Common Property Acronyms in Singapore That You Must Know

Having freshly graduated from the recent RES examinations, I still have all the material cramped up in my mind. Now, I am proud to call myself a fit-and-proper Real Estate Salesperson, or better known as a Real Estate Agent.

Trust me when I say that RES examinations are difficult AF. I don’t even remembering studying that hard for my degree. I even had to retake one of the papers due to lack of time and the amount of material that one has to cover can just be overwhelming. You can be searching, and searching, and searching for the answer of a question that you thought was supposed to be easy, but the end results can leave you appalled at times.

I am glad that I managed to pull through it after the retake, but my heartfelt good-lucks to anyone who is trying to pass them right now.

Anyway, I thought that I would make my blog more useful to people who are studying for the exams. Although many of the information can be found online with a little bit of searching here and there, but there isn’t really a dedicated one for the examination format. This information can also be useful not only to new and upcoming RES, but potential new buyers as well. In fact, I have received feedback from other agents that nowadays, buyers tend to be more well-informed than the agents themselves.

I highly concur, being a buyer myself, I have my own interests at heart and would know what is best for me. Besides, negotiation gets easier as well when I know what I want. It’s a sure way to avoid B.S. offers and would save yourself a hell lot of time.

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FY2021 Expenses Review

Gotta quickly finish up this post before CNY officially starts.

Previous Expenses Reviews

Click here for past Expenses Reviews:

FY2020 Expenses Review

FY2019 Expenses Review

FY2018 Expenses Review

FY2017 Expenses Review

Getting down to numbers

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My 2021 Review

Hello everyone!

It has been a loooooong while since I came back to this space. Hopefully everyone is doing great in all aspects of their life, if not better, as we enter 2022. As a yearly routine, I would like to pour out my feelings and of course, financial progress in this blog that I have kept for the past 4 years. I even had to make a quick edit to the sidebar because there was a section where my blog mentioned that I was still 28 (I wish, haha).

2021 was the year that I officially turned 31! And I am proud to be in my thirties, for now. I’ll do a TL;DR right now and spare the details for whoever isn’t interested, though it’s not to say that there was anything too interesting to begin with. :p

  1. Got very busy with work, professionally.
  2. Took the Real Estate Salespersons (RES) examinations, and passed!
  3. Bought my very first private property!!!!
  4. Had a sub-par time-weighted return of 10.79% in my portfolio, and an XIRR of 27.41%.

Ok, on with the details! If you’re still reading, hurrayyy!

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