Advice before a unit
Northcrest exists because too many Singaporeans were being sold overseas property instead of advised on it. We flipped the model: your situation first, a short shelf of vetted markets second, and a relationship that lasts past the keys.
Built to be the adviser we wished existed
Our founder, Lena Soh, spent a decade placing Singapore capital into UK and Australian residential, mostly through firms whose job ended at the signature. She watched clients buy off a glossy projection, then struggle alone with a tenant, a tax form and a building eight time zones away. The good deals were undone by the silence that followed.
Northcrest Global is the answer to that. We are deliberately small and deliberately narrow — four markets we know to the title deed, a shelf of projects short enough that we have walked nearly all of them, and one Singapore desk that stays with you through letting, management and tax. We are paid by the partners whose projects complete, on disclosed terms, and never more to push one project over another. Our business runs on the next referral, not the next sale.
If overseas property does not suit your situation, the most valuable thing we can do is tell you so — and we do, regularly. That honesty is the whole brand.
Our intent
To make overseas property a calm, well-advised decision for a thousand Singapore households — not a high-pressure punt taken in a hotel ballroom.
Our promise
Independent advice, honest numbers with the downside shown, and one desk that handles the lawyer, the currency, the lettings and the tax — in every market, through to keys and beyond.
What guides us
Sourced, not listed
We do not list whatever a developer pushes. Every project on our shelf is one we have walked, stress-tested on paper and would put our own clients into — which is why the shelf is short.
Independent due diligence
Title, developer track record, building management, local tax and the real all-in cost — checked before you ever wire a deposit, by people who answer to you, not the seller.
End-to-end, one desk
Lawyers, currency, financing, lettings and tax filings in four countries, coordinated from one Singapore desk, so you are never left holding a foreign-language form at midnight.
Honest numbers
Indicative yields, currency exposure and the costs other people bury in the small print — laid out plainly, so the figure you decide on is the figure you live with.
How an engagement works
A first, no-pressure consultation
We start with you, not a unit: your budget, your reason for buying, your appetite for currency and distance. Most first chats happen over coffee at Shenton Way or on a call.
A shortlist matched to your brief
We come back with two or three markets and a handful of vetted projects that actually fit — with the numbers, the risks and the all-in cost set out side by side.
Inspect — in person or virtually
Walk the development on an inspection trip, or tour it room by room over video with our in-country partner. You decide on evidence, not a glossy brochure.
Reserve, finance & complete
We coordinate the lawyer, the currency transfer, any non-resident mortgage and the staged payments, in plain English, all the way to keys in hand.
Let, manage & report
We hand you to a lettings and management partner we use ourselves, set up the overseas-landlord tax filings, and send you a clear report — so the asset runs without running your life.
