SINGAPORE: Planning to get married in 2021, Ms Tan Pei Yi and her then-fiance started applying for a new flat as early as four years before.
They hoped that would give them enough time to secure a unit and have a date to move in not that long after tying the knot, but it proved more challenging than they expected.
Ms Christine Sun, senior vice president of research and analytics at OrangeTee and Tie, thought either system could work, but said that whether to build first or build to order is not the “crux” of the issue.