http://www.propertyguru.com.sg/property-management-news/2015/10/110074/shoebox-apartments-being-left-on-the-shelf?utm_source=pgsg-newsletter&utm_medium=edm&utm_campaign=consumernewsletter-tnv87&utm_content=guruview-img Oct 23, 2015 We take a Guru View at this investor favourite property sub-class, and at its market performance over the past few years. By Chang Hui Chew While most people bemoan how the sizes of their apartments have shrunk over the years, spend time in other metropolises and you'll quickly come to realize that we're actually behind the trend. For instance, New York is currently building pre-fabricated micro-apartments of about 270 square feet (about the size of a shipping container unit) right in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, for an upcoming project in East Manhattan. The calculation is rather simple: land space in Singapore is finite, a hoarded resource. However, our economy needs an expanding population to grow, to produce and consume, and all ...
A neutral, non-biased repository of useful information on shoebox (small format or mickey mouse) homes in Singapore (and sometimes around the world). Tracking the Singapore small format homes market since 2009.