Singapore is a wonderful place to live and work in. People from all over the world flock here to enjoy this busy and beautiful land of opportunities. And of course, everyone has to live somewhere.

There are magnificent luxury condos available, but you can also enjoy your own, exclusive landed house. Which should you pick? As with every decision you make, considering the pros and cons of living in a condo vs landed property in Singapore will help you to choose wisely.

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In June, The Redbrick Team hosted her very first real estate summit, the first of many to come. Without a doubt, its success was highly attributed to the strong support of fellow partners and clients, and this fuelled the team’s enthusiasm to put together the second instalment ahead of its original timeline.

Apart from a change of scenery, we had a completely new panel of speakers, and a whole ... Read more

What are stamp duties?

A stamp duty is a tax on documents related to the purchases and leases of properties (eg. Sales & Purchase Agreements, Tenancy Agreements etc). Stamp duties are paid to Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore aka IRAS – the same people you pay your income tax and property tax to.

In Singapore, there are 2 stamp duties imposed on the buyer that you need to be aware of: Buyer’s stamp duty(BSD) and Additional buyer’s stamp duty(ABSD ... Read more

A quick check on the Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) webpage and you can easily find blacklisted companies from various industries on the “company alert list”. The home improvement industry, where interior designers fall under, is no exception, and it’s safe to say that all of us have heard of one too many stories about unreliable contractors within the industry.

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“A start of year party, because a year end party is just too passé.”

That was the motto behind the Redbrick Start-Of-Year (SOY) Party. We invited our media, finance and real estate partners to our first ever SOY party on 6^th January 2017 – held at JTResi’s stunning three-and-a-half storey conservation shophouse at 65 Club Street.

We wanted to connect our friends from both the finance and real estate industries, to strengthen current friendships and form ... Read more

You may have heard of Grand Master Hillary Phang, or perhaps walked past the Yuan Zhong Siu outlets in various parts of Singapore including Chinatown, Jurong and Serangoon. Yuan Zhong Siu is owned and managed by the New Trend Lifestyle Group, which was founded by Master Phang in 1989.

In 2012, New Trend Lifestyle became the first Asian Feng Shui company to be listed on the London Stock Exchange. The team at Yuan Zhong Siu prides itself heavily on the expertise of their Feng Shui ... Read more

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In this fast and growing technology, time is very precious for everyone. So no one wants to waste their time in wandering here and there for selling and buying their property. So real estate script is the way where you can save your time by buying and selling property ... Read more

Collective sales in 2016 report almost double of sales in 2015 despite the decrease in land supply at the biannual sales programme. So far, there have been 2 en bloc deals transacted at a total value of S$671.25 million from residential estates Shunfu Ville and Harbour View Gardens. Compared to last year, the only transaction worth S$380 million came from Thong Sia Building. A decrease in land supply under the Government Land Sales (GLS) programme led to stiffer competition for land, thus ... Read more

Some 175 homeowners (and their families) will each stand to be $1.9 million richer today, in exchange for their homes.

Built in the late 1980s, Raintree Gardens, a residential development at Potong Pasir has been sold to joint venture company UVD (Projects) that is made up of UOL Group and United Industrial Corporation (UIC). This collective sale brings the total of all en bloc sales in 2016 to $1 billion.

Earlier last month, a public tender was launched at $315 million, and ... Read more

One of the responsibilities that come with home ownership is the ability to improve and maintain your house. You might even be passionate about do-it-yourself projects after spending a day at IKEA. Depending on how proficient you are at putting together pieces of wood, it may take as fast as a couple of hours or up to a day. But of course, don’t expect to get anything done unless you have a basic toolbox in your home.

A toolbox is an essential in each household. It doesn’t ... Read more

First it was Neptune Orient Lines, then SMRT. Now a third Singapore listed company, ARA, is soon to be bought out by an association of investors in another billion-dollar deal. These investors include Warburg Pincus LLC, a U.S. private equity firm, as well as the founder of ARA Asset Management Ltd. The offer made to buy ARA is valued at S$1.78 billion.

Founded in 2002 by John Lim, ARA manages real-estate investment trusts (REITs) in Asia. ARA Asset Management manages property assets ... Read more

With Trump as President-Elect, there is a likelihood that his administration could encourage spending to fuel inflation, and an 80% chance that interest rates will hike in December.

