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  1. Jman888

    Bra house

    in the name of health awareness this place allow you to anyhow touch
  2. care to share how much did you guys spend on furniture and renovation when u guys got your new house? any tips on renovation or purchasing the furniture? will be getting a 4room HDB in 3years time, was thinking how much to keep aside for when the new house is ready.
  3. Hi guys, Any advice on this? i.e. employing the services of a temple medium, etc., thanks
  4. Michael Jordan has lowered the price on his art deco mansion to $16 million, nearly two years after first trying to sell it for nearly twice that amount. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lf_w0olusA The house is on seven-plus acres in Highland Park, Ill., about 25 miles north of Chicago. The former NBA star first put it on the market in March 2012 for $29 million. The price was cut to $21 million nearly a year ago and then failed to sell at auction last month, when nobody made even the $13 million minimum bid. The house was built in 1995 and has nine bedrooms, 15 baths, a cigar room, and a garage big enough to hold 14 cars. There's a huge home gym. Katherine Malkin, the listing agent, said the most awesome home feature is the regulation sized basketball court. "There's nobody -- man, woman or child -- who walks on the court who is not stunned by it," she said. "The lighting, the floor, everything is so beautiful." With the court and finished lower level of the house included, the compound totals about 56,000 square feet. Outdoors is a chipping range and putting green, tennis courts, a lily pond and a huge flagstone patio. The front entrance gate sports a giant number 23 -- not for the address but, of course, for Jordan's former number. http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/03/real_estate/jordans-house/ ------------- 56,000 square feet stared bid at $13mil, and nobody bought... In Singapore, u prolly get a 1000sqft apartment in Sentosa.
  5. Hi Guys Just wondering whether do all of you get an agent to sell your house? Anyone try to sell directly? Any experience to share?
  6. Royal Sporting House The epitome of “sports as lifestyle” , Royal Sporting House and Stadium encapsulate the crossover of sports into the realm of fashion and lifestyle . First established in 1977 as an independent retail store, Royal Sporting House has since grown into a multi-brand, multi-store network that offers a wide selection of apparel, footwear, accessories and equipment from international sports brands like Reebok, Speedo, Nautica, Sperry Top-Sider and Wilson. Providing an enjoyable shopping experience for the sports enthusiast, our strong presence in Singapore is a result of our commitment to building trust and long-term relationships with our customers and partners. The epitome of “sports as lifestyle”, Royal Sporting House and Stadium encapsulate the crossover of sports into the realm of fashion and lifestyle. Tampines Mall, 4 Tampines Central 5, #02-17 Phone: 6781 8702 Website: http://royalsportinghouse.com/
  7. Visit us at: www.facebook.com/maomaopethouse www.maomaopethouse.com/
  8. Hi friends here, I am about to renovate a resale house. Although I am a Chinese and Buddhist, but I am not those super superstitious type who will spent many thousands to engaged a Feng Shui master Any friends here can share some basic tips whereas the folks are following like for example, roll an Pineapple in the house, place coins under the floor tiles etc............. Appreciate!
