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If you buy a Industrial property in Singapore, you will be subjected to Seller Stamp Duty for the next 3 years. If sell on the 1st year : 15% 2nd year : 10% 3rd year : 5% 4th year onwards : 0% (percentage is base on the selling price) Even though there isn't any ABSD, GST of 7% (currently) is...

Restaurant will be the next choice for investor, this will be a better choice. Singaporean love to eat and they seldom do cooking at home, therefore investing in this segment will be a good move. The only catch is, the quantum will be much more compare to retail, office, industrial making it...

There is also retail outlet also categories as commercial. Although there are many shopping center here, many is not for sale. The developer usually keeps it for themselves as the rental income can be good. Those for sale are usually with not so good location, less crowd. Again, people will...

This is another segment many investor are looking into. There are no Seller stamp duty unlike industrial property and residential property in Singapore. Therefore, many are turning to commercial property, especially offices. What many don't know is that, government is also building plenty of...

Investing in a Industrial property in Singapore will be a great mistake, yes, great mistake. Many years ago, government introduce ABSD (Additional Buyer Stamp Duty) for residential property, in order not to pay that extra tax, many turns to industrial property and government happily builds...

West you may say, but if you read into government master plan, and if you look much further into the future. slightly east will create more capital appreciation, as this area is like an unpolished diamond, once polish, it will shine brightly like how a diamond should. You can check on...

More than 10 years ago, western part of Singapore is largely ignored. People will try not to buy any property there as the local call it 'wulu' meaning inconvenient. At that time, government is setting up a regional hub in that area, call Changi Business Hub. Everybody goes there. Today...

One thing i miss out is, in Singapore, there are public housing by government (HDB). The public housing is all 99 years and majority of people staying in this actually make tons of profit if they were to sell it today. My mum bought a flat 30 years ago at $30k, today, it can fetch $400k.. that...

In Singapore, Freehold property is usually not located near to any MRT station, if they do, the pricing is usually very high. Actually if you are looking in at rental point of view, a leasehold property will have a better rental yield as the purchase price is lower and tenant will not pay...

With the regulation, it does weed out those part timer and improve the knowledge and standard of property agent. Again, this board does not really protect the poor agent instead it is set up to protect consumer, and thus many consumer are taking advantage of knowledge of this agent to their own...

Well written and very comprehensive. Again, like i mention in other post, Singapore government is one of the main criterial why many people including foreigner buy into Singapore property.

Singapore market is more of politically driven then market driven. As long as you follow where the government points, ie. where they are going to develop, you will not go wrong and usually this area will sees a lot of buyer. As there are plentiful of people wanting to buy another property...

It depends on which part of Europe as Europe is so big. I believe Germany is still stronger than most other area, but I still love Switzerland.

In my opinion, UK seems to be a good catch with the pounds weaken, with the property price dropping. Some may feel it will go down further, well we will never knows when is the bottom, by the time we knows it, will be over. I believe the UK government will have ways and mean to push up their...

Online portal definitely is much better medium as compare to newspaper in Singapore. not sure if is the same for other country. People in Singapore tends to go very much into internet as handphone is getting more common. Online is so much easier to find what we want in a much shorter time.

Well, it depends on the portal that offer such services. Some establish portal can be so greedy knowing they are the most popular in the market. They actually forgotten that it is the same agent that supported them when they just start up and is the same agent that make it popular.

Property auction can be tricky and boring. You can be there at the auction house every week but you will still find that the price is always the same, not much different from the market.

Now is 2016, where is a good time to buy a property now? I will suggest city area or Jurong.. this are the 2 area where opportunity is there. Jurong will be the next CDB according to our Prime Minster, Mr Lee. but let's not ignore the city area like in the past 4 to 5 years.

Many are "hoping" property price will drop. Well, buyer always hope for that, once this people becomes home owner, they will feel the property price will not drop as they own the best unit in Singapore if not the whole world. When the day the price of a cup of coffee drops to the price of 10...

Well, it is always advisable to know what you are buying, be it property or anything else. Like property in England, with them out of Euro, pounds falling, is it a good time to make a purchase? Well, it depends on your risk appetite, knowledge, how much $$$$$ in your pocket. Therefore, it can...