May 21, 2019 1:38 PMSINGAPORE - Singapore escaped the downtrend that caught every other major national Asia Pacific (Apac) real estate market in the first quarter of this year, with commercial real estate investment jumping 72 per cent year-on-year to US$1.9 billion (S$2.6 billion), data released by Real Capital Analytics (RCA) on Tuesday (May 21) show.