In 2008, educator Anita Kaur and her husband bought a five-room flat in Pinnacle@Duxton for $619,000. They sold it for $980,000 in 2015, making a neat profit of nearly 60 per cent.
Winning the ballot and living in the famous estate was exciting at first, but when the children came along, Ms Kaur and her system administrator husband decided they needed a bigger place as they were also sharing it with her husband's parents and grandmother.
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