I am updating my presentation content for the How to Buy Good Quality Properties Workshop held next Saturday (January 12).
As usual, I will show participants how to read a property brochure and pick the best unit in the whole project in 5 minutes – by studying the environment, siteplan and floorplans.
Since I don’t make any commission out of marketing properties, I will be very straightforward in highlighting things that property agents won’t tell buyers, especially poor location, bad facing, undesirable object, fengshui taboo, impractical design and bad layout.
In other words, what kind of houses, projects, blocks and flats you can or cannot buy as a home buyer. I have gone to hundreds of flat viewings. I saw how people who have money to buy doesn’t necessarily mean they know how to buy the right thing. Afterall, good budget and good taste are two different things.
By the way, financial blogger Heartland Boy has attended the How to Buy Good Quality Properties Workshop before. You might want to read his comments on this workshop. Let me clarify that it is not a sponsored post. He paid the workshop fee in full.
This time I want to use new launch projects as case studies in class, for two reasons:
1) Participants can visit the sales galleries later to practice what they have learned from the workshop; and
2) Prices of these new launch projects may become more attractive this year as developers are slowly giving away more discounts.
Here’s your task: Take the quick poll out of the 12 new launch projects below and let me know which project you want me to comment on.
1) For those who are coming for next Saturday’s workshop, please drop me an email so I won’t miss it. I will try my best to cover the project you picked.
2) For the rest of you, the majority wins. I will cover the most popular choice in a future blog post.
P.S. The response of the Year of the Pig Property Strategies Seminar is better than expected and we have reached our target. We are now adding two more round tables. Please register and make your payment immediately if you have not done so. Registration will be closed once seminar room reaches maximum capacity.
Just signed up! Looking forward to next week.
I was thinking what about Garden Residences? I have impression that Keppel and Wingtai should have good reputation? Possible to discuss developers reputation and can we also add smaller developments (with less than 50 or less than 100 units) for discussion?
Thank you so much!
Hi Jay, thanks for signing up. I would try my best to cover projects that most people know, particularly those that have big fengshui problems.
Besides the developer, the main contractor they are engaging also matters. Even the best developer or contractor can have good and bad quality projects. If you have any project in mind, you can check with Tan Wee Kwang from Absolute Inspection personally. He will speak at the Year of the Pig Seminar on Jan 19.
Hi
I wonder if u can do a video/seminar on MM2H for singaporeans here. With the recent news about HDB flat becoming zero value at its terminal stage, it is scary that when one reach 50’s to 60’s instead of enjoying retirement, they worry about a roof over their head.
I heard buying freehold single/double storey houses in JB is a good option in the range of 500,000Rm .
Maybe you can conduct a site visit so that we can learn more than a classroom setting.
Thanks
Desmond
I think this is more of personal preference. Don’t forget that when you buy an HDB flat first hand from the government, you are basically enjoying subsidized housing all your life. Not many can live beyond 99 years. Whether you buy freehold or leasehold, HDB, condo or landed, your home will grow old and depreciate anyway.
There is no perfect government in this world, including housing policy, foreign buyer restrictions, building construction quality, etc. From past history and experience over teh years, I have more trust on the Singapore side.