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Singapore property tokens: when securities law applies, and what follows
How Singapore's Securities and Futures Act treats a token tied to real estate, what the prospectus exemptions allow, and why the foreign ownership limits still apply.
Refinancing or repricing a Singapore home loan: lock-in, fees and tests
What Singapore's official pages say about moving a home loan: fixed, SORA and board rates, lock-in penalties, clawbacks, the one-way move from an HDB loan and the income tests.
Selling a resale home in Singapore: what the seller has to disclose
Buyer beware is the starting point in a Singapore resale. What the contract makes a seller confirm, what requisitions reveal, and what courts did when something was hidden.
Singapore scam figures and the audit checks a property agency can run
What the Singapore Police Force scam briefs for 2025 and mid-2026 count, which categories touch a property deal, what CEA enforces, and the written checks an agency can test.
Selling an HDB flat in Singapore: MOP, quotas and the CPF refund
What a Singapore flat owner has to clear before selling: the minimum occupation period, the ethnic and SPR quotas, the Intent to Sell, and the CPF refund that comes out of the price.
Seized Sentosa Cove bungalows: what a foreign buyer must clear first
Three forfeited landed properties in Singapore's Sentosa Cove are for sale by expression of interest. A foreign buyer needs state approval and pays 60% stamp duty on top of the price.
Singapore show flats and Form 3: what a developer must show buyers
Before a developer in Singapore takes a booking fee, the rules set what its show flat, plans, adverts and Form 3 pack must show. A guide to each, and to what stays unconfirmed.
Buying an HDB flat as a single in Singapore: the rules from age 35
Who counts as a single buyer for HDB in Singapore, which new and resale flats are open, the income ceilings and grants as published, priority near parents, and marriage.
Singapore land records online: what SLA's INLIS and OneMap show
What the Singapore Land Authority's INLIS, MyProperty, OneMap and Land Titles Registry counter each give, what the fee schedule charges for a search, and where the published pages stop.
Singapore's St Regis Residences owners fund a S$12 million upgrade
EdgeProp reports that the owners of a 173-unit Tanglin Road condominium backed a S$12 million refit of their common areas with 95% support. How it was done.
What goes into a tenancy agreement in Singapore: the CEA template
The Council for Estate Agencies' template tenancy agreement clause by clause: deposit, repairs, air-conditioning, early exit and inventory, then stamping, commission and the Small Claims Tribunals.
How real estate is tokenised in Singapore: platforms, tickets and exits
Who has put property behind tokens in Singapore, what each platform says it is licensed for, the minimum tickets quoted, who may invest and how holders are told they can sell.
How to read Singapore's official home price indices and supply data
What the URA price and rental indices, the vacancy and pipeline tables and the HDB resale price index measure, when each comes out, and what none of them can say.
South Australia agent commission: the 90-day sales agency agreement
How a South Australian sales agency agreement sets an agent's commission, what it must disclose on fees, expenses and rebates, and when the commission cannot be claimed.
Using a buyer's agent in South Australia: authority, fees and bids
What South Australian law asks of an agent who acts for a buyer: registration, a signed written authority, fee and benefit rules, the ban on acting for both sides, and bidding at auction.
South Australian conveyancers: registration, trust money and discipline
How South Australia registers its conveyancers, what the application costs, how client money is held and audited, and who hears a complaint when something goes wrong.
South Australia first home buyers: the A$15,000 grant and duty relief
South Australia pays first home buyers a grant of up to A$15,000 and waives stamp duty, but only on new homes. What RevenueSA and the Act say on who qualifies, when and how.
South Australia home settlement: conveyancer, duty and transfer fees
How a home sale settles in South Australia: the timetable, the conveyancer's tasks, adjustments, duty through RevenueSA Online, the 2026-27 transfer fee scale and the keys.
South Australia real estate registration: who needs which one
Land agent, sales representative, property manager or auctioneer: what each South Australian registration allows, what it requires and costs, and the penalties for working without it.
How a South Australian land agent must hold and audit client money
Deposits, rent and sale proceeds held by a South Australian land agent sit under Part 3 of the Land Agents Act 1994. The banking, records, audit, fund and penalties, step by step.