The owner of Grangeford Apartments will receive about S$7.4 million in damages over its apartments which were illegally rented out. Cove Development will receive the amount, which includes interest, from Ideal Accommodation. Both sides agreed on this at a court hearing on Wednesday. Last year, Ideal was been charged with violating the Planning Act. It illegally rented 171 units of the apartments...
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The High Court on Thursday dismissed Ideal Accommodation's appeal against a court order to pay Cove Development rental arrears amounting to over $872,000. The sum represents approximately two months of rental arrears for units at Grangeford Apartments which were leased to Ideal. Earlier this year, Ideal was charged with illegally renting out 171 units of Grangeford Apartments - 141 of which had been...
Cove Development, which owns the Grangeford condominium off Orchard Road, has asked the Ministry of National Development to extend the deadline to remove all illegal partitions that had been erected at the property. Demolition works were supposed to be completed by Monday (27 July). But Cove only managed to recover all 171 apartment units on Saturday (25 July) after it obtained a Writ of Possession for...
A new twist has emerged in the ongoing saga at The Grangeford. TODAY has learnt that more than 200 sub-tenants at the condominium in Leonie Hill were in danger of having their power cut off because former master tenant Ideal Accommodation did not pay the electricity bill. Utility firm SP Services had sent Ideal a letter on June 5, seeking arrears amounting to nearly S$130,000. It had to pay up by last...
THE past week has been, in a word, “stressful” for the 27-year-old advertising agency executive who has been busy juggling work with “running around looking at apartments”. “Even my lunch breaks are spent meeting agents to check out places to rent,” Jenny (not her real name) told Today. Making things even more difficult, rental rates, she claims, have “shot up”, leading her to conclude...
Cove Development says that 49 former tenants of Ideal Accommodation have decided to stay on at The Grangeford after the June 30 deadline. They are being offered rental rates of between S$2,600 and S$3,500 for a whole apartment. Until the deadline, residents can continue to stay at The Grangeford rent-free, while they seek other accommodation. Cove recently took control of The Grangeford, after...