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…

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…

Beauty World and Golden Mile are the “lifestyle hubs” of Singapore, according to numerous sarcastic comments concerning their recent en bloc attempts. Ignore those clueless people: not only are these two places iconic, they also have a location that would make any property developer reach for the wallet. But which of the two, Beauty World…

The typical Singaporean will buy the biggest possible condo they can afford. It’d go something like: “Find out how much is enough to literally bankrupt me, and then just shrink that amount by a bit.” But in this age of higher downpayments, economic uncertainty, and climbing interest rates, that’s a bad idea. To make your purchase…

Singapore has experienced zero natural disasters, and our crime rate is lower than the temperature on a polar bear’s ass. Add that we all live close to each other (you can’t pick your nose in the common corridor without 11 witnesses and appearing on Stomp) and it’s not surprising plenty of homeowners don’t expect things…

Before there was such a thing as BTO flats, blocks of HDB flats were built BEFORE they were sold. Sometime in the 1990s, there was a massive oversupply of flats in Woodlands and Yishun. In response to the oversupply, HDB combined the many of the unsold units into jumbo flats, effectively halving the number of…

The idea of a HDB resale flat has taken on a lot of emotional baggage lately; blame it on public and media conversations about 99-year leases. And while there’ve been a healthy volume of resale flat sale transactions in the last quarter, transaction prices in the HDB resale market have remained stagnant. But at the…

The property market slows down right after cooling measures, and one reason is the number of people adopting a “wait and see” approach. When it comes to buying property, many of them are trying to time the market: wait for property prices to bottom out, and then buy when the houses are cheap. But there are…

Renting a home in Singapore doesn’t have to be difficult. But if you’re dealing with a certain kind of landlord, it will be. To answer a flood of questions commonly asked by tenants using our portal to find rental property, we’ve decided to clarify six important rental terms. It happens that these terms often confuse…