A pre-construction price is a perishable fact. Builders re-issue price lists between releases, specials expire, and a figure that was accurate in the first week of a launch can be fiction by the fifth. Most listing sites handle this by doing nothing: the price stays up, quietly wrong, because a wrong number still generates enquiries. This site made the opposite choice, and this post exists so the rule is on the record.
The rule
Every price shown on MyHomeDeals carries the date it was last verified against the builder’s material — the stamp sits beside the deposit structure on each project page (“Price verified 2026-11-01,” in the freshest case in the catalogue). If 30 days pass without a re-verification, the price is withdrawn: the project page stays, the deposit record stays, the occupancy record stays — but the number is replaced with “Request current pricing.” No estimate replaces it. No “from the last list we saw” replaces it. The catalogue would rather show a gap than a guess.
What the catalogue looks like under the rule
Of the 168 project records, 63 currently carry a displayable price, every one of them verified between October 21 and November 3, 2026 — inside the window. The other 105 show “Request current pricing,” and they split into honest categories: projects whose builders have not published a numeric price for the current release, projects in a sold-out or completed state where a historical price would mislead, and projects whose last figure aged out. The rule does not distinguish them on the page, because from a buyer’s side they are the same fact: there is no current verified number, so we will not print one.
What the rule costs us
Candour about incentives: a price on the page converts better than a request line. Every withdrawal makes a project page less clickable and this catalogue less “complete”-looking than competitors who print stale numbers indefinitely. The 30-day rule costs traffic. It is kept anyway, because the only asset a catalogue like this actually has is that its numbers can be trusted — and trust is spent exactly once.
What the rule does not do
- It does not make a fresh price a guaranteed price. Verification means the figure matched the builder’s published material on that date. Builders can re-price the next morning; that is why the date is printed, not hidden.
- It does not verify availability. A price verified on Monday says nothing about whether a unit remains on Friday. Price, deposit and occupancy are verified as separate facts because they decay at different speeds.
- It does not follow you off the page. Other sites may keep showing a figure this catalogue withdrew. The number is not more current for being more visible.
The test to apply anywhere
Any site that prints a pre-construction price should be able to answer one question: when was this figure last checked, and against what? Here, the answer is on the page, in the stamp, on all 63 priced records — and the 105 request lines are what the answer looks like when it is “not recently enough.” That asymmetry is the point of the property.