{"id":167156,"date":"2026-06-01T00:14:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T00:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/condo-features-that-singaporeans-once-avoided-that-buyers-now-actively-want\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T00:16:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T00:16:38","slug":"condo-features-that-singaporeans-once-avoided-that-buyers-now-actively-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/condo-features-that-singaporeans-once-avoided-that-buyers-now-actively-want\/","title":{"rendered":"Condo features that Singaporeans once avoided \u2013 that buyers now actively want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Our property market may be the only place with more sudden U-turns than Upper Thomson Road. I believe most of our long-term readers may be able to pick out specific design trends in the condominium market. Perhaps some experienced property agents and real estate investors can identify the age of a project, even the developer behind a specific project, from a quick glance of the unit layout. But one thing that always amazes me is how dramatically Singapore condo buyers can do this. <em>diametrically opposed <\/em>His priorities over almost a decade. Take, for example, sentiment toward mega-development. These are projects with more than 1,000 residential units. About 10 years ago, I remember most buyers disliked these big projects. The most frequently cited complaints were: &#8216;<em>feels very crowded<\/em>&#8216;,&#8217;<em>Feels like you&#8217;re living in a HDB estate<\/em>&#8216;, And &#8216;<em>There will definitely be problems when you sell it later.<\/em>&#8216;. The prevailing sentiment at the time was that mega-development&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v4.0\"><\/script><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0\" nonce=\"3nfhalVK\"><\/script><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0\" nonce=\"blyG8KXs\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our property market may be the only place with more sudden U-turns than Upper Thomson Road. I believe most of our long-term readers may be able to pick out specific design trends in the condominium market. Perhaps some experienced property agents and real estate investors can identify the age of a project, even the developer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":151672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[16454,2890,5036,2287,2265,23676],"class_list":["post-167156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-meditation","tag-actively","tag-avoided","tag-buyers","tag-condo","tag-features","tag-singaporeans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167157,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167156\/revisions\/167157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}