{"id":9541,"date":"2021-01-18T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/economics\/article\/3117954\/sky-high-prices-million-dollar-question-facing-singapores"},"modified":"2021-01-18T00:00:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T00:00:09","slug":"sky-high-prices-the-million-dollar-question-facing-singapores-public-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/sky-high-prices-the-million-dollar-question-facing-singapores-public-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky-high prices: the million-dollar question facing Singapore\u2019s public housing"},"content":{"rendered":"In just a decade, Mark Wang made a cool S$700,000 (US$530,000) profit when he sold his public housing flat for S$1.07 million last September, having bought the heavily subsidised unit from the government through a ballot. He intends to partially fund the purchase of two condominiums with the profit.\r\r\u201cYes, it\u2019s a kind of lottery effect and I feel truly blessed,\u201d said the associate group director, 45, from real estate agency PropNex Realty, who specialises in private homes in the central region\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/economics\/article\/3117954\/sky-high-prices-million-dollar-question-facing-singapores\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just a decade, Mark Wang made a cool S$700,000 (US$530,000) profit when he sold his public housing flat for S$1.07 million last September, having bought the heavily subsidised unit from the government through a ballot. He intends to partially fund t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":967,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9542,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9541\/revisions\/9542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}