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I've learned the hard way to be very careful about noise when visiting apartments, so I'll try to ask other residents of the building I'm interested in and will
by nicolas_t 5y ago
I've learned the hard way to be very careful about noise when visiting apartments, so I'll try to ask other residents of the building I'm interested in and will do multiple visits at different time of the day to better understand how the noise situation is. Especially important now that I live in Hong Kong where a lot of apartments don't even use double pane windows.
- drstewart 5y agoThat'd be ideal, but in some markets that's not possible. One of the apartments in question was in SF and I literally had to put my application in <10 minutes into the showing to get the place, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten it. There's no way to do any kind of actual inspection of a unit in those circumstances.
- nicolas_t 5y agoIt's a bit similar in HK, what we do though is research the different buildings a few months before our lease is over. That allows us to visit units in those buildings without being pressured to make an offer and once we're seriously looking we have a much better idea of the market.
- angled 5y agoIn HK, the further south you go the better it seems to be… bar TST of course! I agree about the lack of double glazing here, if we ever buy, that will be one of the first things I’d try to change. I imagine Penny’s Bay is quiet!
- nicolas_t 5y agoYes, we moved to Tai Hang which is quite nice in terms of noise (much much better than Kennedy Town where we used to live). We actually get bird chirping at night and early mornings and barely any traffic noise.