Originally Posted by
kiukiumami
I just bought a flat in Hillview Peak. Before this purchase, I had paid a very hard price in purchasing property. I was attracted to a property previously and had paid the deposit. We thought we had bought our dream home, but very soon we found the property in fact had a lot of concerns which the agency never told me, or he himself even was not aware. To cut the loss, we decided not to exercise the option, and 25% of our deposit was forfeited. That is not a little money to me!!!!
I am a homebased housewife; the quality of home environment highly impacts my daily quality of life. The environments around Hillview, especially the side facing Ministry of Defense attracts me very much. The tranquility around there cannot find from the district I am now living. But this time I cannot let the impulse override us anymore. To avoid making the same mistakes, this time, we cool ourselves first. We read the whole 57 pages comments about Hillview Peak. Having finished the reading, I really have no confidence to consider the property. Their points mainly are China developer, cheap material, congested traffic, etc.
To confirm the traffic, we visit the site MANY times, during different period of the day, so far I have not seen any traffic congestion. One evening, after our inspection on the site, when we were waiting bus to leave, a gentleman initially taught us which route can take to where and where. I took the chance to ask his ideas about the district and traffic. He told me he has been living there over 20 years, he has every positive comments about living there and confirmed to me that there is no traffic issue living around there, especially the MRT will be operated Dec this year. In front of the site, the developer has built a road for public in and out, that make the traffic even not an issue.
To find out whether the material used really cheap and the construction is poorly built by “the China developer” as commented on the web, we decided use our own eye to verify. We went down to the site and show room to check VERY CAREFULLY one by one, since my husband is an engineer who was in charge of a reputative international company, he confirmed that the Marble is true, and the material is NOT cheap, the construction is VERY good in hand. In fact, the design there is very friendly using, no bomb shelter and the master room is the largest so far I saw in all the previous showrooms I visited.
To have another credit, we found the people living in that district are quite educated and polite. Well, we are not young any more, we can see what the people walking around. Later on, my son told me that the district called “rich man area”. It is so nice if those people living around you have good substances. Also, around there are all condos, there would be no issue that outsiders trespass to our condo to use our facility. The trespassing issue is happening to the condo we are living in now.
Then, we come to think about whether is it the right time to enter the market?? Personally I think the property will keep on going down and the cooling measure will not be lifted up soon. Today, the news confirmed my view. But why I still decide to purchase the property at this moment?? Yes, the price can be further down, but the unit you fall in love will not wait for you!! I found that I am very late already, the ones suit our family needs are all gone, there is only one unit I still can buy, so I must purchase the unit before others buy the unit away.
The above is my journey to purchase my dream house, I am here use my time to say something fair for Hillview Peak, there is someone there who says a lot of VERY bad words about Hillview Peak from the first day till now. If you have interest on the property, I encourage you to go down to use your own eye to verify the situation by yourself.
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