A 6 Step Guide To Stage Your Home For Sale Like A Professional (A Real Life Case Study) It’s a Saturday night. You’re about to go on a first date and have spent hours looking for the perfect outfit. You get your hair styled and slather on some cologne (or perfume, for the ladies). You even spend the… 25 Nov 2021 8 min read 4
$8.7 Million Profit? 5 Common Traits From The Biggest Property Gains And Losses While most people can grasp basic concepts like “good location” or “good facilities”, the top gainers are almost always a surprise. Some of them can seem old and worse for wear, yet top the charts. Others can be in a… 23 Nov 2021 6 min read 0
5 Tell-Tale Signs To Look Out For When Evaluating A Resale Property Purchase Property in Singapore is booming. For some who took the plunge in 2020, they may already have seen paper gains in recent resale transactions in 2021. Now I’m not here to create more FOMO to encourage you to buy a… 16 Nov 2021 8 min read 2
5 New Launch Condos With Unusual Selling Points (Floating Swimming Pool, Anybody?) One person’s hype is another person’s “must-buy” condition. However, sometimes unusual selling points fail to be made known due to the overwhelming number of facilities; or even in listings (that’s partly why we make videos about cool condo units). It’s… 12 Nov 2021 7 min read 3
7 Qualities You Want In A Property For Asset Progression Asset progression, wealth progression, upgrading… we Singaporeans have all sorts of names for it, but the general idea is the same: using your existing property as a stepping stone, toward a bigger or more luxurious home (or just one with… 7 Nov 2021 7 min read 0
7 Key Requirements To Make Your Property A Retirement Asset Home prices are at a peak in 2021, and the Additional Buyers Stamp Duty (ABSD) has raised questions on whether a property is a great investment. Whether you’re a landlord or owner-investor, it’s clear that the property market today is… 5 Nov 2021 7 min read 2
We Asked: Is The New PLH Model Fair? Here’s The Collated Response From 175 People The PLH model is one of the biggest changes we’ve seen to the housing market, since the first cooling measures. When news of the new model came out, we ran a poll on whether or not our followers felt certain… 4 Nov 2021 6 min read 0
7 Key Factors To Consider If You’re Buying A Property Before 35 Covid-19 has pushed many Singaporeans to buy their own homes earlier, especially with Work From Home (WFH) arrangements becoming indefinite. This has resulted in newly married couples, singles, and even people barely out of school wanting their own place. For… 3 Nov 2021 7 min read 0
4 Possible Locations Of Future Prime BTO Flats Under The PLH Model With the evolving Prime Location Public Housing (PLH) model housing, we’ve cleared one barrier to having more central/prime area flats. One thing is quite clear: prime doesn’t just mean expensive. So the first project to be launched under the PLH… 2 Nov 2021 6 min read 2
New Launches Near The 5-Year ABSD Deadline In 2021: Will We Be Seeing Developer Discounts? As condos come close to their five-year ABSD time limit, homebuyers and investors start to pay more attention. There’s every chance that, with a handful of units left, the developer will decide to give deep discounts rather than pay a… 29 Oct 2021 6 min read 4
10 Key Factors To Help You Pick The Ideal New Launch Condo Unit The hard (or fun?) part is over. You’ve found your ideal condo development – it’s near to the MRT, there’s a 50m infinity lap pool, and the clubhouse has a karaoke room, lounge area, and even a foosball table. What… 28 Oct 2021 8 min read 0
10-Year MOP For Prime Region HDB Flats: All You Need To Know About The New PLH Model The November 2021 BTO launch will be a big deal, introducing the new Prime Location Housing (PLH) model. This is a topic we covered in an earlier article; and it seems we now have a response. In this upcoming pilot… 27 Oct 2021 7 min read 0
Landlord And Tenants Take Note: How Singapore’s Rental Market Has Changed In 2021 2020 and 2021 have been some of the most unusual years in Singapore’s history. The combination of Work From Home arrangements, to the impact of the Circuit Breaker, have sent many scrambling to find their own place as soon as… 26 Oct 2021 7 min read 0
An Ultimate Guide To Using Your CPF To Buy Property: How Much Can You Really Use? Most Singaporeans will use their CPF in some form, to purchase their property. This has resulted in some debates over the years, regarding how much of our CPF we should use; or whether HDB upgraders should be using more cash… 24 Oct 2021 7 min read 0
How Does Having Fewer Big Property Agencies Affect Homebuyers? It was just in 2017 that OrangeTee and Edmund Tie & Company announced a new joint venture called Orange Tee and Tie (OTT) to form the third biggest property agency in Singapore with more than 4,400 agents. How things have changed… 23 Oct 2021 7 min read 0
The Ultimate Design Brief For Your Interior Designer In 7 Steps (Sample Template Included) Renovations are prime grounds for a misunderstanding; because some concepts are tough to put into words. To avoid wasting both time and money, it’s important to know how to express exactly what you want to your Interior Designer (ID), and… 20 Oct 2021 6 min read 2
Breaking Down The Costs Of Development: Is Property Development Unsustainable In Singapore? There’s a common misconception today that property developers are the cause of higher property prices in Singapore. After all, it seems obvious that developer pricing is the main factor in a condo’s cost. Perhaps that may have been true in… 19 Oct 2021 7 min read 2
Leedon Green VS Hyll on Holland: Which Should You Pick? Despite how property prices are climbing everywhere else and demand seems to be insatiable, there’s an area in Singapore that seems to be bucking that trend – Holland Village. In fact, competition is intense enough that – despite a hot… 11 Oct 2021 10 min read 0