Apartment Sizes

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I've not been to Infinity unfortunately.  From what Sukhi is saying, it seems to straddle the divide between Average and Supercondo.  I'm fascinated by the layout plan of Block B.  Only 3 bedrooms(?) and 3700 sq ft.... but they've adopted that old Singaporean trick of including balconies, lift area and lobby into the 3700 sq ft.  It seems to me you are only going to get an in-built area of under 3000 sq ft - and they're asking 1.9 million upwards?    Surely that's too much.

Sri Golden Bay (an older condo but a very nice one) just down the road from Infinity, has I think units around 2800 sq ft and I believe they are going for something like 1.3 to 1.5 million.

So you're paying an extra RM 400,000+ for a big balcony and private lift lobby?  Am I missing something?

Our renovator took us to a unit at The Cove to show off her renovating handiwork.  Huge barn of an apartment.  We got totally lost wandering around.  But it's horses for courses as always (and what your bank balance looks like too I guess).

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Papaya

Which renovator did you use which showed you the Cove ?,  if you don't mind me asking

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Papaya,  if you think cheating on sqft is bad in Singapore, try Hong Kong.  There are places here which list for 3,200 sqft which in fact are only about 1,700.  The management fee is based on 3,200 though

they include your share of the club house, lobby's,  driveways, carport and rooftop. you end up with a 1,700 sqft place on 3 floors with very pokey rooms (Stair wells cost you another 100 to 150 sqft) .    really shocking

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Ha ha... yes Hong Kong sounds interesting.

Chris, I'll send you a PM.  I'm not sure I want to give a free plug on here to our renovator.  The reno has turned out more or less OK but it's been quite a tortuous process and still a few loose ends to tie up.

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Thanks papaya

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hi,

6,000 sf and it's the same door size throughout, as if a pair of doors would cost any more. Or having the door higher than 6', or having a decent architrave and door surround to give some doors a prominence, or raising the skirting height for larger rooms. Amateurs.

Or doing anything to give a bit of elegance, style and charm to the barn.

The double-height panoramic-view main room in the penthouse at Birch Regency has a single leaf standard door. Well 3 of them splattered along a wall. There's space and that's it.

Including a private lift in the sellable floor space seems fair for the unit that gets it. I wonder if the maintenance for the lift is charged to the owner. Guess so.

The regulations in Singapore have been made more strenuous in recent years when it comes to developers being "economic with the reality."

I really liked the requirement for showflats to show external walls and doors. Usually they taper off to pools and landscaping.

I agree with Danny that 750 sf seems small. In London I lived in a small Victorian terrace. It was around 800 sf total but never seemed small as it was on 4 floors and had front and rear gardens and a concrete WW2 air raid shelter. The Victorian lathe & plaster and timber spiral stair was a knockout. Very tight and possible to swirl down from one floor to the other in 1 shot. Great fun.

Bought for 18,000 quid from a London hooker who bought it for 8,000, got a 4,000 grant, and sold it on. It was her 3rd property and she needed 2 more to retire to the country.

I sold it for 36,000 in 1982. I visited it in 2008 and it had been sold another 3 times and the current owner valued it at 350,000.   

So, 800 sf tight, but depends on the other features, gardens and spiral staircases, and air-raid shelters.