Daily Briefing: Pearl Bank Apartments' 70s legacy fades; German accelerator debuts in Singapore

And here’s how to find the right agent to sell your property.

From Property Guru:

Like it or not, we may not be the most suitable person to respond to enquiries, face prospective buyers or show off the various excellent attributes of our home and its surroundings.

Picture this: You work normal hours and, intermittently throughout each day, get interrupted with phone calls and texts asking you everything about your property, repeatedly, followed by showing evening or weekend viewings while the family goes out to play.

Most properties take a couple of months to sell. By the end of the first month, assuming you have priced your property fairly and have fair response, you might feel burnt out from handling all these activities yourself.

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From AFP News via Yahoo! Finance:

The looming demolition of a horseshoe-shaped tower block that symbolised Singapore's growth from a port town to an affluent city-state has sparked soul-searching about whether enough is being done to protect the country's recent history.

Pearl Bank Apartments, on the edge of the business district, was groundbreaking when it was completed in 1976 -- at the time it was the tallest residential building in Singapore, and became a model for high-rise living in the country and across cities in Southeast Asia.

It was a turning point for the city-state's Chinatown, as it was the first skyscraper in an area dotted with low-rise buildings.

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From e27:

Funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, the five-month programme aims to help German startups pursue internationalisation.

It began with locations in Silicon Valley and New York City, and also a facility in Cambridge/Boston that focusses on life sciences companies.

The three startups will receive facilities that include free office spaces in Singapore, access to mentors and their networks, support in the search for Asian venture capital option, as well as the validation and adaptation of corporate strategy to local markets.

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