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Viewing 3 to 4 units is just warming up. In Singapore, most first-time buyers view between **8 and 15 properties** before making a firm offer.

At 3 to 4 viewings, you do not have enough baseline data to recognize genuine value, spot hidden defects, or negotiate confidently.

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### Why 3 to 4 Viewings Is Never Enough

* **Calibrating Listing Photos vs. Reality:** Online listings use wide-angle lenses and staging to hide low ceilings, dark corridors, and road noise. Viewing 8 to 10 units trains your eye to instantly assess layout efficiency and natural lighting.
* **Understanding Stack & Facing Differences:** In a large mature estate like Tampines, two identical 4-room units in the same cluster can differ by S$30,000 to S$50,000 depending on afternoon west sun, proximity to the bin centre, or corridor privacy.
* **Gauging Price Competitiveness:** Until you physically walk through a range of units—from poorly maintained original flats to fully renovated ones—you cannot accurately gauge whether a seller's asking price or Cash-Over-Valuation (COV) is realistic.

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### The Three-Phase Viewing Strategy

1. **Exploration Phase (Units 1 to 5):**
* View broadly across different blocks, floor levels (low vs. high), and ages.
* *Goal:* Determine your strict dealbreakers (e.g., must be a corner unit, strictly no west sun, within 500m of the MRT).

2. **Comparison Phase (Units 6 to 12):**
* Narrow down to your top 1 or 2 target clusters.
* *Goal:* Compare similar stacks and benchmark price per square foot against recent URA/HDB transacted caveats.

3. **Closing Phase (Top 1 or 2 Units):**
* When you find a unit that checks 80% of your boxes, **view it twice**.
* Visit once during the daytime to check natural light and heat, and once on a weekday evening (between 7 PM and 9 PM) to check ambient noise, corridor clutter, and neighbor habits.

Don't panic if nothing has clicked yet. Schedule 4 to 6 viewings over the upcoming weekend to build your market intuition quickly.

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Hi there!

There's really no magic number when it comes to property viewings.

I've encountered buyers who made their decisions after viewing just a handful of properties, while others continued searching for months before finding something suitable.

Neither approach is necessarily wrong.

However, I would be more interested in knowing **why the 3 or 4 properties you've viewed so far haven't worked out.**

Were they unsuitable because of the layout, location, condition or asking price? Or were they generally acceptable, but you felt there might be something better available?

There's an important difference.

If the properties genuinely don't meet your requirements, then you should continue searching.

But if you're constantly wondering whether the next property might be better, you could find yourself viewing endlessly without making a decision.

One thing I often remind buyers is that **there's no perfect property. Every home comes with some form of compromise.**

Even buyers with substantial budgets have to make trade-offs between location, land or floor area, layout, condition and price.

What matters is identifying which compromises you're prepared to accept and which are absolute deal-breakers.

I would suggest reviewing your requirements after these initial viewings. You may discover that your expectations need some adjustment, or perhaps the properties you've been viewing aren't the right match for your budget.

And here's another point worth considering.

If you come across a property that meets your important requirements, is reasonably priced based on comparable transactions and fits comfortably within your budget, don't dismiss it simply because you've only viewed a few properties.

Likewise, don't feel pressured to make an offer just because you've already viewed twenty.

**The objective isn't to view as many properties as possible. It's to gather enough information and confidence to make a sound purchasing decision.**

Perhaps you could share what you disliked about the properties you've viewed so far? That might help identify whether the issue is the available choices, your budget or your expectations.

All the best with your search!

Geryl Lim
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1. There’s no magic number! Viewing 3–4 homes is a good start, so don’t feel discouraged.

2. Identify why the previous units didn’t suit you: price, location, layout or condition. This helps narrow your search.

3. Decide your must-haves and deal-breakers. Every property involves compromises, so don’t wait for perfection.

4. Compare asking prices against recent transactions and view again if a unit genuinely meets your needs and budget.

5. Don’t rush, but don’t keep searching endlessly for something better either. Buy when you’re confident the home fits your needs and finances.

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Glad to hear that you are on your home-buying journey!

It depends on what you mean by 'no luck', and how well you are screening the listings before actually going down for a viewing.

For many owners that I work with, much of the heavy-lifting is already done before we actually go down to the actual unit for viewing. Because it is hyper-targeted and productive, it often does not take too many viewings to find the perfect fit.

More importantly, a home purchase is typically the largest single purchase for most buyers in their entire life, and will often dictate a large part of their lifestyle and financial future for the next 20-30 years.

I'm a Harvard graduated real estate agent with a degree in economics, and have supported clients on more than $1 billion in transactions.

Personally, I do an average of 2 hours of analysis on each shortlisted unit for the buyers who work with me. This is 100-200 hours of professional analysis that translate to time savings and actual monetary savings to clients, when they get a better unit and better deal on a faster timeline.

If you are operating without an agent and want to be equally comprehensive in your analysis compared to a professionally trained agent equipped with proprietary databases and doing this as a full-time job, that might mean investing that time yourself to do that work so you don't have to depend on luck. What you want is to avoid the risk of purchasing the wrong home, or perhaps the right home at the wrong price.

Feel free to whatsapp me for help, and I'll be more than happy to support you on your home buying journey! :)

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