ZT: A visit to Dakota Residences

Original post from: Singapore Blue Chips. Why is it not a good time to buy property now? Take a look

I visited Dakota Residences over the weekend. There was no crowd, just a couple of families looking at the showflat and the architectural model. Currently Dakota has fully sold its 2 bedroom apartments and are left with few units of 3 bedroom apartments. 4 bedroom apartments are still plentiful as there are little takers.

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ZT: View from a prudent home buyer

Original post is from Tan Kin Lian’s Blog.

Dear Mr Tan,

Thank you for giving advise to the public and in a selfless manner. I fully agreed with you.

In fact, I had been visiting show flats since Lehman Brother collapse and also talking to banks to survey the ground. My conclusion is, it’s scary and if you are not careful, you will get into trouble when things go wrong. Let me explain further, my wife and me are in our 40s, consider to be middle income, all the banks encouraged us to take a loan of around $2M and up to 70 years old.

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Singapore NDP 2008

Wife’s boss gave two tickets for NDP 2008 preview. We finally have chances to see this great annual event on the spot. So excited! Though on the day (July 19th) it was raining on and off, it definitely worth the time to participant. Singapore is such a small but nice country to live in.


ZT: Singapore Property Going Down The Tubes?

I read this interesting analysis on Singapore Property market. The study matches our observation on current market, and we felt lucky not buying a condo mid last year.

Below is the response from a Hong Kong based Asia property analyst who works for a small successful private investment bank. He replied the inquiry if it is a good time to buy Singapore property.

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粮食涨价问题严重

全球都在涨,新加坡的冲击也大。

三个月以前在电视上看见,政府枪手开始宣扬买冷冻猪肉比新鲜猪肉便宜又好用,颇有洗脑的嫌疑。昨天居然看见新闻报道,社区机构开始给老人上课,教授如何用土豆代替白饭来生活。我的天啦!

还好个人影响不大,该吃就吃,该玩就玩。