I AM a 27-year-old professional from India working in Singapore,
and have been looking to rent a three-bedroom Housing Board unit
with two friends in the centre of town.
In the past two weeks, I have scanned the classifieds online and
in the newspapers but to no avail. Most of the advertisements on
property websites are fake and many of the units listed online do
not exist for rent.
When I call an agent about a property, he is more interested in
getting my profile than talking about the listing. When I ask for a
specific listing, I am inevitably told the unit has been taken.
Such units are either non-existent or were rented out on the day
they were listed, which is unlikely for every unit.
If they had been taken up, isn't it the responsibility of the
agents to remove the listings from the website? And if the units
are fake, then it is an unethical way of doing business and fishing
for clients.
Rishu Choudhary
