By Lynette Goh, via moneysmart.sg
In a perfect world, I’d be buying homes for a dollar and selling them off at a million each. But hey, this isn’t the land of make believe. We have property valuations to prevent people from overpricing their homes, and to prevent us from becoming the schmucks that buy those. Here’s 4 things you didn’t know about property valuations (or at least, I didn’t):
By Lynnette Goh, via moneysmart.sg
Sometimes adulting can be really difficult. Especially when we’re trying to get a home in Singapore and we know zilch about the terms used in home loans. All these home loan terms and jargon bankers are using… What if we accidentally sign our life away to slavery?
In the event of a dispute, our chances of wriggling free are probably about the same as a sick snail in a Sumo wrestler’s armpit. In court, we can’t tell the judge we didn’t know what this or that term meant, ignorance just isn’t a legit excuse in the court of law. Here’re a few basic terms that you’ll encounter in your home-buying process and what they mean:
SINGAPORE: A total of 1,108 private home units – excluding executive condominiums (ECs) – were sold last month on the back of more project launches, according to the latest figures from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) on Tuesday (Aug 15).
The figure is a 35.1 per cent increase from the 820 units sold in June, which saw stronger-than-expected sales despite it being the school holiday period. Including ECs, property developers sold 2,086 units in July, almost double of June’s 1,064 units.
By Chen Jingwen, via asiaone.com
Here’s a warning for buyers, sellers, landlords and tenants.
Don’t get sucked in by the tricks of unscrupulous property agents which have become rife in an overly competitive trade following the cooling of the market in recent years.
SINGAPORE — Local property search portal PropertyGuru’s decision to increase prices for property agents to list on its platform has sparked a backlash among some real estate agents.
A notice sent by PropertyGuru to its subscribers on Monday showed that the prices of its four new agent packages will range from S$880 to S$9,880 per year from Friday (Aug 4).
According to figures publicly available on its website, PropertyGuru has three packages that cost between S$630 and S$2,240 per year. A fourth package, which currently costs S$11,200 per year, is available on its official platform for agents, it said.
SINGAPORE: A total of 5,291 flats were put up for sale by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) on Tuesday (Aug 1), and it also marks the launch of the first Re-Offer of Balance Flats (ROF) exercise.
Under the Build-To-Order (BTO) exercise, 3,897 flats were put up for sale, and these range from two-room Flexi to five-room flats. They are spread across three projects in the non-mature towns of Bukit Batok and Sengkang, the housing board said in its press release.
