Why Upgrading From An HDB Is Harder (And Riskier) Than It Was Since Covid Post-COVID, Singapore’s homebuyers face new realities—from rising prices to shifting preferences. Here’s how upgrading has changed since 2020. 3 Jul 2025 by Ryan J 6 min read 0
A First-Time Condo Buyer’s Guide To Evaluating Property Developers In Singapore What does it mean to “check the developer” before buying a condo? We break down what to look for—from BCA banding to build quality and past project history. 2 Jul 2025 by Ryan J 5 min read 0
Cheapest Condos And HDBs In Singapore: Here’s How Much Prices Have Risen Since 2020 With private home and resale flat prices rising across the board, is a cheap home even possible in 2022? It’s a tough year for first-time home buyers, and even HDB upgraders have been slowly starting to be priced out. Here’s… 28 Nov 2022 4 min read 0
A Fight Over The Sale Of An HDB Flat: 3 Interesting Takeaways From A Co-ownership Tussle In recent news, we’ve heard of the struggle between a widow and her brother-in-law, over an HDB flat. Her husband had left his portion of the flat to her (30 per cent) after passing on. Her brother-in-law (who owned the… 22 Nov 2022 4 min read 0
Not Every Property Agent Wants To Sell/Rent Your Home: We Reveal 5 Reasons Why Property agents are usually hungry for work, so it’s a surprise when they put you on the back-burner. This has been increasingly common in 2022, as the market is hot and agents are spoiled for choice of clients – and… 19 Nov 2022 6 min read 2
A Detailed Update Of 153 New Launch Condos In 2022: How Much Have Prices Risen? (Or Fallen) 2022 is set to go down in history as one of the least explicable years of the Singapore property market. We doubt anyone expected prices to soar to this point, despite a new European war, rising interest rates, and inflation… 18 Nov 2022 5 min read 0
Has BTO Supply Been Keeping Up With Application Rates? Here’s A Look At The Data It was on April 2001 that the Built-To-Order (BTO) system was first launched, with the pilot scheme offering 2,500 new flats at 4 sites in Sengkang and Sembawang. This was done to replace the old Registration for Flats System (RFS),… 11 Nov 2022 5 min read 0
Why Singapore Property Is A Hotspot For The Super Rich: The Rise Of The Centi-Millionaires At this stage of cooling measures, there’s growing concern that even Singapore’s stable climate might put off foreign property investment. The Additional Buyers Stamp Duty (ABSD) rate for foreigners now stands at 30 per cent; this is against a backdrop… 7 Nov 2022 5 min read 0
Beware Rising Home Loan Rates In 2022: We Breakdown Exactly How Much It Will Cost You As Interest Rates Increase The era of cheap home loan rates has ended. From the Global Financial Crisis, through the turbulent Trump administration, and through Covid, Singaporeans have managed to enjoy low-interest loans for over a decade; but what are the practical implications of… 3 Nov 2022 6 min read 0
HDB Rental Rates Are Up A Crazy 20.9% In 2022: Could It Still Go Higher? In recent news, the Straits Times reported that the Singapore rental market may be “going bananas”. It’s certainly true that 2022 has been a better year for landlords, but is the rental market as “crazy” as reported? We did some… 1 Nov 2022 6 min read 0
6 Reasons Why New 3 Bedroom Condos Could Get Smaller Yet A recent report from Property Guru states that the size of three-bedder units has fallen; from around 1,700 to 1,800 sq. ft. in the 1980s, to around 1,000 sq. ft. today. It probably won’t surprise anyone that, as a general… 31 Oct 2022 7 min read 1
Singaporeans Share Their Frustrations About “Affordable” Public Housing: Here Are Some Of The Best Points From Reddit There have been some split opinions on the affordability of HDB housing, following an infographic in the Sunday Times. Of late, the topic seems to hold two divergent opinions: the first that HDB is too expensive and these infographics are… 26 Oct 2022 6 min read 1
A Condo Built Specifically For The Elderly In Singapore? 5 Features We’d Like To See In Such A Development Let’s face it: Singapore’s unofficial senior care body has become HDB. When it comes to housing for retirees, there’s an overwhelming assumption that most people can sell their private property and move into flats. That’s why HDB constantly has to… 25 Oct 2022 8 min read 2
“My HDB Landlord Is Threatening To Kick My Family Out” How High Rents Have Created Greed And What Tenants Can Do Some time ago, we mentioned a possible loophole that HDB landlords might use to drive out tenants. That’s especially worrying in the current high rental environment, where some landlords may feel “stuck” with a cheaper lease signed a year or… 22 Oct 2022 5 min read 5
Is A HDB Flat Oversupply Inevitable In The Future? What Happens When Our Parents Generation Passes On Given the demand for HDB flats over the pandemic period, HDB has ramped up production of new flats in 2021/22, and we’ve seen flat prices reach their highest in close to a decade. In light of the present situation, it… 20 Oct 2022 6 min read 3
The Real Effect Of Loan Curbs On The Singapore Property Market: A Quick Look Back At History One of the most dreaded policy tweaks by MAS is loan curbs – restrictions on how much you can borrow. In almost every round of cooling measures, we’ve come to learn that nothing makes buyers shrink back more than a… 18 Oct 2022 4 min read 2
New Central Condos Cheaper Than City Fringe Ones In 2022? Here Are 4 Simple Reasons Why The CCR has long maintained a reputation as Singapore’s prime region, where one finds the most luxurious – and pricey properties. But in 2022, prices of new RCR condos have started to rise further, and are rapidly narrowing the gap… 4 Oct 2022 6 min read 1
Why Is A Million-Dollar Flat Reasonable To Some Homeowners In 2022? We’re nine months into 2022 and already, more resale flats have crossed the $1 million mark than the whole of 2021. Mind you, 2021 already saw a record number of million-dollar flats, so we’ve truly reached a surreal stage in… 28 Sep 2022 6 min read 1
Chuan Park En Bloc Saga: 4 Key Lessons To Learn For Future En Bloc Hopefuls The collective sale of Chuan Park may be the biggest en-bloc deal since Tulip Garden, back in 2019. Despite the final offer being under the reserve price, it seemed things were about to go smoothly; but now, a group of… 23 Sep 2022 7 min read 0
7 Ways To Avoid ABSD Legally In Singapore (Updated For 2022) Remember back in the 1990s? Those were the days when Singapore property investors strutted around, explaining how every home they bought made the next home purchase even easier. The rent from one property paid for the next property, the rent… 22 Sep 2022 8 min read 27