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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
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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
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I Bought My First Home In My Mid-40s, Here’s What I Went Through

We’ve all had different circumstances in life, and some of us begin our home ownership journey a bit later than 35. This week we spoke to KS, who “married later” and only bought his first home in his mid-40s. He…

• 4 Jan 2024
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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
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How A Singaporean Property Investor Converted An Old 3 Bedder Condo Into A 4 Bedder Dual Key Unit

Converting a regular condo layout to a dual-key one isn’t very common as it’s a rather niche preference. These are condo units which are subdivided into two separate living spaces – that way landlords can live with residents while preserving…

• 19 Dec 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“Our Parents Became Our Next Door Neighbours” The Awkward Truth About Living Next To Our Parents

With more Singaporean families being dual-income, grandparents’ support has become vital. The topic has been in the news, on and off, for as long as most of us can remember. (Although we had better add, not all grandparents are happy…

• 17 Nov 2023
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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
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“I Regret Buying A 2 Bedder Condo” 5 Young Couples Share Their Biggest Regrets

With high home prices and a constraint on land space in Singapore, it’s not surprising unit sizes have become a compromise. All those 600 to 700 sq. ft. two-bedders sure look big in a show flat; and some buyers are…

• 7 Nov 2023
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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
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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
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“I Regret Waiting For The Cooling Measures To End” 4 Homebuyers Share Their Property Investment Mistakes

The tricky part about Singapore’s residential market is its dynamism: cooling measures can appear overnight, and the supply of housing is subject to five-year feast-and-famine cycles. These can make a lot of otherwise sensible housing decisions at that time look……

• 23 Oct 2023
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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
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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
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