
It's a sadly all-too-common issue faced by renters in Singapore: Prejudiced landlords. Filipino, PRC and Indian citizens often get the brunt of bigotry, being turned away by property agents at the mention of their origin country. The more crooked landlords go one step further to reject interested renters of an ethnicity different from them.
Not even Darius Cheng — founder of Eduardo Saverin-backed property search engine 99.co — was exempted from the same issue that plagues the local property market.