Standards
What Truestorey leaves out, the reason, and what is on the page instead.
Every figure on the site prints its source and period. These are the things that cannot meet that test, or that fall outside what a licensed salesperson may publish.
Figures
A figure is published when its source and period can be printed beside it.
One number for what a home is worth
No public dataset records a home’s floor, facing, renovation or remaining lease, so a single value would carry a precision the data does not have. Formal valuation is a separate service by a qualified valuer, and a bank will commission its own.
Instead: The range that has actually been filed for the address, with the transactions behind it.
Verdicts on price: “undervalued”, “good deal”, “buy”
CEA PG 02-11 requires a market claim to be substantiated, and a verdict on a home the publisher has not seen cannot be.
Instead: Arithmetic against a cited source, with the arithmetic on the page. A percentile describes filed records; it is not a recommendation.
Forecasts of future prices
No published series predicts what a particular home will sell for. Where a historical window is shown, it is a count of what has already happened, not a probability.
Instead: Every holding period of your length that has run in the official price index, counted.
Comparisons with shares, gold or other investments
Ranking a home against other assets is investment advice, which is regulated separately.
Instead: The CPF Ordinary Account rate, which is statutory and published, alongside what a home costs to hold.
A score with no working shown
A score is only useful if the reader can see how it was reached.
Instead: Blindspot’s score comes from a formula printed on the page. The same inputs always give the same result, and a check that could not run scores nothing and says so.
Data
Public datasets, attributed, and nothing that cannot be traced back to one.
REALIS, and unit numbers on private sales
URA licenses REALIS for personal research, not commercial use (CEA PG 02-11 s6). The public feed gives the project and storey band, not the unit.
Instead: URA’s public transaction data, which anyone can check against the source.
Other publications’ reporting
That work belongs to the publication that did it.
Instead: Government announcements and public datasets, dated and linked to the original, in the policy and data archive.
Lines and boundaries that no dataset draws
A list of station coordinates is not a route, and a point is not a parcel.
Instead: Shapes come from published geometry, such as URA’s Master Plan and HDB’s block outlines.
Distances and schools
Where a measurement stops, the page says where.
Walking times
What lies between two points — a canal, an expressway, a fence — is in no dataset held here.
Instead: Straight-line distances, labelled as straight-line on every line.
A shaded circle around a school, or the promise of a place
MOE measures the 1 km band to the school’s boundary rather than a point in the middle of the campus, and living inside it gives ballot priority, not a place.
Instead: MOE’s own figures for how far each school’s places reached in the latest exercise, and the homes nearby.
Advice and privacy
The tools set out facts about money; the decision stays with the reader.
Telling you when to buy or sell
The right time depends on circumstances a website cannot see.
Instead: The two dates that govern a sale, the state’s full leasehold table, and every cost a sale must clear.
A pass-or-fail verdict from the Floorplan Reader
A plan on its own does not show what suits a household.
Instead: A report on how the unit lives — zoning, privacy, light, where the services sit — with a viewing checklist.
Your phone number
Nothing on the site needs one. Consent is taken per channel and never bundled (PDPA s14(2)), and an enquiry is not consent to be contacted.
Instead: Email, only if you tick the box for it.