The landscape for Singapore textbooks has seen nothing less than a sea change since Singapore’s independence from the British. Lye Lin Heng’s Landlord and Tenant (1990) was the third volume in this second phase of this change. It is with great satisfaction that we welcome the much belated second edition of Professor Lye Lin Heng’s pioneering text, with Koh Swee Yen and Elaine Chew joining as co-authors. Although it comes some thirty years after the first edition, and is thus indubitably belated, its timing could not have been more propitious.