Started house-hunting in May 2013, was looking for a condo near my parents in Potong Pasir. Saw a few potential properties i.e Sennett Residences (very, very nice but a bit above our budget and it’s not freehold), 8 Riversuite (attracted by the price and location, but don’t really fancy the development). Offered a cheque to a particular unit we saw but was rejected (just 8k difference), both seller and buyer (us) refused to budge then the cooling measures kicked in. Actually was secretly pleased we didn’t manage to buy the condo in the end. Hefty monthly installments for a small tiny space. To me, tiny bathrooms + tiny bedrooms + useless bay windows + ginormous balcony (dun understand why) = what’s the point? Hence, we decided to take a break first, then start looking for a HDB flat instead. Late November 2013, we started looking for a HDB flat. Criteria given to our property agent was the following: Must be high-floorMust be corner-unitMust be near MRT (coz hubby and I both don’t drive)Must be big enough to fit a family of 4 adults (1,200 sqft and above)Must be near my parent’s place in Potong PasirDon’t want to pay ridiculous COV No “stock” at all in Potong Pasir at all, so we widen our search to Boon Keng. Saw quite a few units, saw one that we both like, placed an offer to the buyer but agent decided to sell the unit to another buyer without even asking us to counter-offer. We were really upset by the agent’s action but we concluded no point staying mad. If the place is meant to be, it will be. Hence, we continued to hunt for the perfect house. We viewed all that were available in Boon Keng and we widen our search to Holland Village, Queenstown and Tiong Bahru, but didn’t see anything we both agree on. You know la, both parties must have the right “feel” upon entering the house. One fine day, I decided to try searching propertyguru on my own, and found an EM in Lorong Chuan available for sale, though it wasn’t the area that I requested for my agent to search but I was really tired of waiting and viewing, just wanted to get the house search to be over and done with. So I texted my agent to arrange for a viewing. Went to view the unit on a windy Saturday. Took a quick walk through the EM, husband and I both looked at each other and we nodded our head, we decided to place an offer for the EM on the spot. And the owner agreed to our offer on the spot. Now that we found our future house, next is to plan for reno! We already know which ID we are going to pick as the ID is my husband’s friend. As my husband is in the creative line, he is very ANAL and PARTICULAR about design, but thank God we are still aligned in terms of the look and feel we like (in other words, I am very ching cai ) 1st appointment happened last week, and we should be able to start the renovation in mid April! Floor plan as per below:
