Property Advice

Can I Afford To Buy A Private Property As A Single Before 35?

I had 2 (single) friends visit the M showflat recently.  It was their maiden showflat tour, and of course, I was eager to find out what they thought of it. To my surprise, I was faced with glum expressions when…

• 11 Mar 2020
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The Key To Get Your Resale Home Renovated Right, As Told By Interior Designers

Of all the reasons there are to buy a resale home over a new launch condo (and there are many), we can’t imagine that being able to renovate it as you freely desire would be very high up the list….

• 25 Feb 2020
• 4 min read
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A Tale Of 2 Couples: A Good View Or $866k* Profit?

We often hear about those who’ve made a profit in real estate. Which is no real surprise given how these headlines are usually the attention grabber. “$1.1 million profit in 5 years” It sucks you in, and you often end…

• 15 Jan 2020
• 7 min read
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Property Returns: Here Is The Right Way To Calculate It

I’m sure many of you have a friend or two that have casually remarked to you: “Oh, I bought my condo for $1.5 million and sold it 5 years later at $1.8 million for a $300k return man!” …Or at…

• 23 Nov 2019
• 4 min read
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CPF Accrued Interest: Why You Should Not Pay For Your HDB With CPF

So you’ve reached one of the most important milestones in your life – buying your first home.  Before you get all excited browsing through the various property marketing platforms and going to Pinterest to look for your dream theme, let’s look at…

• 1 Nov 2019
• 4 min read
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7 Tested Ways To Select The Perfect New Launch Condo Unit

“XXX condo has sold 75% of its units on launch day” Ever seen this familiar headline? Or better yet, these photos that are usually plastered over all the new launch condo articles in the newspaper. Can you imagine the mayhem…

• 25 Oct 2019
• 8 min read
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9 Showflat Tricks You Don’t Want To Fall For

Have you ever bought a new condo, only to collect the keys and open the doors for the first time to feel sorely disappointed? For some reason, the living room just looks smaller than you remembered. Or the bathroom just looks…

• 17 Oct 2019
• 7 min read
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Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Judge A Property Purely On It’s “HIGH” PSF

In May 2018 last year, a research report by DBS forecasts new private homes to cost between $2,300 to $2,900 per square foot (PSF) on average by 2030.  Shocked? Well, judging by the number of shares on that post (5766…

• 11 Oct 2019
• 4 min read
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Downpayment for condo in 2020: How much do you have to save exactly?

Buying your first home in Singapore is always going to be an overwhelming experience. Especially when Singapore is one of the most expensive places in the world for real estate. Plus the thought of committing yourself to a very long…

• 26 May 2019
• 3 min read
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4 Handy Tips to Decorate a Tiny Apartment

As the cost of housing continues to rise in cities, as well as the trend of reducing our carbon footprint, more and more people are making the move to tiny apartments. Dense living has its upsides: it requires less maintenance,…

• 16 May 2019
• 3 min read
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Best House Facing Direction: Here is how you should choose which is the best condo stack

If you are looking at a new condo launch in Singapore, it could get quite overwhelming in your buying journey. After all, not only are there all the cooling measures to contend with, numbers to think about, you still have…

• 26 Apr 2019
• 4 min read
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How to avoid ABSD in Singapore: 2 ingenious ways to go about it

The Additional Buyer Stamp Duty (ABSD) is probably one of the most hated acronyms among Singaporeans, along with COE and ERP. After the latest round of cooling measures, where the ABSD rates were raised for Singaporeans buying their second residential…

• 15 Mar 2019
• 2 min read
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Condo Progressive Payment in Singapore – All you need to know

With many new developments slated to launch in Singapore in 2019 after the en bloc spree, it is definitely a buyers market right now. If you are currently looking out for all the new condo launches, one crucial aspect that…

• 5 Mar 2019
• 2 min read
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10 Compact Living Room Ideas to Maximise Space

Compact living room spaces are very common in Singapore, just look at how popular shoebox apartments are. But that does not mean they have to feel confined and uncomfortable. The right design tricks can help your compact living room space…

• 12 Feb 2019
• 4 min read
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10 Expert Hacks for Decorating a Rental Apartment

Maybe you can’t knock down the wall between your kitchen and dining room or pull up the wall-to-wall carpet, but there are many less permanent ways to make a rental apartment feel like home. With a few easy decorating tips,…

• 30 Jan 2019
• 5 min read
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En Bloc Process Timeline – How long does it take?

It is no secret that en bloc sales in Singapore have almost come to a stop after the property curbs in July. Since then, just two en bloc sales were completed, down from the S$3.8 billion worth of transactions in…

• 7 Dec 2018
• 3 min read
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Ask Stacked Homes #01 – Top 5 Singapore housing questions of the week

Here at Stacked Homes we get many questions every week on Singapore housing. So, sharing is caring right? We hope you find this resource useful, if you do have any questions that you would like answered you can always reach…

• 12 Sep 2018
• 2 min read
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First-time home seller: Don’t sell your home without reading these 5 pricing strategies

If you are a first-time home seller, pricing your home can be a tricky thing to do. If you are serious on selling your home on your own, learning some basic pricing strategies can go a long way in helping…

• 14 Jul 2018
• 3 min read
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