It is notoriously difficult to find an affordable, freehold landed house (or even a reasonably-priced leasehold landed one!) in Singapore, especially in Bukit Timah, which has many GCB enclaves. Hence, when I saw a freehold landed house listing at around $3 million at Hillview Garden Estate, I immediately thought of […]

Los Angeles | $2.195 Million A circa 1930 Spanish-style house with five bedrooms and four bathrooms, on a 0.2-acre lot View Park, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2016, is one of the largest historic districts in California, with its well-kept 1920s and 1930s homes. This house, […]

Sacramento | $1.385 Million A midcentury-modern house built in 1968, with three bedrooms and three bathrooms, on a 0.4-acre lot This house was designed by John Harvey Carter, an architect who designed more than 400 private and public buildings in the Sacramento area and served as a member of the […]