  9. http://business.asiaone.com/news/my-house-jb-belongs-other-people SINGAPORE - Mr Mohammed Dawood Mohamed Jamaludin did not think twice when he was offered an opportunity to buy a house on freehold land which costs just RM208,000 ($81,890) in Taman Bukit Kempas, Johor Bahru. After receiving a windfall from the sale of his 3-room flat in Boon Lay in 1994, he agreed to buy the JB house and was ushered to meet a member of the staff from MBF bank to arrange a loan. As the house was designated a "Bumi Lot," the staff advised him to use the name of an unknown Malaysia woman, Ms Noraulhuda Zainal, as the buyer to ensure he gets a loan. "I paid a deposit of RM20,000 and agreed to pay RM1,800 in monthly installments afterwards. "The bank staff said, after five years, the name of the owner would be changed to mine," said Mr Dawood, 68, a father of two and grandfather of two, recalling the buying process in 1994. He worked as a cleaner and lived in the house for five years. He spent $30,000 in renovations for the two-storey house with four rooms. "Every weekend, I will come back to Kempas with my wife and sometimes my kids. I loved the house as it had a garden where I could grow various plants. "I paid the RM1,800 installments every month, but had a few difficulties paying for a few months, said Mr Dawood. He claimed to have paid more than RM160,000 in deposit and monthly installments over five years. But the joy of living in his own home changed when Ms Noraulhuda kept pressuring him to vacate the home as "someone wanted to rent" and the rental income can be used to lighten the burden of paying the monthly installments. "I remembered agreeing as it would make it easier for me to meet the monthly installments," he added when Berita Harian met him in his Jurong West home. After a few months, Mr Dawood had a big shock as Ms Noraulhuda, without consulting him, told him that the house had been sold. "Two weeks later, I visited my home in JB but found that I couldn't even enter as the padlocks had been changed." "Then, someone came out of the house and told me to go, saying that I have nothing more to do with this house," said Mr Dawood, recalling the incident in 2001. Unhappy with this treatment, he tried to contact Ms Noraulhuda but failed. He also tried to meet the bank staff that had processed his loan application, but the bank itself was closed. After realising that he had been cheated, Mr Dawood tried to engage several lawyers to settle his matter but it was all in vain. Then, the house was sold by the bank as the new owners of the house failed to pay their monthly installments. Again, the house changed hands, making the situation even more complicated. "I have engaged five different lawyers but all of them said there was nothing they can do. Some asked for payment without doing anything for my case. When I called them, they said they were overseas or were in a meeting. "One lawyer only met me for five minutes in a coffeeshop," said Mr Dawood, who paid $18,000 to the five lawyers. He has made four police reports in Johor Bahru, but the police advised him to take legal action against Ms Noraulhuda through his own lawyers. Three weeks ago, a lawyer told him he can own the house again, providing he pays RM400,000. "This matter caused a huge headache. The previous case was not even settled, but now the lawyer told me to buy back my own house?" said Mr Dawood, irritated that he once decided to use another person's name to buy the house. "I've realised my own mistake. If they can swap it with a 'non-Bumi' lot with the price of RM300,000 maybe I will buy as I really like the house." 'Nothing much he can do': Lawyer There isn't much Mr Mohamed Dawood Mohamed Jamaludin can do to claim ownership to the semi-detached house in Taman Bukit Kempas that was bought under a Malaysian woman's name nearly 20 years ago. The fundamental problem lies in the fact that the house sits on a designated bumiputera lot. This means the house can only be bought by or transferred to a Malaysian who is of ethnic Malay origin. To complicate matters, the RM208,000 (S$81,567) house was bought under a personal agreement, and the property has changed hands three times. Mr Pusphalatha Naidu, from solicitors and lawyers Puspha Naidu in JB, confirmed this when Berita Harian approached him to comment on Mr Dawood's chances of regaining ownership of the home which he bought using a Malaysian woman's name in 1994. The housing loan amounting to RM194,000 was under the name of a woman, Ms Noraulhuda Zainal, but the monthly installments of RM1,800 were paid by Mr Dawood. Mr Dawood stopped paying the monthly installments after five years as the house was sold to someone else by that time. "He doesn't have a straightforward case as the 'Bumi lot' house was bought under the name of a Malaysian woman. This is the pursuant's fault. "No lawyer will take up the case as the ownership of the house is difficult to prove. The other problem is the fact that the house is a designated 'Bumi lot' and cannot be bought or transferred to a foreigner. "We also found that the house changed hands several times, and that the bank auctioned the house as the second owner could not meet the monthly installments. "It has been bought by someone else. The case will get more complicated every day, if he wants to pursue," added Mr Puspha Naidu, one of the five lawyers Mr Dawood engaged for his case. According to Mr Puspha, all the lawyers, including himself, cannot help as the Malaysian property laws clearly state that foreigners cannot own houses that are designated for bumiputeras. According to The Straits Times report on Sept 25, 2013, the bumiputeras, mostly ethnic Malays and indigenous tribes of Sabah and Sarawak, form almost 68 per cent of the population. "This is complicated even more by the new regulations recently passed by the Malaysian government that foreigners can only buy houses costing RM500,000 and upwards. "This is the current law. If the house owners want to sell the house to a foreigner with the price of RM500,000, would Mr Dawood be willing to buy the house?" asked Mr Puspha, while stating that this case could be a lesson for foreigners when buying property in Malaysia. According to Mr Puspha, Mr Dawood has tried to claim the RM165,000 he allegedly paid to MBF bank as monthly installments and deposits for the house.
