Tag: luxury property

Many viewers of the spy-action series will admit to wanting to be a bit like James Bond. The style, the swagger, the charm, the supreme self-confidence… all highly aspirational. But if we’re honest with ourselves, it’s the villains we’d probably prefer to live like. Insidious plans for world domination aside, many Bond baddies have got…

Unlike most of his fellow tech billionaires — including a few here in Singapore — Apple CEO Tim Cook has never been one for ostentatious real estate. By all reports, he still lives in the relatively humble Palo Alto home he purchased for US$1.9 million in 2010, not long before he began his tenure in…

Musician, streetwear entrepreneur, potential 2024 US presidential candidate and self-professed “creative genius,” Kanye West has purchased a US$57.3 million house on California’s Malibu Beach, it was reported this week. The brutalist concrete residence, which was designed by top Japanese architect Tadao Ando, was built to the specifications of financier and art collector Richard Sachs, the…

Trust us when we say that nothing quite flaunts the spending power of the 1% as much as luxury property floor plans do. The rest of us is holed up in our HDB flats, at least get to ogle at the rich and dream that, one day, we might strike Toto and have a floor…

Implemented in July 2018, the latest cooling measures have hit…well, not everyone quite as hard. Genuine home buyers aren’t likely to feel much impact (except for a downpayment that’s five per cent higher), and most of the pain seems reserved for investors. Along with that, the most affected segment is likely luxury properties in Singapore….