Landed Home Tours

Touring Hillview Garden Estate: A Freehold Landed Estate In Upper Bukit Timah With Prices From $3 Million

It is notoriously difficult to find an affordable, freehold landed house (or even a reasonably-priced leasehold landed one!) in Singapore, especially in Bukit Timah, which has many GCB enclaves. Hence, when I saw a freehold landed house listing at around…

• 12 Feb 2022
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Touring Opera Estate: The Remaining Affordable Freehold Landed Enclave

It’s been quite a journey touring all the 5 estates on the “cheapest freehold landed estates in Singapore” list. For those who are new, here’s a list that I’ve visited thus far: Macpherson Garden Estate Sembawang Hills Estate Thomson Garden…

• 22 Jan 2022
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Touring Thomson Garden Estate: Where You Can Find A Freehold Landed Home For $2.8 Million

Not far away from Teachers’ Housing Estate and Sembawang Hills Estate is another of the “cheapest freehold landed” enclaves in Singapore, Thomson Garden Estate, where there are about 480-500 houses depending on which property portal you visit – you can…

• 15 Jan 2022
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Touring Sembawang Hills Estate: An Affordable Freehold Landed Enclave With A Hawker Centre

If you didn’t already know, only 5% of Singaporeans live in a landed home. Hence, it’s almost everyone’s dream, and ambition to live in a landed home. I’ve covered a fair few in my cheapest freehold landed estate series so…

• 3 Jan 2022
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Touring Teacher’s Housing Estate: The Cheapest And Most Spacious Freehold Landed Estate (D26)

In today’s short attention span world with many different things vying for your attention, those who want to stand out have to resort to certain “tactics”. So if a property ad wants to get the attention of property hunters such…

• 26 Dec 2021
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Touring MacPherson Garden Estate: Possibly The Cheapest Freehold Landed Estate In Singapore (Under $2.5 Million)

MacPherson Garden Estate is a small cluster of landed houses whose claim to fame is being amongst the cheapest freehold landed enclaves in Singapore. This is, of course, why I decided to hop over and tour the area and its…

• 15 Dec 2021
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Touring Pasir Ris By The Sea “Freehold” Condos For Under $2 Million (And Above 2,000 Sq ft!)

A while back, I wrote about freehold waterfront condos at Balestier (most waterfront properties in Singapore are 99-years leasehold in nature). The feedback from my Mom, who grew up in the area, was: “What river? It’s a big drain!” (Fact…

• 30 Nov 2021
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Touring Sembawang Waterfront Landed Homes + 9 Landed Living Costs To Note

Last week, I headed over to explore the waterfront landed homes at Pasir Ris. In short, I concluded that they are close to nature, have a beautiful waterfront but are a tad crowded (at least the nearby beach and park…

• 22 Nov 2021
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An Early Morning Tour Of Pasir Ris: Landed Houses By The Beach Under $2.9 Million

When you watch property videos on YouTube or Netflix, beachfront houses are always portrayed as the creme de la creme in real estate. I’ve always thought that we’d already destroyed all the beautiful waterfront landed houses in land-scarce Singapore –…

• 11 Nov 2021
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Living In A Shophouse: Figment Alexandra House Review

Did you know that lobsters were once prison food? What we now see as a delectable, decadent treat was actually once termed as the “cockroaches of the sea” because it was just over abundant.  And it wasn’t just prison food,…

• 27 Dec 2020
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