A Singapore property agent has filed a police report after receiving a disturbing handwritten letter from a supposed client offering to purchase an HDB flat in exchange for sexual favours.
Desiree Leung, a 30-year-old Senior Marketing Director at ERA Realty, shared the shocking incident on Instagram on 30 Jun 2025.
She collected the letter from her office on 30 Jun, a day after it arrived on 29 Jun.
Letter Propositions Sex for ‘High Commission’ Property Deal
The handwritten letter began innocuously with talk of purchasing an HDB flat through Leung’s services. However, it quickly escalated to explicit sexual propositions.
The sender wrote: “My dear Desiree Leung. I am interested in buying an HDB flat through you. Before that, I would like to have a simple discussion to confirm.”
The letter then turned vulgar: “I would like to f*** you for one hour at my home.”
The writer specified a meeting location at Jalan Besar Town Council on 6 Jul 2025 at 10am sharp. He promised Leung would “benefit and get a high commission” from this “valuable opportunity”.
Leung described feeling “greatly disturbed and uncomfortable that someone even dared to do this” when speaking to MS News. Despite the poor English, the letter’s opening about buying HDB property initially seemed legitimate.
“But reading to the middle of the content, which was the vulgar portion and an invitation to meet, I was in shock,” Leung said.
The physical nature of the letter, rather than the usual text or call from clients, made the incident particularly unsettling for her.
Pattern of Harassment Affects Female Property Agents
This marks the second documented harassment incident Leung has experienced in her career. Previously, a male client exposed himself during a WhatsApp video call while discussing rental properties. She immediately hung up and blocked him.
Leung regularly receives inappropriate messages from men attempting to “get to know” her personally, which she filters out before arranging face-to-face meetings with legitimate clients.
The agent revealed that female colleagues in sales industries, particularly insurance and property, have encountered similar or worse harassment. Some have been upskirted or subjected to other forms of client harassment.
“As a mother of three, if I’m subjected to this kind of harassment, I can only imagine what younger female agents might face,” Leung told MS News.
Initially, Leung posted about the letter on Instagram to vent her frustration. After receiving concerned messages from friends and followers, she shared the incident on Facebook and TikTok as well to raise awareness.
She wanted to document the incident for safety reasons: “In case anything happened to me in the future, this person would be the main suspect.”
The public response prompted numerous people to urge her to file a police report, which she subsequently did. Leung confirmed to Stomp that she had lodged the report and was awaiting review, with police having seven working days to determine if an investigation would proceed.
Netizens expressed shock and disgust at the letter’s contents. One commenter suggested police could trace the letter back to its sender, while others supported her decision to report the incident.
Leung emphasised that female sales professionals deserve respect despite their public marketing presence: “Just because we market ourselves publicly doesn’t mean we’ve signed up to be disrespected.”
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