Developers in Singapore are mostly reliable. In the rare instance when something goes wrong, however, it tends to go wrong in a big way. Not only is a house a very expensive purchase and any defects likely to be costly to rectify, one misleading brochure or payment scheme could also lead to a bad million-dollar property…

Christmas is around the corner, and more and more Singaporeans are choosing to do their shopping online instead of at shopping malls. In fact, many of those who still go to Orchard Road are there for window shopping; to see and feel items before buying them — often for cheaper — online. This of course, isn’t…

Live on an island oasis that represents the pinnacle of privacy Tucked away at the southern precinct of Sentosa Cove far from the cacophony of urban living, the waterway villas at Pearl Island provide luxury landed living for Singaporeans and foreigners. Within this community, residents and their guests are cocooned in a lush, private haven….

2019 will be an intriguing year for property developers. While there’s still a lot of moaning about the cooling measures, there’s also a lot of fantastic upcoming projects/land parcels that have the potential to become highly sought after, even after taking market conditions into account. Potential property buyers who want to stay ahead of the…

The cash outlays needed to buy Singapore property had better not get any bigger! Given the way things are now with the LTV limits, it may be cheaper to just fund military coups in small countries for land. There’s one silver lining for local property buyers though: Condo developers are sensitive to our situation — and…

Writing a will is vital to ensuring that a person’s property and assets are distributed according to his/her wishes upon death. However, there are times when specific property or assets may be inadvertently left out of one’s will. This may occur, for example, when the person making the will (the “testator”) had not specifically provided…

Nothing says adulting like buying a HDB flat for the first time. Whether you’re a single and 35, or happily engaged and ready for married life, building your nest is the next step. The next BIG step. Big responsibility. Big money. So, it’s important to get things right from the start. For HDB first-timers, there…

For more affluent property buyers who are looking to buy a freehold condo in the East, they typically come to decide between two mid-to-upscale residential areas of District 15: Amber Road and Meyer Road. Location-wise, these two prime city fringe neighbourhoods are just right next to each other, but visit both of them and you’ll…