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Hi I asked the below in another section of the forum and got no response so will try here. I have tried calling MOM again and the I still get no response. The front line person I speak to is always unable to provide any information even after checking. ______________ Other than receiving an auto gen...

Gentle bump, anyone know the answer to this?

Hi I hold a PEP (transferred from an EP) and received a job offer under the PEP. I completed and emailed the PEP Notification pdf to MOM a few weeks ago. Other than receiving an auto generated email acknowledging receipt of my notification form, I haven’t heard anything from MOM confirming my new em...

I have had the chance to speak some agents, about 8 in total, as I'm on the apt hunt. It seems they all use SRX as their index for pricing rental. As identified by others above, SRX numbers are in indeed generated from URA, not self reported from agents directly as I was speculating. While URA may h...

Interesting. Here's the ebrochure for REALIS

https://www.ura.gov.sg/-/media/Corporat ... ochure.pdf

If I understand correctly, SRX is a consortium of real estate agents - the major names we regularly see. They seem to be quite well established in the market for sales listing and property valuation data. I can't find much information about how they collect rental data though. I doubt that it comes ...

My thoughts too. I always thought URA was the standard for benchmarking. The landlord's argument for SRX is that it's more accurate - it's more current given the URA 2 month lag in reporting and SRX has the specific unit number (vs URA just having number of bedrooms and size) so can reflect differen...

Does any know much about this organization and their transaction data - particularly in the context of rentals? Are SRX's rent transaction figures self reported numbers from member agents? And are the reported numbers audited? The reason I ask is that my landlord insists on using SRX as the basis to...