Property Selection Headache - Part 2

To continue from our previous article addressing on property facing, we now look at another aspect of property feng shui during selection.

In Singapore, most of us stay in high rise buildings – be it HDB or condominium apartments. During the process of buying (resale or new), some of us may be particular and have some ideal facing in mind (if you do).
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Well, question is, when does this external view comes in to affect you in terms of feng shui perspective? With many BTO selection exercise and condo launches, potential buyers have often asked me questions pertaining to their house facing. 

Among the sea of apartments in this urban jungle, which property has good external feng shui?

So in this article, I would run through an overview facings for home hunters for a better understanding. This will serve to give you a reference check (or red flag) if you may need to pay extra attention to your property’s facing regarding to its feng shui.

​Before I start, property fengshui aspects is derive from generally two areas:

1. External. This means that what is outside of the property can influence your property and person staying in it.
2. Internal. A formulated way of calculations based on facing and timing for the property. We can derive and find out the luck of the property (imagine: a property also has a set of bazi) and determine which area of the house is prosperous or has negative ‘qi’. Through this, what lies in the external of the property can trigger the prosperous/negative area of your property.

You can now see that external of property is quite important – since you cannot influence nor make changes to it.
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Question is, when should I be concern of the external? 

​Let’s list down what are the typical facing one would see:

1. Unblock view of field, garden or open space

This is generally a very good facing and enjoy good feng shui if you can face one. However, I would share with you that there are some potential issues. What happens if construction commences to build a new shopping mall or MRT? Overnight, good feng shui becomes bad feng shui. 

Quiet peaceful external facing

Construction facing is best to be avoided

      2. Pool or water view
​Generally good but it depends on a few factors. Depending on your property’s bazi, it is not guaranteed that if you face a pool, it means wealth. (Yes, swimming pool can trigger wealth luck) It is dependent on your property’s bazi chart. What kind of water features at the pool can also be good or bad. Examples. Think water fountain, waterfall etc.
It also depends on which floor you stay.

Pool view facing

      3. Unblock facing roads
This is tricky. This is due to there are various possibilities depending on:
a. Your property faces a straight road with busy or no traffic
b. Your property facing a bend curve road
c. Your property faces a round about
d. Your property faces a split road (Y junction or T junction)
e. Your property faces a flyover or MRT/LRT track
f. If the traffic is oncoming to your house or away

​These are some of those in consideration. Again, height and noise level also plays an important factor.

Facing a T-junction of sorts

     4. Unblock view facing landed house
​This can be nice and some condo enjoys such facing. This however, can be tricky and would depend on the façade of the properties you are facing. Height of your property matters too.

Can you spot any issue among the buildings with potential feng shui issue?

    5. Units at top floor of an apartment block
​I usually feel this applies to the top 2 stories of the block. Typically, units here may enjoy good view and are windy. However, units here are prone to negative feng shui depending on what lies opposite you in other property apartment your property faces.

Top floor facing opposite blocks

   6. Block view facing other buildings or apartments
​By comparison, this seem to naturally be a less favourable facing. But fret not, depending on your property’s bazi chart, this can actually be a good thing to trigger good luck.

Facing another apartment block may not be bad

​If you are still with me (Yes, I know it’s a long article), I hope the above listed gives you a good perspective of various facing by breaking down into various categories and when you should pay extra attention.
Certainly, the above listed are not exhaustive and there are other kind of facing though less common. It is especially challenging for the untrained eye if it is a new property sale where you only have the site plan for reference.
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