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Hard-hit property agents in Singapore becoming Uber driversSINGAPORE (BLOOMBERG) - When Mr Billy Loh started in 2008 as a property agent, his profession was seen as a route to wealth in Singapore. Now, he has to know his way around the city to pay the bills.
Mr Loh, 50, is driving for Uber Technologies when government curbs to cool the market have mired property prices in the longest losing streak in 17 years and transaction volumes have plunged by as much as two-thirds since 2012. After going half a year without doing any deals, he switched to driving and is earning on average S$3,000 a month, one-tenth of the up to S$30,000 commission he could get from a single home sale during the market's heyday. "The market is slow because of the cooling measures," said Mr Loh, as he drove a Toyota Corolla he has been renting since October, when he started driving for Uber. "We have no choice, we have to come up with means to make ends meet."
While property agents across the globe often juggle alternate jobs in what is a notoriously cyclical business, things look especially dire in Singapore, where home prices fell by the most among the world's major markets last year. After seven years of government intervention to cool prices in Asia's second-most expensive housing market, a plunge in sales volumes is hurting real estate agents even more than price declines. With further declines expected this year, Singapore's industry group for property agents is offering courses and helping agents get trained in other jobs, such as property management, to help them supplement their income.
Adding skills would enable agents to "at least earn a fixed income rather than only rely on commissions in this market", said Mr Jeff Foo, president of the Institute of Estate Agents in Singapore. "This has been one of the toughest times for property agents." Home prices in Singapore declined 4.3 per cent in the 12 months ended Sept 30, more than in Hong Kong, China, Japan, and Australia, according to the Knight Frank Global House Price Index, which tracks 55 global residential markets. During the past year, Singapore developers have managed to sell only about 7,000 new homes, according to SLP International Property Consultants. Sales matched 2014 levels, although they have plunged by half since 2013 and by about 68 per cent since 2012.
Singapore also has a relatively large number of property agents compared with the volume of deals. There are over 30,000 registered real estate agents in the island-state, 10 times the number of monthly property transactions, according to the Institute of Estate Agents. In comparison, there are only 1,840 agents in Australia's New South Wales state that handle an average of 8,160 monthly transactions in Sydney, according to CoreLogic Inc. Mr Terence Tham, 35, had never seen such a bad year as 2015 in the nine he has worked as a property agent. In November, he decided that he could make better use of his Honda Civic and potentially increase his client network. So he signed up to become a driver for Uber. When Mr Tham is not showing apartments, he is ferrying commuters around. To every passenger he hands out a card promoting his other job. "This has been one of the worst years for me in the property broking business," he said.
Services such as Uber, which began operating in Singapore in 2013, and GrabCar are attracting a growing number of property agents amid the deteriorating market outlook. The number of rental cars, a proxy for vehicles being used for private car services such as Uber, increased 51 per cent in the 12 months to November to 27,988, according to statistics from the Land Transport Authority.
The number of driver partners has grown "exponentially" in less than three years Uber has been operating in Singapore, with a growing number being real estate agents, according to Uber's general manager for South-east Asia Chan Park. Primary occupations that are commonly seen among GrabCar drivers are property agents, entrepreneurs and people in the sales line, according to Mr Lim Kell Jay, regional head of GrabCar.
After seven months without sales, Mr Ronald Han, 43, began driving a Corolla for Uber in July. That way, he can retain his old job while earning some income, he said. He works 50 to 60 hours a week driving to get a net S$2,800-S$3,200 a month. Mr Tham says he drives his own car, from 6am until midnight. Net of costs such as petrol, maintenance and accidents, he pockets between S$3,000 and S$4,000 a month.
"This is the best trade for a property agent, you see?" Mr Han said. "You can have free time if you have an appointment, so the best is to work as an Uber or a taxi driver."
