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Private condominiums
and apartments, where residents share the common compound and facilities.
They come in various sizes, ranging from low-rise blocks to extensive
high-rise developments. Unlike apartments, condos are more luxurious
and come with good-quality finishes, luscious landscaping, basement
car park and full recreational facilities such as clubhouse, children's
playground, gymnasium, swimming pool, squash, tennis courts, and
sometimes even a putting green. Most developments have 24-hour security
surveillance, intercom systems and sometimes even home automation
systems. The units range from studio, 1, 2, 3 and 4-bedroom units,
penthouses. They start from as small as 500 square feet to as large
as 8,000 square feet. Condominiums are a very popular form of accommodation
for many expatriates who can choose from cosy studio apartments
to spacious penthouses.
Condo
- Condominiums. Apartment with facilities.
Duplex - Apartment divided into two living residences, having
separate entrances.
HiRise - High rise Apartment. Usually with no facilities.
LoRise - Low rise Apartment. Usually with no facilities.
Mansionette - Apartment with two levels, double storey.
Penthse - Penthouse. Biggest unit in a condo or apartment
block. Usually on top floor and two levels.
TownHse - Townhouse. Landed house that shares the same compound
or facilities (if any).
WalkUp - Walkup Apartment. Low rise apartment without a lift,
have to walk up using the stairs.
Landed properties
are houses with gardens. Conventional landed housed comprises of
bungalows (a freestanding house), semi-detached (a pair of houses)
and terrace units (a row of houses), all of which come with private
garden compounds or garage.
Bungalow
- Bungalows enjoy the luxury of being an independent building on
a plot of land that runs round it and have the most privacy. It
is a free standing house with no shared wall with others except
the fence.
Semi Detached - Semi-detached houses are a pair of houses
that share one common wall. Two houses joint side by side.
Terrace - Terrace units are a row of houses that have common
walls with those in the middle known as intermediate terraces, and
those at the end known as corner terraces.
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