Condo units turned hotels

[An excerpt from The Strait Times, 19/4, prepared by Marcus Lau]


Some entrepreneurial owners of condominium units are renting out and marketing their properties as hotel rooms, going against regulations set by the Urban Redeveloping Authority. Marketed as “condotels”, “holiday apartments” or “hotel-style apartment room accommodation”, the rooms are advertised freely on hostel directories online and personal websites. These rooms are being rented out at between $40 and $150 a day and are popular with students, people here for medical treatment and vegetarian business travelers from Bangladesh who want a kitchen to cook their own food. These lodgers typically rent for a few days, although it can go up to a month. The URA is currently investigating the matter.

My thoughts: If this matter goes on, it may have adverse effect on other residents. In this way, the condo units are also misused.

By Marcus Lau