium. The stadium terrain is grass. The working direction is when looking from the main grandstand from right to left. The obedience will not be demonstrated.

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Have you ever found yourself worrying whether you will have any friends when you go to a new place? Well, this time last year, I had such kind of worries. Fast forward, a year later, I have 99 problems and friendship ain’t one! Introvert at heart, extrovert in spirit, it’s not always easy to develop and establish friendships especially in college.

There are many friendly people at CSS. I have met these and will meet such again in the future, and so will you. Some time ago, in March, I decided to have lunch on the balcony on the third floor in Tower. It was quite a chilly day, but I needed time to be with my thoughts and my food… There was a fellow who was also having some alone time with his thoughts and food. I could not turn back, and I politely asked to join in. We talked about the weather (that’s how good I am at small talk) and other school issues. We became friends and we still discuss about the weather, not just environmental but also classroom weather and college climate – how classes are going, how college is depriving us not only of sleep but eternal joy during finals week, and such.

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West Bladen High School

West Stanly High School

Clinton High School

Terry Sanford High School

Gray's Creek High School

Myers Park High School

Corinth-Holders High School

Midway High School

Cape Fear High School

Parkwood High School

Rolesville High School

Randleman High School

Harnett Central High School

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Read more Share of condo buyers with hdb addresses fall to 29. Five%

Share of condo buyers with hdb addresses fall to 29.5%

Including executive condo (EC) units, developers offered 904 units, a 31.3% fall from 1,315 units sold in February.

Regardless of this, this month’s figures are still greater compared to 620 units sold in January. Additionally, it brings personal house sales (excluding ECs) into 2,256 units in Q1 2020, 22.7% greater compared to 1,838 units in Q1 2019.

“March’s 2020 earnings marked the cheapest monthly March earnings in five years because March 2015 when developers sold just 613 units. Therefore, buyers kept back to their buying choices, amidst increased economic instability,” remarked Wong Xian Yang, associate director for research at Cushman & Wakefield.

Further, Christine Sun, head of consultancy & research in OrangeTee & Tie, noted that there was a lack of major leaps.

The bestselling private residential jobs in March were OLA (EC), which offered 170 units in a median cost of $1,139 psf; Jadescape, that transferred 76 units in a median cost of $1,719 psf; Treasure at Tampines, that transferred 69 units in a median cost of $1,355 psf; and Parc Esta which transacted 63 units in a median cost of $1,657 psf.

Amongst areas, just the Core Central Region (CCR) saw reduced earnings last month. New earnings in the remainder of Central Region (RCR) climbed 7.2% MoM into 282 units, although earnings from the Outdoor Central Area (OCR) rose 10.6% to 333 units in March.

Sun also added the amount of non-permanent residents purchasing non-landed new houses dipped to 25 units within precisely the exact same interval, under the 51 units which were averagely sold within the previous 12 months.

“A temporary pullback in property sales might be anticipated next month as reveal apartments have become closed and home viewings postponed within the circuit breaker steps,” she added.

Moving ahead, Wong said that developer sales are predicted to vary between 6,900 into 7,900 units for the entire of 2020, about 20% to 30% reduced in comparison to 2019’s tally of 9,912 units when the circuit breaker period won’t extend.

“However, Singapore’s long-term principles remain unchanged: inherent local requirement for private residential properties stays powerful and Singapore’s perceived status as a secure haven could garner greater interest from overseas buyers during those uncertain times. Anecdotally, overseas Chinese buyers are on the watch for Singapore properties and are awaiting a while to join the current market,” Wong explained.

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Private property investment sales will rebound this year after they dropped last year in the wake of cooling measures that struck the residential area, a report said yesterday.

It noticed that total investment sales could reach $31.3 billion, 6 percent on the $29.5 billion recorded last year.

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That was down 12.7 percent from 2018 as heating measures continued to snack residential land, said Colliers International.

Ms Tricia Song, its head of research to Singapore, said several major real estate investment trust (Reit) acquisitions and mergers are anticipated this year, potentially boosting industrial, commercial and hospitality deal volumes.