  10. those familiar with JB, heard these from a Malaysian
  11. so any mega corporations with enough money can abuse social media too. http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/technology/story/political-messaging-wars-white-house-deploys-twitter-army-20131104 In political messaging wars, White House deploys a Twitter army WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - Besieged by unflattering stories about the launch of President Barack Obama's healthcare programme, the White House saw a news report that it wanted to swiftly knock down. It was from NBC, which said that Obama had overpromised when he said Americans who liked their insurance could keep it, and that the president knew that many people would see their coverage change. White House officials quickly began firing off a barrage of tweets on Twitter, which has become one of the administration's most potent and relied-upon weapons in trying to shape public opinion and media reports. Josh Earnest, the principal deputy press secretary to Obama, began the assault with a series of tweets that said the healthcare law did protect Americans against changes in their coverage - unless insurers altered such coverage.
  12. Tianmo

    House in JB

    Anyone here bought or thinking of buying a house in JB?
  13. Personally I think this writer is a bit daft. Maybe he is very rich or still studying
  14. Can anybody recommend me a house painter? A friend's place needs to paint up his place urgently... Also needto fixup cracked ceiling.... kamsiah
  15. OK, i think they are the happiest country in the world as they have no internet [laugh]
  16. Hello Throttle2 Published June 11, 2013 Buying a house? Only cash will do The US housing market is hotting up so fast that the only way for a buyer to land a deal is to go all-cash and be ready within hours [LOS ANGELES] BIDDING wars sound almost quaint. These days, the only way for would-be buyers to secure a home, it often seems, is to offer all cash and be ready to do so within hours, not days. The bursting of last decade's housing bubble feels like ancient history here, where first-time homebuyers are competing with investors to get into single-family homes with prices approaching US$1 million. "It's everyone from a kid out of law school to an investor from China, walking around with thousands to spend," said Kameron Eliassian, a Los Angeles real estate agent. "I don't know where it's coming from, and I don't care. Just show me proof that it's there, and we're good." After saving money for years, waiting for the residential real estate market to hit bottom, buyers all over the country appear eager to get back in, lured by low interest rates and the prospect of a good deal. But with the number of homes for sale at historically low levels and large investors purchasing thousands of properties, buyers are facing a radically changed market and prices are quickly rising. The percentage of homes bought with cash has shot up in many markets across the nation. Nearly a third of all homes purchased in Los Angeles during the first quarter of this year went for all cash, compared with just 7 per cent in 2007. In Miami, 65 per cent of homes sold were for cash deals, compared with 16 per cent six years ago. The prices on all-cash deals are also rising significantly. In Los Angeles, the median price on an all-cash home this year is about US$351,000, compared with US$230,000 in 2009. Over the same period, the median price overall increased to US$410,000, up US$85,000. In fact, last month, home prices in Southern California hit their highest level in the last five years. All-cash buyers, typically investors eager to renovate and quickly resell or rent out homes, are making it more difficult for first-time buyers, who typically rely on mortgage loans that can take weeks or months to materialise. More California homes have been flipped in the last year than in any year since 2005. And while Los Angeles may be a centre of the frenzy, it is not an anomaly. Buyers in Boston are offering US$100,000 more than the asking price or placing offers on homes they have spent only minutes in. In San Francisco, Miami and Phoenix, sellers are looking at dozens of offers within days of putting their home on the market, often accompanied by letters from would-be buyers professing their love for the property. New York City has seen similar drops in inventory, and prices have been rising steadily since 2009. Buyers there are similarly racing to scoop up property. Shortly after Andres Alvarez, 36, got married last fall, he began to look for a home with his wife, figuring that their steady jobs, savings and good credit would make them the perfect buyers in Los Angeles. They were ready to spend US$700,000. Their optimism deflated quickly. "We thought we were the cream of the crop, but anything that was in our price range and move-in ready, there was this insane competition," Mr Alvarez said. They put in nearly a dozen bids, often losing to cash buyers, before finding a two-bedroom home for US$650,000. "It might be a great time to buy, but it's a horrible time to be a buyer," he said. Still, there are plenty of sceptics wondering how long the sharp price increases can last. "People are realising