zzm9980 wrote:JR8 wrote:Only downside is there are (or were) only two
condos, Trellis Tower and Oleanders Towers. Not sure of prices right now, but that area might be worth looking at.
I've been starting to look recently, and Oleander will definitely be within poster's budget. $3300-3800/month for 2bed there.
Thanks, interesting!
As I recall our rent was $3500 and rose to 3800 after a year. That was a 3 bedder, of c 1200ft2. But bed 3 was very small, more of a childs bedroom... it was used as my home-office/study. Next time I think we'd be fine with a 2 bedder, as we typically have guests to stay only every few months.
Trellis backs right onto the PIE, so you get that sort of permanent background rumble. It has a nice big pool though. But the units are more $ and smaller than you'd get at Oleander, plus you;re on the wrong side of Lorong 6 to 'get to anywhere' except a 24hr 7-11 at Block 163 which of course is pretty basic and $$$. It was built on the site of an old biscuit factory.
Oleander is a little older, and on the 'right side' of Lor 6. There are covered walkways almost the whole way to the MRT and town centre. Just around the corner (50 yards away, at Block 150) are a couple of auntie shops (local grocery stores), a doctors etc. If anything is odd about Oleander it is that there seem to be very few right angles in the architecture. Presumably this derives from the towers being cylindrical, and c5-6 units on each floor. But even the pool is the strangest shape (Google Maps it if curious*!) making swimming laps a challenge ... more swimming 'semi-circles'.
*Edit to add: but be aware much of the pool in the satellite image is obscured by the huge glass screen that sits about 20-30m high over much of the pool. It's kinda orange/yellow glass in the design of an oleander flower. Might sound a bit odd until you see it at first hand, when it makes *very* good sense!