At least five mergers have been reported involving local Reits in the past 12 months, mainly to consolidate management experience and build a larger war chest for acquisitions at home and abroad.

Ms Song said Singapore’s status as a crucial gateway town, favourable interest rates and rejuvenation attempts such as the CBD Incentive Scheme must raise the redevelopment of older buildings at the central and city fringe areas.

The commercial real estate industry, which last year accounted for 40 percent of total transactions, could drive sales again this year, ” the report said. Commercial property sales of $11.7 billion have been listed last year, the maximum investment sales amount since 2007.

Colliers anticipates commercial sales to increase 5 percent this year, given healthy rentals at the workplace market.

Residential investment sales are expected to pick up by 3 percent this year around the stable source of people land and demand for luxury houses.

Residential sales slumped 63 percent last year to only $6.8 billion. Sentiment should increase in the longer term, underpinning an average annual increase of 12 percent at the 2019 to 2024 interval, the report mentioned.

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Three Singaporean businesses are included in Corporate Knights’ record of the world’s 100 most renewable large companies for 2020, reported The Business Times. For official Peak Residence floor plan pdf, project details, floor plans, showflat appointment to be obtained here.

CapitaLand and City Developments both fell in positions, as they placed 33rd and 25th the preceding calendar year. Singtel, meanwhile, had an up motion as it didn’t create the record in 2019.

The best 100 companies selected this season came out of a pool of 7,395 publicly listed firms with over $1 billion (S$1.3 billion) in revenue, and evaluated concerning their business peers using publicly accessible information.

The Global 100 list ranks the big corporations all around the planet, using metrics like the reduction of carbon and waste, CEO-to-average-worker-pay ratio, board sex diversity and”clean earnings”.

This”clean earnings” metric, which takes up 50% of each company’s score, measures the proportion of earnings coming from products or services having ecological, or well-defined social advantages.

“Climate change affects all people and concerted action is necessary to mitigate its effect. Beyond providing financial performance, companies have a responsibility to their shareholders, stakeholders and the community to induce environmental stewardship,” stated Sherman Kwek, CEO of CDL group.

“As one of Asia’s largest diversified property classes, CapitaLand can impact a greater positive effect through our expanded portfolio and operations,” additional Lynette Leong, chief sustainability officer for CapitaLand.

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Industrial property rents in Singapore were usually secure in 2019, even though the industry was weighed down from oversupply from previous decades, says Christine Li, head of research, Singapore and Southeast Asia, in Cushman & Wakefield (C&W).

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Tricia Song, head of research to Singapore in Colliers International, insists. She states that in comparison to 2018, the general industrial real estate market has revealed”clearer indications of stabilization, with the two rents and vacancy rates remaining relatively steady in the year to September”. Both web demand and internet distribution are predicted to have grown in 2019.

But looking forward, Li states the industrial prognosis for 2020 may be gloomier in contrast to the season. She states international macroeconomic aspects, like slowing economic development in the united states, the EU and China, is very likely to have a negative influence on Singapore’s market in 2020. The subdued global market is expected to medium industrial rents following year, she adds.

Recently completed industrial area doubles in 2019

This year, near 12.5 million sq feet of new industrial area is anticipated to have been finished, which will be more than double the 5.84 million sq feet of new completions in 2018, says Song. New need can be expected to have improved by 50 percent y-o-y to 11.0 million sq feet in 2019, she adds.

For 2020, the biggest new industrial development which is going to be finished is that the Defu Industrial City in Defu Street 1.

Within the one-north industry playground, homegrown gaming hardware firm Razer is expected to start its own purpose-built, 207,743 sq ft headquarters building following season, while ride-hailing giant Catch is supposed to transfer into its 387,000 sq ft purpose-built headquarters construction by 4Q2020.
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“Looking forward, warehouse rents are expected to become resilient, backed by a tight distribution facility,” says Desmond Sim, head of research, Southeast Asia, in CBRE.

