ONCE, it was a housing boom. Now, it is retirement gloom. That's the experience of Melvyn Pereira, a 42-year-old assistant director at a statutory board, and others like him who bought HDB resale flats at peak prices.
Industry experts estimate there are more than 100,000 homeowners like Pereira, for whom home prices barely cover the size of their loans.
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