Cluster Homes: Getting More Beloved And Favored
Strata landed housing also known as cluster housing is picking up prominence and popularity among the multi-generation families with young children and elders. They enjoy best of both worlds; landed and condo type living. Strata titles meant sharing and owning communal facilities and landscape.
Huge Increase In Transactions in 2018 over 2014
The increase in transaction for strata landed in 2018 is 181% over 2014. In 2018, the number of units sold was 413 units despite the introduction of Total Debt Servicing Ratio (TDSR) in 2013. The effect of TDSR is making property investing harder and buyers cannot borrow as much and is harder to stretch the loan tenure.
Landed Property Situation in Singapore
Most Singaporean has this dream of a landed property as their dream homes. The appeal is set to grown despite the limited supply. As of 2018, there are 67,900 landed properties in Singapore which is around 5% of the total households, according to the Department of Statistics Singapore. Looking at a ten year period, the number of landed properties has only increase by 8.6%, whereas the non landed properties in 2018 grew 71.3% over 2008.
Landed Property Perception
Landed homes are perceived to be the most resilient type of dwellings and with the lack of supply, in land scare Singapore. The older owners have found it more difficult to maintain and some seem to have new preference for condominium developments. This provided the younger generations who have been aspiring to have a landed property as their own slight more opportunities.
Comfortable Price Range
Non-landed homes at the price range of S$1 million to S$2 million seems to be the most favourable for most buyers. However, for landed, it is for those in the range of S$2 million to S$3.5 million. Due to the shortage of available landed properties for sale, the gap between freehold and 99 year leasehold is getting narrow.
Types of Buyers
Accordingly, Strata Landed houses will stay appealing to purchasers with better financial capacity who are likely Condo upgrader and those who succeeded in en bloc sales. There is also another group of HDB graders seeking a faster upgrade at more reasonable price than land titled houses. There is also another group who were landed property owners looking for a more convenient type of landed property.
Astute buyers would also expect strata landed properties to hold their value better than Condo or Apartment in the long haul or not so favourable conditions.
Limited In Supply
In 2014, there was no new cluster housing developments. From 2015 to 2017, there were only 107 units. From 2018 to 2019, 231 units are in the in pipeline from a total of 4 projects. 2 of the projects are at the edge of Singapore.
To matter worse, URA gave a new development guideline for Strata Landed developers to allocate at least 45% o the land area for communal open space, instead of the previous 30%. This will likely affect developers’ profit margin, discouraging them to build more cluster homes. Prices of Strata Landed Homes will also likely be higher.
Exclusiveness
With continual low supply of cluster housing developments, such properties will preserve their value and living in Cluster Homes will get more exclusive. As a result, demand is projected to increase. Experts have also predicted prices to increase by 3 to 5 per cent in 2018/2019.
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