Grangeford

Ideal Accommodation to pay S$7.4m in damages to Cove Development

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...

Ideal Accommodation’s appeal dismissed

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 Developments clears illegal partitions at Grangeford

Cove Developments, owner of The Grangeford condominium, has said it will take legal action against former master tenant Ideal Accomodations which converted some 140 condominium apartments into 600 units. The illegal partitions had been put up at the private development off Orchard Road. But after nearly three months, Cove said it has finally completed all removal works, in time for the August 21 deadline...

Cove Devt seeks extension of deadline to remove illegal partitions

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...

Cove Devts says “good number” of tenants moved out of Grangeford

Cove Developments, which owns the Grangeford condominium, said a good number of tenants has moved out. Cove had obtained a court order to recover 171 apartments last Friday. The firm would only say it is in the midst of ascertaining how many tenants are still staying behind before applying for the writ of possession to evict them. Channel NewsAsia understands this will take place before the end of the...

Cove Developments gets court order to clear illegal partitions in 171 Grangeford units

Cove Development, which owns the GrangeFord condominium, has obtained a court order to reclaim some 171 apartments in the condominium. Cove has given tenants in these units till July 22 to vacate the apartments. This is to allow demolition works to be carried out on illegal partitions in the units. Grangeford made headlines last month when property leasing firm Ideal Accommodation, which had been...

Grangeford sub-tenants were in danger of having power cut off

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...

49 stay on despite higher rates

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 49 tenants to remain at Grangeford

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...

Landlord tells Grangeford tenants to stay till end-June

The housing saga at The Grangeford condominium continued on Friday. Landlord Ideal Accommodation told tenants they can stay till end-June, so that it does not have to return them their month's deposit. Those who have given more than a month's rent will get back the balance. There was also drama on Friday after some tenants went to Ideal's office demanding a staff accompany them back to The Grangeford to...

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