Sunday 13 November 2011

House Hunting Saga - part1

Hello, my friends, time flies, and we need to start looking for a permanent place now. Treetops Serviced Residences are superb, and I am very happy with everything here. Still, it's more like a hotel and it's time to look for an apartment where we can stay for a few years. We have already been to 3 inspections and I have a fair idea about rental market in Singapore. Well, if you want something nice, new and central, it's ridiculuously expensive, I mean, really exxy!!!
To illustrate what I mean, I will post 3 pictures of bathrooms.
The first one, it's a government-owned building, quite cheap, but you can decide yourself if you want to have a shower in a bathroom like that. Location is very remote, too!


Well, there are middle range options which look decent. Something like this:



And there is pure luxury. Don't even ask me how much, the prices start from 15-20 thousand dollars a month!!!



Anyway, our house hunting continues! It's very hard and exhausting, and the prices are higher than we expected! Wish me luck, I am off for another inspection now! I will tell you more about rental property in Singapore in my next post! xx
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4 comments:

  1. Scarlet13 November 2011 at 21:22

    Yeah Luxury everywhere is expensive,but i think you should still stick to something nice just because you will be most of the time home with Sophie and a nice environment it's very important.
    Let us know how you go,hopefully you can find luxury with middle range price :-)

    Good luck

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  2. Julia14 November 2011 at 02:17

    Yeh, Asia is getting more and more material, luxurious and stinky rich. Singapore is one of the leading countries among this group. Good luck, my friend, with your search! I hope you'll find something you like.
    Nat, how about the attractions in this place exept shopping moles and resturants? How is the sea and beaches? I suspect in this sence it should be alright considering that it is primarily a financial centre with no pollution and much of traffic?

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  3. Natasha14 November 2011 at 05:44

    Julia, I haven't really seen most of attractions still ( as you know, Sophie is not the best companion for sightseeing and travelling) I can say that it's very clean and safe, traffic busy but mostly only in peak hours, public transport is apparently very good though I prefer to use cabs - they are cheap here. Are you still thinking of coming in Jan?

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  4. Olya19 November 2011 at 13:44

    Looks great! I want the last one please:) !
    How you going now with the finding the place? Any luck? xx

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