Showhouses are misleading
The Star 02/12/2006

THESE days new houses are being promoted by letting the public view the model or showhouses.

The housing developers also advertise their projects by displaying pictures of the interior of their proposed houses.

These model houses look wonderful inside because they are subtly renovated and decorated by professionals.

Hence buyers will be led into thinking that their future home will look something like what they see.

This is certainly not true because one is only buying a bare house and the cost of similar renovation and interior decoration work could be as much as 50% of the price of the house.

If the furniture, renovation and interior decoration are not included in the sale of the house, then they should not be exhibited at all, because these extra features are merely sales gimmicks and illusions to make the house look more posh, spacious and appealing.

Potential buyers are therefore not presented with the true picture, as what they see is not going to be what they get.

For the interest of the consumers, the relevant authority should implement a regulation such that all model houses should be bare and should look exactly like what the buyers will get when they take delivery of their houses.

C.N.L., Kluang.