Upgrading from HDB
Exploring your first private home without stretching the next stage of life.
Explore this pathA smarter way to explore Singapore condos
Find a condo that fits your life — and your next move.
Curated Singapore condo projects, practical buying guidance and a different way of thinking about your property journey.
Decision framework
BTO or Straight to Private?
It's not about which is better. It's about which path fits your stage of life, capital and need for flexibility.
Compare BTO, resale HDB and private — not just on price, but on timing, flexibility, opportunity cost and what each choice means for your next move.
Compare the three paths
Where are you now?
Your next property decision starts with where you are today.
Buying your first / next condo
Balancing location, lifestyle, space, budget and future flexibility.
Explore this pathGrowing family
Thinking beyond bedrooms — towards how the home may work as family life changes.
Explore this pathPlanning your next move
Already own a condo? Explore what the next property should do differently.
Explore this pathOur project picks
Projects that caught our attention.
Not a ranking. A changing shortlist of projects with characteristics we think are worth investigating further.
Canberra Crescent Residences
Proper family-sized layouts — 3-bedroom Premium and 4-bedroom homes — at a private-condo quantum that a fair number of upgrading households can still reach. The honest question is what being brand-new is worth next to younger resale in the same neighbourhood.
Dunearn House
A first-mover Dunearn Road parcel with a genuinely lower land basis than the parcel that followed, a short walk to Sixth Avenue MRT, and established Bukit Timah amenities already in place. The interesting tension is that the location reads family-oriented while almost half the homes are compact 2-bedroom formats.
Faber Residence
A large, unusually low-density site alongside Sungei Ulu Pandan in an established Clementi catchment. The residential quality is the argument; rail access today is the trade-off, and future lines are upside rather than convenience you already own.
Newport Residences
A freehold city home above a mixed-use landmark at the edge of the CBD. The interesting question isn't the tenure label — it's whether a smaller city home can make a life bigger.
Penrith
Very strongly taken up at launch. The interesting question isn't simply why buyers rushed in — it's what Penrith tells us about location, quantum and future sellability.
River Modern
Riverfront. Direct MRT. Great World. A primary school across the road. River Modern is a useful test of when an exceptional ecosystem can justify a premium.
The Robertson Opus
An unusually long 999-year tenure on an established stretch of the Singapore River — and materially slower absorption than some contemporary 99-year launches nearby. That contradiction is the reason it is on our list.
The Sen
A quiet, green Upper Bukit Timah address near the Rail Corridor and Bukit Timah nature belt, with bus stops along Jalan Jurong Kechil about 100m away. The question is not simply whether ~1.1km to Beauty World MRT is too far — it is whether you are being compensated, in price and lifestyle, for not living beside the MRT.
What's coming
Projects on our radar
A first look at new and upcoming projects — what catches our attention, what we're still questioning, and what we'll be watching when they launch. A preview is not a recommendation.
Property Market Update
What changed this month — and why it matters
A monthly, free look at the Singapore private residential market: the official numbers first, then Benny's take on what they could mean for buyers and homeowners.
One market, different directions
Overall private residential prices rose 0.5% quarter-on-quarter in 2Q2026, after a 0.9% rise in 1Q2026.
A stronger economy — but that is not a buying signal
On 11 August 2026, MTI upgraded its 2026 GDP growth forecast to 4.5%–5.5%, from a previous range of 2.0%–4.0%.
Future supply: watch the pipeline, not only today's launches
The 2H2026 Government Land Sales programme placed 4,745 private residential units on the Confirmed List.
Find my condo
Start with what matters to you.
You don't need all the answers. Start with a few simple thoughts about your life, priorities and the kind of home you're exploring. We'll help you organise the questions worth asking next.
Our way of thinking
Best Buy doesn't mean cheapest. It means asking better questions.
Price matters, but a property decision also sits inside your life. We look at how a home may fit your stage of life, the quantum you are committing, the space and location trade-offs, how your equity may develop, and who might want the property after you.
Life fit
How the home sits inside the stage of life you are actually in.
Price & quantum
What you are committing, not only what it costs per square foot.
Space & layout
How the plan works day to day, beyond the bedroom count.
Future flexibility
What the home still allows you to do a few years from now.
Exit pool
Who might realistically want the property after you.
A better property decision is a journey.
We would rather help you slow down the right parts of the decision than rush you towards a showflat.
Think
Get clear on what this move is really for.
Explore
Look at projects and areas worth a closer read.
Compare
Put shortlisted options side by side, honestly.
Visit
See the shortlist in person, with questions ready.
Decide
Make the call on your own terms and timing.
Think one move ahead
Your home is also part of your financial journey.
A mortgage is not only a monthly payment. Over time, principal repayment builds equity — and that equity can influence the choices available for your next home.
- Purchase
- Mortgage & CPF/Cash
- Principal Repaid
- Equity Built
- Future Housing Options
Before making any property decision, the most important checkpoint is understanding your own financial position and what you want the property to do for you.
Where should you live next?
Location is more than a district number or an MRT stop. We think it through as one of the Buying Guide questions — what a neighbourhood does for your daily life, and who else would value it later.
Buying Guide · Question 11
Does the district really matter?
Buyers don't live in a district number. They live in a neighbourhood — the journeys, amenities and everyday habits that either fit a household or quietly work against it.
Read the question
Meet Benny — your guide around Best Buy Condo.
He'll point you towards things worth exploring, questions worth asking and places to keep your thoughts as you work through your next move.
Explored enough to have questions?
Tell us what you're looking at, what you're unsure about, or which projects you're trying to compare. A useful conversation can start before you ever step into a showflat.
Property thinking, made practical.
Best Buy Condo is part of the StraxPropSG ecosystem, created to make condo exploration easier to navigate while keeping the thinking behind each property decision grounded and practical.
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