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Apartments
31 Mar 2012
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YOU WANT to rent or buy Singapore homes? Email details of your
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judy@asiahomes.com or Tel: +65 9668 6468, 6254 3326, 9668 6469;
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The Bayron
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Completed:
Around 1998. Freehold units. Has a modern facade
of high windows and steel. Tenants are
mainly singles or couples without children.
Facilities:
Swimming pool with jacuzzi, wading
pool, good-sized gym, playground, steam room,
BBQ pits, big pool side lounge for private
function, one meeting room in the St Thomas
building (15 storey block).

24-hour security and covered car parking.
Advantages:
1. Has modern bathrooms and
kitchens.
2. Great location in the centre of action
in Orchard Road.
3. Near subway. Two-minute walk via
the 13 Devonshire Road entrance to the Somerset
subway means that you don't have to wake up so
early to go to work. You don't need to drive
after a few drinks as your residence is really
close to the subway.
4. Convenient. Many taxis and buses
around this Orchard Road location. The Orchard
shopping malls are just a 5-minute walk away and
you can shop till you drop.
5. Life is great for the single
expatriate if he or she lives downtown.
Just stroll down to meet the singles at discos
and pubs.
6. Unique features: Floor-to-ceiling
glass windows make the rooms bright and bigger.
Metallic external structures & full length
windows always look "cool" and modern
to younger Caucasian expatriates. |
Comments:
The
open concept kitchen means that the kitchen
receives air conditioning. However, Asians who
fry food may not like this layout.
No balconies EXCEPT for one unit with a
large balcony.
Some older Caucasians do not like the
"hotel-like" appearance, the high
density feeling, small swimming pool and the
lack of tennis courts.
Others love it for its great location, high
glass windows presenting a
"modern" facade and plenty of natural
daylight.
Open concept kitchen makes the
apartment look bigger.

Larger 3-bedroom of 1851 sq. ft with open
concept kitchen looks spacious.
No large garden spaces for children to run
about.
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Small 2-bedroom units of less than 800 sq. ft,
the washer cum dryer will have to be in the
kitchen.

