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S&P 500 vs Private Property: Which Performed Better Over 10 Years?

Most people who bought a $1.5M condo in 2013 and sold it a decade later will tell you they "roughly broke even." They paid $1.5M. They sold for maybe $1.35M. Small loss, they say — held through the cooling measures, survived the cycle, not bad. That

You Bought the 2-Bedroom Because It Was the Smarter Exit. The Data Disagrees.

Most buyers who choose a 2-bedroom condo in an OCR estate have a version of the same reasoning: smaller unit, lower entry price, easier to rent, easier to exit. The logic feels airtight. The data, across five tested projects, suggests it may not be. In four of those five

Patience Paid Off for 97% of Condo Sellers. These 9 Projects Are the Exception — and They Are All in CCR.

A seller at Marina Collection held their unit for 15 years and lost $2.4 million. Not on paper. At the point of sale, with a buyer, a contract, and a final cheque. That is not a fluke. Across 25,271 resale condo transactions from 1,295 projects over the

The Same "CCR" Label Covered a $4.8 Million Gain and a $2.4 Million Loss. The Region Label Predicted Almost Nothing.

Ardmore Park in Tanglin and Marina Collection in Sentosa Cove share the same three-letter label on every market report: CCR. Sellers at Ardmore Park averaged a $4.8 million gain across 12 resales, holding for roughly 15 years. Sellers at Marina Collection averaged a $2.4 million loss across

Singapore's Most Expensive Landed District Is the Only One Where Sellers Lose Money

There is a story Singapore's landed market tells about itself: buy a detached house, hold for two years, walk away with $3 million. The data from 3,488 landed transactions across Q3 2024 to Q2 2026 appears to confirm it. But pull one thread and the whole narrative

D10's $3.16M Average Is a Detached-House Story. Semi-Detached Buyers Are Reading the Wrong Number.

Singapore's most-traded landed district has 249 transactions on record and an average profit of $3.16M — no other district comes close on both volume and returns. But that number is doing something subtle and important: it is averaging three completely different markets into one figure, and the