we've probably hit bottom, but the kinds of spikes we're seeing in places like California seems like history is repeating itself," said Daren Blomquist of RealtyTrac, which monitors residential sales. "That's not sustainable for the long term, at least not for the regular homebuyer, so I think there are some warning flags there." Lewis Legon, a developer in Salem, Massachusetts, jumped into the Boston market after he saw how many people were showing up at open houses. "It was like Times Square," he said of one open house, at a property listed for US$1.5 million. He beat out two dozen other bidders by offering US$1.8 million in cash, not the first time he had made an all-cash offer. "The first time I was ready to have a heart attack," he said of all-cash buy. "But it makes you a more attractive buyer and helps you stand out." He also waived the inspection clause, an increasingly common practice. While offers have typically included appraisal clauses, allowing buyers to back out if the home was valued below what they were willing to pay, offers today are more likely to include escalation clauses, saying buyers will pay an additional amount over the highest bid. "Buyers are taking a lot more risks than they ever would before," said Dana DeSimone, a Boston real estate agent who called the current market an "insane asylum". "I don't know that I've ever heard of waiving the inspection contingency on a 150-year-old brownstone until now." Now, agents say their biggest challenge is potential sellers who are wary of putting their home on the market because they fear they cannot find a place to buy. Jeff and Lorena Leininger considered moving from their suburban Los Angeles home over the last several years, but they feared they would not get as much as they paid for it. But this year, with their youngest child getting ready for kindergarten, they decided it was time. Three days after showing the home, they had nine offers. "It felt as crazy as it was back when we bought 10 years ago," Jeff Leininger said. "But it was much worse on the other side. We would show up to an open house, and it was already sold. The clear message was: Be ready to move fast or just get left out." Even in Florida, where the market was once swamped with foreclosures, there are signs of the latest boom, with cash purchases fuelled in part by international investors and retirees awash in cash after selling their homes elsewhere. Don Faught, a manager with Alain Pinel Realtors near San Francisco, said the current market is turning buyers to desperation, particularly because the turnaround has come so quickly. "A year ago, people didn't want a deal, they wanted a steal," he said. "Sellers were listing homes for less than what they originally paid for them and offering all these concessions. Now, the only concessions are coming from the buyers." - NYT
  17. I cannot seem to find the entrance to the carpark of Chevron House? Could anyone advise me which road it is on? I been circling around Collyer Quay and Battery Road. It had the cheapest parking in that area of $2.50 per 30 minutes :)
  18. http://business.asiaone.com/news/property/...elow-valuation/ fengshui seems damm bad though
  19. it was ferrari the week before, and this week is lamborghini's turn. share some pics with you guys. enjoy for more pics can refer to http://sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=298092
  20. I am having a gathering with some friends at my house About 8 to 10 of us. What kind of food do you usually get? The last few times i hosted dinner, it was always pizza, steamboat, finger food, KFC etc... No point catering also coz its less than 10 people.
  21. Assuming u are currently staying at Jurong and you office is in CBD area. your jurong is a 4 room flat. would u downgrade to a 3 room at tiong bahru/toa payoh area(paying more coz of location)
  22. hey guys. i planning to move into my new place soon. need to apply for broadband. any recommendations on which isp to go to? usually use for gaming (ps3) and watching streaming movies etc. looking between http://www.starhub.com/cny.html http://www.m1.com.sg/cny/index.html?festive=01 had bad experience with mio tv so singtel out.... besides their prices sibei uncompetitive. thanks in advance...
  23. http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sg...#commentSection
  24. i wanted to double check with you bros if the outsourced HDB carpark . especially those with electronic signboard will 1) allow you entry even when full house? 2) allow entry and will display/notify you to exit carpark within 10 mins etc.. Kena a parking ticket at the NEX bus interchange HDB carpark.. Carpark FULL house.. still able to admit entry.. i dont recall there was any notification to exit by xx mins since FULL.. PArk at the yellow lines since so many cars all do the same... came back after dinner... the whole stretch of cars all kena !!!! WOW sia, extra income for HDB.. since i am paying for the carpark fee still kena summon.. si bei suay leh.. unless i didnt pay parking then i would lan lan pay for the summon..
  25. Donut

    QB House

    Just had a hair cut today Was informed that from 15th Dec, price increased to $12.... Damm upset
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