Are Older HDB Maisonettes And Jumbo Flats Worth the Premium? A Deep Dive Into Pricing Trends In recent years, executive maisonettes and jumbo flats have been known to defy gravity and logic, in terms of market returns. These tend to be among the oldest HDB flats, which aren’t even produced anymore. But despite the lease decay,… 10 Mar 2025 by Ryan J 5 min read 0
Are Condos Further From MRT Stations Underperforming? The Data Tells a Different Story We’ve come a long way in the past two decades, and so has the Singapore transport system. There are more MRT stations and train lines now; and that in turn would have affected some condos. In the past, it was… 27 Feb 2025 by Ryan J 4 min read 3 Premium
GuocoLand Developer Review: A Detailed Look And Analysis Here is everything you need to know about GuocoLand. 25 May 2020 9 min read 0
CapitaLand Developer Review: A Detailed Look And Analysis An analysis into how well Capitaland projects have done over the years. 13 May 2020 9 min read 2
A Buyer’s Case Study With Stacked: Eco Sanctuary An in-depth case study into a buyer’s journey with Stacked 6 May 2020 5 min read 0
$6M Profit!? – The Biggest Winners From The 08/09 Property Market Crash It’s the 1st of May, Singapore has now reported 932 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the total national tally past the 17,000 mark. HDB resale, rental volumes are expectedly down in the first quarter of 2020 – with stagnant prices to… 1 May 2020 6 min read 2
Are Dual Key Condos Profitable? Here Are The Results From All 193 Transactions So Far It’s easy to see why Singaporeans like dual key condo units. They are functional, offer flexibility, and are good options for having a little rental income without having to fork out additional cash for the ABSD. So it is of… 25 Apr 2020 7 min read 5
$5M Loss?! – The Biggest Losers of the 08/09 Property Market Crash It’s not a surprise that we’re often drawn to stories of the biggest winners… 10 Apr 2020 8 min read 2
Taking a Look at 123 New Sale Condos From 2010 And How They Have Done Today Who will top this star-studded list? 31 Mar 2020 9 min read 6
Mind The Gap: Analysing The Price Gap Between New Launch And Resale For 22 Districts I’m sure many of you would have seen the latest article from the Business Times stating that the price gap between resale and new launch condos has widened to 40% in 2019. In other words, new condo prices have risen… 26 Mar 2020 11 min read 2
Freehold vs Leasehold: 3 Tests To Determine Which Is Better (Part 2) Let’s try something different for Part 2 of our Freehold vs Leasehold debate. I’ll start by asking you directly – Freehold vs Leasehold: Which do you think makes more money? Of course I could be wrong, but I’d wager that… 20 Mar 2020 6 min read 6
Freehold vs Leasehold: Can You Really Prove Which Is Better? (Part 1) In the wake of the Falkland Campaign that waged between Argentina and the United Kingdom 38 years ago, Margaret Thatcher said this. “There is no prouder word in our history than ‘freeholder’”. And that is a notion that has rung… 15 Mar 2020 6 min read 2
We Analysed 96 New Launch Condos. Here’s What We Learnt. Despite the Coronavirus showing no signs of abating around the world, it does seem like there is no separating Singapore from its love of property. 5 Mar 2020 5 min read 2
Here’s What Property Prices In 2010 Can Teach You In 2020 There’s a famous saying that goes, History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Kurt Vonnegut Talk about an astute saying. Especially so when you hear the same usual comments every… 16 Feb 2020 4 min read 2
(Updated) We Ranked Every District By How Much They’ve Gained (Or Lost) – Here Are The Results Some of you might have remembered us doing a piece on the noisiest districts in Singapore some time back (*Mini-spoiler Alert*: No. 1 was quite the surprise). 22 Jan 2020 19 min read 7
How A ‘Property Oversupply’ in Singapore Could Affect Housing Prices Could an oversupply be signalling an end to exorbitant housing prices? 17 Jan 2020 15 min read 8
A Behind the Scenes: ‘What Really Caused Singapore’s Impending Property Oversupply’? Singapore has a property oversupply. And it isn’t going away anytime soon. 27 Dec 2019 10 min read 0
Resale Condo vs New Launch vs HDB Resale: A Case Study On Which Is The Best Option Of the numerous large-scale purchasing options we go through in life, setting aside the downpayment for your new house has to rank up there as one of the most impactful. 13 Dec 2019 4 min read 5
Ultimate Guide to Master Plan 2019 Now if I were in the shoes of Back to the Future’s superstar, Marty McFly – the first thing I would probably do would be to head straight for the Toto counter. 3 Dec 2019 15 min read 4
How The Endowment Effect Is Hurting Your Property Decision Making – Case Study Of A Rental Investor Despite property being such a big ticket item (especially in Singapore), it is frankly quite astounding when you hear the reasons why some people made the purchase they did. “Oh, I bought this because my friend said it will have good rental… 29 Nov 2019 6 min read 7