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Taking the driver’s seat in a condo

Tan Hui Yee examines the conundrum of condo maintenance.


SUPPOSE you buy a luxury car one day, which comes with a one-year warranty and a paid chauffeur for that period.

There’s not much to complain about, as you zip around town in the cool comfort of the passenger seat.

After one year, when you finally get the keys, you realise something is wrong. The brakes are not working, the acceleration is not so smooth.

You head back to the car distributor, but he says: ‘Sorry, your warranty period is over.’

Condominium owners are faced with this conundrum when they move into their new home.


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Singapore property: Did you know?

Number of condos and private apartments

1999: 118,575

2004: 148,265

2009 (1st quarter): 174,243

Number of strata-titled (or multi-unit) residential developments

About 1,900. Most of them are apartments and condominiums.

The oldest strata-titled homes

Beng Tong Mansion, at 241-259 Tanjong Katong Road. Built in the late 1960s, this three-storey mixed development has shops on the ground floor.

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