Musing

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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Happy New Year 2009! New Year Resolution Time!

January 1, 2009

You know it usually never happens, but I’ll make it simple for myself and everyone to know what I’d be planning to stick my guns to with my brand new mind mapping techniques which I think should work before I hit 27 this new year in August. Health I’m a firm believer in a good [...]

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Ah! Can You Do Gatsby?

June 19, 2008

We should spread the love. Really. Download the ringtone for your phone here. I use Gatsby before I go for any viewing my fellow Realtor friends. It’s a must. hahaha.

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An Unethical Agent on the Prowl

June 12, 2008

Daniel’s Yahoo D-Agent group is definitely a good place for Realtor’s to share their listings for quick matches. With over 1,000 fellow Realtors, a daily digest of listings would be good for you as an agent to match your listing for your clients. Something caught my eye, and I suppose things like this happens from [...]

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Knight Frank Singapore Business Conference – We Are Real

April 28, 2008

The conference in Fullerton Hotel was pleasant. Not a hit, but real pleasant. Most of our Knight Frank Realtors were present, good colleagues Jimmy, Meng and Sean too. It’s a good gathering session which started off with a motivational talk from Nanz Chong, the founder of One.99 shop that went bust in 2003. She was [...]

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Google’s Way of Countering MSN/ Yahoo Search

March 8, 2008

Just tried to install the new version of MSN Live Messenger and accidentally clicked on most of the default options to have MSN Search set as default when I was pleasantly surprised with some Google dialogue box coming out from nowhere. Well, since I’m not so much of a Microsoft fan in terms of search, [...]

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Commission Structure for Real Estate Agents – Is It a Sin to Ask For More?

February 12, 2008

Most Singapore realtors (real estate agents) works on the recommendations from Institute of Estate Agents (IEA) to quote their service fees on a successful closure. You can download a copy of their guideline from IEA’s website here. There’s this grey line which most agents when comes to co-broking may face if its a small rental [...]

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Any Use Cutting And Pasting Newspaper News on Blogs?

January 20, 2008

It’s disappointing to see people just plainly cutting and pasting property news from our national papers or even Business Times to their own personal blogs. Why would they want to do that. Yes, it’s purely news from our papers and nothing else. Quoting an article to show the views would be good. You mean you’ll [...]

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Singapore Roads Are Really Not Meant for Cyclists

January 12, 2008

I understand about the part of keeping fit, and promoting a healthy lifestyle, but not in the middle of the highway and especially late at night when you don’t even have blinking lights. This is really a safety issue with regards to all cyclists. I’m sure even if Lance Armstrong is here in Singapore, he’d [...]

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