The new edition of this text has been highly anticipated. In his Foreword, the Chief Justice of Singapore Chan Sek Keong notes that eight years after the second edition, this third edition is called for because of what the editors have described as “the breathtaking pace of the development of Singapore land jurisprudence”. In her Preface, Professor Tan Sook Yee also agrees that it was very clear that a third edition was becoming long overdue.