Mainly city views.
3-bedroom.
Some Landlords include air conditioning
maintenance in the rent. |
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The Bayron
1-bedroom |
The Bayron
2-bedroom |
The Bayron
3-bedroom |
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The
Bayron.
FOR SALE TO FOREIGN
INVESTORS IN 1999.
Soft-launch of Bayron freehold condo today.
(Straits Times, Singapore 15 December 1999).
The Bayron, a freehold condominium in the
Orchard Road area, will be soft launched
today.
Some 33 units out of a total of 96 units will be
offered at an average selling price of about
$1,160 per sq. ft. The 15-storey development,
completed early this year, is by Bayron Albert,
a member of the Chee Swee Cheng Group.
Located along Devonshire Road and St Thomas
Walk, it comprises one-, two- and three-bedroom
apartments ranging from 615 sq ft to 1,850 sq
ft. Only the two- and three-bedroom units will
be offered during the soft launch.
The developer will be holding on to the
remaining 63 units as a long-term investment.
Facilities include a swimming pool with jacuzzi
jets, a children's wading pool and playground,
barbecue pits, a gym, steam rooms and
air-conditioned poolside and residents'
lounges. |
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49
St Thomas Walk. Car
Park Entrance
from St Thomas Walk |
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Apartment
Type |
Floor
area (sq. ft) |
Rents* |
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2-bedroom |
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2 |
872-926 |
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11 |
1335 |
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11B |
1173 |
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3-bedroom |
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3 |
1302 |
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4A |
1485 |
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4B
includes
balcony 613sq. ft. |
1851 |
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4C |
1238 |
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9B |
1910 |
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10B |
1841 |
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10D |
1701 |
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2-min walk to Somerset subway. 15-storey building |
13
Devonshire Road. Car
Park Entrance
from Devonshire Road |
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1-bedroom |
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7
units. |
614 |
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2-bedroom |
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5 |
818 |
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5A |
915 |
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6 |
764 |
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8 |
990 |
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8A |
1012 |
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*Monthly
rent ($) IN 2012. E-mail
judy@asiahomes.com or tel +65 9668-6468 for
updates |
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Case study
written in 1999:
TIPS FOR FIRST-TIME LANDLORDS
What makes one
corporate Landlord more successful than others?
The
Bayron management is a forward looking one as it does takes short leases
of minimum of 3 months as well as long leases so as to maximise rental
income. (In 2002, The Bayron does not rent short term as demand is
greater than supply)
Prompt payment of commission.
The rental realtors are welcome and paid promptly within a 7 days.
Realtors earn their living on commissions and therefore they tend to
remember kinder Landlords who pay without procrastination.
There is no hassle chasing for money. Some corporate landlordd (infamous
amongst rental realtors who prefer not to do business with him) take
more than 4 months to pay the agents' commission.
Rental Services.
Responses to view apartments and after rental services and from the
management are excellent. With prompt payment of agency commissions, all
rental realtors in Singapore have The Bayron in their minds and it is no
wonder that the apartments are almost 99% full at any one time in 2000,
better than most hotels in the same location. The Bayron is around
one year old.
With its great location, the management could just demand long leases
and no further discussion. However, it knows the competitive market and
new condos are being completed all the time.
If you can get almost 100% occupancy as a corporate landlord and all
rental realtors to recommend your investment condos, you are doing
something right and successful.
As units have had been sold to individuals, there is now private
individuals competing against an efficient marketing machine of the
corporate Landlord and it is likely that the latter will win, hands down
if the factors for success are still retained.
Be realistic, know what your competitors are renting and be flexible.
Private individual landlords may have to re-think their investment
strategy if they want maximal income. It may be troublesome to
attend to short leases, to provide furniture and to get lower rentals
and some Owners are prepared to wait for the correct rental.
The waiting period can be as long as six - twelve months of vacancy and
the realtor marketing for the Owner gets fatigued by the unrealistic
asking rental, no matter how positive thinking he or she is.
Realtors here don't get paid if they don't close and therefore, the
Owner cannot expect full hearted marketing of his investment
property. The Owner will be the first to be worn out after 10
viewings!
Success is achieved by being a flexible Landlord in a competitive
market as many more new condos are released by the developers in 2003.
Early occupancy and a higher number of months you rent are sound
investment decisions. If you wait for your higher rental target,
please be sure that your unit is unique.
It may be very well and tastefully renovated to the Caucasian's pastel
favoured eyes and this include light brown wooden flooring, quality
wooden cabinets and bright kitchens and new baths, no gaudy colours
lighting and furniture. You may justify a higher rental and with time of
3 - 6 months, you may get one tenant. If it is just one of the common
units, do be flexible and rent fast.
As at 1 Dec 2002, the Bayron is around 90% full occupancy and therefore
the Landlord need not offer 3-monthly leases which can be quite
troublesome administratively!
Asiahomes' Tips for first-time Landlords
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Singapore
Festival - Hungry Ghost Festival
The photo of candles and ashes look sinister unless you have a
similar custom in the USA or Europe. Expatriates may see the
Chinese burning "money" notes or papers, joss sticks,
candles and offering food and fruits on an altar or on the
pavement, in the August-September period.
This will be the Hungry Ghosts Festival. On a visit on September
9, 1999, the older estates like Toa Payoh will be full of smoke,
unlike the newer ones in Bishan or where you live.
For generations, the Chinese-educated has inherited the belief
that they should offer food and other things to appease the ghosts
of those who died a traumatic death or without families.
The bureaucrats have had been trying hard to encourage the burning
of "money notes" in a common container so as to avoid
littering. There are hefty fines for littering the public areas,
yet the practice still goes on.
In the heartland where there are many Chinese-educated Chinese, it
is politically dangerous to be issuing summons for littering as
politicians could lose a seat during a re-election.
Prohibition of communication with apparitions or spirits is an
emotional issue for the Chinese-educated but it is not only one
issue to lose an election ward!
The older generation will celebrate this Festival but I expect
that 20 years from now, the practice will be extinct as the
younger generation embraces Western cultures and computers. You
will then not experience the haze and smoke pollution from the
burning ashes in newer housing estates (the Housing &
Development Board apartments) like Bishan. Private houses may have
their own containers for their burning of the material offering to
the spiritual world of the departed.
Asiahomes Internet hopes you will have a good stay in modern
Singapore, enjoying the cultural practices of the
various races.
In conclusion, the above photographs represent a very small
percentage of the several thousand listings Asia USA Realty has.
They are put up for the benefit of expatriates looking to relocate
to Singapore, negotiating for housing allowance.
Please contact judy@asiahomes.com
for any property you wish to inspect.
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