Opinion

First Time Home Buyer Story: Buying A Condo After The 2007 Financial Crisis And Lessons Learned

It’s certainly been some time since our last buyer story, but nonetheless we have quite an interesting feature this week. This time, we look at the first-home purchase of Andy (not his real name). What’s unusual about this case is…

• 27 Mar 2021
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Analysing The Gap Between New Condos And Household Income (All 28 Districts): Which Are Still Affordable To Singaporeans?

There’s a list of “coffee shop complaints” that we hear all the time, from the rising cost of food, to whether PSLE is a terrible idea. A perennial favourite on the list is the issue of housing affordability, especially in…

• 26 Mar 2021
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Units Of The Week Issue #55

In this week’s issue of Units Of The Week, we’ve landed on District 28 is the location of choice. For the uninitiated, District 28 is one of the districts in the OCR (Outside Central Region). And if you couldn’t tell…

• 24 Mar 2021
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Analysing Unprofitable Condos: 3 Reasons Why Stellar RV Has Performed Poorly

You might have read our recent article on the 13 condos with the most unprofitable transactions. In the first 2 days it racked up nearly 50,000 page views – a sure sign if ever that there needs to be more…

• 22 Mar 2021
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5 Special Old Features Of HDB’s In Singapore That Are Hard To Imagine Today

It is frankly quite amazing to see the progress Singapore has made over the last few decades. Today, we have structures like the now iconic Marina Bay Sands, the glittering lights from Gardens By The Bay, and the current tallest…

• 20 Mar 2021
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Units Of The Week Issue #54

Given how popular Midtown Modern seems to be (the crowds on weekdays are quite something), it was obvious what our focus would be on this week as more people are looking at this new entrant to District 7 – and…

• 17 Mar 2021
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13 Condos With The Most Unprofitable Transactions (By Region)

You’ve read dozens of stories about property tycoons and how housing is the best asset – but at the same time, you’ve heard whispered stories about properties sold at a loss. In Singapore, the former is louder than the latter;…

• 15 Mar 2021
• 11 min read
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5 Spacious 3-bedder Condo Units For Families That Need Space (Under $1.5 million)

Prices per square foot are climbing, but the overall quantum isn’t increasing much. What does that mean for the Singapore private property market? It’s simple: homes are getting smaller.  Many of us long for the homes of the previous decades,…

• 13 Mar 2021
• 6 min read
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Units Of The Week Issue #53

This week, it’s back to Bishan, a place that is home to one of the more iconic developments in Singapore. It’s also the home of a number of million dollar HDB’s, no doubt thanks to the very central location that…

• 10 Mar 2021
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The Previous Agent Declined The Challenge of Selling This Freehold Landed Home. Here’s How I Sold It In 4 Months.

I got to know the owner of this landed home back in 2019 when I was marketing an inter-terrace landed home within the vicinity. But the owner already had another exclusive agent marketing it at that time. During that period,…

• 8 Mar 2021
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6 ECs With Units Less Than $1 Million And More Than 1,000 Sqft + Big Price Gap

To some Singaporeans, resale ECs are guaranteed money-makers: they’re halfway to full privatisation, there’s no Minimum Occupation Period (MOP), and no upfront Additional Buyers Stamp Duty (ABSD) if you’re upgrading.  What buyers should also consider, however, are the prices of…

• 4 Mar 2021
• 9 min read
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Units Of The Week Issue #52

One year. It’s been a whole year of posting Units Of The Week – how time flies. We actually started this just as the pandemic was really starting to get serious, but I think even at that point no one…

• 3 Mar 2021
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5 New Launch RCR Condos With Units Below $1.5 Million (2021)

Covid-19 or not, the Singapore private property market has been on a roll. And with the eye-popping prices of new prime region condos, most of us will have to settle for the next best alternative: city fringe or Rest of…

• 28 Feb 2021
• 9 min read
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Units Of The Week Issue #51

Given that shophouses seem to be all the rage at the moment, we figured this would be timely to showcase some more of the more notable shophouse listings that we’ve come across this week. It’s hard to really pick a…

• 24 Feb 2021
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How Bad Is The Price Gap Between New Launch And Resale Condos? An Analysis Of 13 OCR Districts (Part 2)

Last week we looked at the price gap between new and resale condos in various districts (Click here for Part 1). This week we’re continuing on from that, as well as examining why the gap between absolute prices (the quantum)…

• 23 Feb 2021
• 9 min read
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How Bad Is The Price Gap Between New Launch And Resale Condos? An Analysis of 13 OCR Districts (Part 1)

“Price gap between new and resale units in this region (OCR) stands at 47%, widest in 25 years” With such a statistic, there’s only going to be two trains of thoughts here. One, new launches are overpriced. Or two, resale…

• 19 Feb 2021
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Units Of The Week Issue #50

This week we are looking at one of the more rare unit types in Singapore – the dual key unit. We are definitely no strangers to it here at Stacked, having compiled the ultimate list of 93 dual key units…

• 17 Feb 2021
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An In-depth Update Of 88 New Launch Condos: Have Prices Risen Or Fallen?

“You’ll make instant profit”, the sales team will tell you, “if you buy at a discount now, and then the prices rise in a few months”. It’s a familiar sales pitch in many show flats; and to Singapore’s property investors…

• 13 Feb 2021
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