My Search For A Better Alternative To Old Folks Homes In Singapore: Are Overseas Retirement Homes Better? My Mother spent over 30 years of her life staying with and caring for her own mother. When she was no longer needed, she had to move out of the house in which she had stayed for almost half her… 14 Apr 2024 by TJ 10 min read 7
Touring Corporation Walk: Cheaper $2 Million+ Landed Homes Next To A Park Connector (99-Year) A while back, a reader asked for a tour of Corporation Walk, so off to the West I went on a weekday mid-morning. Although the area is quite far West, it’s located in between Jurong Point and Jurong Gateway, so… 7 Apr 2024 by TJ 9 min read 2
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 10 min read 0
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 10 min read 0
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 9 min read 6
An Introvert Buys Property: Getting Prepared To Pull The Trigger (Part 4) Every journey has to end. And sometimes, as poet T.S. Eliot wrote, it’s not with a bang, but with a whimper. And I certainly felt like whimpering when I made the decision to buy my flat. I’ve read countless articles… 11 Dec 2021 5 min read 0
An Introvert Buys Property: The Ones That Got Away (Part 3) Buying property for yourself is not just any #treatyoself purchase – you’re imagining how your life could be better. That’s what makes letting go properties you like much tougher, because you’re passing on a version of you that could’ve been…. 5 Dec 2021 7 min read 0
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 8 min read 0
An Introvert Buys Property: Finding A Property Agent To Trust (Part 2) As a self-professed introvert, I’m used to doing things on my own. But after months of fruitless solo property hunting, I finally conceded that I needed a property agent. It was just after Circuit Breaker ended in 2020 when I… 24 Nov 2021 7 min read 2
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 10 min read 0
An Introvert Buys Property In Singapore: Going It Alone (Part 1) Buying property can be daunting, and more so if you’re single. And even more so if you’re an introvert. In my mid-30s, I felt it was time to take a deep breath and dive into the property market. The government… 13 Nov 2021 4 min read 0
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 9 min read 4
8 Freehold Waterfront Condos In D12 (Balestier/Toa Payoh) That Won’t Break The Bank If you’ve been following my series on affordable waterfront housing (which so far has spanned from HDBs to condos and cluster houses), you might have noticed that the vast majority of waterfront housing in Singapore is 99-years leasehold in nature…. 6 Nov 2021 6 min read 0
3 Reasonably Priced Waterfront Condos In North Singapore (D28 Seletar/Yio Chu Kang) In my first article on affordable waterfront condos and cluster houses in Singapore (which looked at condos around Jurong Lake and West Coast), a kind reader left a comment asking me to do the same for North and East Singapore… 31 Oct 2021 7 min read 0
A Single Homebuyers Journey During Covid-19: How I Bought And Built My Own Home The Singapore property market is known for being tough on single homebuyers; and it’s especially hard to find an HDB flat as a bachelor. Nonetheless, some home buyers do manage to build their ultimate bachelor pad, with a bit of… 22 Oct 2021 14 min read 0
4 Affordable Waterfront Resale Condos In District 19 For More Scenic Views Did you know that globally, waterfront views are priced at a 40% premium? But apparently, because Singapore is an island, waterfront views here are priced at just a 7.7% premium (all the better!). Bear in mind though, this was a… 17 Oct 2021 8 min read 1
A First-Time Homebuyer’s Journey: Review Of Waterview Condo + Bedok Reservoir x Tampines Quarry Last week, I started my journey in search of the best affordable waterfront development in Singapore with a viewing at Waterfront Isle (boasting lovely facilities and sweeping views of Bedok Reservoir). As you can probably tell so far, I’m the… 23 Sep 2021 8 min read 0
A First-Time Homebuyer’s Journey: My Search For Waterfront Views + Review Of Waterfront Isle With all the time we’re spending at home thanks to COVID-19, I had briefly entertained the idea of moving to Sentosa when prices fell below the Singapore mainland. Gorgeous views, low-density housing, a closely-knit community (according to online reviews), and… 17 Sep 2021 9 min read 2
A First-Time Homebuyer’s Journey: My Review Of 1 Canberra EC + The Wider Canberra/Yishun area Have you heard of the Yishun curse? I hadn’t till this year when I forwarded a Yishun property listing to a good friend who immediately texted back, “NEVER, NEVER move to Yishun.” This friend is usually rather a calm person,… 12 Sep 2021 9 min read 0
A First-Time Homebuyer’s Journey: List Of 27 ECs With Big Units + Review Of Citylife @ Tampines Having viewed a number of ECs in the last few weeks, it seems that the developments with a fewer number of units (lower-density) generally tend to be older ones. More recently-built ECs tend to have a larger number of units,… 1 Sep 2021 9 min read 2