By SG Proptalk (guest contributor)

So you are on a budget and desire a home with an interior living space that is much larger than what new condominium projects can offer these days. Your current option, other than moving to Iskandar, is to look at apartments in an older development.

By “older”, the wife and I are talking about developments that are at least 10 years old. For those that really crave space, this is not so much a “choice” rather than a “requirement”. There are few options, for example, for a 3-bedroom apartments of at least 1,600sqft that was built after 2004 (as far as we know anyway). And if you only want to consider those that come with no bay windows and planter boxes, you would probably have to go further back than 10 years!

So your best bet if you want space is to buy an older ...