Fewer real estate agents in Singapore

have many property agent friends,guess not easy to be one, locals behaviour i think we should know, what happen if consumer weren't always rite?? cea still side them rite! because they are customers. is the ppl working in cea really certified like this agents??will the customer if they are the main culprit just complain and complain than cea will punish the agent even though they did nothing wrong!! ( singaporean loves to complain ), yes there are alot of black sheep in the industries, what about the good ones.

'As professionalism improves, consumer interests will be better served and protected'

Does CEA knows what they are talking about? How may staff in CEA have real estate experience? Is the customer always right?
How about CEA providing support and protection to the agents from unscrupulous customers who complain to get discounts?

CEA, give your staff the field experience first and then talk about professionalism.

I have visited many Singapore property websites. From my experience, I notice that such mass-marketing websites like propertyguru, I-property, sg listings & propmatch, their listings are not exclusive, many are repetitive & fake, and worst of all there are many dummy listings. One property listing can generate up to as many as 40 comparative same listings. At the end of the day, in my opinion PROPERTYGURU, I-PROPERTY, SG-LISTINGS & PROPMATCH should be avoided if a buyer is looking for genuine listings! They are many more paid, premium & exclusive property portals which offer value-for-money listings.

It's best to visit premium websites which focus more on corporate database. They are more exclusive, realiable, real-time capture & definitely no DUMMY listings!

It's definitely good to regulate this sector to professionalise their services. However, the regulating body only deals with the agents & turned a deaf ear to developers & agencies who smoke the market/buyers by use misleading acts/information (Eg. units sold) & advertisings. Seems like they were formed just particularly to make life difficult for the agents.

Wonder how the excess funds collected by CEA, after deducting their rent and staff each year are allocated, with each agent paying hundreds of registration and licensing fees each year in order to practise. It is quite tough too for agents to survive in this industry, with negative comments like people who have encountered some not so good agents but there are some who are genuinely doing their job and should be paid accordingly for their services. Why begrudge anyone for earning a decent living?

The relevant Agency should weed out the Ah Bengs, Mats and Muthus in the profession.All talk only, no substance.

These are the people who give the profession a bad name. Like some corrupt Govt. servants.

Lol!

It is not important to reduce the number of agents. On the contrary what is needed is the uplifting of standards and professionalism among the pool of existing agents and the weeding out of the rogues and charlatans among them.

my friend told me that 5 yrs old 4 room flat of around $540 000 near hougang is cheap..i not thinking for myself. but abt singapore future.. so i ask, how much u expect his own children to pay when it their turn to buy??

The gov is not helping to cool the market , it is crashing the mkt .You build flat and you come out with so many cooling measures to prevent people from buying . You sell land and then you imposed many restrictions .We have a PRIVATE property mk , but the many restrictions make it looks like public housing .

You sent enquiry to an agent in property guru regarding a property, you dont get a response.
1 - 2 weeks later, you find your contact details in some mailing lists whoim bombarded
your email or mobile with (adv) spamming. Make a police report for intrusion without
permission. !!!!!!!!
PROPERTY GURU, DISPLINE YOUR AGENTS / ADVERTISERS !!!!!!!!!

its not easy now days. Less agent doing on HDB as the present situation....no one can make real cash out of HDB sell & buy. No easy cash now days.....More agent flop to private...till no chance to break thru. To many. 10% hold as sales person for 1-2 years later.

The grand plan is actually to make money! CEA have come up with CPD hours which I think is a good thing but each of this CPD points costs like $50, so each agent have to cough out around $300 for something they already learnt before, a refreshment course, and you times it by say 30,000 agents! I recently heard from a friend that with this new CEA thing, one agent is threatening another with false allegations so that the original party may back out. This I witnessed when one agent persuaded the client to write false allegations to the others company using CEA's name to threaten the other party but not actually bringing CEA into the picture. Indirectly, poor agents are put in a lurch to lose even with an exclusive contract! Can there be a CEA for agents in all fairness?

No matter what there will still be crooks among them. I have deal with them before. The way they talk is like we owe them a living.

Whatever it went up, whatever it goes down. Whatever it came down, whatever it goes up. Expected property price started to come down in 2nd half of 2012 or begining of 2013 (1996 is the highest, 1997 started to come down after gov applied cooling effect), then 2003/2004 to the bottom. And, this cycle 2015/2016 will be another bottom.

The lesser the merrier.ah li and ah lo also selling property.ask them to find other jobs.

Sometimes, I do pity Housing Agents. They are like SUPER hamburgers sandwiched between buyers, sellers, agencies, CEA.... .

Most are unprofessionals. They know nothing about Land titles, Strata titles, Survey plans and so on. A couple of them, whom I have dealth with, don't even know how and where to get these plans and title deeds.

So much for being a Real Estate Agent. No wonder even Air Hostesses are in the profession.

Lol!

@ Lucid,
The objective of licencing, is to wipe out all unscrupulous agents who cheated in their dealings. I believe you must be one of them.

alamah a year cea received almost 9 million sin dollars registration fees! This is kan-cha-bo-per okay:(

One agent can represent a seller and a buyer and still collect commission from both or two agents of the same company can represent a seller and buyer ,what the hell is this ,CONFLICT of interest ! When dispute occurs , THE RELEVANT AUTHORTY ask you get a lawyer and go court to settle it yourself ! It is the most unregulated industry besidetravel agency ! So what if agents are certified ,they are not restricted by the law !