This is a short excerpt of the feature originally published in EdgeProp Singapore on 12 February 2026.
Most people only start thinking about feng shui when something has gone wrong. By the time they seek advice, a business has stalled, family relationships are strained, or their health has deteriorated.
To Rex Chong, a Singaporean feng shui practitioner with nearly four decades of experience in Singapore and abroad, this reactive mindset is a persistent misunderstanding surrounding his work.
“Whether it’s a home or a workplace, the best time to address issues is actually before they happen,” he says. “If the foundation is strong from the start, everything else follows more smoothly in the long run.”
While some of his corporate clients, particularly larger companies, consult annually as preventive planning, many approach him only when operations have hit a wall. Homeowners tend to reach out after moving in and problems have surfaced.
This pattern points to a common gap in understanding. Feng shui, in practice, is more pragmatic than most assume — closer to risk mitigation, and offering another lens for evaluating how a property’s form and surroundings might create friction or flow.
Self-taught scholar
Chong has always been a bookworm. At 16, that habit led him to feng shui when a friend’s mother gave him a stack of books on the subject. He read, absorbed, then sought out more. By 17, he was advising clients.
Over the years, he worked his way through the major feng shui literature from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
He built up enough experience across homes, offices, factories and different spatial problems that instinct supplemented knowledge. His practice grew in scope as much as in depth. From residential consultations in Singapore, it expanded to commercial projects — offices, factories and entire buildings — across Asia, including Malaysia and China.
He has worked extensively with corporate clients in Guangzhou, Dalian, Hong Kong and other cities. The clients typically engage him during the planning stages to advise on site selection, auspicious groundbreaking dates, spatial planning, and where best to seat key management within a building.