6 Old-School Quirks You Can Only Find In Old Condos In Singapore When it comes to condos from the 1980s and earlier, you can often tell their age at a glance. What consumers wanted in a home was different back then – large patios, open rooftops, and perhaps even a more brutalist… 10 Aug 2023 2 min read 0
26 Upcoming New Launch Condos To Wait For In 2023 (One Will Be The Tallest In Singapore) As we cross beyond the second half of 2023, things are looking up on the buyer’s side. More new homes are being completed, and the uptick in prices has begun to moderate somewhat. There has been a spread of new… 7 Aug 2023 9 min read 0
Is The $16k EC Income Ceiling Too Low? A Look At How New EC Prices Have Risen And Why It Should Be Raised The income ceiling for Executive Condos currently stands at $16,000. But there has been discussion lately over whether it’s time to raise this income ceiling, along with that of BTO flats. It doesn’t surprise us to hear it: amid rising… 3 Aug 2023 7 min read 9
How Grand Dunman “Helped” To Sell The Continuum: The Hidden Influence Of Price Anchoring In Real Estate Imagine intending to buy a stock, but it’s jumped from $50 to $100 since you started tracking it. Suddenly, $50 becomes your anchor point, making $100 seem costly. But is $100 truly expensive? It’s hard to tell. If the company’s… 2 Aug 2023 6 min read 0
The Hidden Cost Of Homeownership: How A $1M Home Could Lead To $300K In Interest Alone Over 10 Years One of the least interesting property topics is financing. Home loans are dry, complicated, and don’t make for easy reading; which is why home loan interest rates are often overlooked. In fact, you’ve probably heard by now that rates are… 25 Jul 2023 5 min read 0
Why DBSS Flats Are Defying The Odds: Achieving Record Million-Dollar Prices Despite Past Criticisms Approximately a decade ago, when the Design, Build and Sell Scheme (DBSS) came to an end, the event was largely met with nonchalance. From property blogs to casual conversations, the consensus seemed to favour the scheme’s termination. For most people,… 24 Jul 2023 6 min read 1
From The 70s To The Present: The Evolution Of Singapore’s Condo Layouts Our tastes as homeowners have changed over the years, and so have regulations. From the experimental era of the ‘70s, to the developers “min-maxing” profits with giant air-con ledges in the early ‘00s, condo unit layouts have seen many trends… 19 Jul 2023 10 min read 0
Expecting New Condo Prices To Drop In Singapore? Here’s 6 Factors Why You Shouldn’t While the recent unveiling of eight new GLS sites will undoubtedly provide some relief to soaring property prices, it’s essential to temper expectations. While increased land availability can bolster housing supply, and possibly lead to more moderate property prices over… 17 Jul 2023 7 min read 0
Why Do People Still Opt For Pricier New Condos Over Resale in 2023: 4 Case Studies That Show PSF Isn’t Everything In 2018, there was a research report by DBS that forecasted new private homes to cost between $2,300 to $2,900 psf on average by 2030. This sounded incredibly bullish back then, especially when the average new private home cost about… 10 Jul 2023 7 min read 0
Grand Dunman vs The Continuum vs Tembusu Grand: How To Choose Between The 3 New Launch Condos In District 15 It’s been some time since we had a concentrated launch of condos in one area (the last was the glut of 7 new launches at Holland), and the three names above are the headline projects in the East right now…. 7 Jul 2023 10 min read 1
7 Commonly Overlooked Factors To Consider When Visiting A Show Flat In 2023 It was 2017, a time when the property market was in a rather sleepy state. I remember stepping into a show flat, where I was greeted by a tagger with the enthusiasm of a sloth on a lazy afternoon. My… 4 Jul 2023 6 min read 0
Singapore’s Private Home Market Sees First Price Drop in Three Years: What’s Next? We don’t usually focus too much on the results of a single quarter, but this is an exception. Q2 of 2023 marks the first time we’ve seen a faint dip in property prices, since around Q1 of 2020. But does… 3 Jul 2023 8 min read 0
How To Lower Property Prices In Singapore: More Loan Curbs Or ABSD? The Additional Buyers Stamp Duty (ABSD) is seen as a core component of cooling measures. Every time prices creep too high, we see the government ramp up ABSD – most recently on 27th April 2023, when the ABSD on foreign… 27 Jun 2023 6 min read 1
The Myst, A New Launch Condo With Prices Under $1 Million: A 5-Minute Overview Of Upper Bukit Timah’s Latest Launch The new condo launches are coming in thick and fast, with City Developments Limited (CDL) launching The Myst (yes, I didn’t spell it wrongly, it’s supposed to represent the misty mornings in the nearby Bukit Timah Nature Reserve) on the… 23 Jun 2023 5 min read 0
8 New GLS Sites Revealed For 2023: We Explore Each Site And How They May Impact Homebuyers In an unexpected move, the government has announced eight new GLS sites for the second half of 2023; one of the biggest land sales events we’ve seen in around a decade. On top of that, two of the GLS sites… 22 Jun 2023 7 min read 0
The First New Launch In 14 Years In Ulu Pandan: Pinetree Hill And What You Need To Know Pinetree Hill will be an interesting launch to note, as it’s a little less in the limelight because Ulu Pandan isn’t traditionally an area that will pop into mind for buyers. But it’s been apparently 14 years since there was… 21 Jun 2023 6 min read 0
Inside 2023’s Biggest Condo Launch: Everything You Need to Know About Grand Dunman It’s been a while since we’ve had two new condos launching on the very same weekend – Grand Dunman (near Old Airport Road and Dakota), and Pinetree Hill (along Ulu Pandan Road in Clementi). For those looking for a new… 21 Jun 2023 6 min read 0
Singapore Vs Vienna Public Housing: Is Vienna Doing It Better Than Singapore (And What Can We Learn) Imagine a city where public housing doesn’t just meet basic living standards, but can be architectural masterpieces as well, scattered in prime locations throughout the city. And no, we’re not talking about Singapore. Welcome to Vienna, Austria, where public housing… 21 Jun 2023 9 min read 0