I Stumbled Into Real Estate. I Stayed For The Stories.
It wasn't a childhood dream or a five-year plan. I was 24, studying journalism and public relations at university, and I found real estate almost by accident during a term break.
What kept me here wasn't the transactions — it was the conversations. I'd trained for years to listen for the story underneath what someone is telling you, and it turns out that's exactly what this job runs on. Every client sits down with a story: the flat they grew up in, the home they promised their parents one day, the investment they've been quietly saving toward. I take real pride in helping those stories reach their next chapter.
Starting at 24 meant I was often the least experienced person in the room, and usually the youngest. Trust didn't come automatically. I earned it the slow way — by showing up prepared, following through on the small things, and staying honest even when it cost me a deal. That's still the whole of my reputation today.
Many of my early clients were years, sometimes decades, older than me — already well along in careers and lives I was still building toward. Rather than feeling out of place, I found it pushed me. Sitting across from people who'd achieved so much made me chase my own goals harder, not just on their behalf but on mine. At 27, I bought my first private property, in the heart of Holland Village — a milestone I don't think I'd have reached that early without watching them build theirs first.
I cut my teeth in the HDB resale market before moving into the RCR, and from there into new launches more broadly. That's grown into a genuine private property specialisation — new launches, resale, and landed homes alike, across every region — rather than one product, or one part of the island, I push regardless of fit. The market moves in cycles: where the opportunity sits today isn't where it sat two years ago, and won't be where it sits two years from now. I keep a running, up-to-date map of nearly every project island-wide in my head, because being able to compare honestly across the whole market — not just the pocket that's trending this quarter — is the entire point of hiring an agent at all.
Last year, I became a mother. It's changed how I listen to family clients more than any training ever could. When parents talk about school zones, wanting a spare room "to grow into," or being close to grandparents for childcare, I'm not just nodding along anymore — I understand that calculation from the inside, and I've got a much clearer sense of what's genuinely non-negotiable versus what's nice to have. It's made me a better advisor to every family I sit down with.
