According to data from the LIFULL Rumah team, around 85 percent of Indonesians choose to own a house as a permanent residence over apartments or flats. This explains the flourishing of new residential complexes, especially those offering minimalist houses, which are currently being developed across the country. These residential complexes are offering different types of facilities, promotional packages and payment methods.
Are you currently planning to buy a new house? If so, you should take a number of things into consideration, including location, price and facilities, in order to make sure that your new house will give you optimum comfort.
Water hygiene
Most new residential complex projects are located in suburban areas, which relatively speaking are not very densely populated and not yet accessible by Indonesia’s local private water operator. Therefore, houses located in these areas have to rely on groundwater. Many new houses are also built on former swamplands with poor water quality. Therefore, you should carefully examine the hygiene of the water in the area where your new house stands. Should you want to use groundwater, you should also make sure you build your well far away from the septic tank.
Proper sewage system
Each residential building and public facility is required to install proper sewage and sanitation systems for liquid and other types of domestic waste. You should carefully check all waste disposal channels of your house, from water pipes and gutters to the septic tank, to make sure they are all properly installed and hygienic. You should also check whether the area you live in has a regular trash collector. If not, seek information about where you can transfer your trash for final processing.
Building quality
When buying a new house, especially a minimalist one, you also have to be meticulous in checking the strength and quality of its structure. You have to check on each of the building parts, including walls, pillars and windowsills, among many others. Nowadays, many developers do not pay much attention to the strength and quality of building materials, causing problems such as leakage, for instance, to emerge.
When buying a secondhand house, you have to check not only the physical structure of the building, but also its history by asking real estate agents or local residents. There are many great-looking houses that are sold at a very low prices due to unfortunate events that they have been host to, such as murders, robberies or drug dealing.
Access to public transport
You don’t have to buy a house located on a main road, but you have to make sure that your new house is accessible by public transportation such as minivans or motorcycle taxis. Your house should also have access to the nearest bus stops or train stations.
Necessary certificates and permits
Several new residential complex projects allow customers to pick the locations for their new houses before they are constructed through site maps. In this case, buyers sometimes have to wait around eight to 24 months to actually see their houses constructed. While waiting for the house to be finished, you have to take care of all certificates and permits pertaining to land ownership.
When Buying a House that has already been constructed, you should also examine the ownership certificate to avoid becoming embroiled in an ownership dispute. There have been cases where the ownership certificate has been deposited at a bank by the house’s developer because he or she still needs it as an asset to construct new houses.
EM70: 2017-03-23 20:38
