City &amp; Country revisits the quarter’s biggest headlines and headliners. Here are our picks for the Movers &amp; Shakers of the real estate industry in 1Q2026:

City & Country’s Movers & Shakers 1Q2026

Singapore’s second-largest property agency is gunning to increase its salesforce this year. Marcus Chu, CEO of ERA Singapore, unveiled the “ERA +1 initiative” at the group’s annual business conference on March 24. The campaign aims to encourage ERA Singapore’s more than 8,000 agents to recruit one newcomer each this year.

ERA Singapore’s new initiative could double its salesforce this year

The 43-year-old Cashew Park Condominium offers a glimpse into today’s en bloc market, where ageing estates wrestle with rising maintenance costs and the challenge of rounding up enough owners for a collective sale&nbsp;

Lowering the consent threshold alone may not revive the en bloc market

Tony Lombardo, currently group CEO of Australia's Lendlease Corp, will be group chief operating officer of Frasers Property with effect from Oct 1, with a focus on investment activities via Frasers Property Capital.

Lendlease's Lombardo to join Frasers Property as group COO to drive investment and capital management

The freehold neighbourhood retail mall Holland Piazza has been sold for $100 million to private investor Cheong Sim Lam, marking the first change of ownership for the property in more than five decades. Cheong is a member of the Cheong family, which also owns Hong Fok Corporation.

Hong Fok-linked Cheong Sim Lam buys Holland Piazza for $100 mil, changing hands after over 50 years

Malaysia-born fengshui master Joey Yap shared his predictions for 2026: the Year of the Fire Horse last month in Issue 1223 of City &amp; Country (the week of Jan 19). Based on The Edge Singapore’s web statistics, Yap’s outlook was one of the most-read articles of the week, topping our other interviews with investment managers and private bankers.

Challenging year ahead? Fengshui consultant Joey Yap’s advice for 2026

On Feb 11, during CapitaLand Investment’s (CLI) FY2025 results briefing, Lee Chee Koon, group CEO of CLI, remarked: “I think all of you are here today expecting some announcements. Yesterday, I received a number of WhatsApp messages from friends [and] media analysts.” He was referring to market talk on Feb 10 that CLI and Mapletree planned to announce their long-rumoured merger during the briefing.

CapitaLand downplays Mapletree merger rumours; preps second C-REIT IPO and data centre platform

Right after Valuetronics, fund manager Amova emerges as a substantial shareholder of Frencken Group

What elevated gold prices are telling us, and where to invest

MetaOptics is metalens player ‘with scalable growth’, says UOB Kay Hian in unrated report

Kempinski Hotels buys Augustine Hotel, Prague, its first acquisition in over 50 years

Savills appointed to sell iconic GBP450 mil island site at London’s Piccadilly Circus

Hyatt appoints Vikas Chawla president of India and Southwest Asia

Asia’s protein boom has a taste problem, but the answer is already here

Western Union completes acquisition of Singtel’s Dash

Singapore’s SMEs get a structured push to turn AI into results

CSE Global says no further discussions thus far on strategic review

What foreign issuers should know about SEC trading suspensions

Vietnam growth slows as rising energy costs feed uncertainty

Steal of approval

Perfect timing

Bigger and better 

Will the new IP changes help with medical inflation?

US escalation is the most likely scenario in Iran

The sad demise of China’s economic debate

Free solar for all landed homes: How one female entrepreneur is leading Singapore’s rooftop solar revolution

ST Engineering wins $600 mil contract to help build missile gun boats for Kuwait

CGS International maintains 'add' and $13.52 target price on Keppel; sale of M1 won't fall through despite delay

Yangzijiang Shipbuilding says it has ‘no plans’ to undertake equity fund-raising transactions outside of Singapore

HSBC upgrades Singapore equities outlook to overweight

Movers & Shakers 1Q2026