21/08/2026
🏡 Before buying property in Singapore, check your status — not the postcode.
Buyers often research budget, location and layout exhaustively, then overlook the factor with the largest financial impact: stamp duty varies enormously depending on your residency status.
Citizen, Permanent Resident, foreigner — the same property can carry a dramatically different total cost depending on who is buying. And your status can be planned. The asking price cannot.
Which makes the sequence critical:
First, map your status path — where will you stand in two or three years?
Then assess timing — buy before your status changes, or after?
Only then, look at listings — your real budget flexibility depends on the first two answers
We've seen many clients sign before considering this at all, only to realise afterwards that waiting six months, or completing their status planning first, would have changed the economics entirely.
With eight years and nearly a thousand cases, Mayson helps clients plan residency and property on the same page — not in separate conversations.
📩 Considering property here? Let's look at your timing together.
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