However he adds that industrial occupiers have been searching for assumptions with greater specifications and improved efficacy. This led to some two-tier leasing operation by the mill division in 2019, as industrial improvements with greater specifications older, traditional industrial buildings.

“The 10.5% vacancy [from the mill segment] at 3Q2019 comprised an increasing pool of empty, ageing industrial inventory of roughly 53.85 million sq ft. This spanned several landlords to tackle asset enhancement projects on elderly industrial inventory in an attempt to unlock value by repositioning and redeveloping resources together with under- utilised gross floor space,” he states.

In accordance with Colliers, these improvements include greater power capabilities, high-floor loading capacity, contemporary ventilation and heating systems, higher ceilings and much better loading bay centers. Redevelopment could also improve connectivity between adjoining buildings and to transport nodes.

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Industrial investment activity was relatively healthy in 2019, clocking in deals worth roughly $2.99 billion. The largest bargain of the year, in relation to transacted prices, happened in November when Mapletree Commercial Trust obtained Mapletree Business City II, a top campus-style business park development, by its host Mapletree Investments for about $ 1.55 billion.

In November, Ascendas Reit obtained two business-park possessions, Nucleos and FM Global Centre, in the host CapitaLand to get a combined worth of $380 million.

This includes StorHub’s portfolio of 12 self-storage properties having a total lettable area of approximately 800,000 sq ft.

Meanwhile, the biggest industrial leasing bargain in 2019 has been Google’s growth into Alexandra Technopark, taking up near 344,100 sq feet of industrial area.

Another notable leasing bargain happened in January when e-commerce company Shopee rented all 240,000 sq feet at 5 Science Park Drive, a redevelopment of the former Fleming and Faraday buildings by Ascendas-Singbridge, because of its growth requirements.

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Low-interest rates and increasing household income increase home prices

In 2018, private dwelling prices climbed 8 percent. On the other hand, the market has been lacklustre since then and this is also reflected in the decreased expansion of their property markets.

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Last July’s house cooling measures had curbed the growth of house prices. The rapid pace at which house prices were climbing in the earlier half of last year may have prompted the authorities to roll out the heating measures mid-2018.

Will authorities issue new property curbs if prices continue to grow?

Without a doubtthe government is tracking the local property market carefully so as to avoid a bubble from forming. How likely are the authorities to employ a fresh form of cooling measures ought to land prices here are still grow? A fast and large increase in the supply of new private houses is also expected to happen next year, and as interest rates are not expected to grow further, will this balance market development?

As unemployment rates remain low in Singapore and family incomes continue to grow, coupled with all the suppressed interest rates, buyers’ affordability may increase. It’s yet to be seen how private residential prices may react to this influx of new components to the market next year.

Population growth has nevertheless remained restricted and also the rental markets and potential returns of components purchased for investment purposes may observe customers reconsidering their purchases.

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Minister for National Development Lawrence Wong has reacted to two different coverage suggestions, stating that all other ideas and approaches to handle HDB apartment rentals will be considered from the authorities.

Like most condos in Singapore, all HDB flats in Singapore are constructed and marketed with first 99-year leases.

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To rackle the dilemma of HDB lease decay as well as the diminishing significance of older apartments The Workers Party indicated an alternate strategy to the current Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS), known as SERS Plus, reported The Straits Times.

Under this proposed strategy, affected residents will be ensured units in present Build-to-Order (BTO) in addition to Sale of Balance Flats (SBF) exercises, whereas the authorities need not procure a replacement website before the launch of SERS.

Architect Tay Kheng Soon, economist Yeoh Lam Keong and land adviser Ku Swee Yong, on the other hand, suggested a one-time automated rental top-up for maturing flats along with also a government-funded rebuilding of HDB flats each 100 decades.

In his blog post, Wong stated the Ministry of National Development (MND) will”consider all such opinions and thoughts, and examine them in detail”.

He noticed that the two proposals recognised”the need for urban renewal within our land-scarce town” in which”land could be recycled and fresh apartments constructed for centuries”.

