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...
Illegal Rental
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...
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has investigated over 500 cases of illegal subletting at private residences so far this year. That's 25 per cent more than the whole of 2008. These involve the unauthorised partitioning of apartments, shophouses and terrace units into smaller units in order to sublet them individually. Authorities said the majority of offences involved turning residential units...
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 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 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 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...
Ruses are now rife; foreign nationals the main targets WHEN factory worker Zhang Wenfang and his five friends found a five-room Housing & Development Board (HDB) flat in Jurong West that they liked, they paid the property agent $9,300 - six months' rent. But, when they tried to move into the flat on July 1, they found it locked. "We had trouble contacting our agent; he didn't return our calls. I...