Me & My Money: From undergraduate real estate agent to CEO of S’pore’s largest co-living operator

Mr Eugene Lim is the founder and chief executive of The Assembly Place, the largest co-living operator in Singapore. ST PHOTO: AZMI ATHNI
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SINGAPORE – Property executive Eugene Lim was only in his second year of university when he started a career in real estate in a bid to pay his university fees and then land a civil service post upon graduation.

Like many best-laid plans, this one went astray.

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