The HDB BTO 2022 launch in Jurong East will have about 560 2-room Flexi, 3-room and 4-room flats located next to the expressway. Furthermore, the HDB BTO site is only 20 minutes away from a number of major shopping malls in the neighborhood, including Jem, Jcube, and Westgate.
June 2022
If you’re wondering which suburban neighbourhood (ie. Outside of Central Region, or OCR) to relocate to, it would be useful to find the ones with major “public infrastructural upgrades” within the next decade or so. We’re talking expressways, parks, MRT stations, shopping malls and so on. While some would choose a home to be closer...
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Government ramps up confirmed private housing supply for 2H 2022, Paya Lebar Air Base site to be transformed into heritage district and more. Here are the news highlights for what happened in the Singapore property market from 7 June to 13 June 2022.
A new record of S$3,300 psf has been set with the S$38.75 million sale of an entire floor at Suntec City Tower 2. Based on past caveats, this sale far surpassed the previous record notched back in January 2020, when an 11,840.4 sqft unit on the 33rd floor was sold for S$38 million (S$3,209 psf). ...
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If you’ve ever gone for a walk along the Southern Ridges, chances are, you might have noticed some bungalows with whitewashed walls along Preston Road, which is around 500m away from the Alexandra Arch. In Singapore, these bungalows are also widely known as black and white houses. What are black and white houses? Built between...
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Viewing properties play a vital part in the house-hunting journey. Here are some tips on what you need to look out for.
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Long-time readers would know the reason why I set up this blog twelve years ago. It was to create a platform to share experiences and exchange ideas with fellow property investors. Gradually, I got many emails from people telling me the stories of their regrettable property purchase. Then I started writing about tricks and traps... [read more]
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Now that the May 2022 BTO and SBF sales exercises have ended, it’s time to look at the location of the upcoming BTO projects to be launched in August! For starters, there will be around 4,960 units available for balloting across seven projects in six towns, translating to around an 8% increase in the number...
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Recently, some friends and I were discussing how the costs of car- and house-ownership in Singapore are controlled through different policies and restrictions. While the cost of car ownership is often tied to how high the Certificate of Entitlement (COE) premium is, a bulk of the cost in home-ownership depends on the buyer and seller,...
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In real estate, location is everything. But is it worth shelling a premium for a prime location in a highly accessible country like Singapore?
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