Initially we didn't share the agent's delight as for the last 3 years we have been very happy living in our current apartment in Singapore, however once we got used to the idea we started thinking that it might be interesting to live in a slightly different area.
Fortunately for us and other renters the local rental market has been suffering with too many vacant properties and not enough potential renters. Accommodation cost are ridiculously high here but in the current climate rental costs have been declining so this could also be an opportunity to find somewhere a bit cheaper and save some money.
I started apartment hunting in earnest in mid January, having been advised that there was no point in starting too early. First I looked online at what was available, spending hours on the most commonly used property website-Propertyguru. Having established a few possible areas and potential condos I contacted the agent that we had used this time 3 years ago when we first arrived in Singapore, JL a petite, softly spoken and thoroughly pleasant Singaporean woman who had worked very hard to help find the right apartment for us last time and had negotiated fiercely for a good rate.
Just over 2 weeks ago JL arranged for us to view about 15 different apartments over the next 10 days. Towards the end of that time I was starting to get a bit despondent as none of them were right, being too small, in poor condition
too much road noise, too high up ( I really don't think I can live on the 31st floor even though the view was great!)
or too over looked by other condos
Finally last week I viewed somewhere that I liked and when Papa T viewed it a few days later he agreed. We have made an offer and hopefully will hear soon that the apartment will be ours. No pictures yet just in case we don't get it. If we don't then it will be back to the drawing board but with less than 5 weeks till we have to be out of our current apartment we are cutting it fine! I'll keep you posted.
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