The Household COO

Last Sunday (nope, not yesterday, but the weekend before when we took Gavin to the park), we went to Desa Park City.  I was mightily impressed by the new additions to the place since I was last up that way.  There is a new shopping mall called The Waterfront (although I’m not quite sure what waterfront this is because I haven’t seen any water around).  I suspect they are building some man-made water feature because there are quite a bit of construction works taking place nearby. 

The Waterfront has a very Australian feel to it, due to the fact that it was designed by an Australian architect.  Add the surrounding neighbourhood and it makes for quite a lovely area to live in, except for the fact that a 3-storey link house costs a cool $1.3million.  Hard to imagine when they started off around the $200-300k mark when the development first started (so we were told by the hubby’s HSBC friend who is from the HSBC home loans department). 

What a little gold mine this place turned out to be…

Although I like the concept, I wasn’t too impressed by the show houses we saw today.  We went with the intention of getting ideas for our new house.  About the only thing I liked is the design of the kitchen cabinets, the use of full length wall mirrors to give the house the optical illusion of looking bigger, and the use of foot lights for the stairs well.  Other than that, I don’t think the home decor is very practical - definitely not for a family with a young child - what with a water feature within the house itself.

The community they have created is a lovely environment for a family, but I just can’t justify paying that amount of money for what is essentially a terrace house (albeit a 3-storey one).  Even if I had $1.3million to throw away, I still couldn’t buy it.

I find it amazing how the propert prices in Desa Park City have sky-rocketed since the development was launched.  If I could intercept a development like this in its infancy, we could make a lot of money from investing in property…  Here’s hoping more developments like this come up.  The developers for this project is called Perdana Park City.  Might be worth noting for future reference…

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