My humble pointers

- holding power is the most important. Cycle comes and goes. If you don't have holding power to hold five to ten years, its risky.

- location is key.
My property is still growing in value according to recent transactions from URA website. That is despite all the cooling measures and negative news about property market in the papers.

- Research like hell!
I did two months of research before I committed.

- Do your own calculations.
When I bought my property during this cooling measures period, my bastard "friends" are super negative. Declaring that I will lose money, bought at the wrong time and outright laughing at me. Sour grapes bastards! Not laughing now when we check the URA transactions for my property. Sitting on 100k++ paper gain now after taxes. Don't listen all the comments around you. Trust your own research and calculations.