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    Big houses can accommodate more tenants

    JUN 13, 2017


    The Urban Redevelopment Authority has reduced the cap on unrelated occupiers in a private rental property from eight to six (New cap on tenants for private homes; May 13).

    In contrast, the HDB allows six and nine occupants in three- and four-room flats respectively.

    This rule could see large landed houses half empty while smaller flats are packed full.

    Just imagine, 240 sq m over four three-room flats can accommodate a total of 24 tenants, but a private apartment of that size is allowed to house only six tenants.

    It is promoting overcrowding in small units and forcing the under-utilisation of big properties.

    The URA said it "simplified the control for greater clarity to the public by not adopting a stratified occupancy cap control based on unit sizes".

    However, imposing a minimum living area per occupant, instead of using a random cap per unit, is feasible, as the URA has records of strata areas. For landed properties, plot ratio multiplied by land area can be applied easily.

    Houses of 200 sq m to 400 sq m (four to six bedrooms) can comfortably accommodate eight to 10 occupants, allowing 20 sq m to 50 sq m of living space per occupant. This far exceeds the URA's previous benchmark of 10 sq m per occupant.

    Eight people can live more cordially in a 250 sq m house with five bedrooms, than six people in a 60 sq m HDB flat with two bedrooms.

    Furthermore, occupants of landed properties exit directly onto roads and do not jostle with neighbours for space in lifts or corridors.

    Properties are expensive assets. The new rule penalises owners of bigger properties by suppressing their rental returns. Many retirees who own landed properties rely on room rentals.

    Perhaps the URA could consider allowing eight to 10 occupants in a landed property, with 20 sq m of space each and a maximum of three occupants in each bedroom leased out.

    A "one size fits all" policy is too simplistic. The URA must treat the owners of properties, big or small, equitably.

    Chiang Kah Peng (Ms)

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    More traffic issues with more tenants in private homes

    JUN 19, 2017


    While I agree with Ms Chiang Kah Peng that large landed houses can accommodate more tenants than apartment units, there are other issues to consider (Big houses can accommodate more tenants; June 13).

    These big houses could, for instance, become hostels for various companies to house their staff.

    Such units could become eyesores or unhygienic dwellings in estates where families take pride in their clean, neat surroundings and garden-like ambience.

    But a greater concern would be the increase in vehicles parking in the narrow one-lane streets so characteristic of many private estates.

    Many residents already park their vehicles indiscriminately and dangerously.

    So, one can imagine how unsightly the roads will become with more trucks, vans, buses and bicycles added into the mix by a company or its staff.

    Then there are also drivers who do not park their vehicles close to the kerb, thus rendering the narrow lanes impassable to traffic.

    While rental income is important for such private property owners, they should also consider the quality of life in their estates.

    Ong Hui Lin (Madam)

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    2 Opposing Views here... What's your take?

    For or Against (Bigger Houses should allow more tenants)?

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    Quote Originally Posted by anythingwhatever View Post
    2 Opposing Views here... What's your take?

    For or Against (Bigger Houses should allow more tenants)?
    Against.

    You pay thousands of dollar for your home and your next door rents out their unit to foreigner worker or cheap tenants.

    The rule is against renting to foreigner worker or cheap tenants if you did follow the development of this law.

    http://www.condosingapore.com/forums...-2-condo-units

    Workers in the marine and process sectors, including the chemicals and pharmaceutical sectors, will no longer be allowed to be housed in HDB flats from 1 May 2015

    http://www.propertyguru.com.sg/prope...public-housing

    https://www.iproperty.com.sg/news/6768/URA-probes-into-foreign-workers-living-in-$3m-terrace-house

    Singapore’s foreign workers face bed crunch under new rental laws

    http://aseantuc.org/2017/05/singapor...w-rental-laws/
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    Singapore’s foreign workers face bed crunch under new rental laws

    Occupancy cap was slashed to six.
    Subdividing apartments into small sublets has been a mainstay of the cheaper end of the housing market in Singapore, but has drawn the ire of neighbours who are faced with a lot of people crammed next door. To alleviate overcrowding in apartments, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) decided to reduce the maximum occupancy in private dwellings from eight to six unrelated people effective May 15. Apart from reducing the demand for bunk beds in Singapore, will this have an effect on rents and how hard will it be to enforce?
    ERA Realty Network key executive officer Eugene Lim notes there has been an oversupply situation in the private residential leasing market over the last two years due to the large number of newly completed projects as well as the restructuring of the economy to become less reliant on foreign manpower. SRX Property estimates 3,653 non-landed Private Residential units were rented in April 2017, representing an 18.7% decrease from 4,493 units rented in March 2017. On a yearly basis, rental volume in April 2017 was 15.8% lower than 4,336 units rented in April 2016.
    The decrease in rental volumes could be due to landlords subletting individual rooms within their units instead of renting out whole units. “Some of them have installed internal partitioning to create more rooms. There could be instances whereby a 3-bedroom apartment could evolve into a 6-8 bedroom apartment,” Lim explained.
    Another scenario could be the landlord renting out his whole apartment to a company to house their workers. “To save costs, these companies could have packed as many occupants as they can into the apartment; especially if they work on shifts,” he said.
    JLL Singapore head of residential leasing Juliann Teo said this move by the government is to ensure that the players do not churn out nano-apartments as they do in uber-expensive Hong Kong.
    “Over the years, the size of residential properties is trending smaller. The slash on occupancy cap is likely to ensure that overcrowding and its associated hazards do not become a norm,” Teo explained, noting that this will also spur take up for smaller studio unit-types and one-bedroom apartments. Teo added demand for private properties may likely see an increase and could perhaps uplift rents, given that from a mathematical perspective, those housing units with eight occupants would have to displace two to keep up with the limit.
    Landlords with five-bedroom units would have to rent out their properties to families as they are not affected by the occupancy cap. “It is a good move in view that the rental market environment is seeing an oversupply and “desperate” landlords rent out rooms instead of the whole unit,” ERA’s Lim argued.
    PropNex Realty CEO Ismail Gafoor noted that the recently-imposed cap of six is a reasonable number, taking into consideration the smaller sizes of condominiums in recent years due to the quantum involved.
    “In fact, in our opinion, this limit of the number of tenants has its advantages. Private properties are meant to be exclusive, with owners of the development having the quiet enjoyment of the facilities and lifestyle offered. In order to maintain this exclusivity, the cap of six tenants is reasonable to begin with,” he said.
    Policing the policy changes may prove challenging, but the squeeze on landlords has begun and for tenants they will get to enjoy more space. By Singapore Business Review.
    Source: http://sbr.com.sg/residential-proper....IZzyFzd3.dpuf

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