How To Make A Landed Home More Elderly-Friendly In Singapore (Before Moving Feels Necessary) Landed homes provide the luxury of space, but they come with one inherent drawback: many of them are less senior-centric, and don’t accommodate the needs of the elderly quite as well. This is, in fact, one of the leading reasons… 13 Mar 2025 by Ryan J 5 min read 0
5 Cheapest Yet Spacious 3-Bedroom Condos Above 1,500 Sqft (Under $2m) Finding a spacious home in Singapore without pushing the budget too far can be a challenge; especially if you’re looking at new launches. But if size matters more than shiny new fittings, you might find that older condos can still… 13 Mar 2025 by Stacked 7 min read 0
Units Of The Week Issue #45 In this week’s edition of Units Of The Week, we are heading back to District 19 for a closer look – mainly because of our latest video review of a rather famous HDB in Punggol – Waterway Terraces. Some of… 13 Jan 2021 4 min read 0
5 Singapore Condos With Positive Cash-flow Investing in a rental property could be a tough call right now, due to Covid-19; but what if the condo generates enough rent to cover its loan repayments, plus more? These days, it’s true that most condos generate just enough… 11 Jan 2021 8 min read 3
We Moved From A BTO Flat To An Executive Apartment: Here’s Why If you’re old enough to remember the 1980’s, you might recall Executive Apartments (EAs) were all the rage of the time; you might call them the ECs of their day. These were even larger than 5-room flats, and may have… 9 Jan 2021 9 min read 0
I Sold My Freehold Penthouse Unit For $1.75 Million During The Pandemic. Here’s How. In Dec 2019, after almost 9 years of staying in Gallery 8 – a small freehold development located in the East Coast area – we decided to sell and move on to the next stage of our lives. As my… 7 Jan 2021 9 min read 0
Units Of The Week Issue #44 Welcome to the first issue of Units Of The Week for 2021! This week, we have decided to showcase the nicest units that we’ve come across in District 3 – with a good mix of both condo and HDB options… 6 Jan 2021 5 min read 0
Units Of The Week Issue #43 Time flies doesn’t it? While this year may have been a year to forget for many, 2020 has still flashed past so quickly, and we are now at the last issue of UOTW for the year! Since the launch of… 30 Dec 2020 5 min read 1
Units Of The Week Issue #42 This week in Units Of The Week, we take an interest in a District that has a particular neighbourhood which has often been the butt of jokes of Singaporeans in recent years. Yes, you’ve guessed it – it’s none other… 23 Dec 2020 5 min read 0
5 Pet-friendly Condos In Singapore For Under $1.5 Million (Q3 2020) Now that you’re upgrading from your HDB, your fur kid finally has some room to run around; or you can finally adopt a massive doggo that’s twice the size of your spouse. But while there are no HDB-like restrictions on… 19 Dec 2020 7 min read 0
5 Seaview Condo Properties You Can Own For Under $1.5 Million (Q2 2022) Multiple viewings later, none of the condos you’ve seen excite you. There’s just something…drab about them. It’s a common phenomenon, and we know a possible cure: try viewing a condo with a sea view instead. This is one of the… 17 Dec 2020 10 min read 2
Are New Launch Bigger Bedroom Units Getting More Expensive? I’m sure most of you would know the drill by now when it comes to general new launch pricing. Small units equals higher PSF, big units equals lower PSF. In the past few years where there has been added emphasis… 16 Dec 2020 3 min read 4
Units Of The Week Issue #41 This week in Units Of The Week, we take a circle back to District 10. It’s been a while since we’ve covered it for UOTW, but since we’ve had quite a few enquiries for the area (shameless plug: maybe it’s… 16 Dec 2020 5 min read 2
How Do We Keep Prime HDB Flats Fair? We Review Your Responses Last week we asked you how we could keep prime area HDB flats fair, and we got a good number of answers. It’s also timely, as a little more information regarding new flat policies have come up: as of 12th… 14 Dec 2020 5 min read 0
5 Fringe Region (OCR) Condos You Can Own For Under $1 Million It wasn’t all too long ago that some of these OCR condos would have been described as “far-flung”. But for some, with the ever-reaching networks of the MRT or the “positive” effects from Covid-19 (the ability to work from home,… 10 Dec 2020 8 min read 0
Units Of The Week Issue #40 District 12 has always been a bit of an oddball because of the way that the highway (PIE) clearly segregates between Balestier, Potong Pasir, Toa Payoh, and Boon Keng. So those not familiar with the area are usually surprised to… 9 Dec 2020 5 min read 1
A Buyer’s Case Study With Stacked: Fourth Avenue Residences Project Case Study: Fourth Avenue Residences Client Details Buyer’s Brief Challenges They Faced First Consultation As you might well have guessed, this was another client journey that began in the earlier months of the pandemic. Like many others that we’ve… 7 Dec 2020 12 min read 11
27 New Launch Condos in 2020: Here’s How They’ve Performed It’s possible that more happened to the real estate market in 2020 than in the whole of the past two to three years combined. An unprecedented circuit breaker period, construction and manpower issues, Singapore’s worst recession in 50 years…and yet,… 5 Dec 2020 6 min read 0
5 City Fringe (RCR) Condos For Under $1.2 Million Near An MRT Singapore may be decentralising, but your office is in the CBD or in town right now. And after years of getting up at 6am just to make it to morning meetings, you’re probably hoping your first condo can bring you… 4 Dec 2020 8 min read 3
Units Of The Week Issue #39 Seeing how we’ve written about Sentosa properties recently, it seemed like such an obvious choice to hone on in this weeks Units Of The Week. Talk about living in Sentosa all the way back in 2006/2007 and you may just… 2 Dec 2020 5 min read 2