Reporter Zheng Sanbo Intern Yan Meng

　　What can I do in four hours? For office workers, it is just half a day’s work; For self-driving families, they can get to Wuxi and Chengkou &hellip from the main city of Chongqing. … In four hours, Tangxi and Zhang Yan completed the life event from meeting, knowing each other, falling in love to deciding to register for marriage. Just like Jay Chou’s song, love is like a tornado. Yesterday, Tangxi and Zhang Yan registered their marriage in Yubei District.

　　meet

　　Although we are colleagues, we don’t have much contact.

　　Colleagues set them up at dinner.

　　Yesterday morning, Tang Xi and Zhang Yan came to the Marriage Registration Center in Yubei District and formally registered their marriage. When the two put the marriage certificate in the circle of friends, the friends in the group exclaimed — — The night before, everyone was joking to let them spend Tanabata together. It was too steep!

　　"When we had dinner together last night, everyone was still making fun of them. This pair of older single young people just got together and spent Valentine’s Day together." Zhao Siheng, Tang Xi’s good friend and colleague, said that this is too sudden, but I still want to bless them.

　　Yesterday afternoon, the two were busy taking time off to travel, and the leaders were very willing to promote their feelings and prepare to approve their holidays.

　　Tang Xi told reporters that he works in the office of a passenger transport company in Renhe, and Zhang Yan is the finance of the branch. On the afternoon of August 8, the company held a business training activity. After the activity, at about 8 pm, everyone had a dinner together.

　　"More than 20 of us were sitting around, and she just sat next to me." Tang Xi said that although they had known each other for three years, Zhang Yan worked in the company office because he was engaged in accounting work in a branch office, so he didn’t have much contact at ordinary times, only occasionally contacted several times, and he didn’t have any deep friendship.

　　The two were sitting at the same table for dinner. Since they were both older and single, other colleagues joked about them. "Looking at you two love in the city, it’s a perfect match." "Let’s spend the Tanabata together." "You two are both alone now, so why don’t you make friends?"

　　know each other well

　　I was scared by my parents’ forced marriage

　　From embarrassment to common interests

　　"At that time, everyone said a word to me, which made me a little moved." Tang Xi said that he is 35 years old. In the last four or five years, his parents have been forced to get married, and he has been dragged to blind date seven or eight times. However, some of them are not satisfied with the meeting, and some of them have not felt separated for a while, and they are still single until now. From Zhang Yan’s conversation, I found that her experience was similar to her own. "I have been forced to marry by my mother for three or four years, but I have not found a satisfactory person." Zhang Yan spoke to Tangxi.

　　Zhang Yan said that during her conversation with Tangxi, she found that both of them were forced to get married by their parents, and the conversation started. The two talked about hobbies and family situation from tucao forced marriage, and later found that everyone had a common hobby of traveling, so they talked about traveling again.

　　By the end of the dinner party, Zhang Yan found that it would be good to make friends with Tangxi, who had the same experience and common interests, and Tangxi was taller than herself and friendly to people, so she was a good marriage partner.

　　be in love with each other

　　Send her home reluctantly.

　　Parting decided to get married at dawn.

　　After the dinner at 10 o’clock in the evening, Tangxi offered to send Zhang Yan home. "On the way home, we talked about many topics. We all know that we have fallen in love with each other. " Tang Xi said that when they arrived at Zhang Yan’s residential area, they were both a little reluctant to part.

　　Two people very much in love to zero respectively, Zhang Yan suddenly found Tang Xi quite suitable for their own, mature and steady, all aspects of the conditions are good. She suddenly said half jokingly, "Since we are all forced to get married, do you dare to marry me?" Hearing this, Tang Xi said, "It’s over." "Well, come to my house at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning and pick me up to get the certificate." "It’s a deal."

　　It took only four hours for the two to meet, know each other, fall in love and finally decide to register for marriage.

　　Tangxi

　　Fate is coming.

　　Get married decisively

　　We are not blind to get a marriage certificate, because we have known each other for more than three years, but we don’t know each other well enough. During the dinner, I asked Zhang Yan’s friends and leaders about her. Everyone said that she was dutiful, kind, unassuming, and did a good job. The disadvantage was that she was picky. She didn’t have a boyfriend until she was 30 years old, and she occasionally played a little temper. If she could tolerate it, there would be no problem.

　　Over the years, I have met many people, but I haven’t found anyone who makes me want to get married. Although I only talked with Zhang Yan for three or four hours, I feel that the other person is very suitable for me and is more suitable for getting married. Maybe I feel it. When fate comes, I will get married decisively.

　　ZhangYan

　　Meet the right person

　　You must seize it.

　　That night, I also privately asked a few of Doncy’s colleagues about him. Everyone says he is good. He doesn’t smoke, drink or gamble. He doesn’t have any bad habits, but he is lazy. When he gets home, he stays on the sofa and watches TV. He doesn’t like to tidy up his house. Since I chose him, I will change him slowly.

　　I used to be picky, but now I’m getting anxious after I’ve passed 30 hurdles. At present, there are not many outstanding older single young men. Through chatting, I found that Tangxi is not bad, so I must seize the right one.

　　reaction

　　Parents are surprised first and then happy.

　　At 8 o’clock yesterday morning, Tangxi went to see Zhang Yan’s parents. "We were surprised!" Zhang Yan’s mother said, but after understanding, I know that they belong to the same company and have known each other for three years. We are still happy that our daughter can find a good marriage partner.

　　After that, Donsie took Zhang Yan’s parents to meet her parents. After the parents agreed, the two went to the Civil Affairs Bureau for marriage registration around 11 o’clock.

　　sound

　　Choose flash marriage to be calm.

