By Mr. Propwise

If you’re interested in profitable property investment, you’d want to know the best time to enter and exit the market; the most attractive areas and projects to invest in; whether to buy residential or non-residential, freehold or leasehold, landed or non-landed… and you’d have many more such questions.

The problem I’ve found is that there are very few good and objective sources of information available to help property investors make good decisions. Just reading news reports can be very confusing – one moment you hear about the record prices set at a new launch, the next you hear about the huge upcoming supply crashing prices. As one reader put it, we’re always constantly on the verge of prices going both up and down!

You also cannot (and should not) rely solely on what your property agent tells you. While there are many honest professional agents out there, ...