Category: Conveyancing & Real Estate

Conveyancing in Singapore: a series from OTP Law Corporation, Part 9 of 12 Singapore’s property market is, by international standards, unusually open to foreign buyers for certain categories of property, and unusually restrictive for others. Understanding which category a target property falls into, and what it will actually cost once the relevant stamp duties are…

Conveyancing in Singapore: a series from OTP Law Corporation, Part 8 of 12 For most Singaporeans and Permanent Residents, CPF savings are not a supplementary source of funding for a property purchase; they are central to it. Yet the rules governing how much CPF can be used, and what happens to CPF on eventual sale,…

Conveyancing in Singapore: a series from OTP Law Corporation, Part 7 of 12 Our previous instalment looked at buying a new launch private condominium. In this instalment we turn to HDB’s own new-build equivalent: the Build-To-Order (BTO) flat, along with Sale of Balance Flats and other new HDB offerings. The commercial experience, applying, balloting, waiting,…

Conveyancing in Singapore: a series from OTP Law Corporation, Part 6 of 12 Buying a new launch condominium directly from a developer feels, on the surface, similar to buying a resale unit: you view a unit (or, more often, a showflat and floor plans), agree on a price, and sign an option. Underneath, the legal…

Conveyancing in Singapore: a series from OTP Law Corporation, Part 5 of 12 Few aspects of a Singapore property transaction cause as much last-minute anxiety as stamp duty, largely because the acronyms (BSD, ABSD, SSD) are unfamiliar and the amounts involved can run into hundreds of thousands of dollars. In this instalment, we set out…

Conveyancing in Singapore: a series from OTP Law Corporation, Part 4 of 12 Having spent the last two instalments on HDB resale transactions and the Option to Purchase that underpins them, we now turn to private property resale: condominiums, apartments, and landed homes bought and sold between private individuals rather than through HDB. The process…

Conveyancing in Singapore: a series from OTP Law Corporation, Part 3 of 12 If there is one document in the entire Singapore property transaction process that deserves more attention than it typically receives, it is the Option to Purchase. Buyers and sellers alike tend to treat it as a formality, a receipt confirming that a…

Conveyancing in Singapore: a series from OTP Law Corporation, Part 2 of 12 The HDB resale flat is, by a wide margin, the most common property transaction in Singapore, and for good reason: it is how most Singaporeans buy their first home. It is also, despite HDB’s efforts to standardise and digitise the process through…

Conveyancing in Singapore: a series from OTP Law Corporation, Part 1 of 12 Most people encounter the word “conveyancing” for the first time when they are already deep in the excitement, or the stress, of buying or selling a home. It sounds technical, and in places it is, but the underlying idea is simple: conveyancing…