Sell now while the market is hot! Before it is too late. But people, when the market is hot, you buy high too. And if you sign at one point and buy a year or two later, that’s a drastically higher price.

It’s a pipe dream in the name of progress. The lure for the serial enblocer. You know, the cash rich specialist who buys into an estate with “potential”.

Sell now because your estate is crumbling and not worth maintaining! 20 to 30 year buildings should be raised to the ground? I ain’t buying that. Maintenance and interior upgrading of 100-year homes are a reality of life in other countries, why should ours be an exception?

The reality is developers need to put x times the number of units on the same space to make the bucks. So the bedrooms don’t have space to swing a cat in new condos. Landscaping replaces parkland. Palm trees replace mature green giants.

Let that new trendy cramped space with one flat's master bedroom facing another's be some place else. I ain’t movin'.

In fact, have you noticed how much meaner people are when they are all cramped together? Good fences and fences further apart make for good neighbours!

Progress? Is it really progress to have thousands of displaced families searching for new homes in contest with each other, raising home prices even more unnaturally, spiralling the property market ever increasingly upwards?

The dreaded en bloc. I hate it. I hate being forced against my will to sell something I bought that had on the title “forever”.

That en bloc law should be changed to “ 100% consent from all owners or no jolly enbloc”.

If ever I would leave my home at Clementi Park? Well, only with the en bloc pistol pointed – and fired - at my head!