This week, we tour a beautifully revamped three-room flat located in Little India. Originally built in the 80s, this home has undergone a complete transformation, with the homeowner’s unique vision taking center stage. Originally spanning just 770 sqft, the home…
Insider Tour
Finding a home that seamlessly melds size, budget, and location to cater to the needs of a large family can be quite the challenge. This week, we’ve curated a selection of 5 expansive HDB flats that exceed 1,700 square feet….
Units Of The Week
Putting the quiet Ulu Pandan neighbourhood back into the residential spotlight, Pinetree Hill is the first major new launch in the neighbourhood in the past 14 years.
New Launch Reviews
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2023 presents significant challenges for the average HDB upgrader looking to secure an affordable home. With many family-sized units in the new launch market hurtling towards the $2 million mark, and resale condos rapidly escalating in price, it is still…
Property Picks
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…
Buying
Like many Singaporean couples over the last few years, SX and JA (@122sqm) found it a challenge to find a BTO home. “Despite trying BTO 8 times over the past years, our queue numbers were either out of the range…
Design
A month ago, I saw a notice advertising the sale of a freehold residential conservation shophouse at Niven Road. As I mentioned in my Blair Road walkabout, I’ve always loved heritage homes, so I thought I’d check out the area…
Opinion
This week, we join Royston, an interior designer, sought to infuse his style into the homeowner’s Wabi Sabi-inspired brief, deviating from his usual darker aesthetics. The goal was to create a tranquil ambiance through an earth-tone colour palette. This 1,001…
Living In
Remember the old saying about poetry being the “luxury we cannot afford?” It’s from our late, and much venerated, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. Granted, he said it a long time ago in 1968, back when Singapore seemed to run…
News
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Advice
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….
Buying
This week, we tour a cozy four-room flat nestled on the top floor in Bedok. The unit is 990 sqft in size, with the young couple opting for a mid-modern century style, featuring darker and more intimate colors throughout. They’ve…
Insider Tour
The pace of million-dollar HDB transactions may have slowed, but we’re still seeing record resale HDB prices. At the time of writing, the record price for an HDB flat has hit $1.5 million, for a jumbo flat in Tiong Bahru….
Resale HDB
While the allure of new property launches often lies in their modern facilities, there’s an undeniable appeal to older developments that capture the hearts of many homeowners – space. The roomier dimensions of older units often exceed their modern counterparts,…
Units Of The Week
We’ve covered the cheapest freehold landed homes before, but this was all the way back in 2021 in the thick of the pandemic. Prices have definitely risen since then, but the appetite for an affordable freehold landed home in Singapore…
Property Picks
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…
Buying
Paya Lebar has become a new commercial hub, and that’s affected its neighbours like Eunos and Geylang in a big way. So it was no surprise that, when Parc Esta launched, buyers scrambled for a project that was one train…
Condo Reviews
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…
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