Whether you roll your eyes at feng shui, or you’re a hardcore believer, it still matters if it isn’t going to be your forever home. Regardless of your views, a future buyer – or even a tenant – may care about this element of your housing. So even if you aren’t into feng shui, take note of a few qualities...
Whether you roll your eyes at feng shui, or you’re a hardcore believer, it still matters if it isn’t going to be your forever home. Regardless of your views, a future buyer – or even a tenant – may care about this element of your housing. So even if you aren’t into feng shui, take note of a few qualities that could impact your future resale value:From word on the ground, most realtors have said that Singaporean buyers are overwhelmingly practical.
It could, however, act as a tiebreaker when a buyer or tenant is comparing against close alternatives.We won’t be addressing certain interior elements such as the placement of mirrors or water features. Those are issues that a future buyer can easily change. Rather, we’ll look at the permanent elements that are often considered bad Feng Shui. These are:By coincidence, these are also disliked by homeowners in general.
By coincidence, this is also undesirable for non-believers, albeit for different reasons. From a conventional perspective, a unit pressed up against a T-junction is closer to traffic, and more likely to see congestion or noise pollution. For feng shui believers, however, a cul-de-sac is almost always considered a negative; it’s a location where stale and chaotic energy wells up. For landed homes, that may mean some extensive landscaping or gardens to mitigate the bad energy.Feng shui believers don’t like locations with an excessive “yin-aligned” energy, and this includes graveyards, columbaria*, and hospitals.
Although we would say that Parc Komo, located near Changi Prison, is one of the most affordable freehold condos in Singapore; it’s overly maligned for that one detail . On a practical basis, however, Singapore is a tight-packed urban environment; and you are going to have a hard time finding a property with no tall or sharply pointed structures nearby. You may have to just settle for the one furthest from such features.Some feng shui believers use plants to introduce elements of life and compassion into the unit; and this may be one of the ways they mitigate bad feng shui .