This applies across the board with no one group of landlord having an extreme position on the matter. You can expect, however, an occasional landlord who has been badly riled up and consequently developed some sort of bias. But enough of such race or nationality-based preferences lurk to throw up a variety of anecdotes from our survey of 60 housing agents who almost always make the first contact with tenants. Not even by Chinese Singaporeans because they are considered dirty. Some agents said the same thing about Japanese tenants.
People just feel better letting out their properties to people of the same cultural background.
They said they don't like the lingering smell of Indian-style cooking. One agent said he knew an Indian landlord who preferred not to rent out rooms to other Indians because she didn't want her tenants to understand her when she scolded her children in an Indian dialect. Sometimes, the budget of certain groups of tenants leads to a sense of rejection. Sri Lankans and Bangladeshis who can't meet the asking price. Caucasians are sometimes preferred tenants.