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my area has alot of cat. This morning wake up, smell those poo poo smell. We trace and realize our flower pot is the cat poo poo area. I know we cannot control animal call. But is there any things or tips that can stop they from coming in.

buyer need to sign LO from bank loan before exercise the OTP.

can u take a photo of it. Very hard to imagine

concrete build up. if concrete then I believe wall tiles will be affected. you plan to replace it with wall mount basin or table top basin?

there are no 1 stop solution. Need to see see walk walk and compare price

seat type to seat type? if yes, no damage to the floor tiles.

Lesson 6: Do own homework. Don't depend on other 100% if none of the above was done. Then only got 1 word Oh-B

I didn't know PR can buy landed property. I all along thought only Citizen can buy landed property. Rule change?

http://www.asiaone.com/Business/My%2BMoney...810-231319.html Landed home purchases by foreigners surge By Kalpana Rashiwala Foreigners including permanent residents bought 81 landed homes in Singapore in the second quarter of this year, up from 69 in Q1. And the Q2 figure is the strongest quarterly showing since Q2 2007, according to Knight Frank's analysis of URA Realis caveats information up to July 30. District 15, which includes Katong, Telok Kurau and East Coast Road, overtook District 4 - where transactions are predominantly at Sentosa Cove - as the most popular district among foreign buyers of landed property. In Q1, District 4 was most highly sought after by such foreigners. While foreigners picked up more landed homes in Q2 than Q1, they bought fewer private apartments and condos. The number slipped 7.4 per cent, from 2,261 units in Q1 to 2,093 in Q2, according to Knight Frank. But Singaporeans bought more non-landed private homes in Q2 - 5,732, versus 5,315 in Q1. Knight Frank chairman Tan Tiong Cheng said foreigners' strong interest in landed homes reflects their growing recognition of such assets as a prized commodity in land-scarce Singapore. 'The increased interest is not surprising as landed housing offers many foreigners a lifestyle closer to what they are used to in their home country,' he said. 'The added attraction is that Singapore is a very safe place, so landed housing is as secure as, say, a gated community.' William Wong, managing director of RealStar Premier Property which specialises in selling landed homes in east and central Singapore, said permanent residents (PRs), after living in Singapore for a few years, tend to realise it's worthwhile investing in landed property. 'Bungalow prices (on per square foot of land basis) are still lower than apartment and condo prices on psf of strata area in the same location,' he said. 'On top of that, the supply of landed homes is more limited than that of condos and apartments. Landed homes also tend to maintain their value better, as the main component of, say, a bungalow's value would be the land it sits on, whereas apartment and condo values may depreciate faster as the property ages.' PRs who choose landed property can easily get access to the facilities they would enjoy in a condo - such as a big swimming pool and gym - by joining a club, he noted. Mr Wong said landed property transactions started to pick up in June-July, after a slow period in March-May. 'In District 15, bungalows in the Mountbatten and Meyer road areas can easily sell for about $1,000-1,100 psf of land today, compared with around $900 psf towards the end of 2009,' he said. 'In District 10, say in Coronation Road or Namly Avenue, a bungalow may cost about $1,200-$1,300 psf-plus today, up from $1,000-1,100 psf late last year.' Besides an increase in the number of landed homes bought by foreigners in Q2, Knight Frank's report shows their share of total landed home purchases here rose from 6.3 per cent in January-March to almost 7 per cent in April-June. The latter figure is a tad below an 8 per cent share in Q1 2007 and Q2 2008. The 150 landed properties bought by foreigners in the first half of this year accounted for about 6.6 per cent of landed home deals in the period. On an annual basis, the share has ranged from 3 per cent in 1996 to 9 per cent in 1995 and 1997. Knight Frank's analysis also shows PRs acquired 132 of the 150 landed homes bought by foreigners in the first half of this year. The other 18 were bought by non-PR foreigners. This is not surprising as on mainland Singapore, being a PR is one of the major criteria a foreigner has to fulfil before being allowed to buy a landed home. Sentosa Cove is the only place in Singapore where non-PR foreigners are allowed to buy landed homes, but this is still subject to approval by the Land Dealings (Approval) Unit, among other conditions.

