There is increasing buzz and activities to Balestier area, with the latest Industrial building enbloc sale this year sold at $275m. Judging from its intense participation from the market, we are anticipating more enbloc sale activities at the industrial area here has been re-zoned for residential use.
It may sound good news to Balestier, with the revamping along the way shedding off the shoddy past and image. However is Balestier getting too crowded, with the existing 3 lane road along the Balestier Road able to support the ever increasing traffic? What …

If you may have noticed, new developments always come with big planter areas, bay windows as well as aircon ledge. Why are they so popular with the developers?
Bay windows are raised window ledges and not part of the floor slab, while planter areas are literally ‘planter boxes below the floor slab area’ to encourage planting growing in the residential projects. Though these 2 features are considered part of the strata areas, they are not really that useable area. There are some cases that people even deck over the planter areas …