A single buyer walked in ready to purchase private. Profile fits, budget's there, the deal looks clean. Then one question changed everything: are you engaged? Turns out her fiancé has an HDB that hasn't cleared MOP — and now they can't keep both. The problem was never the product. It was the package around it.

In this episode of The Resale Room, Harvey Chia is joined by co-hosts Teng Tan and Viv Yeow to unpack the property pitfalls that catch out buyers and sellers who don't know what they don't know. Not hypotheticals — real cases from the team's own recent deals.

The panel works through the traps that hide in plain sight: the engaged buyer who has to give up one home or the other, the unapproved staircase that stalled a deal at inspection, and the road line reserve that quietly eats into a landed home's value. Harvey breaks down why ...