For many customers, finding and choosing a good apartment is not an easy task for those who lack experience. In the context of a series of apartment projects springing up like mushrooms, you are faced with too many choices and do not know how to choose to buy a reasonable apartment? We will share our experience in buying apartments to help you answer these questions.
Types of apartments for sale
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
The concept of studio apartments originates from apartment models designed for singles, students, and students in the UK. Studio apartments are used to refer to small apartments, often called Bachelor or Efficiency. Studio apartments do not have partitions inside the apartment space. However, basic functions such as bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms, etc. are still guaranteed. Functional areas in the house will be surrounded in separate corners, ensuring convenience. Studio apartment models have small areas, simple and cozy designs. The prices of these apartments are average and low. If you are single or 2 people, you can choose a studio apartment as your home, both convenient and comfortable.
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.
Dual key apartment
This is an apartment concept that first appeared in Singapore in 2009. Dual key is a type of apartment that shares the same entrance, but the inside is divided into 2 separate entrances: one leading to the main room, one leading to the main room. smaller room. Each room has full functional areas: living room, kitchen system, bathroom, separate bedroom. The idea of a dual key apartment is "2 in 1 apartment". This type of apartment is suitable for multi-generational families living together or investors who want to sublease part of their 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 apartments have large areas, luxurious designs, modern amenities, suitable for large families with many members living. Duplex apartments are often built on the attic floors. Duplex apartments often attract customers with strong status and economic conditions, wishing to find a comfortable living space that also shows their class.
Sky Villa Apartment
Sky Villa apartment is a form of housing that is a mixture of luxury apartments and villas. This brings a comfortable, large, and airy living space like a resort villa right in the city for families. Compared to penthouse models, Sky Villa apartments have private space thanks to private entrances and elevators. Living here, you will enjoy garden space, swimming pool, green trees, and nature like a sky villa. Inside the apartment, the partitions are kept to a minimum. Providing spacious and comfortable living space. Functional items in the house are spread out on the floor. The interior decoration in the apartment is also taken care of to bring a classy, modern life. Sky Villa apartment house models provide a desirable living space for customers. That's why the prices of these apartment models are often much higher. Located in the luxury apartment segment. This is understandable because the design, area, and amenities of this apartment model are all greater.
Things to note when buying an apartment
When choosing to buy an apartment as a home for your family, there are many things to consider before you make a decision. The following things to know will help you avoid making mistakes when owning an apartment for the first time.
Locate the apartment
An apartment has a good location when it ensures convenience for your basic needs and your family's (travel, living, working, etc.). It is not easy to find an apartment project with a convenient location at a "soft" price, because the apartment segment under 1 billion VND is often located quite far from the city center. Therefore, you need to balance your finances and needs to choose a suitable apartment. For single customers, amenities such as swimming pools, shopping centers, dining places, gyms and entertainment near their apartment are ideal locations for them to decide to buy. As for households with small children and the elderly, it is necessary to consider locations near amenities such as markets, schools, kindergartens, workplaces, hospitals, etc. as a deciding factor. Pay attention to the traffic around the apartment, especially during rush hours to see if there is any congestion, to avoid trouble with commuting later.
The investor of that apartment needs to have prestige and capacity.
To create an apartment project, the most important factor is the investor. Please note to find an apartment with an investor who is reputable in the market, has full experience and financial capacity to carry out construction. From there, create peace of mind for customers when choosing to buy. Therefore, the first thing when buying an apartment is to find out information about the investor of the project. Find out about the history of formation, whether previous projects were successful or not, the legal aspects of the projects, legal aspects in the purchase and sale procedures and other legal aspects related to the investor. In addition, information about the design unit, supervisor, manager, developer, etc. also needs to be found out. The more related information you find out, the more secure and certain you will be about the apartment you have chosen to buy.
Notes when buying an apartment
Evaluate the accompanying fees The accompanying fees also need to be considered, common fees such as security, parking, cleaning, management fees. If you have never lived in an apartment, you need to consider carefully and if there are too many unreasonable fees, you need to consider. The above fees will be collected and spent to ensure the living environment for residents, not affected by other issues, so you cannot ignore them. Thus, to limit disputes when moving in, you need to find out the details of specific requirements in the most transparent and accurate way.
Legal when buying an apartment
Experience when choosing to buy an apartment is to check whether the apartment is on mortgaged land, whether the sales contract is clear or not, and what the pink book or red book is like. If the apartment you are buying is in a mortgaged state, you must ask the investor to provide documents that have released the mortgage on the apartment. In addition, the terms in the contract must be clear, transparent, with full agreement on service fees, authority of both parties and payment schedule, etc.
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, to 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 the seller to get
Apartment security notes
This is an important note when you want to settle down in an apartment. You need to consider whether the apartment you live in has a fire prevention system, surveillance cameras and an alarm system in case of an emergency. Is the management of people entering and leaving the apartment strict? To know these things, you should go around the apartment or the apartments near the apartment you plan to buy and ask the residents there to collect information.
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