Closer to home, Singapore’s domestic interest rates saw an increase on Tuesday (15 Nov), on both the three-month Singapore Interbank Offered Rate (SIBOR) and the three-moth Swap Offer Rate (SOR). Having remained static at around 0.87% for close to 4 months, SIBOR rose to 0.88% on Monday, and again to 0.91 ... Read more

Season’s Greetings! As we come to yet the end of another busy and hopefully fruitful year for everybody, I hope this write-up can come in timely and helpful. For some or most of us, we may often use the year end to organize several important aspects of our lives together, so that we can take whatever time is left to recover, recharge, reflect, re-learn, rejuvenate, relax, before we launch full steam ahead into a prosperous new year.

Of the numerous items that we may have to take some ... Read more

To the uninitiated, you may ask, what is refinancing of home loan and why do it ? Simple. The beautiful loan rate you got hitched to 3 years ago no longer looks the same. With that, it’s time to look around again.

But that surfaces a whole lot of questions. Should I refinance ? whats the best mortgage loan in Singapore? Whats the current refinancing rates ? Is Maybank ... Read more

“If you pay peanuts, you’ll get monkeys.” We’ve all heard this phrase before, and some of us might even be inclined to believe it, given the many anecdotes that get tossed about. But what if we told you that that needn’t be the case? As brands like Uniqlo and Innisfree have proven, a lower price point doesn’t always equate to a lower quality.

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When you first meet Bernard Tong, it may be hard to believe that prior to joining the company, the Managing Director of The Edge Property Singapore had zero experience in the real estate industry.

The Edge Singapore, which runs its publications both online and offline, takes pride in their highly analytical and data-driven content, as compared to other news publications that cover mostly headlines and topical stories. This sophistication is also reflected in the user demographics of ... Read more

This is the age of nuclear families. The days of the joint and extended families are over. Under such circumstances, you see the mushrooming of small flats and apartments fit for accommodating small families. This leaves the senior citizens or the elderly parents without much of individual space in their children’s homes. Naturally, this can cause frictions between individuals leading to unpleasantness all around. There is a need for a lasting solution to this issue. Granny flat investments ... Read more

Buying a home for the first time is an onerous task. It is not as if you go to the grocery and pick up your items from the shelf. When it comes to purchasing houses, you have to consider innumerable factors. This can be confusing to people. You need the help of an expert. First home buyers in Brisbane or Sydney need not worry much about the process. They have an expert, right up their alley to guide them through the process. Home ... Read more

● The first freehold development in Dubai Marina under the Jumeirah Living brand
● Fully furnished private residences
● Prices starting from AED 1.5 million
● 70% payment upon completion in Q4 2019 

Dubai, United Arab Emirates -Tuesday, March 7th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

Select Group, one of the region’s largest private real estate developers, has launched the sales of Jumeirah Living Marina Gate.

Select Group signed an agreement with Jumeirah Group, a ... Read more

Nearly 40,000 rooms under construction and expected to open in next three years 

BERLIN & MCLEAN, Va.-Wednesday, March 8th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Ahead of this year’s International Hotel Investment Forum in Berlin, Hilton (NYSE: HLT) has announced that it has passed the milestone of 100,000 rooms trading across its Europe, Middle East & Africa portfolio.

The news comes in a period of unprecedented global growth for the company. In EMEA ... Read more

لندن -يوم الإثنين 20 مارس 2017 [ إم إي نيوز واير ]

(بزنيس واير): أعلنت شركة "آرشيباس" المطوّر العالمي الأول في مجال إدارة العقارات والبنى التحتية والمرافق عن إطلاق مبادرة سوق رئيسية عبر إنشاء "مؤسسة آرشيباس في أوروبا والشرق الأوسط وأفريقيا" ("المؤسسة") لتمثّل منظومة آرشيباس المتحدة "آرشيباس فيديريتد إيكو سيستم" ("إيه إف إي") في أوروبا والشرق الأوسط وأفريقيا، وللترويج لبيئة مبنية أكثر رفقاً بالبيئة في المنطقة.

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