If you need facilities, shared rooms in ECs and condos start from $600/month. If you’re thinking that co-living fees are not much lower than renting directly from landlords, you would be right, but I’ll explain my (perhaps skewed) logic in more depth below. To be honest, I can’t afford it! I could probably afford to rent a shared HDB room, but having heard so many horror stories about other tenants and landlords, I don’t think the experience is worth it for me.
(And not a fake-pimped-up version in which they try to impress me because they want good publicity!) Renting vs Co-Living Note: this is not an advertorial for co-living as the stay was completely paid for by myself (not sponsored by any co-living company OR Stacked) so you can rest assured that everything I write is wholly objective, based on my experience, and not a result of having been “bribed” to say nice things! Moreover, I did not inform the company when booking that I would be writing an article about the experience, so you can take my experience as a “generic” one. (If you’re curious about my Singapore property journey, click through to see how it all started.) However, I’ve not quite given up on having “a room of one’s own”, to paraphrase Virginia Woolf, and so I’ve been toying with the idea of renting or trying co-living. Since I’ve covered this in my various articles with Stacked, I won’t bore you by repeating myself here but, suffice it to say, 1.5 years on, I’m ready to throw in the towel regarding finding an affordable multi-generational property.
As all Singaporean Singles know, getting your own place when you’re unmarried is prohibitively expensive, due to the many BTO restrictions singles face. A few years ago, I moved back from the UK to Singapore.
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