What should you pay attention to when buying an apartment? In the present time, spending two or three billion or even tens of billions to buy an apartment is an important matter. Because this will be a place to relax after long days of tiring work and affect the future of the homeowner. The article will share important experiences to note when buying an apartment.
Types of apartments
Regular apartment
This is the most traditional and common type of apartment. Most large and small apartment buildings mainly provide this type of apartment. Regular apartments are used mainly for living purposes. Therefore, they are designed with full basic amenities of a standard living space. From bedrooms, living rooms, kitchens, and bathrooms are built synchronously between regular apartments. Regular apartments are also divided into many different types such as single apartments for 1 to 2 people, to apartments for more people with 2 to 3 bedrooms. Accordingly, there is also a difference in price between different types of regular apartments.
Studio apartment
Studio apartment is a concept used to refer to apartments with small areas, from 25 - 65m2, usually without partitions between functional areas but still have a full living room, kitchen, bedroom and toilet. Studio apartments are designed for singles, students or newlyweds. The price of studio apartments is average, suitable for the financial capacity of many people. At the same time, thanks to the small area and the interconnected rooms, it saves maximum costs for lighting, air conditioning, etc.
Officetel apartment
Officetel apartment is a new concept in recent years. The term officetel is a combination of apartment - office - hotel in English. Therefore, officetel apartments can also serve many functions such as: residence, hotel, office. Depending on the purpose of use of the user, the interior of the officetel apartment is arranged appropriately. Each officetel has an area ranging from 25 - 50m2, suitable for small businesses or start-up business groups, allowing individuals or businesses to use it to work and rest overnight. In addition, individuals or businesses that own officetel apartments enjoy all the amenities that the apartment complex has, such as: swimming pool, gym, playground, restaurant, playground, shopping area, etc. The value of each officetel apartment is often lower than the price of a normal apartment. Officetel apartments are often chosen by investors for long-term rental investment.
Shophouse
This special type of apartment is a combination of residential and business architecture, often called shophouse commercial apartments. Shophouse apartments are often located on the ground floor of commercial townhouse projects and are limited in number, larger in area than regular apartments, so they often have high prices.
What is a dual key apartment? This is an apartment concept that first appeared in Singapore in 2009. Double Lock is a type of apartment with a shared front door but the inside is divided into 2 separate entrances: 1 entrance leading to the main room, 1 entrance leading to a smaller room. Each room has full functional areas: living room, kitchen system, bathroom, separate bedroom. The idea of a double key apartment is a "2-in-1 apartment".
This type of apartment is suitable for multi-generational families living together or investors who want to rent out part of the apartment.
Penthouse Apartment
Penthouse refers to a place of the utmost luxury that only appears in prestigious, luxurious, modern, and classy apartment buildings. Apartments often have open spaces, located on the highest floors of the building, with sky views and expanding to include a swimming pool, resort, garden, etc. Penthouse apartments are not divided into lines but often have a unified common space, divided into many different areas such as wine bars, dining areas, swimming pools, etc. Only private places such as bathrooms, toilets, and bedrooms are carefully covered. Ordinary workers will not choose a penthouse as their resting place after a tiring day because the cost is very high. Most of the owners of Penthouses often have a noble family background, social status and economic capacity are also considered famous.
Duplex apartment
Duplex apartment is a form of apartment designed with a double floor between at least two adjacent floors located in the same building. Duplex apartment models are often located interwoven with floors containing regular apartments. Not necessarily on the top floor like Penthouse. The space in a Duplex apartment is designed to be closed and does not include open outside space like a Penthouse. This house model often has a luxurious modern design. Suitable for families with many members. Normally, the bridge will be placed right in the apartment. One side of the apartment is designed with a glass wall to effectively expand the viewing angle. Due to the larger area, including 2 connected floors, Duplex apartment models are priced higher than usual.
Sky Villa Sky Apartment
Villa is a blend of the design of a villa and a luxury apartment with a large and comfortable living space like a luxurious sky resort villa with an outdoor swimming pool, garden, trees... The price of Sky Villa is much higher than that of normal housing types.
In recent years, apartments have changed a lot and developed rapidly, so you need to pay attention when buying an apartment.
Choose a reputable investor with many large projects
When buying an apartment, you should find out detailed information about the investor. Important factors such as investment license, capacity and previous successful projects. This is a very important factor to help you get your dream apartment with full legal requirements. In particular, you can learn and observe more about the construction progress, constantly update information from people who have lived here. From there, you will know the level of satisfaction and have the most general view of the service provided by the investor.
Consider the surrounding infrastructure
The new apartment is where your family will live for a long time. Therefore, you should pay attention to the infrastructure around the area you intend to choose. "Electricity, roads, schools and stations" are important factors. Convenient road infrastructure, traffic jams do not occur often, no flooding, convenient access to work, close to schools, hospitals, supermarkets, markets. These are the infrastructure factors around the living area that you should consider when choosing where you intend to live.
Evaluate internal and external facilities
One thing that cannot be denied is that when living in an apartment building, you will be able to use many external facilities such as parks, shopping malls, swimming pools, kindergartens, community areas, parking lots, security issues, etc. However, with the explosive development of projects, there is no shortage of apartment buildings that only meet the housing needs but ignore this factor, even building close to the road and completely cutting off the children's playground, community house, etc. Regarding internal facilities, when buying, customers need to pay attention to information about the number of elevators, freight elevators, fire escapes, waste treatment systems, stable operation of elevators, etc. because these are the most necessary facilities that you will use in the future. The number of apartments on each floor (floor) is also a factor to consider when you consider buying an apartment. The current suitable and popular density is 24 apartments/floor. If this number is larger, it means that the population is quite large, which can easily lead to queuing when using public utilities, causing overload for the operation of technical services.
Types of legal documents
You need to pay attention when buying an apartment such as the Certificate of Land Use Rights of the investor: This is the most important document, proving that the land the investor is building is legal, permitted by the government agency, avoiding legal conflicts later leading to the project being suspended or revoked. In addition, an equally important thing is that the certificate of land use rights will help you determine that the apartment project you intend to buy is not mortgaged at the bank. Project construction permit: is a type of document confirming that the apartment has been allowed for individuals and organizations to proceed with construction in accordance with the planning. There are many cases where apartment projects are built without permission and are suspended, causing damage to time and money for home buyers. Completion of obligations to pay land use fees and land rent: When deciding to buy an apartment, you also need to determine whether the investor has fulfilled the obligation to pay land use fees and land taxes to the state. Avoid the situation where the red book is hindered or returned just because the investor still owes financial obligations. In addition to the project's legal documents, buyers need to carefully review the sales contract. The terms of the contract must be clear, easy to understand, with agreement on additional service fees, payment schedule, and authority of the parties...
Check all committed standards when handing over the house
To avoid the situation of handing over missing furniture, the area is not accurate compared to the contract. You need to check and carefully measure the space inside the apartment being handed over. Use the basis based on the documents, the committed items, ensure that the investor fulfills its responsibilities and delivers the product according to the contract. If there is any violation or discrepancy, you should stop the trading day, discuss with the investor's representative or seller to get.
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