Having ur own garage
* What so great? Only 1 car park space. Condos can park a few cars (as long as you choose those with many more car park lots than units).
+ zero monthly maintenance
* A fallacy. Wait till a few years later and all maintenance and repairs have to be forked out by the ONE & ONLY YOU!
+ privacy
* How to have privacy when people walking outside (or trains on high tracks or cars on flyovers or the condos in front and behind your landed) can peek into your house? (Compare with condos on high floors nobody can peek in outside the door) (Condo owners can also donate their unwanted items by throwing into the landed compound - May be this is the only advantage of landed for getting free donated goods and don't have to personally transport home some more?
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+ no stupid Mgmt Committee rules and regulations
* Yah, no rules, then you get people like Mr Chan from Everitt Road who don't like to follow rules (lucky! These people sure won't live in condos).
+ no need to share facilities with others
* Ha ha ha! More like no facilities to use how to share?
+ bigger living space already justify why landed living is better.
* Bigger space? Condos also have very big space penthouse, even bigger than most of those landed terrace and semi-Ds.
Foreigners cannot buy them but can rent them. My expat friend just rented one for $8K per mth.
* Foreigners cannot buy? Oh yah, please read between the lines - it means: "Your landed properties sure have limited appreciation in price!" (because how many Singaporeans can afford expensive private properties?). $8k pm rental for 4000 sqft or more built-up space? Pathetic gross yield of 2% only?