在新加坡,遭受重創的地產代理成為Uber司機
新加坡（ BLOOMBERG ） - 當比利先生洛於2008年開始作為一個房地產經紀人，他的職業被視為新加坡航線的財富。現在，他已經知道自己周圍的城市的方式來支付賬單。
蕙先生，50歲，正在推動對尤伯杯技術時，政府限制措施為市場降溫已經深陷房地產價格在17年，交易量的最長連敗多達三分之二的2012年以來已大跌後無需半年做任何交易，他轉向了駕駛和賺取平均US $ 3,000一個月的高達S $ 30,000個的佣金，他可以從一個單一的房屋銷售在市場鼎盛時期的十分之一。
“市場是由於降溫措施的慢， ”洛說，因為他開著一輛豐田花冠，他一直租房自10月起，他開始駕駛尤伯杯。 “我們別無選擇，我們必須拿出手段來維持生計。 ”
雖然全球各地的地產代理經常耍弄什麼是出了名的週期性行業交替工作，事情看起來特別嚴重的新加坡，房價下跌最世界主要市場中的最後一年。經過七年的政府干預來冷卻在亞洲第二最昂貴的房地產市場價格，銷售量暴跌是傷害房地產經紀人比價格下降得更多。
隨著今年有望進一步下跌，新加坡的產業集團的地產代理是提供課程，幫助代理商獲得培訓其他工作，如物業管理，幫助他們補充他們的收入。添加技能將使代理“至少賺取固定收益，而不是只依靠佣金在這個市場” ，說地產代理在新加坡學院院長傑夫先生符。 “這是最艱難的時刻物業代理公司之一。 ”
房屋價格在新加坡下降了4.3％，在截至9月30日的12個月，超過在香港，中國，日本和澳大利亞，根據萊坊環球房地產價格指數，追踪55全球住宅市場。
在過去的一年中，新加坡發展商已成功地只賣出約7,000新房，根據SLP國際物業顧問。銷售相配套的2014年的水平，雖然還了一半，因為2013年約68％的2012年以來暴跌。新加坡也有相當多的地產代理與交易數量相比。
有島州超過30,000註冊的房地產經紀人，每月的物業交易數量的10倍，據地產代理的研究所。相比之下，只有1,840在澳大利亞的新南威爾士州劑處理平均8,160每月交易在悉尼，根據CoreLogic公司先生特倫斯·
譚，35歲，從來沒有見過這麼糟糕的一年，2015年的九，他曾作為物業代理。在11月，他決定，他可以更好地利用自己的本田思域，並潛在地增加他的客戶網絡。於是，他報名成為尤伯杯的驅動程序。當譚先生未顯示的公寓，他正在運送乘客身邊。為了每一位乘客，他的手了一張卡推廣他的其他工作。“這是對房地產經紀業務的最糟糕的年份，我的一個，”他說。
服務如尤伯杯，開始在新加坡2013年工作，並GrabCar正吸引越來越多的房地產代理商際惡化後市。租賃汽車的數量，所用的私家車服務，如尤伯杯車輛的代理，在12個月內％增加到51至十一月至27988，根據從陸路交通管理局的統計數據。驅動程序合作夥伴的數量已經增長“指數”，在不到三年的時間尤伯杯已在新加坡開展業務，與越來越多的是房地產經紀人，根據尤伯杯的為東南亞詹園總經理。
這是常見的GrabCar司機的主要職業是房產中介，企業家和人在銷售一線，根據林先生凱爾周杰倫，GrabCar區域負責人。七個月後沒有銷售，夏佳理漢族，43歲，開始開著花冠的尤伯杯在七月。這樣一來，他就可以保留自己原來的工作，同時獲得一些收入，他說。他每週工作50到60小時的駕駛獲得淨額S $ 2,800 US $ 3200一個月。譚表示，他開著自己的車，從早上6點至午夜。的成本，如汽油，維護和事故淨額，他標間口袋$ 3,000 S $ 4,000一個月。“這是一個地產代理最好的交易，你明白嗎？”韓先生說。 “你可以有空閒時間，如果你有預約，所以最好是工作作為尤伯杯或出租車司機。”
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