Landed Home Tours

Touring Lantana Avenue: Freehold Terrace And Semi-Detached Homes Close To Sixth Avenue MRT From $5.3m

A reader requested more Bukit Timah tours, without specifying exactly which landed enclave. Sixth Avenue covers a huge part of Bukit Timah, but we’ve only seen Namly and Ming Teck park so far. Hence, today, I thought we would visit…

• 4 Feb 2024
• 8 min read
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Touring Eng Kong Landed Estate: Affordable Freehold Landed Homes From $3.75m Near Primary Schools In D21

A while back, a reader requested a tour of Eng Kong estate. I’d not managed to get around to it yet when the second request came in, so it seems there is quite a bit of interest in this landed…

• 28 Jan 2024
• 7 min read
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Touring Chestnut Gardens: A Small Enclave Of 999-Year Landed Homes That Are Elderly-Friendly In D23

Chestnut Gardens, a charming collection of terrace houses and semi-detached homes, recently captured my attention. These residences, constructed in the 80s or 90s, intriguingly don’t feature elevators – a common trait for buildings of that era. However, what’s particularly notable…

• 21 Jan 2024
• 7 min read
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Touring Binjai Park: An Expensive Landed Estate With Good Class Bungalows & Smaller Landed Homes From $28 Million

Previously, I’d covered a few reader-requested tours, such as that of Woodlands Park. With all the buzz about AI and how it can potentially replace humans, I was curious as to what it would suggest for this landed tour series,…

• 14 Jan 2024
• 9 min read
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Touring Woodlands Park: Cheaper Freehold Landed Living From $900 Psf With Unblocked Greenery Views

A while back, I wrote about a windy landed estate and a reader suggested that I should check out Jalan Bumbong, as he felt that it was quite similar. It took me a while to get there, as Jalan Bumbong…

• 7 Jan 2024
• 9 min read
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Touring Clementi Crescent: A Small Private Freehold Landed Estate You Probably Don’t Know About

Today, we’re going to tour Clementi Crescent, a very private estate in D21, opposite Sunset Way. Now some of you may be scoffing at the fact that I called a landed enclave in D21 “the most exclusive landed estate.” However,…

• 26 Dec 2023
• 9 min read
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Touring Springwood & Jalan Mat Jambol: Freehold Houses In Pasir Panjang Near The MRT And The Greater Southern Waterfront

Today, we’re off to Jalan Mat Jambol and the Springwood estate to take a look at the landed houses in the area. These houses are quite close to the Chwee Chian estate, which I visited a while back, but they…

• 17 Dec 2023
• 9 min read
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Touring Tamarind Road: Affordable Freehold Houses In A Spacious, Quiet Landed Estate (From $3.5 Million)

Quite a while ago (sorry for the delay), a reader requested a review of Tamarind Road. It’s pretty far out, so it took me a while to get there, but we’re finally there today! Let me show you exactly what…

• 10 Dec 2023
• 8 min read
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Touring Jalan Jelita: Freehold Landed Houses Behind Cold Storage Jelita And Within 1 km Of Henry Park Primary School

We’ve had a few reader requests for tours of Bukit Timah landed enclaves, and what with the recent en bloc sale of the 999-year leasehold, 2-storey Cold Storage Jelita mall (with a plot ratio 2.2), for $91.68 million in November…

• 4 Dec 2023
• 8 min read
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Touring Lentor Green & Lentor Grove: Affordable Freehold Houses From $3.6m Right Beside Lentor MRT

The Lentor area has been the talk of the town in the last few months. Mainly because there have been three condo projects launched in the last 14 months alone: Lentor Modern, Lentor Hills Residences, and Hillock Green. If you’re…

• 26 Nov 2023
• 10 min read
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Touring Ceylon Road: Affordable Freehold Shophouse & Landed Living From $3.4m (Some Can Build 5 Stories)

Not long ago, I embarked on a tour of the conservation houses along Blair Road. As part of the research for the article, I managed to speak to some individuals who had once owned or lived in these historic dwellings….

• 19 Nov 2023
• 10 min read
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Touring Inglewood: Affordable Freehold Landed Homes From $3.6m That Looks Like An English Village (With A Secret Garden)

I’ve visited the Thomson area several times, covering Windsor Park and Thomson Ridge, among other areas. Today, I thought it would be nice to cross (the very busy) Upper Thomson Road and tour Inglewood instead! Inglewood is slightly different from…

• 12 Nov 2023
• 10 min read
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Touring Seletar Hills Estate: Affordable Freehold Landed Homes From $3 Million

Note: The second last transaction at Jalan Ketumbit and the third last transition at Jalan Keruing were in the $2 million+ region but they occurred in 2021. However, I’m still mentioning them as buyers/sellers often like to use past transaction…

• 5 Nov 2023
• 10 min read
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Touring Novena Landed Estate: Freehold Houses Next To An MRT Starting From $4.3 Million

When I was at Square 2 in Novena, I noticed a small enclave of houses right across from it – so close that I could see them from the entrance of the mall! Although the Novena-Thomson area is a bit…

• 29 Oct 2023
• 11 min read
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Touring Countryside Road: An Affordable Freehold Landed Estate That’s Spacious Starting From $3.38 Million

Today we’re off to the Lentor area, which is pretty large. So to be more specific, we’re heading to Countryside Road. The enclave we’re touring is bounded by Lentor Plain, Yio Chu Kang Road, Lentor Avenue and Lentor Loop. It…

• 8 Oct 2023
• 10 min read
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Touring Robin Estate: Freehold Landed Homes In Bukit Timah (Some Can Even Be Redeveloped Into Boutique Condos)

As I was pleasantly surprised by Goldhill estate the other day, I thought I would go take a look at some of the other landed estates in the Bukit Timah area that I’d always written off before, to see if…

• 1 Oct 2023
• 9 min read
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Touring East Coast Terrace: Freehold Landed Homes In A Nice, Quiet Setting

Today, we’re off on a reader-requested tour of East Coast Terrace. I only took a quick look at its location on the map before heading off, so I thought it would be something similar to the houses we saw near…

• 24 Sep 2023
• 13 min read
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Touring Aroozoo Avenue: Affordable Freehold Landed Living In Kovan (Reader Recommended: Best Place To Stay In Kovan)

A while back, I toured the Kovan landed estate and summed it up as an area that was well-connected and bustling, but lacking a cohesive residential feel. (It felt more like a group of houses that just happened to be…

• 17 Sep 2023
• 11 min read
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