My Experience As A First-Time Property Buyer Overseas: 5 Important Lessons I’ve Learned Buying property is an activity that you’ll want to do your homework on before committing. It’s already difficult to ensure that you’re making a sane decision buying in Singapore, so you can imagine how much more careful you’ll need to… 25 Jul 2024 by Melody 7 min read 0
What It’s Like To Live In A Prestigious Landed Estate Near Orchard: Touring One Tree Hill With Prices From $8.2m For Singaporeans of a certain age, the phrase “One Tree Hill” will bring to mind the OC in the US (thanks to a teen drama, back in the day) instead of the so-named, exclusive landed estate within walking distance of… 21 Jul 2024 by TJ 10 min read 0
Touring Island Country Villas: Spacious Landed Living Next To A Lush Forest (And Monkeys) For About $2.6 Million Island Country Villas is a landed estate at Old Upper Thomson Road and Casuarina Walk which comprises 58-60 99-year leasehold semi-detached houses, and was developed by UOL Group in 1999 (with leases starting from August 1995). Usually, I’d choose bigger… 5 Jun 2022 10 min read 0
NFTs, Guilds & Coins: We Spoke To A Crypto Enthusiast About His Thoughts On The Metaverse As someone who has invested $19k of her own money into the metaverse, I am naturally bullish about the space – even if recent events in the crypto space have been anything but convincing! I don’t confess to being an… 30 May 2022 8 min read 0
Touring Villa Verde: Affordable Terrace Houses For About $2 Million In Choa Chu Kang I’d been meaning to check out Villa Verde for some time because well, for a landed house in Singapore, it’s “cheap” (or shall we say less expensive?) Coincidentally, someone left a comment on my article about the houses at Loyang… 29 May 2022 10 min read 10
Touring Haus@Serangoon Gardens: Bustling Landed Living Near A Plethora Of Amenities For About $3 Million Serangoon Gardens is one of the most popular landed enclaves in Singapore. So when I learned about Haus@Serangoon Gardens, a 99-year leasehold, 97-unit residential enclave on a 28,402 sqm plot of land, where you can get a new landed house… 22 May 2022 9 min read 10
Touring Loyang Villas: Shophouse-Styled Terrace Houses In Changi From $1.8 Million In District 17 If you’ve always wanted to live in a landed house, but have a limited budget (and don’t mind living in the East), Loyang Villas is definitely an area that you should pay attention to. It is one of the largest… 15 May 2022 9 min read 1
You Can Now Buy A Home Without Selling Any Of Your Bitcoin With Crypto Mortgages. Here Are The Pros & Cons Take a guess which year this was written: When asked which payment method they used most often, 43% of Singaporeans preferred cash, as compared to 3% who used mobile wallets, and 2% who used contactless payments. If you’re anything like… 11 May 2022 7 min read 1
Why We Upgraded To A 1,593 Sqft Executive Apartment From A 4-Room BTO (Despite Its Age) There’s been much talk about HDB upgraders in 2021/2022, and while most of the attention seems to be on upgrading to a condo, there are also many who are looking for bigger resale HDB homes as an upgrade to their… 10 May 2022 6 min read 1
Touring Victoria Park Villas: A Stylish Leasehold Landed Enclave In District 10 Next To GCBs A 99-year leasehold development by CapitaLand, Victoria Park Villas is one of the younger leasehold landed enclaves around. It TOP-ed in Dec 2018 with a lease starting from September 2013 (i.e. no lease decay worries for a good while) and… 8 May 2022 9 min read 0
We Ask Gen Zs About The Metaverse: Not Everyone Thinks It’s The Next Big Thing If you’ve been wanting to start investing in the Metaverse or digital real estate, I’d pay attention to what the Gen Zs are doing. Many people like to dismiss the younger generations, but you’d be foolish to discount the first… 4 May 2022 8 min read 0
Touring Michaels Residences & Mera Gardens: A Leasehold Landed Enclave Next To GCBs In Dairy Farm For my next leasehold landed tour, I drove over to the Dairy Farm area, a part of Singapore I’m quite fond of – it’s lush, green and open but still not too far away from central Singapore. Although it’s just… 2 May 2022 10 min read 0
Touring Holland Grove: A More Modestly Priced Landed Estate In D10 Walkable To A MRT Station Today we’re taking a tour of Holland Grove, a 99-year leasehold landed estate that I first mentioned in my second article for Stacked (on how to avoid ghosts, pests, and floods in your next property.) Located at Holland Grove View,… 24 Apr 2022 10 min read 0
Touring Burgundy Hill: An Affordable Landed Enclave In Bukit Batok Surrounded By Greenery The Burgundy Hill area is home to 166 3-storey semi-detached houses built in 1999, and it was done up in the Victorian style, by CapitaLand. Although the properties here are 99-year leasehold in nature, they caught my attention for the… 17 Apr 2022 10 min read 4
5 Essential Takeaways I’ve Learnt From Buying Digital Real Estate In The Metaverse Now I’m no martial arts expert, but I’m pretty sure the venerable Bruce Lee once said: “If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land, no frame of mind is ever going to help you.”… 11 Apr 2022 9 min read 0
I Invested $19,000 SGD On Virtual Lands In The Metaverse. Here’s My Experience. I remember my first time hearing about virtual real estate from my friend back in 2020. He shared with me about a blockchain 3D reality platform called ‘Decentraland’ – something he chanced upon when going down the Reddit rabbit hole… 4 Apr 2022 9 min read 5
Touring The Luxurie: A Rather Upscale Condo In Sengkang That’s Well Located The Luxurie first came to my attention because of its duplex penthouses which have lift access to both floors, a rarity in the Singaporean property market (if you can’t afford to drop $15 million on a flat, that is.) As… 3 Apr 2022 8 min read 3
My Journey Into The Metaverse: Here’s What I’ve Learnt From 345 Hours Of Research In 1994, Jeff Bezos was a Senior Vice President of a hedge fund, not a shoddy position by any measure. But he came across a staggering stat: the Internet was growing 2,300% per year. It was a big enough revelation… 28 Mar 2022 10 min read 2
♠️ I Was Once Nearly A Professional Poker Player: Here’s How It’s Helped Me Be A Better Property Agent There was a period in my past life when I used to play poker regularly. I was in my early 20s back then and played against opponents much older than myself – most were in their 30s and 40s. At… 24 Mar 2022 7 min read 0
How I Earned Bitcoin From MapleStory In 2011: The Rise Of Crypto And The Metaverse I guess you could say I am lucky. Maybe being lucky is an understatement. In the year 2009, I remembered being FOMO-ed into creating an account for an online multiplayer game called “MapleStory” – everyone in my school was so… 18 Mar 2022 6 min read 2