Lesson 1; Don't sign blindly Lesson 2: Don't issue cash chq Lesson 3: Present market, where got sell below valuation. Confirm has "GHOST"

http://business.asiaone.com/Business/My%2B...805-230701.html 1 flat, 3 buyers By Elysa Chen HE WANTED to sell his flat and hired a property agent to help him do so. But the agent ended up collecting deposits, ranging from $5,000 to $10,000, from buyers and disappeared with the money. Now, John (not his real name) is being hounded by the buyers, who are asking for their money back. The property agent, who is in her 30s, has been arrested. She is suspected of being involved in about 90 cases of cheating. A police spokesman said investigations are on. Yesterday, the police released statistics for the first half of this year, which showed that commercial crimes like this are on the increase. John told The New Paper that he met the property agent only six months ago. She was a friend of his friend and he trusted her. So much so that he agreed to sign receipts and other documents even before they had been filled up. He said: "She said it would be easier for her to do the transactions. Sometimes, I didn't even know what I was signing." Between January and July this year, several potential buyers went to view his five-room flat. When one of them agreed to buy it, he handed John's agent a deposit. But not long later, the agent would tell John that the buyer had backed out at the last minute. She would then bring other potential buyers for viewings and collect deposits from them. "I didn't take the cheques from her each time because she said she would help me use the money to pay HDB," said John. He owed the HDB about $17,000 in arrears. But he later learned that the agent had cashed the cheques and kept the money for herself. Cheques In all, three buyers gave the agent cheques for $5,000 each, one gave a cheque for $6,000 and another handed over $10,000 in cash. The one who handed over $10,000 was a 35-year-old driver. He said the agent had told them they could buy John's flat for about $300,000, though it was valued at about $380,000. He said: "We were suspicious at first, because it was going at so far below valuation." He and his wife had called the agent's company to check that there was such an agent working there. After they did their checks, they handed over $5,000 in cash to the agent at John's home and signed the option to purchase on July 5. They passed the agent another $5,000 on July 12. But she disappeared after that. It was only when he and his wife lodged a police report that they found out she had been arrested. He said: "When we heard that, we had a sinking feeling. That was all the money we had.Our dreams are shattered." John said that he found out about the scam only when a police officer called him on July 10, asking him to go down to have his statement recorded because one of the buyers had lodged a police report against him. He said he tried to reach the agent on her mobile phone for three days but she was uncontactable. John's friend helped him do a check on the HDB website and found that an application had been submitted for his flat to be sold at $340,000. The first appointment with HDB had been scheduled for Aug 11. He also found out, to his horror, that the agent had not paid HDB on his behalf. He said: "When I saw that...I called the buyers up and explained that I was cancelling the sale because it was being sold below valuation. "I also advised them to make a police report against the agent. I hope that people will learn from my mistake and question their agents instead of signing documents blindly."

http://sites.google.com/site/sgpropertynew...yterrace-dawson SkyVille & SkyTerrace @ Dawson from the floor plan, it already can see.. the kitchen is block by sun

