Before I start, I just want to say that I have no expertise in residential real estate investing. I got a EC about 6 years ago and sitting fairly decent capital gains. These gains are trivial as my kids go to a school next door and it will be at least 7 years before I can even move on.

Vina Ip's Behind the Scenes of the Property Market is a good first read for budding property investors who are not looking for a property right now and want a primer on the local property markets.

First, I enjoyed the general tone of the book which is negative and somewhat cynical. Singapore is a high trust society but we should not trust commissioned real estate agents so readily. The book is full of anecdotes that uncover the various unethical practices of local developers and their agents. I particular love the exposes on developers who manipulate units for sale to always give the impression that