A Landed Home: The Price Is Not The Cost

Duties, down payment, building works, rent while you rebuild, and what to check before you pay an option fee. Andrea Goh · PropNex

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The asking price of a landed home is only part of what it costs you. This tool puts the money you pay on the day you buy next to the money you spend afterwards on building works. No address needed.

Terms this tool uses

BSD and ABSD
— Buyer's Stamp Duty (everyone pays it) and Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty (depends on who you are and how many homes you will own).
A&A
— additions and alterations to the house that is already there. Tearing it down and building new is a different, bigger job.

The purchase

What you plan to do after buying

Before you pay an option fee: what a viewing cannot show you

None of these show up on a map or a property advert. Find out after you have paid the option fee and you have far fewer choices.

    Routes are taken from each agency's own pages (checked October 2026). Routes and fees can change: use each agency's current instructions.