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With the start of the new year, some first-time homebuyers in Singapore are understandably nervous: Home prices are at record highs across the board, and it's uncertain if late cooling measures from last December will have a significant impact. At the same time, the market has shown shifting preferences, as the realities of Work From Home arrangements and construction delays...

Resale flat prices are now at the highest since the last peak, in May 2013. On the ground, we’ve seen prices rise in both mature and non-mature neighbourhoods; and more than one reader has complained about Cash Over Valuation (COV), even in usually affordable areas like Yishun or Sengkang. With the new cooling measures yet to take much of an...

2022 is just around the corner, and come January, most home buyers will be re-starting their search. The past two years have been a roller coaster due to both Covid, and rising home prices; so it's important to dive in prepared. Here are the main factors you can expect to face when looking for a home in 2022 (and how...

Stay in the know with a recap of our top stories today. 1. After almost 20 years, Spider-Man: No Way Home delivers the emotionally satisfying closure we need While Far From Home served as a soft coda to Phase 3, No Way Home marks the soft start to Phase 4 with the biggest and most direct impact on... » READ...

With private property prices still on the high (we’ve obviously yet to see the effects from the latest cooling measures ), Executive Condominiums (ECs) are the only hope for some buyers this coming year. So far, there are just four sites on the radar; and with demand at a peak, you’ll probably have to move fast to get a unit....

The Commodore is one of the most attractively priced new launches on the market today. With premium fittings for an OCR project and a well-sized swimming pool for 219 units, it is a good option as long as you are accepting of its further away location. Overall rating: 72 per cent Has there ever been a more challenging time to...

When 33-year-old Singaporean “Nellie” and his partner decided to settle down and jointly buy a new home together, he knew it would propel their relationship to the next phase of their lives. However, the circumstances he was in didn’t seem helpful at first. After working for 17 years in the maritime industry (his partner worked for 7), Nellie sold a...

For a brief moment in May and June, resale condo volumes started to fall from record highs. It was a glimmer of hope for homebuyers who were truly looking for an own stay option. That hope was dashed when the results for July were out, and prices and volumes started to climb again. How much longer can this go on?...

My search for a multi-generational home took an interesting turn last week, when I started considering Executive Condominiums (ECs), a property segment that I hadn’t even known existed prior to this house hunt! In last week’s article, I listed out 13 EC developments that had under 400 units and larger units (over 1,900 sq ft in size) and, this week,...

2017 As all of the above are in the same general area, there will not be a huge disparity in quality of location (barring a longer or shorter walk to the MRT). However, we can already see some interesting developments to focus on. Grandeur Park Residences, which is four years newer than Urban Vista, comparatively isn’t priced all that much higher than The Glades. If we’re willing to settle for older properties, we can see that East Meadows is priced only about 7.7 per cent higher than the T...