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This town house is designed to be leased by expatriates working in semarang. The building is deliberately articulated to provide tropical greeneries between the surrounding environment and building. Dark old wood, terracotta roofing, paras or locally palimanan stone flooring and wall paint’ng of white, grey and milk brown colours creates a situational composition that is different to one another to fit the user and the façade of each unit is designed differently as well to avoid boringness. It turned out the users like it very much! They appreciate such individual treatment of the facades even though the layout floor plan is more or less the same.

The existing contoured land that faces bukit sari valley of ungaran area in semarang, on the other hand allows this townhouse to be designed in such away that each room has equal views. The contour is also a potentialpoint to be articulated into a terrace planting this townhouse to be designed iin such a way that each room has equal views. The contour is also a potential point to be articulated into a terrace planting with a swimming pool being the centre of outdoor activity and panoramic view in this complex.

With space at a premium in this bathroom, the designer chose

To get back to basics, eliminating unnecessary elemen

When renovating and modernizing an older home, adding a second bathroom or an en suite makes sense both functionally and in resale-value terms. But space restrictions usually mean that a compact, efficient design is a must.

During the course of some extensive renovations to this Federation house, Kerry Fyfe of Monckton Fyfe Architects was asked to transform an existing bedroom into two back-to-to back bathrooms and a linen cupboard.

One of the bathrooms, shown here, has been pared back to the bare basics and simply contains a shower, hand basin and toilet.

“The bathroom is virtually just a corridor, with a curving shower tucked into the corner,” says Fyfe. “So as not to clutter the small space, there is no vanity. The sanitary ware simply hangs off the mirrored wall, which conceals a storage cupboard and has recessed shelf.”

A restricted palette of materials and colour further enhances the illusion of space.

“The owners wanted a sensuous feel and to incorporate the colour blue. We                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    covered the curved shower wall with baby-blue glass mosaic tiles.”

White concrete floors offset the collage of tiles, and a mirrored wall visually enlarges the space.

Real estate brokers and agents are people that work in the real estate business. They can assist real estate buyers and sellers with their needs, whether it’s a house, condo or any other type of real estate property. A real estate broker is a party who acts as an intermediary between sellers and buyers of real estate and attempts to find sellers who wish to sell and buyers who wish to buy.
Offer a Reasonable Earnest Money. You cannot present an offer with a $50 earnest money and expect a real estate agent to take you seriously. If you are concerned with losing your earnest money, consider using a real estate promissory note. In the US, real estate brokers and their salespersons assist sellers in marketing their property and selling it for the highest possible price under the best terms.
Offer a Short Closing Date. Another way to get a real estate agent to take you seriously is to offer a fast closing. If the real estate agent has another offer presented to him, he will usually advise his client to take the offer with a larger earnest money and faster close than an offer which is higher in price.
While some people may refer to any licensed real estate agent as a real estate broker, a licensed real estate agent is a professional who has obtained either a real estate salesperson’s license or a real estate broker’s license.
Insist on Presenting Creative Offers in Person. it will not be represented to the real estate owner in the same enthusiastic fashion. As stated above, real estate agents do not like creative offers – they like conventional offers from solid real estate buyers. Commissions are negotiable between seller and broker. If you can offer the real estate agent an incentive to make money out of the transaction, you will get his cooperation. If you present a lease/option offer on a listed real estate property, how will the agent receive a commission?
Sometimes you will get the opposite of an uncooperative real estate agent – an overzealous real estate agent. Be suspicious of a real estate agent who tells you what a deal you are getting on a real estate property. Ask for a printout of comparable sales (not listed real estate properties). and Do your own assessment of real estate value.
Most real estate agents are not this formal and will take any offer in writing to the seller. Simply summarize your offer in writing and fax it to the listing real estate agent. Unlike the typical real estate agent, buyer’s brokers work exclusively the real estate buyer. The buyer’s broker can be paid directly by the buyer, or can be given a portion of the commission earned by the real estate property seller’s agent.

With the changes over the past year, it is now necessary to pay for appraisals upfront on nearly all conventional and government backed mortgage loans.

Appraisers are paid to perform a task, and it is expressly written into each appraisal report that the value conclusions within that report are not predetermined and are not a foundation for any subsequent event.

Unfortunately, through those good times, many lenders were of the opinion that if an appraisal did not “meet the number”, or come in at a value that would facilitate the loan closing, that they then didn’t have to pay for the appraisal. Often, they would just call the next appraiser and order a new appraisal (after trying to get a check of value from the new appraiser) and just move on down the line until they were able to obtain an appraisal that “worked”.

Well, that defeats the whole point of the appraisal.

This helps to ensure that appraisers will actually get paid for their work, and it helps to solidify the independence of the appraisal in the loan process, so those lenders that really care can feel reasonably assured that the are getting a truly independent opinion of value