For people looking for a home
Good people, good homes.
You should not have to pay a commission and then lose the flat to whoever offered more. Renticulate is where the listed rent stands, and the landlord can read how you actually live.
Early access for people looking, from Woodlands to Pasir Ris.
What looking feels like now
You take a slot between two other viewings and try to seem easy. Then the agent stops reading. Someone offers more. The two careful years in the last town stay in the last town.
Illustrative scenes, not real customers.
“Eleven viewings. The agent stopped reading my messages after the third one.”
“We had already worked out which room would be the study. Someone offered more, and the thread went quiet.”
“Two careful years in Punggol counted for nothing. I was judged off a PDF and a payslip.”
“They wanted the deposit before I had seen the flat. The photos were of a stack on a different road.”
How it works for you
You write to the landlord yourself. There is no commission in the middle, and no offer field waiting for you to bid against the next person.
Not a stack of payslips in a WhatsApp chat. How you live, and the people willing to say so.
From landlords and neighbours who have actually shared a place with you. A good tenancy in Punggol still counts when you move to Queenstown.
Identity, rental history and references, checked and visible. No NRIC is published on your profile.
There is no agent commission in the middle, and no field to offer more than the rent on the listing.
What they see
This is the shape of a tenant profile, and the landlord you would be reading in return. The people are examples. The worry is not.
Example
Tenant
Nurse · Tampines
Example rating 4.9 · two tenancies
“Quiet, paid on the first of the month, and left the flat the way she found it.”
“The neighbour who brings the corridor shoes in when it rains.”
Illustrative example. Not a real person.
See a sample home in TampinesExample
Landlord
Owner · Queenstown and Tiong Bahru
Example rating 4.8 · from past tenants
“Replied the same evening the aircon died.”
“Clear about the inventory, and fair when we handed the keys back.”
Right of reply
“The water heater took ten days. That was hard with a baby in the flat.”
“Fair. The part was delayed. I now keep a plumber who can come the same week.”
Illustrative example. Not a real person or a real review.
See a sample home in QueenstownSafety
A deposit and a set of keys are a lot to hand to someone you have met once. The record is there so neither of you is guessing.
Verification on both sides. Listings tied to a landlord you can read. A tenant you can check before you hand over keys — or a deposit. Fake listings and fake applicants get less room to work.
Tenants review landlords. Landlords review tenants. The point is a fair picture, not a pile-on.
A review is not the last word. Anyone reviewed can respond, in public, next to the original. One hard week does not have to be the whole story.
Consistently good behaviour shows up. Consistently poor behaviour does too, so it cannot simply be left behind in the next town. This is a verified track record with a right of reply — not a blacklist.
Around the home
A home is more than a lease. Renticulate includes the people around it — the trades that keep a flat liveable, and the neighbour who can help for an afternoon.
Aircon, plumbing, electrical, painting, pest control and cleaning, from people who already work in that town. This is Renticulate Trade, not a booking line.
Open TradeAn aircon that needs a service before the haze. A fridge that will not fit in the lift alone. Plants to water for a fortnight while you are away.
Example jobs, to show the idea. They are not live posts.
See trades by neighbourhoodThe aim is stronger, friendlier neighbourhoods, not just a signed lease.
Neighbourhoods
Early access covers HDB towns and private estates across the island. These are the neighbourhoods we are opening first.
Why the listed rent stands
When the way to win is to offer more, rents get pushed by whoever can pay, and everyone else just keeps viewing.
There is no box to offer more. You are not asked to start the climb.
A good tenancy in Punggol can still be read when you are looking in Queenstown.
The person letting the flat has a profile. Reviews go both ways, with a right of reply.
A flat should go to someone who will look after it. Not to the highest number in a chat.
Early access
Leave your name if you are looking. We will write when early access starts in that town. That is the only thing we will use it for.
Good people, good homes.
Renticulate is in Perth and in Singapore. Pick one. You can switch later from the top of the page. We don’t guess from your network.
Photographs: Elizabeth Quay by Dietmar Rabich, and Marina Bay by Chensiyuan. Both CC BY-SA 4.0.