I was recently listening to a podcast episode about buying or renting private property in Singapore on The Business Times Podcast Channel. The podcast was done in reference with an article written by senior correspondent Leslie Yee with the inputs of several property analysts. You may find the article here. This topic has always been of interest to me as I'm pondering over the same question on whether I should be buying or renting a private property if I were to sell my property next year. To set the context, the discussion here is limited to private property and not HDB. If you are getting a BTO, it's almost a no brainer that this will likely be a better financial choice as you are almost guaranteed to have a capital gain after you fulfil your Minimum Occupancy Period- unless you have super ambitious plans to grow your wealth and you can't for the 5 years of MOP...