In December last year, we finally bought our so-called "dream" apartment.  It took us about three years to narrow down to this particular unit.  Whatever took us so long?



Well, my husband and I couldn't really agree at first whether to get a condo or a landed/cluster house.
My husband loved the space we used to have when we were expats in Shanghai, so we started out by looking at landed houses and cluster homes.  We were quite impressed with the bigger sized houses at condo prices.  Most, of course, are located in more remote areas which may require driving or a long walk out to amenities.  

We began to be more focussed on condos only after we realized we didn't want to stay in a big house with lots of stairs since that would be a real hassle when we get older.  Not forgetting, the amount of cleaning ......