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Musing

Singapore Snaps Out of Technical Recession, New Homes Up 9.4% in June.

July 16, 2009

With Singapore climbs out of technical recession with 20.4 growth percent in Q2 this 2009, the government has also raised its growth forecast for the months to come. With much credits to the government and her people, Singapore is the first Asean country to move out of a technical recession. Will we continue to fair [...]

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Singapore Real Estate Market Is Moving

May 14, 2009

Yes, it’s moving. Whether or not its based on good sentiments of our United States counterparts or foundations there seems to be a lot of movements in the market now with buyers shopping more often than not for the past 3 weeks. In the Market As a Realtor in the market, things are moving unexpectedly [...]

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Punggol 21 – The Charming Waterfront Living of Singapore

May 5, 2009

How a short period of time has changed a place so tremendously. Nicholas and I used to wakeboard regularly at Punggol Marina 2 years back with WakeTime and we knew there were development plans to close the channel where we used to ride. It was for quite sometime the announcement before the Police Coast Guards [...]

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Property Agents – Ethics Please

April 5, 2009

image credit: arboltsef The Case Awhile ago I was with my client who has give me exclusive to market her place in Sunny Palms (D15 – Telok Kurau) and also to find and secure her a new place. She was mentioning about this rogue agent (name not mentioned) who actually has an expatriate couple who [...]

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Singapore Government Regulating Real Estate Agents Soon

March 25, 2009

I think this is unevitable, especially with many criticisms and suggestions coming from the public in the recent months after the case of two unethical agents flipping their marketing unit without taking care of the principle’s interest. Whenever discussions and complains come directly at the press especially ST Forums, the statutory boards will be acting [...]

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No More Heading to the Gym in the Morning

February 12, 2009

Especially during the peak hours. I didn’t know it’s so serious until I kicked off the car to head towards Mount Faber SAFRA to fully utilise the EnergyOne membership I have. Being health conscious in Singapore isn’t easy, especially when it starts off with the travelling to sweat. The Journey First gantry, $1.00 towards PIE [...]

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Will Licencing All Singapore Real Estate Agents Ease Your Mind?

February 9, 2009

I was reading the article on Sunday Times today with regards to ‘Licence All Agents, Says Experts‘. It really sets me pondering on whether an accredition of all local property realtors in Singapore is going to help the situation of having unethical fellow mates weeded out; After all, this would be an industry which has [...]

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Happy Lunar New Year!

January 25, 2009

To all fellow realtors and every readers of mine a very happy and prosperous new year! May The Year of Ox in 2009 bring you good health, fortune and luck! Here’s something to share from Matt’s Yahoo property group. Flickr credit: Code N Opening windows and/or doors is considered to bring in the good luck [...]

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Best Buy from eBay in 2009 – GPS Receiver for $1

January 12, 2009

I know it’s absurd but it’s not suppose to cause any commotion. This might be my best deal buy from eBay ever. A Holux 236B GPS Receiver for a dollar?! This is what I did! HTC Touch Pro has this lagging problem with their internal GPS. The problem isn’t known yet whether it’s got to [...]

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Real Estate Tycoon Commits Suicide in the US

January 9, 2009

Recently there have been a number of high profile people committing suicide in the States, particularly tycoons which has to do with the real estate industry and are especially affected by the Madoff Ponzi scandal. Whether there is any links between the number of suicide rates to the crisis are unknown till 3 years later, [...]

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