[CRS-260073] A Guide to Master Plan & Future Development of Singapore (MPFD)

CPD Category: Professional Competencies under Structured Learning (3 training hours awarded)

Course Duration: 3.0 hours

Funding: Eligible for UTAP funding (for NTUC Union members)

Course Synopsis:

This seminar will cover: -

• Planning Concepts.
• Landscape of Singapore Before Concept Plan.
• Introduction to Concept Plan
• Read and look out for important information in Master Plan
• Case Study – Misrepresentation of Master Plan
• Past & Future Development of Singapore Landscape
• Property Prices

Expected Learning Outcome:

• Introduction of Concept Plan.
• Understand Master Plan & the planning framework set by Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA).
• Learn how to read Master Plan and apply correctly to avoid misrepresentation through the case studies.
• Study the Master Plan and its impact on property transactions.
• Understand the Master Plan and its future development of Singapore. Both past and present.

About the Trainer

Harold Tan

Director (Real Estate Advisory), VestAsia Group.

Trainer, Certificate in the Marketing of Commercial Properties & Various CPD Courses

B Sc (Hons)(Real Estate),  MA (Business Admin), MICSC, ACTA

Harold Tan has over 35 years of experience in real estate covering both the public and private sectors. He started his career as a valuer in Jurong Town Corporation (JTC) and became JTC's first Overseas Merit Scholar, where he learned about Strategic Marketing and Professional Personal Selling while doing his MBA in the USA.

When he returned, Harold was assigned to market the Singapore Science Park and was promoted to become the first GM of TechParks Pte LTD which eventually became Ascendas. Over the years, he has taken on senior positions in investment, real estate development as well as international consultancy companies (Jones Lang LaSalle) where he had to market and "sell" ideas, new products and services to corporates such as GIC, Hong Kong Land, Goldman Sachs, Capitaland, ING Real Estate, Prada, Sephora, Body Shop etc.

He walks the talk and continues to use the selling techniques in this class to convince clients - individuals and institutions - to adopt new ideas, paradigm shifts and repositioning of brands and products to meet their business objectives. This is a programme based on tried and tested business principles and a sound understanding of human behaviors and decision-making that will open your mind to a better understanding of how people "buy" into your ideas, products and services.