http://sgpropertypress.wordpress.com/2007/...own-architects/ My HDB flat’s a condo – Dawson Estate in Queenstown will be the new face of public housing – flats done condo-style by top homegrown architects Filed under: About HDB Properties,Singapore Property News — aldurvale @ 5:20 am GROUND-LEVEL parks extend to the doorsteps of residents’ homes and flats come with ceilings tall enough for lofts to be built. These perks are not the latest offerings of swanky condo projects but new ideas for public housing in Queenstown. Conceived by top local architects and unveiled at the Housing Board’s (HDB) ongoing Remaking Our Heartland exhibition, the new concepts also promise to bring high-rise communities closer and promote an environmentally sustainable lifestyle. At the heart of all this future action is Dawson Estate, a 60ha district in Queenstown bounded by Margaret Drive, Tanglin Road, Alexandra Road, Commonwealth Avenue and Queensway. This former housing and entertainment hot spot was developed in the 1950s by the HDB’s predecessor, the Singapore Improvement Trust. It now has just 3,000 flats and tracts of land ripe for redevelopment after blocks of flats were cleared in the 1980s and 1990s. It is expected to house about 10,000 more apartments in the future. To bring a fresh spin to public housing, the HDB took the unprecedented step of commissioning Surbana International Consultants, Woha Architects and SCDA Architects earlier this year to conceptualise three separate precincts comprising 3,100 homes. The brief: to introduce flats with seamless access to greenery, waterscapes and surrounding facilities, and promote closer ties, all on a tight budget. While the HDB was tight-lipped about the construction budget it gave the architects to work with, SCDA’s design principal Chan Soo Khian estimated that he had to design flats that could be built with roughly half of what it would cost to put up luxury condos fully fitted with items like wardrobes and cabinets. Most HDB flats do not come with fittings. The HDB said it will work closely with the private architects to develop a cost-effective design. Each firm had its own ideas: Surbana extended a future linear park into a winding landscaped path around the blocks; SCDA gave the bigger flats enough vertical space for lofts; and Woha envisioned a block facade reflecting individual home owners’ tastes. Said Mr Chan: ‘Doing a public-housing project means you have to work within tighter constraints. It means, in a modern way, your design is purer. ‘You don’t depend on embellishments to make it a good project. You’re not worried about the inside, what kind of fitting is going where. In some (private) projects, you spend so much time just worrying about the kitchens and fittings.’ But certain private-housing elements are likely to pop up in the Dawson projects. Woha, which recently won a prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture for its private project 1 Moulmein Rise, wants to offer the monsoon window it introduced there as one of the options for Dawson home buyers. This contraption is a bay window with a horizontal opening that lets the breeze in but keeps out the rain. Woha’s founding director Richard Hassell said: ‘It’s not going to be expensive housing, just smarter in design.’ Work on the first of these Dawson flats is expected to begin in the next three to four years. The upcoming estates will give new families a higher chance of living near the city centre, said head of HDB’s urban design unit Kathleen Goh. Currently, new flats near the central areas tend to be built only when existing residents in the vicinity are being resettled, leaving a limited number for newcomers. The upcoming 3,100 homes in Dawson are likely to be fully available to new families. Ms Goh revealed that families buying separate homes in the same housing estate would be able to buy adjoining units. These units could also be combined sideways or even vertically to encourage different generations to live together. Their layouts will be flexible so that families can make adjustments if their needs change. So far, the exhibition has drawn 62,000 visitors. One of them is architect Khoo Peng Beng, who designed the first 50-storey public-housing blocks here, now under construction in Tanjong Pagar. Back in 2002, when his firm ARC Studio Architecture + Urbanism proposed having high-rise gardens and sky bridges link seven towers for the international design competition for that project, such ideas were still relatively novel. He said: ‘HDB has come a long way. For a long time, the evolution of HDB design was very functional. This time, I think there is a more emotional and integrated approach to how we look at public housing.’ If the Dawson proposals are well-received, the HDB will consider inviting private architects again to conceptualise future public-housing projects. Source: The Straits Times 29 Sept 07

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base on what I had read somewhere in the forum. As long as the valuation report is not expire when the resale application was submit. You are free to use any valuation report regardless is #1 or #10

impossible. If HDB can, pls let me know. I also want subsidised rate

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This one I know. I also bought a Ellane Hob 3 burner. Last Sat, just call their service guy come to service. Due to the same reason as yours. Then they explain for the bigger burner. if you had a pot on top on it. The flame will be working fine. I can't remember the exact word use by them. But base on the services guy feedback, I'm not the one that face this. He say don't worry, nothing wrong on the burner. Just one of their design. Just put a pot or wok or sth on top of the burner. The flame will be working well. U go and try I'm also using cylinder. My model is 748L. What's urs?

hmm.. few yrs back, when i do capital repayment. Bank required a letter from us, sign and indicate the amount and when is the date. For revise mthly installment amount, I do online at CPF web. No need to inform Bank. Bank don't care is $1 + $999 or $500 + $500 As long as Bank receive $1k , can liao