ALSO, at the same time, they’ve made it a point that if you call on a Friday to place ads on Saturday and Sunday, you’d be incurring an additional of $1 per line. WOOT! I suppose that’s a good way to tackle the endless and countless calls that’s coming on a Friday for Saturday and Sunday ads, but its darn expensive.

I’ve got 3 ads on Saturday for 4 liners, which means an additional of $12.00 added to SPH’s account. Cha ching!

Remember, don’t call on Friday to place ads my fellow Realtor friends.

It looks absolutely great.

First off we’re facing with high construction costs which is being forecasted to grow imminently because of high inflation rates and the shortage in raw materials, we should expect our property prices in Singapore to tag along with the cost since developers will definitely pass this to the consumers.

Hi-End Residences Performing at an Uber Cool Pace

Then we have CBRE (in fact many of CBRE’s reports) reporting that the high-end residential sectors are doing extremely well. With 50 luxury apartments (upscale luxury developments such as Nassim Park Residence, Cliveden at Grange, The Tomlinson, The Grange, and the Orange Grove condos ) going above the 10 million dollar mark, the forecast for these projects are suppose to hike.

Healthy Weekend Home Sales

ST701 reported on the recent weekend home sale is moving really well.

Suites 123 at Rangoon Road was sold out - a rarity these days - while Oxley Ventures offloaded 50 units of Parc Sophia in Adis Road. Sales were also healthy at Dakota Residences in Dakota Crescent.

Market watchers said the sales at these mid-market projects show that homebuyers can be drawn off the sidelines if prices are attractive.

There’re in fact plenty of buyers just waiting for the right time to get the right property at the right price and chances are they’re just waiting on the fence to see the general market direction on whether it’s the right time to buy.

Sub-Prime Isn’t An Issue?

We kept hearing about complains on US sub-prime issues and on the depths of how serious it has impacted the US. I know, I know, we don’t really know the extent of the damage. But how much has it really impacted Asian countries?

Through Asian crisis (Asians are well known to be more conservative, and most are still, in the business sector), most Asian countries, especially Singapore and Hong Kong, who were once known as the Asian Tigers suffered massive blow has probably learnt from mistakes that they shouldn’t just solely depend on the US for import/ export/ trades.

Things have certainly changed way back since 1997 times. With rising tigers like China and India doing extremely well themselves, most Asian countries has more dealings with their own network internally. Usually impacts like a crisis, we could feel the difference, such as the lifestyle of a normal man on the street.. it hasn’t changed much even after the sub-prime issue has surfaced.

Well, is it the right time to buy Singapore properties now for investment or even your own stay? You be the judge.

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I use Gatsby before I go for any viewing my fellow Realtor friends. It’s a must. hahaha.

Photo credit: Khalid Saad

Key date: July 7th 2008
Key rate increase: $0.50 to $2.00

There’re a total of 65 gantries and almost half of the numbers’ prices will be adjusted. 5 new gantries will be built and there will be 5 new gantries along the Singapore River.

Key Most Expensive Timings to enter ERP: 6pm - 7.30pm along selected ERP Gantries/ Saturdays from 12.30pm -8pm on selected ERP Gantries. Cost $2.00

More details can be found in LTA’s One.Motoring portal here.

Well, potential overseas investors can be relieved that the Government is doing fundamentally sound in its politics and infrastructure to attract foreign funds into Singapore. That’s probably one revenue that supports the clause!

Fellow Realtors would probably need to cycle to work next time. lol.

Until the best thing that had ever happen to me when I least expected it. One of the Raptor crashed. Almost most of my Real Estate files, photos and details went pfft in a matter of a day’s time. Though I could try to do a data recovery with WD’s approved data recovery company, it’s too expensive to do so.

photo credit: lost.modern

Sending my hard disk for RMA means there’s at least 2 weeks down time with it. The best thing I could depend on is my laptop to work. That means not much multi-tasking is allowed (with the limitation of ram as compared to my monster 4gb). I was thinking of doing a new raid 0+1 (with 8 hard disks), but ditched the idea after thinking of the cost.

This is the first and its going to be the last time that I ever leave important data unmanaged on my desktop folder.

Ever.

ps. The most simple solution would be getting a good sized external hard drive which would simply cost you less than $500 for a 1TB to store periodical back ups of your hard disk with programs like Acronis.

pps. Strikes Western Digital off my list alongside with Hitachi, the former IBM.

Something caught my eye, and I suppose things like this happens from time to time when you deal with rotten agent colleagues.

Dear Friends,

just encountered one unethical agent.

His name is Vincent. He called asking for info
for one of my units and require more information.

After giving him all the information i have, he
requested for me to send him the floorplan.

I emailed him some pictures of my unit but unfortunately,
i do not have the floor plan so i explained to him nicely.

He msg me at least 3 times asking me for the floorplan
which i politely explained that i do not have, so does
the owner.

Finally he msg me:” forget it….”

And when i tried explaining further and offering to help,
he replied :” stop sms..”

I ran a search on his number and realised he is an agent.

His telephone no: 98763301 Please save this to prevent people like
this to take advantage.

I don’t see any reasons why this agent would want to sabotage another person, but things like that happen from time to time.

Shame on you Vincent. Not as if Petric owes you a living. Maybe we should have a blacklist for agents who gives other fellow agents trouble and just don’t deal or co-broke with them.

Singapore’s very own Worcell is your solution to spare or dying batteries, at least it saved me almost close to 100 bucks for my high capacity 3,000 mAh battery (which is made in Korea apparently as stated on Worcell’s website). They even offered me a free desktop USB charger.

Well Wong was a kind person. I’ve visited their warehouse at Admiralty Street to collect two cells for my Dopod 838 Pro and he waited for me even when it’s past lunch time. I’m a weird person, they offer free delivery, but I’m that sort that likes to have my new toy as soon as I can.

The cells work brilliantly, better than the original (discounting that the original has been working really hard for 1 and a half year). My 3,000 mAh battery can last me for 2.5 days straight. I’m a heavy user.

ps. Good customer service. He even sent me an extra cover for the 3,000mAh through post after I’ve text him about something that popped out. Worcell, you’ve gotten a new fan

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Say you love this Aliph Jawbone 2 Bluetooth (i’ve got mine and it works GREAT) listing from Ebay and wanna share with your friend through newsgroup,

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EARWEAR-JAW-BONE-NEW_W0QQitemZ170225943740QQihZ007Q
QcategoryZ80077QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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Short and sweet isn’t it? Except people doesn’t know what’s 0e0e. They can also turn on the preview function to avoid being brought to somewhere that they don’t like.

Now wouldn’t it be nice if you can rename your 0e0e into something else like.. jawbone2? Click on ‘Customise URL’, type in the link name that you like.

http://su.sg/jawbone2

Now it makes sense what sort of URL you’re going to isn’t it? Take note the minimum characters that you can use to customise your link is 4, and the maximum is 15. Happy SUing!

Why Preview Function?

You’ve seen a su.sg/something domain loitering around. It directs you to somewhere instantly. You don’t like it. Some reasons are:

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• A virus/ trojan link which makes you vulnerable
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How It Works

You’ll have to allow cookies to be stored on your browser. It’ll basically give you a preview of the address that http://su.sg/xxxx is masking behind. Something like this:

Having that enabled, you can feel alot safer when you navigate with su.sg links!

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Try it now for free! And if you have any indecent URL masking behind su.sg, please feel free to report to me.