{"id":77735,"date":"2026-08-19T19:20:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=77735"},"modified":"2026-08-19T19:20:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:20:01","slug":"coe-prices-close-mostly-higher-category-a-premiums-rise-to-more-than-s128500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=77735","title":{"rendered":"COE prices close mostly higher; Category A premiums rise to more than S$128,500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: Certificate of Entitlement (COE) premiums closed mostly higher in the latest bidding exercise on Wednesday (Aug 19).<\/p>\n<p>For Category A cars, or those 1,600cc and below with horsepower not exceeding 130bhp, prices rose for the first time in three exercises.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They closed at S$128,501, up 3.7 per cent from S$123,890 in the last exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Premiums for larger and more powerful cars in Category B rose by 0.8 per cent to S$131,001 from S$129,910.<\/p>\n<p>COEs for commercial vehicles, which include goods vehicles and buses, fell to S$90,002 from S$91,545 in the previous bidding exercise, a fall of 1.7 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Motorcycle premiums closed 7.6 per cent higher at S$11,301, up from S$10,503.<\/p>\n<p>Open category COEs, which can be used for any vehicle type but end up being used mainly for large cars, rose for the fifth straight exercise by 3 per cent &#8211; from S$131,000 to S$135,000.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 4,515 bids were received, with a quota of 3,205 COEs available.<\/p>\n<p><span>The quota for COEs for the August to October period has been raised slightly to <\/span><span>19,085<\/span><span>, a 0.2 per cent increase from the previous quarter&#8217;s 19,052 COEs.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/coe-premiums-aug-19-bidding-exercise-6325771\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Certificate of Entitlement (COE) premiums closed mostly higher in the latest bidding exercise on Wednesday (Aug 19). For Category A cars, or those 1,600cc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--BKqDkbtO--\/c_crop,h_900,w_1600,x_0,y_142\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2025\/01\/22\/lan_1787.jpg?itok=fG6HxU_Y","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1949,468,1947,1412,4401,4369,1569,28528],"class_list":["post-77735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-category","tag-close","tag-coe","tag-higher","tag-premiums","tag-prices","tag-rise","tag-s128500","wpcat-2-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}