Real Estate

If you’ve been following the Loyang Valley En Bloc saga on this blog, you’ll know April felt like the finish line. $880 million. Third time lucky. Eight years. Done. Except it wasn’t done. The public announcement was just the start of another bout of waiting. The unsexy part nobody puts in the press release Since … Read more

If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll know that our en bloc journey has been a rollercoaster of emotions. Back in January, I wrote about our relaunch, hoping we’d receive one big angpow to usher in the Year of the Horse. Well, the angpow arrived a little late, but it’s massive. Loyang Valley has officially been sold for $880 … Read more

Our en bloc journey has yet another twist in the tale before the final conclusion. It’s been a pretty crazy ride, one that lasted 3 attempts over 8 years, but there’s one last fight in this aging estate yet. Loyang Valley will relaunch for tender on 8 January 2026 at the same Reserve Price of … Read more

As a kid growing up in 90s and 2000s, you would hear adults talking about one of the unique ways that Singaporeans could make their first bucket of fortune. The magic words? Collective Sale. More commonly known as En Bloc, this is where a condominium estate would come together, with the common goal of getting … Read more

Update: Read the updated Loyang Valley En Bloc 2025 post. Those of you following my blog will know that my estate has been trying to go on collective sale (or en bloc, as its popularly known), once in 2018, and again in 2021. Both times have failed to conclude, although we did get to an … Read more

Writing this post was a lot more difficult than I’m letting on, and to tell the truth, a lot more disappointing even though I tried to mentally prep myself for this scenario playing out. 15th December 2022 seemed like a normal Thursday for the rest of Singapore, but for us folks in Loyang Valley, it … Read more

Followers of my blog will know that we’ve been working really hard on the loyang valley en bloc project for a long, long time. But not many of you may know exactly how long this took. So, as I take some time out to celebrate the huge milestone of being able to call for a … Read more

This is it fellas! We did (a big part of) it! We have achieved the required 80% consensus for us to put Loyang Valley up for en bloc! This is a huge, huge moment in a multi-year effort that began way back in 2018, when we first launched an unsuccessful bid to get to 80%. … Read more

We’re heading into the final 3 months of the year-long En Bloc process to get the 80% mandate to put our estate up for developer bids. There’s been a ton of developments since my last en bloc update in March, where I updated that we had reached the 70% mark. Increase in Reserve Price Firstly, … Read more

It has been a while since I last provided an update on the status of the en bloc process. In my last update in November of 2021, we had at that point secured 50% consent for the en bloc. As of today, I am pleased to update that Huttons, in their tireless efforts to reach … Read more

It has been almost a year since we kickstarted the en bloc process by setting up a group chat for residents, and canvassing for a requisition to begin exploring an official en bloc attempt. We finally held the 2nd EOGM on November 6, 2021, and passed all resolutions to officially commence the en bloc signing. … Read more

It has been a while since my en bloc development updates! So here’s a quick one. The Collective Sale Committee (CSC) team has been quietly working hard on the ground, and together with marketing agent representatives, worked out a very favourable Reserve Price (the floor price at which the entire estate will be put up … Read more

If you have been following my updates on the en bloc process, thank you for doing so. I hope this series sheds some light on the ups and downs, and sometimes long drawn process that is the collective sale attempt of a condo estate in Singapore. The timeline so far So this particular adventure started … Read more

It’s been almost 2 months since my last en bloc update, so I thought I’d share some of what has been happening since the last update in May. At the last update, we held the first EOGM to vote for officially proceeding with En Bloc attempt. With this, the Collective Sale Committee (CSC) was formed, … Read more

In April last month, I wrote of a renewed attempt of a Loyang Valley En Bloc, and that things were still in its early days yet. Well, I have some positive news today. Over the weekend, we held our 1st EOGM via iCondo (due to the ongoing covid situation), and have unanimously voted for a … Read more

This has been a side hustle, 4 months in the making. As we’ve seen over the course of the pandemic, property prices in Singapore kept marching upwards. There was also talk of a renewed en bloc cycle heating up, after analysis of developer plot stash diminishing, and their growing appetite to renew their land banks. … Read more

My previous article on property, about selling one to buy two, got pretty popular. So today, I’m going to follow it up with a deeper look into how and where to start researching into your investment property. This will be based on my discussions with my property agents, aligned with our overall strategy and combining … Read more

I had previously briefly written about my lucky break in property, and how we stumbled our way into becoming “property investors”. It has since become known as the “sell 1 buy 2 property” approach by property agents, and in the next few minutes I’ll elaborate more on this approach and the overarching strategy in mind … Read more

The covid-19 pandemic has swept the global markets and caused countless job losses and companies to go belly up. While the stock markets have not fully priced in the effects (and more importantly, the after-effects) of this seismic shock, I believe the economy will be slow to restart, and will have to grind its way … Read more