Secure splendour, comfort for your family at Platinum Apartments
Feb 05, 2010
AS Kampala City widens towards its neighbourhood, the elegant Urban Landscape Platinum Apartments along Najera Road in Kulambiro are part of this growth.
By Thomas Pere
AS Kampala City widens towards its neighbourhood, the elegant Urban Landscape Platinum Apartments along Najera Road in Kulambiro are part of this growth.
Yiding Real Estate Development Company owns the luxurious units, estimated to have cost about $2m( about sh4b).
The apartments comprise four blocks, each block has four floors and 32 well facilitated units.
Chris Chan, the marketing manager, says each house has a unique interior, with sufficient natural light.
He says the ground floors comprise three (Type B) and two (Type A) apartments. Type B has got a store, a kitchen, a shared bathroom, a self-contained bedroom and a room without a wardrobe.
Type A unit has a larger kitchen interconnected with the dining room, stretching to the living room. It has two bedrooms with a shared bathroom.
Chan says the first floor also has two (Type C) and three (Type D) bedroom apartments. Type D is the same as the one on the ground floor while Type C has a study room.
The bedrooms on this floor have a balcony and inside windows, making a mosquito net irrelevant.
Chan says the third floor is quite different. The apartments there have five bedrooms each and some of them are located on the fourth floor.
For example, Type E has got two rooms on the third level and three on the fourth. This type does not have a self-contained unit, it instead has shared bathrooms on the two levels.
Type F also has five bedrooms and three bathrooms.
All the bedroom floors were made with hard wood from China, while the other rooms are covered with white tiles.
The bathroom walls of the bedroom flats are covered with blue and shiny coffee brown mosaic tiles.
The external doors are made of double iron with five locks on a single door.
The inside doors are made of wood. All doors have magnetic holders that stop them from being slammed by wind.
Further more, the outside doors have got one way pin hole cameras for seeing whoever is outside.
To control noise, the doors and windows are sound proof.
The sinks installed have drawers under them.
The corridors have noise sensor lights that flash with the slightest sound. So you do not have to bother the switch.
“The apartments are connected to intercom. If one wants to see you, they have to press the number of your flat. You will see them on the (intercom) screen and decide to open for them or not,†says Chan.
There are about 50 parking areas for 32 flats. This means there are 18 extra slots to cater for extra cars.
To make life softer, the walls are fitted with TV, Internet and telephone ports.
Platinum Apartment is a condominium block, where each apartment is owned separately by people living in it, but the shared areas are owned by everyone.
The units are not let out, they are on sale. The two-bedroom units are sold at $73,000( about sh130m).
A five-bedroom apartment with 207 sq metres costs $176,000 (about sh330m).
Five bedrooms with108 square metres cost $156,000 (about sh290m) while three-bedroom apartments with 178 square metres cost $118,000 (sh220m).
Lastly, the two-bedroom units, with a reading room cost $110,000 (about sh200m).
Chan says the residential block covers 4,294 square metres and the commercial block is 1,212 square metres.
Presently, out of the 32 apartments on offer, 13 have already been taken and in the commercial unit only one shop unit is remaining.
“We sell them as units to enable Ugandans own an apartment which without such provision would be hard for the majority. This way, they find it affordable given that our prices are negotiable,†says Chan.
AS Kampala City widens towards its neighbourhood, the elegant Urban Landscape Platinum Apartments along Najera Road in Kulambiro are part of this growth.
Yiding Real Estate Development Company owns the luxurious units, estimated to have cost about $2m( about sh4b).
The apartments comprise four blocks, each block has four floors and 32 well facilitated units.
Chris Chan, the marketing manager, says each house has a unique interior, with sufficient natural light.
He says the ground floors comprise three (Type B) and two (Type A) apartments. Type B has got a store, a kitchen, a shared bathroom, a self-contained bedroom and a room without a wardrobe.
Type A unit has a larger kitchen interconnected with the dining room, stretching to the living room. It has two bedrooms with a shared bathroom.
Chan says the first floor also has two (Type C) and three (Type D) bedroom apartments. Type D is the same as the one on the ground floor while Type C has a study room.
The bedrooms on this floor have a balcony and inside windows, making a mosquito net irrelevant.
Chan says the third floor is quite different. The apartments there have five bedrooms each and some of them are located on the fourth floor.
For example, Type E has got two rooms on the third level and three on the fourth. This type does not have a self-contained unit, it instead has shared bathrooms on the two levels.
Type F also has five bedrooms and three bathrooms.
All the bedroom floors were made with hard wood from China, while the other rooms are covered with white tiles.
The bathroom walls of the bedroom flats are covered with blue and shiny coffee brown mosaic tiles.
The external doors are made of double iron with five locks on a single door.
The inside doors are made of wood. All doors have magnetic holders that stop them from being slammed by wind.
Further more, the outside doors have got one way pin hole cameras for seeing whoever is outside.
To control noise, the doors and windows are sound proof.
The sinks installed have drawers under them.
The corridors have noise sensor lights that flash with the slightest sound. So you do not have to bother the switch.
“The apartments are connected to intercom. If one wants to see you, they have to press the number of your flat. You will see them on the (intercom) screen and decide to open for them or not,†says Chan.
There are about 50 parking areas for 32 flats. This means there are 18 extra slots to cater for extra cars.
To make life softer, the walls are fitted with TV, Internet and telephone ports.
Platinum Apartment is a condominium block, where each apartment is owned separately by people living in it, but the shared areas are owned by everyone.
The units are not let out, they are on sale. The two-bedroom units are sold at $73,000( about sh130m).
A five-bedroom apartment with 207 sq metres costs $176,000 (about sh330m).
Five bedrooms with108 square metres cost $156,000 (about sh290m) while three-bedroom apartments with 178 square metres cost $118,000 (sh220m).
Lastly, the two-bedroom units, with a reading room cost $110,000 (about sh200m).
Chan says the residential block covers 4,294 square metres and the commercial block is 1,212 square metres.
Presently, out of the 32 apartments on offer, 13 have already been taken and in the commercial unit only one shop unit is remaining.
“We sell them as units to enable Ugandans own an apartment which without such provision would be hard for the majority. This way, they find it affordable given that our prices are negotiable,†says Chan.