Living up to its name as the world’s most expensive city, the property market of Singapore does its best job to live up to that undesirable mantle and housing nightmare for cash-strapped Singaporeans.

Although the recent state of cooling measures put forth by the government have projected a 6-8% drop in private property prices in 2014, life is not a basket of roses for the property owners that will have to endure this negative capital growth despite shelling out egregious sums of money on their investment. Secondly, the profit margins for several private properties are slim and may not be worth the capital one pumps into them.

However, a wily property investor does not merely limit his portfolio to the confines of his own economy when the real estate playground has no borders. Yes, international real estate is a criminally underrated investment prospect that more Singaporeans must look into. Europe …