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
Property Returns: Here Is The Right Way To Calculate It I’m sure many of you have a friend or two that have casually remarked to you: “Oh, I bought my condo for $1.5 million and sold it 5 years later at $1.8 million for a $300k return man!” …Or at… 23 Nov 2019 4 min read 3
The Essential Guide to Integrated Developments: An In-Depth Analysis of 14 Exclusive Projects If you have read our latest review on Sengkang Grand Residences, you might have realised the lure of integrated developments. 22 Nov 2019 20 min read 1
Singapore’s Top 10 Condo Developers Ranked According To Their Appreciation Statistics – An Insider’s Peek! Many of us are drawn in by the news of up and coming condo stunners everywhere we go. Massive units. Large green spaces. One-of-a-kind facilities. Take the RoyalGreen. Bird’s nest tennis court, roof-top jogging track… it’s easy to see why… 6 Nov 2019 10 min read 1
Singapore Noise Levels: 10 Noisiest Neighbourhoods That Might Make You Consider Noise-Cancelling Headphones If you are at home right now, what are the chances that some foreign sound is making its way into your ears? Could you be listening to the sound of the next MRT train swooshing into the platform at this… 22 Oct 2019 3 min read 3
Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Judge A Property Purely On It’s “HIGH” PSF In May 2018 last year, a research report by DBS forecasts new private homes to cost between $2,300 to $2,900 per square foot (PSF) on average by 2030. Shocked? Well, judging by the number of shares on that post (5766… 11 Oct 2019 4 min read 0
Singapore VS Toronto: Luxury Condo Living in 2 Major Cities Over the past few years, there has been an increasing trend and interest in luxury real estate. The dream home is no longer a red-brick house with a white picket fence, but a sleek, and modern penthouse with stunning views… 11 Apr 2019 3 min read 1
Property Developers in Singapore: Top 10 local developers in 2018 Despite the recent cooling measures, there still have been numerous new launches in Singapore. If you have been looking to buy a condominium, what would be your top considerations? Location? Price? Availability of transport links? Of course, these are usually… 27 Nov 2018 7 min read 0
Shoebox Apartment in Singapore: Is it still worth buying in today’s market? Put simply, a shoebox apartment is characterised as a studio or one-bedroom apartment that has less than 500 square feet of space. For a period of time, a shoebox apartment or more commonly known as a Mickey Mouse apartment locally, was… 12 Nov 2018 4 min read 1
Land ownership in Singapore – here is everything you need to know It is no secret that Singapore is a very small country. In case you did not know, the total land area of Singapore is only 721.5 square kilometres (as of 2017) making it the 192nd-largest country in the world. In… 7 Jun 2018 2 min read 3
Plot Ratio – Why you need to know (and how to calculate it) Living in a place as small as Singapore, it is only natural that space is at a premium and that housing is all we talk about. So with a limited land area, careful planning of the use of the land… 8 Feb 2018 3 min read 9
Luxury Homes in Singapore: A global comparison of square foot prices and where does Singapore compare. Whenever someone talks about the most expensive property in the world, what are the few countries that usually pop up in your head? Monaco, London and Hong Kong, just to name a few. With the rising property prices in Singapore,… 21 Sep 2017 4 min read 0