Question 5 of 11 · Before you buy the condo
Why Are These Units Still Available?
Most of the project has sold. So why didn't buyers choose these units?
“Everyone tells me what's sold. I also want to know what's left.”
Benny, Best Buy Condo
Sales percentages describe the past. The remaining inventory quietly describes where buyers hesitated.
Unsold does not mean unwanted
There are plenty of ordinary reasons units remain: fewer households need that size, the absolute price step is larger, the stack faces something buyers were unsure about, or the release simply hasn't reached them yet. None of that makes a unit a bad home.
What remaining stock does give you is information. If the leftovers cluster — one bedroom type, one stack, one floor band — that clustering is telling you where buyers paused, and it's worth understanding before you decide whether you'd pause there too.
So I'd ask two separate questions, never just the first one. How much of the project has sold? And what is the composition of what remains?
A project at 90% sold can still have almost all of its remaining units concentrated in a single type. The headline and the leftovers are two different stories.
What Benny is looking for
Where hesitation usually shows up.
01
Unit type and absolute quantum
Larger types carry a bigger total cheque. Slower movement there often says more about financing reach than about the home.
02
Facing, view and noise
West sun, a road, a service area, a neighbouring block. Some buyers won't accept it, some genuinely don't mind. Which are you?
03
Floor band and stack
Low floors, the stack next to the driveway, the one overlooking the substation. Real discounts sometimes live here, alongside real compromises.
04
Layout efficiency
Two units of the same size can differ enormously in usable space. Long corridors and awkward corners are usually the last to go.
05
The price step-up
Sometimes the remaining units are simply the ones where the premium between stacks or floors got ahead of what buyers would pay.
Where I'd push back
“The headline tells me how the project sold. The leftovers may tell me where buyers hesitated.”
Benny, Best Buy Condo
This cuts both ways. A remaining unit can be a genuine opportunity if the compromise is one you personally don't feel — plenty of people happily buy the low floor or the larger type. But that's a decision you should make knowingly. I'd verify the remaining composition rather than assume it.
Reading real snapshots
River Modern
Most of what remained sat in a single bedroom type.
Concentrated in one type
Newport Residences
What remained was weighted towards the larger premium type.
Weighted to larger stock
The Robertson Opus
What remained was spread more evenly across the inventory.
Wider composition
What do these tell us?
Only what they say: where the remaining stock sits today. They are not statements about quality, pricing or future performance, and I wouldn't read them as such.
The useful move is to ask the same two questions of any project you're considering: how much has sold, and what exactly is left?
Benny's 30-second check
Four questions. Nothing here is saved or sent anywhere.
“If the answer to the last one is yes, being a late buyer isn't a weakness. It's a choice you made with your eyes open.”
Benny, Best Buy Condo
See this thinking in practice
Each of these reviews carries its inventory snapshot with a date rather than a headline.
River Modern
Remaining stock concentrated in one bedroom type, as at the recorded snapshot date.
Read the River Modern reviewNewport Residences
Remaining stock weighted toward the larger premium type.
Read the Newport Residences reviewThe Robertson Opus
A broader remaining spread, and why quantum is part of the explanation.
Read the The Robertson Opus reviewWhere this thought leads
The remaining unit is rarely the one in the showflat.
The compromise you accept is the one your buyer will notice.
Larger remaining types are usually a quantum story.
Benny's closing thought
Got a condo in mind? Asking what's left is a fair question, and a good salesperson won't mind answering it.
