The OCR has been the ultimate property tycoon speed-run for the past 10 years. Maybe it was some uncle or auntie who couldn’t stand the loud neighbour in block 117. Or maybe some couple wanted to stay closer to the CBD and thought “$1 million? For that price I may as well have a pool.” Quite […] The post Where Condo Prices Rose Fastest (and Slowest) in Singapore’s Outside Central Regions first appeared on TheFinance.sg.

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Not many roads in Singapore carry the kind of weight that Meyer Road does. It’s been considered an exclusive landed enclave since before the Second World War, when even then wealthy Europeans would have seaside homes here. Among the detached plots that remain, you occasionally find one like this. This rare 5,000 sq ft freehold plot also […] The post Rare Detached Freehold Home On Singapore’s ‘Millionaire’s Row’ Up For Sale At $14m first appeared on TheFinance.sg.

Although I’ve been investing and writing about real estate for over a decade now, some questions still make me pause and take a deep breath. Because what’s going to follow is a very long-winded explanation, chock-full of words like “unless,” “maybe,” and “contextually.” And at the end of it, I know you’re going to be disappointed and […] The post The 5 Most Common Property Questions Everyone Asks In Singapore – But No One Can Answer first appeared on TheFinance.sg.

We’ve hit yet another terrible milestone in the scheme of crazy HDB prices, with a 5-room in Boon Keng reaching $1.54 million. It’s the usual culprit though: City View @ Boon Keng, which has single-handedly rebranded Boon Keng as “that place where the DBSS can cost more than a condo.” Here’s a look at the […] The post $1.54 million HDB Flat in Boon Keng: We Live in a Timeline Where This Is Normal first appeared on TheFinance.sg.

The first half of 2025 has been unusual to say the least, and as I write this, we’re just coming out of one of the biggest launch weekends to date: over 900 units were sold, despite a supposedly rocky economy. Even more interesting is the way developers have started to design projects – price per square […] The post 6 Upcoming New Condo Launches To Keep On Your Radar For The Rest Of 2025 first appeared on TheFinance.sg.

Bukit Teresa Close is a little known landed enclave hidden in between the HDB estates of Telok Blangah and Bukit Purmei. As the area is better known for its public housing than landed houses, I found the area intriguing and had been meaning to visit for a while. When I finally made my way over, […] The post We Toured A Little Known Landed Enclave Where The Last Sale Fetched Under $3 Million first appeared on TheFinance.sg.

If you’ve been in the property market long enough, you’ll remember the circus that was the launch of Hundred Palms Residences in 2017. People queued overnight. There were stories (unverified) of people being paid just to give up their place in a queue. And within seven hours, 531 units were gone. This was even more […] The post We Could’ve Sold Our Home for More, But We Didn’t — Here’s Why We Let It Go in Just 24 Hours first appeared on TheFinance.sg.

Now we have more clarification on decoupling, and it’s no longer the simple hack many of us were told to think. For most of the ‘00s to ‘10s, decoupling was positioned as a property hack to avoid paying Additional Buyers Stamp Duty (ABSD). The concept is simple: One spouse transfers their share of the home […] The post Decoupling Is No Longer a Property Hack: What the Courts and IRAS Have Made Clear first appeared on TheFinance.sg.

At first glance, fixed fee agents can seem like an easy win. After all, who wouldn’t want to save on commissions and keep more of the sale proceeds? But fixed fee agents don’t work equally well for every property. In fact, if you’re selling certain kinds of homes, such as boutique condos, luxury projects, or […] The post Why Fixed Fee Agents Might Cost You More Than You Think first appeared on TheFinance.sg.