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.