“This is why a lot of our property is on a leasehold basis, be it for public or private housing properties,” he added.

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Private home sales climbed between October and November, directed by transactions in the Exterior of Central Region (OCR) market. That’s pretty unusual for its year-end interval; but again, we have had some unusually good launches of late:

The pickup in November private house sales

Overall, this remains 4.5 percent under the amount of transactions from a year ago; nevertheless it’s a significant increase of about 23 percent since October.

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That is unusual in that the year-end interval is typically somewhat muted. The total amount of components unsold out of launches was 4,375 as of last month; and there have been 31,948 unsold units in total as of 30th September.

A Good Deal of powerful offerings in the market for property buyers today

2019 stands out to its large number of well priced, well-located condos on the market. Sengkang Grand Residences, that directed sales, is an integrated development that comprises a mall, a bus interchange, a community center, a childcare center, and is adjacent to Buangkok MRT station; a very good deal at a 1,700+ psf cost tag.

Parc Komo, at the Changi area, is also an integrated improvement. It comprises Komo shoppes, including enrichment colleges and cafes among other retail choices. It is the most affordable freehold condominium we have seen to date, at only around $1,450+ psf.

Welcome to city, Midtown Bay remains a popular subject (it is largely split in to two camps now — people who enjoy the newly launched Midtown Bay, and people who insist that the elderly Duo Residences is a much better alternative). That is, again, part of a integrated evolution, and it is situated near Bugis Junction and the soon-to-be-developed Tan Quee Lan Street plot. As soon as it’s a hefty $3,000+ psf, the growth has components that move as much as $1.38 million. A good deal of buyers also view this as a chance to jump onto the growing Rochor — Ophir corridor.

Also closer to city, the already iconic One Pearl Bank offered 80 percent of its own units at launch in July, at $2,400 psf.

You get the idea — there are a great deal of great options available right now, with strong locations and cost points. We must also note the absolute variety of new jobs in 2019 (51 new jobs in total), that is the maximum number in five years.

We may see a pickup in volume following year, provided the potential amount of upgraders

It is unlikely that costs will grow, given the present supply glut. This might be a large potential supply of upgraders, assuming they are not too spooked from the financial uncertainty.

As we have previously pointed out yet, it may be rough for costs to return as well — many improvements today are coming from this en-bloc congestion in 2017 to 2018, when programmers purchased land at a premiumprice. There simply is not much space for lower costs, so buyers should not be overly-optimistic about that.

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The percentage of condo units offered in Q2 2019 to people having HDB addresses dropped to 29.5percent from 37.8percent in Q1, reported Singapore Business Review mentioning Edmund Tie.

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This figure comprises HDB shareholders and upgraders who live in HDB flats.

The fall was a result of the sales quantity of buyers using HDB addresses falling 3.4percent quarter-on-quarter into 1,232 units at precisely the same quarter after increasing 33.2percent in Q1.

Data also revealed that the percentage of buyers using HDB addresses to get new sales dropped by nearly 15 percentage points. To the contrary, the fall in resale units was drastic, decreasing by just 1.6 percentage points.

Meanwhile, the percentage of condominium units offered to private fireplaces stood still at 50 percent in the last quarter.

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The Trailer of This 460-unit Dairy Farm Residences by Singapore-listed United Engineers Ltd (UEL) Attracted a crowd of 1,000 over the weekend of Nov 16 and 17.

Dairy Farm Residences marks the first new condominium offering in the Dairy Farm area as The Skywoods was launched in 2013. The Skywoods is a 420-unit, 99-year leasehold condominium. Developed by a consortium of three recorded property players – Hock Lian Seng Holdings, King Wan Corp and TA Corp – it was finished in 2016 and is totally offered to date.

“We are pleased with the turnout and it demonstrates that there’s inherent fascination with residing near nature,” remarks Stephanie Chua, UEL’s head of growth sales.

The interest came largely from those people who are already living in the west of Singapore, although some people stay in the central area, and a few potential buyers came out as far as Pasir Ris, Chua shares.

