About
James Yeo, fixed-fee property agent in Singapore
I sell HDB flats, condos and landed homes for one fixed fee instead of 2% commission, and I write down what I learn so you can check it.
I started in 2014 the usual way, on commission. The longer I did it, the less sense the fee made: the work of selling a $450,000 flat and a $900,000 flat is the same, but one seller pays double. In 2023 I moved to a fixed fee, $1,999 plus GST for an HDB flat, $4,999 for a condo and $9,999 for a landed home, and I have not gone back. There is no exclusive agreement to sign. Sellers who like the model work with me alone because they choose to, not because a contract makes them.
The fee is the easy part to explain. The harder part is proving the job gets done as well as a 2% agent would do it, which is why almost every number on this site is a record, not a claim.
The record
The fastest HDB sale took three days and the fastest landed home two weeks, but I would rather you looked at the median than the outliers. The track record on the sell page shows town, flat type and days to sell for each one, and the reviews are from the people behind those rows.
Recognition
Two Top Sale (HDB) awards from Century 21 Singapore, for 2025. At C&H Properties, in the monthly Top 10 in 23 of the last 24 months, five of them at number one, and in the agency's Top 50 for 2024 and Top 30 for mid-2025. Before C&H, Huttons Annual Top Producer in 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2022, and on its 2023 Wall of Fame.
What I've written
In 2026 I published Buy & Sell Properties Start With C.H.O.I.C.E, built around the C.H.O.I.C.E. framework I use to shortlist a home: Convenient, History, Opportunity, Irresistible offer, Community, Entry and exit. The same thinking runs through the guides on this site, which I write and update myself:
- 01What HDB agents really chargeCommission, GST and what a fixed fee saves at each price band.
- 02Selling an HDB flat without an agentWhen it works, when it costs you, and the HDB Resale Portal steps.
- 03How to sell an HDB flat, step by stepThe nine steps from Intent to Sell to completion.
- 04Does a fixed-fee agent try less?The incentive argument, answered with my own sale data.
- 05Sell first or buy first?ABSD, loan limits and contra, with the two timelines side by side.
- 06How long an HDB flat takes to sellDays to Option by flat type and town, from my own sales.
Two tools go with them: the sale proceeds calculator for the cash you walk away with after the loan and CPF refund, and the HDB to condo calculator for the most you can pay next.
How I work
Pricing comes from recent transactions in the same block and the ones nearby, not from what a neighbour hopes to get. Marketing is video first: a home tour on YouTube, cuts for TikTok and Instagram, then the portals and a co-broke network of other agents. Viewings, negotiation, the HDB resale application or the lawyer's paperwork, completion: all of it is included in the fee. If you are buying at the same time, I plan the order of the two deals before either starts, because the order decides whether you need bridging.
I also run workshops for upgraders, mostly on moving from HDB to condo without overstretching, and on reading a new launch before the showflat does the reading for you.
Elsewhere
Talk to me
WhatsApp or call 8688 0009, or write to jamesyangproperty@gmail.com. Send the address and I'll tell you what I think it will sell for and how long it should take, before you decide anything.
WhatsApp James →James Yeo · CEA Reg. No. R051864Z · C & H Properties Pte Ltd · Estate Agent Licence No. L3007139C