Crestbrick · Specialty Practice
En-Bloc Specialist
For owners of ageing freehold and 99-year leasehold developments where collective sale is on the table, or about to be. Probability assessment, owner-consent strategy, post-sale rehoming.
What I help with
- Probability scoring, your specific development assessed on plot-ratio uplift, tenure, age, owner cohesion
- Owner-consent strategy, how to navigate the 80% threshold, who to talk to first
- Reserve price negotiation, what's market vs what's wishful
- Marketing strategy, engaging the right marketing agent (or running it as committee chair)
- Tax + CPF impact projection, what your post-sale walk-away actually looks like
- Replacement property strategy, where to redeploy proceeds (often the harder problem)
The honest read on en-bloc
- Most attempts fail. <60% of approved attempts close.
- Even successful ones average 18-30 months to completion.
- The "premium" over individual sale is real, but volatile (10-40% range).
- Replacement-property risk is the silent killer. You sell at peak; you re-buy at peak.
- If you're 70+ and the development is your only home, the math changes, relocation cost is a meaningful drag.
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