Apartment layouts offered comprise pre-assembled units from 624 to 775 sq feet, three-bedroom units from 915 into 1,313 sq feet, and four-bedroom apartments from 1,324 into 1,475 sq ft.

UEL is launching Dairy Farm Residences at a couple of phases, at an average starting cost from $1,500 to $1,700 psf. The two-bedroom units will start from below $1 million.

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The seller of a unit at Highgate made the best gain of $1.27 million on the week of October 22 to 29. The 1,905 sq ft unit on the sixth floor was purchased for $1.15 million ($604 psf) at June 2009, and marketed for $2.42 million ($1,270 psf) on October 24. The vendor made a 110% gain, or an annualised gain of 7 percent over around 10 years.

Finished in 1995, Highgate includes 216 units in five cubes. It’s a four-minute driveway to Beauty World Plaza and Beauty World Centre.

The 2nd best gain made over the week — a 171% gain of $1.23 million — was at Bedok Court, located along Bedok South Avenue 3 at District 16. This means that the vendor made an annualised gain of 5 percent over around 20 years.

The growth has a total of 280 units over 19 floors, and was created by Bedokville Development. It’s a 10-minute walk to Tanah Merah MRT Station on the East-West Line, a four-minute walk into Bedok View Secondary School, an eight-minute walk into Temasek Primary School, and a 13-minute walk into Temasek Secondary School.

Meanwhile, another vendor of a fifth-floor unit at Highgate made the third most profitable transaction for its week using a $1.18 million gain. The 1,636 sq feet, four-bedroom unit was purchased for $870,000 ($532 psf) in January 1999, and sold for $2.045 million ($1,250 psf) on October 25. The vendor made a 135% gain, or an annualised gain of 4 percent over almost 21 years.

On the other hand, the greatest reduction incurred within the week was in the resale price of a 2,013 sq ft unit at 8 Napier, in prime District 10. The seller sold the device for about $ 5.8 million ($2,881 psf) on October 29, and sustained an 18% reduction of $1.28 million. Within a holding period of almost 12 years, this translates into an annualised reduction of 1.7 percent.

The freehold 8 Napier, located on Napier Road, contains 46 units. Finished in 2010, it’s a three-minute walk into the coming Napier MRT Station on the Thomson-East Coast Line, which is completed at 2021.


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Ready Player One Review

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Ready Player One Review

The notion of a VR program that unites video games with societal distance is currently pretty recognizable to people in 2018, and in several ways the picture's vision of their future lines up with what we may expect this material to actually seem like in a few decades.

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In this world, the game's founder, James Halliday--performed with a marginally uncanny-looking Mark Rylance--masked three secrets which will unlock his greatest Easter egg: a collection of hidden measures which will give the winning"Gunter" (egg predators ) complete, lawful charge of The Oasis (which makes them filthy rich in the process). If you will pardon another mention, it will become the Holy Grail for an whole generation of players.

All this installment is fertile ground for a narrative about a mean child who rises above his plight, finds inner power, beats the evil company, also gets the girl--it is the recognizable hero's travel through and through. The simple fact that Wade's strength stems out of his obsessive understanding of latter-half 20th century pop culture simply makes it more suitable for Spielberg to have caught the reins with this particular adaptation.

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The film also improves on the publication in enormous ways, such as cutting out an whole action that did the storyline and characters no more favors from the source material (Wade thankfully no more spends a huge chunk of the narrative stalking Artemis contrary to her wishes). In general it does an amazing job making the story available. Viewers without a comprehension of modern VR technologies or video game civilization will have the ability to completely appreciate Ready Player One, that goes to great lengths to describe the fundamental idea of The Oasis and the way it fits into this contemporary world. As you're thinking about the film, it's easy to feel that the struggle to restrain The Oasis is the main thing there's that Wade and his buddies would dedicate their lives for this while the wicked IOI (Sophisticated Online Industries), headed by Ben Mendelsohn's villainous but likable Nolan Sorrento, could struggle with murderous, Gestapo-like ruthlessness to prevent those wayward kids from winning.

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