Once I have listed out all my requirements, and once I know what I should look for, for the new house .... me and my wife started to look for new housing advertisement either in the newspaper or browsing in the internet or asking around friends and relatives.
For your information, we were renting a flat in Bayan Baru, Penang, during the course of finding our dream house. I'm working in Bayan Lepas while my wife is working in Georgetown. Hence, we are looking for the location that is not far away from our work places. The places that we had in mind that we planned to look for the house were Bayan Baru itself, Batu Maung, Sungai Tiram, Gelugor, Balik Pulau, Sungai Ara. For those who lives in Penang will know these places. For the rest, all of these places are on the Penang Island. And since me and my wife are working on the island, we would like to start to find a house on the island first, so that we don't have to travel back and forth on the Penang bridge.
Bayan Baru:
There are several areas in Bayan Baru that we went to take a tour to find house for sale. We are actually looking for a landed house. In Bayan baru, there are no new landed housing development, hence we just look around fora second hand house. As Penangites knows, the house price on the island is absolutely absurd, which means too expensive.
Imagine this. For a single storey terrace house, freehold, approximately 1400-1500 squarefeet, the price is around RM430,000 to RM460,000. For a single storey terrace house, leasehold, approximately 1400-1500 squarefeet, the price is around RM300,000 to RM 330,000.
Double storeys terrace house, freehold, with approximately 1400-1600 squarefeet, the price tag is around RM520,000 to RM650,000. While double storeys terrace, leasehold with the same specifications is around RM400,000 to RM450,000.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment