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It's always a terrible experience when you go through a breakup but it's worse when you both already bought a property together. This time your emotional and psychological wellbeing is not just affected but now, you also have to worry about your finances and how much you've lost. Even though you may have thought you'd spend the rest of your...
The tricky part about Singapore's residential market is its dynamism: cooling measures can appear overnight, and the supply of housing is subject to five-year feast-and-famine cycles. These can make a lot of otherwise sensible housing decisions at that time look… well, dumb in hindsight. We've collected some stories of home buyers and investors, who can't believe some of their previous...
At this point, quite a few homeowners — and even investors — might feel that's not a bad thing (even sellers and realtors fear another round of cooling measures.) Prices in the post-Covid phase have caused some to give up on private home ownership altogether, while resale flat prices have stoked public dissent. But there are some signs that, as...
The appeal of buying early is usually the "early bird discount" granted by a developer. In theory, once prices "normalise" in subsequent sales phases, you would then make a quick return on your property already. Unfortunately, due to competition from other developments or pressure to clear units, there are times when developer prices have dropped in later sales phases. Here's...
One of the common complaints we've been hearing is about buyers priced out of the property market in 2022. This is no longer just the case for first-time home buyers either: we even hear the same complaint from HDB upgraders, who have come to realise the unfortunate reality of an exuberant market: even though you sell high, you'll probably end...