By Getty Goh

This is my first article for 2012.  Before getting down to business, I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a successful and prosperous 2012!  To start off the year, I have decided to write something on a lighter note for your reading entertainment.

Some time back, I came across an article in the Singapore Business Times titled Finance, fengshui square off over this Dragon Year.  This article wrote that experts in the finance industry and geomancy circle were having different outlooks for the Singapore stock market in the year of the Dragon.  The former saw a slight recovery while the latter held an opposing view.

After reading the article, I thought that it would be interesting to see how the Singapore property markets had performed in previous Dragon Years and to use the past trends to “predict” what 2012 was ...