They viewed 16 apartments in 3 days, and finally bought their dream home for $371,000. It wasn't even on their initial list.

• Soh Jun Hao and Grace Lim bought their public housing apartment in Singapore right before the pandemic.
• The millennial couple paid 505,000 Singapore dollars, or about $371,000, for the five-room property.
• They viewed 16 apartments in 3 days and came across their forever home by chance.

In the two years since Soh Jun Hao and Grace Lim moved into their five-room apartment in Tampines, a neighborhood in the eastern region of Singapore, they've transformed it into a cozy space filled with their favorite mementos.