Property Analysis

Here’s Why A Property Valuation Is A Big Deal When Getting Your Home Loan

It’s every buyer’s worst nightmare: you’ve agreed on the condo price, you’ve put your old flat up for sale for this upgrade, and – at the crucial moment – you find you’re $50,000 short of the asking price, and the…

• 10 May 2020
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How Does Pinnacle@Duxton Keep Producing These Million-dollar Flats?

Pinnacle@Duxton just saw a record-breaking $1.232 million transaction, for a five-room flat. It’s the highest price to date for an HDB flat; but as million-dollar flats go, it’s just one more in a long line. There’s already been around 40…

• 5 May 2020
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$6M Profit!? – The Biggest Winners From The 08/09 Property Market Crash

It’s the 1st of May, Singapore has now reported 932 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the total national tally past the 17,000 mark. HDB resale, rental volumes are expectedly down in the first quarter of 2020 – with stagnant prices to…

• 1 May 2020
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HDB vs. SIBOR vs. Fixed Deposit: Which Home Loan is Best Right Now?

You’re at the bank listening to the mortgage banker talk, and you know this is important. But 15 minutes in, you realise all those comprehension lessons at school have failed you. You understand the individual words coming out of the…

• 22 Apr 2020
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How A Home Equity Loan Will Save You From Having To Sell Your Property

It’s a plain looking letter, but the final loan repayment on your house marks a real milestone in your life. Or perhaps it’s so close you can practically feel the weight coming off your shoulders – one final decade of…

• 20 Apr 2020
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Taking a Long Term View on the Coronavirus

Why you shouldn’t fret.

• 1 Apr 2020
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How The Coronavirus Is Affecting Real Estate In Singapore

It has been a wild ride since we last wrote about the Coronavirus in February – so much has happened since then.  As of now, the spread of COVID-19 has worsened to a state that the World Health Organisation (WHO)…

• 28 Mar 2020
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Why Your Financial Future Depends On Your Exit Strategy

I’m sure most people would have heard of the saying: If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. As corny as it sounds, this saying does not ring more true than when it comes to investing in property.  I’m…

• 1 Mar 2020
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Coronavirus and SARS: How It Might Affect The Singapore Property Market

Wuhan Virus, Coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, COVID-19, Coronavirus 2019. Call it whatever we want, but there’s no denying that it’s already wreaked havoc across our tiny island.  Empty grocery shelves and over-priced masks have been lining the news bulletins these past weeks,…

• 24 Feb 2020
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Why Knowing The Singapore Property Cycle Can Make You A Better Investor

I do believe most people are aware that the value of property will grow over time. It may not grow consistently, or uniformly, but it will trend upwards.  On the flip side, there is such a thing as being on…

• 23 Feb 2020
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Here’s What Property Prices In 2010 Can Teach You In 2020

There’s a famous saying that goes,  History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Kurt Vonnegut Talk about an astute saying. Especially so when you hear the same usual comments every…

• 16 Feb 2020
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(Updated) We Ranked Every District By How Much They’ve Gained (Or Lost) – Here Are The Results

Some of you might have remembered us doing a piece on the noisiest districts in Singapore some time back (*Mini-spoiler Alert*: No. 1 was quite the surprise).

• 22 Jan 2020
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How A ‘Property Oversupply’ in Singapore Could Affect Housing Prices

Could an oversupply be signalling an end to exorbitant housing prices?

• 17 Jan 2020
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Future Of Real Estate: What We Hope To See In 2020 In Singapore

2020 is here, as crazy as that sounds. The year 2020 sounds and looks like a year from some dystopian film, yet here we are.  Over the years the real estate scene in Singapore has evolved so much, no thanks…

• 5 Jan 2020
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Year-end Review: Top 10 Most Shared Stacked Homes Posts in 2019

As part of our year-end review at Stacked Homes (the first being our top 10 transactions post), we have decided to look back on the year to review the work we’ve done. 2019 has been an incredible year for Stacked…

• 1 Jan 2020
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A Behind the Scenes: ‘What Really Caused Singapore’s Impending Property Oversupply’?

Singapore has a property oversupply. And it isn’t going away anytime soon.

• 27 Dec 2019
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Year-End Review: Top 10 Most Expensive/Cheapest Property in Singapore 2019

As the year draws to a close, here at Stacked Homes we thought it’d be fitting to end off with a top 10 post of the most expensive and cheapest property transactions of this year. It’s been an interesting year to…

• 26 Dec 2019
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Resale Condo vs New Launch vs HDB Resale: A Case Study On Which Is The Best Option

Of the numerous large-scale purchasing options we go through in life, setting aside the downpayment for your new house has to rank up there as one of the most impactful.

• 13 Dec 2019
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