Learn Everything AboutHow to Buy Your 1st Private PropertyA workshop by Property Club SingaporeWhen you are about to buy the most expensive item in your life,you'd better get it right.Answer 1st time buyer questions: 'when can I buy', 'what to buy' and 'how to buy' Countless smart tips to buy 1st property for own stay or for investmentSave you tons of money from … [Read more...]
Queens Peak review from a buyer’s point of view
I was invited to MCC Land’s Queens Peak VIP preview on October 22. The Edge Property says there were 4,000 people at the sales gallery during the preview weekend. It won’t be surprising that probably half of them are property agents. Don’t visit Queens Peak at peak hours When the show suite opened at 10 a.m., it was already fully packed with sales representatives from the … [Read more...]
Should I buy or rent?
A friend recently moved from one rented home to another. The family of four is still staying in a condominium in the east side of Singapore, but this time a better one - it is newer, bigger, and asking for lower rent too. According to the latest SRX Rental Market Flash Report, rents for non-landed private rentals in October 2015 has fallen 5.7 percent from a year ago. … [Read more...]
How to read a new launch brochure
The following article is an excerpt from my book No B.S. Guide to Property Investment, a bestseller at Kinokuniya and Times bookstores. In 2002, I went for a flat viewing in a commercial and residential mixed development off Balestier Road. It was a three-bedroom apartment, nicely renovated and very well-kept. But I could easily tell why the owner had difficulty selling it, … [Read more...]
Do home buyers know what they are buying?
Money can buy you a new apartment or a big house. But it can’t buy you discernment and wisdom. Being a property enthusiast, I have stepped into a hundred showflats and gone to hundreds of flat/house viewings. I am often surprised by all the wrong types of landed houses, private projects and condominium units that home owners bought. Trust me, all of them have nothing to … [Read more...]