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Courtesy of CH Williams Talhar Wong & Yeo Sdn Bhd

RESIDENTIAL SECTOR

In 2005, new housing schemes as the natural spread of existing housing estates or in totally new settings have been developed and were launched for sale in Kuching, Sibu, Bintulu and Miri.

There have been more road-shows by housing developers to promote their products either on its own or under the Sarawak Housing Developers Association or in conjunction with other trade exhibitions.

But the sale of high-end semi-detached houses has slowed down, more so in the second half of the year.

Housing units in those projects surveyed by us are shown in Table 1 below.

Table 1: New Housing Units 2005

Region: KUCHING

Type

Units completed

Units Under Construction

Units Launched

Units construction Started

SS terraced

1000

1441

1185

835

DS terraced

1542

1776

1478

1267

SS semi-dee

273

326

238

114

DS semi-dee

803

519

416

290

DS quadruplex

0

504

0

0

Region: SAMARAHAN

Type

Units completed

Units Under Construction

Units Launched

Units construction Started

SS terraced

1448

1830

633

633

DS terraced

270

860

394

236

SS semi-dee

206

233

115

111

DS semi-dee

32

80

72

72

Region: SIBU

Type

Units completed

Units Under Construction

Units Launched

Units construction Started

SS terraced

184

291

585

244

DS terraced

600

1544

1040

781

SS semi-dee

0

4

8

4

DS semi-dee

208

465

262

214

Region: BINTULU

Type

Units completed

Units Under Construction

Units Launched

Units construction Started

SS terraced

0

38

0

0

DS terraced

355

181

292

130

SS semi-dee

0

0

0

0

DS semi-dee

103

114

72

10

Region: MIRI

Type

Units completed

Units Under Construction

Units Launched

Units construction Started

SS terraced

978

632

216

208

DS terraced

158

216

321

202

SS semi-dee

41

124

156

124

DS semi-dee

75

207

281

205