A private tutor, who more than 20 years of experience in giving tuition, attended my briefing on the Online School platform.
She gave the following feedback.
At present, she has to travel to the home of the student and usually teach one student at a time. As she has to take into account her travel time and the teaching time, she needs to charge a high fee for the tuition to earn a living.
The online platform allows her to give the tuition from her home. It uses the Zoom teleconferencing platform.
She says that the ideal size of the tuition class if 4 to 7 students. It allows the students to interact and make the lesson more interesting. A larger group will be difficult to manage.
The Zoom platform is quite good. It allows the group to interact and the teacher to communicate with the students easily. It is as good as a physical class.
She said that the platform will allow the tutor to charge lower fees and still earn more. It may be possible for her to reduce the fees by half and still earn double her normal income.
The platform allows her to manage the lessons. It will automatically remind the students about the class. This saves time in reminding the students on her own.
She also likes the ability to upload the notes of the lesson for the students to read before the class and to upload the exercise for the students to do after the class. The answers are marked automatically by the platform and saves her a lot of time.
She will also be able to keep track of the progress of the students by looking at their attendance and the marks that they get for each lesson. All of this work is done automatically for her.
She said that we have to keep up with the times and use technology to improve the way we do our work. I agree.
Although she is not familiar with computers, she finds the platform to be quite easy to use. She want to encourage other tutors to try the platform.
I am encouraged by her positive feedback.
Property
ReplyDeleteCondo developer beats ABSD, sells all 16 units in 3 days
Just three days after launching an unexpected fire sale, Prominent Land, the developer of a freehold District 10 condominium 38 Jervois, managed to sell the project’s 16 remaining units in three days.
The promotion for 38 Jervois began on 1 June 2020, with Prominent Land offering a steep 13 to 24% discount of the original list price for buyers until 14 June. The project had received its Temporary Occupation Permit (TOP) back in March 2019.
Buyer response to the discounts was overwheming. On 3 June, the developer declared all 16 remaining units have been sold. This was also the first time since June 2019 that the project recorded a sale.
“A diverse group of buyers”:
Explaining why all 16 units were snapped up in a matter of days, Tracy Teo, head of the 38 Jervois project team from ERA Realty, told 99.co that the discounts offered by the developer were not the sole factor.
“The price is definitely a big draw, coupled with a great location in District 10 and freehold status,” she said. “Buyers in the market all recognised that this is an awesome buy.”
The discount also attracted a diverse group of buyers, from HDB dwellers to private property owners, Tracy added. “The buyers bought mainly for investment, although a few were planning for their own stay.”
ERA was the exclusive agency for marketing 38 Jervois.
Promotion was ‘all or nothing’
In a Business Times article published on 3 June, Prominent Land revealed that the rationale for launching the fire sale—with discounts totalling $7.1 million—was primarily to avoid paying a $4.8 million Additional Buyer’s Stamp Duty (ABSD) due this year
Located at Jervois Road in District 10, the 27-unit, five-storey 38 Jervois had originally sold 11 units since its launch in late 2016, with only one sale recorded in 2019.
Shortly afterwards, Prominent Land launched the fire sale promotion for 38 Jervois for the 16 remainder units, which consisted of the 2-bedroom, 2-bedroom + study and 3-bedroom unit types
Biggest discount worth nearly $550,000
For the fire sale, the smallest discount, in number terms, was $275,000 for a three-bedroom, 818 square foot (sq ft) fully-furnished and decorated showflat unit. This unit was sold at a discounted price of $1.82 million, or $2,223 per square foot (psf).
The biggest discount, at $547,320, is for a three-bedroom, 915 sq ft unfurnished unit on the fourth floor. The unit was sold at a discounted price of $1.92 million, or $2,102 per square foot.
Just last year, a 915 sq ft unit on the second floor and with the same configuration transacted for $2.28 million, or $2,492 psf.
About the neighbourhood
The condo itself was previously a bungalow sited on a generous 1,378 square metre (sq m) plot of land. Back in February 2015, Prominent Land bought the site for $25 million to develop its first boutique condo project.
38 Jervois is located in a predominantly landed and low-rise neighbourhood in Singapore’s prime District 10. Newly launched condos in the area include the 55-unit Petit Jervois by luxury developer SC Global (TOP: 2022), and the 45-unit Jervois Prive, the maiden project by Midas Land.
So far, Petit Jervois has seen two out of its units sold at a price of $2,892 psf (November 2018) and $2,801 psf (July 2019) respectively. There has yet to be a buyer for Jervois Prive, which is priced in the $2,700 to $3,000 psf range.
Resale prices of freehold condos in the Jervois Road area, in particular, differ vastly from that of new launches, mainly given their age difference.
https://www.99.co/blog/singapore/condo-
It is enough to let us know that the economy is not as bad as made out to be when people are still buying million-dollar homes despite the hands-tied measures on property buying. 38 Jervois is a good example when buyers issue cheques without physical viewing. Those on the market for more than three years now should realise that their pricing is uneven, especially those resales. No matter how to be honest buyers now are more in possession of facts.
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Zoom is good.
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One day, we will die. For a brief period of time, what we say or do will ever matter. In the end, we are dust.
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_Your age_
_Your past_
_Your grievances_
4 things you must have, no matter how weak or how strong you are:
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_Caring family_
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_A warm home._
But like most who are struggling---the strife is not uniquely yours alone, one the contrary it is universal.
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PM Lee is trying to say the truth as best as he knows it. The next year doesn't look so good.
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