　　Tan Gangqiang, a sociologist in Chongqing, said that it is not easy to judge whether flash marriage is good or bad. Some flash marriages are very happy, and some divorce soon. However, if you choose flash marriage, you should keep a cool head and be tolerant and patient with each other after marriage, so that flash marriage will be happier and longer.

　　With the global major housing market cooling down, Singapore’s real estate prices have risen for 12 consecutive quarters. In order to solve this problem, at the end of April, the Singapore government raised the additional buyer stamp duty (ABSD) for foreigners to purchase residential properties by 30 percentage points to 60%, with immediate effect from April 27th.

　　This has caught many real estate agents and property buyers off guard. "Take a private house worth 2 million Singapore dollars as an example, which means that the extra buyer stamp duty that foreign buyers have to pay will soar from 600,000 Singapore dollars to 1.2 million Singapore dollars (about 6.21 million yuan)." Deng Minjie, executive director of AsianPrime Properties, told the First Financial Reporter.

　　The New Deal was introduced because with the high housing prices, Singaporeans are increasingly worried about being squeezed out of the housing market, and high housing prices may also make Singapore less attractive as an international financial center.

　　According to the latest data from the Urban Renewal Authority of Singapore, the price of private housing in Singapore rose by 3.3% in the first quarter, compared with only 0.4% in the previous quarter. In 2021 and 2022, local house prices increased by 10.6% and 8.6% respectively.

　　The third round of cooling in two years

　　In other major international metropolises, the proportion of ABSD is much lower. For example, the tax rate for foreigners to buy a house in Vancouver is 29%, while the tax rates in London, Melbourne and Sydney are around 14%. New york’s tax rate is only 4.3%.

　　In a joint statement, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of National Development and monetary authority of singapore explained the new policy: "The demand of local people to buy their own houses has been particularly strong, and local and foreign investors have shown renewed interest in our residential real estate market.If not controlled, the price may exceed the economic fundamentals. At the same time, there is a risk that the ratio of price to income will continue to rise."

　　Deng Minjie told CBN that under the risk of high loan interest rate environment and global economic challenges, stabilizing real estate prices is the top priority of the Singapore government. "This round of cooling measures is to slow down the purchase demand, especially the purchase demand of investors and foreigners."

　　In fact, this is the third cooling measure for real estate since the COVID-19 epidemic. In December 2021 and September 2022, the government took similar early preventive measures, which had a "mitigation effect".

　　For example, the stamp duty of foreign buyers in Singapore increased from 20% to 30% in December 2021, which led to a decrease of 16.5% in the number of apartments purchased by foreigners in 2022. But in fact, the local real estate prices are still not loose.

　　According to a research report of Orange Tee&Tie, a Singapore brokerage company in 2022, Singapore is still the primary investment destination for foreign investors after several rounds of cooling measures.

　　"Despite the interest rate hike and the cooling measures implemented in December 2021, foreign buyers bought more luxury apartments with a price of S $5 million (about RMB 25.87 million) and above in 2022," the report said. "The purchases of luxury apartments by foreigners and those who have obtained permanent residency in Singapore have almost returned to the level of 2019."

　　According to the buyer’s inquiry data provided by Juwai Iqi Group, a global real estate technology company headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore is the favorite overseas purchase destination for China buyers. Since 2021, Singapore has entered the top 10 overseas inquiries of China buyers, ranking ninth that year. Although the Singapore government raised the stamp duty on foreign buyers at the end of 2021, Singapore has been ranked tenth in the inquiry list for the next two years.

　　What will be different this time?

　　Foreign buyers account for only a small proportion of Singapore’s real estate sales. According to the data of the Urban Renewal Authority of Singapore, foreign buyers accounted for 4.7% of Singapore’s house purchases last year, rising to 7% in the first quarter of this year.

　　Nicholas Mak, chief research officer of MOGUL.sg, a real estate information platform, therefore believes that if only 10% of purchases are affected, then these measures have limitations. "How can we cool the market if it has little impact on the other 90%? It’s like you have a burning oil plant, and these people don’t use the right tools to put out the fire. "

　　At the same time, people who can afford to buy real estate in Singapore may not care about paying more taxes.

　　Kashif Ansari, co-founder and CEO of IQI, told the First Financial Reporter that the high housing prices in Singapore have eliminated a number of foreign buyers. High-net-worth people who plan to buy Singapore real estate now may not change their decision to buy a house because of a 30% tax increase.

　　“Of course, those who specialize in real estate speculation will be discouraged. On the other hand, foreign buyers aiming at global allocation may turn their eyes to luxury houses in Malaysia or Dubai."He said.

　　Deng Minjie said that according to past experience, foreign buyers often balk after receiving the news, especially this time the increase has doubled.

　　However, after the introduction of the New Deal, one of her clients, the foreign buyer who originally planned to look at the house, did not change her mind. "We have communicated with them in time about the tax increase, and they are still willing to continue the house purchase plan. Their feedback is that Singapore will be the place where they want to invest in immigrants. " She also revealed that,Her buyers reported that the unit price of houses in Singapore was reasonable, but the tax was very high.

　　Sun Yanqing, research director of Orange Easy Industry, told the First Financial Reporter: "Cooling measures may curb demand in the next few months. This may provide time for more housing completion and housing supply. When there is a better market balance, the price may stabilize. When demand shrinks, price increases may also slow down. This will help first-time home buyers and HDB upgraders to buy their first home. "

　　"We have slightly lowered the price forecast for the whole year of 2023 from 5%-8% to 4%-7%." Sun Yanqing said.

　　Deng Minjie predicted that as first-time buyers of Singapore citizens and permanent residents will not be affected under the New Deal, these groups will become the main demand drivers in the coming months. According to the data in 2022, this group accounts for about 90% of residential real estate transactions.