Prices jumped 7.9 percent for the whole of 2018, according to the Urban Redevelopment Authority's flash estimates on Wednesday, recording a second straight annual rise.

Since hitting a record peak in the third quarter of 2013, private residential home prices fell for 15 consecutive quarters before starting to rise in the third quarter of 2017.

(Reporting by Aradhana Aravindan; editing by Richard Pullin)