CCD has opened booking for its standalone homes after it halted its project for more than a year. [break]
According to Dipak K. Thapa, general manager of CCD, mainly the local community people who want to upgrade their living standards has made the bookings. “We opened the booking last week for 21 units, which will be constructed in the first phase, and have already received bookings for 12 units,” informed Thapa.
The company is building 31 standalone homes of which 21 will be constructed in the first phase and remaining 10 in the second phase. The standalone homes built in an area of 2.5 to 4.5 ana are priced in the range of Rs 11.1 million to Rs 18 million. Customers can avail finance facilities from Nabil Bank and Janata Bank.
Tejendra Nath Shrestha, managing director of the company, said, “We are equipping our homes with all modern amenities so that customers need not worry about anything,” added Shrestha. Crystal City´s standalone homes will have convenient store, polyclinic, banking facility, restaurant, club and banquet within its campus apart from regular facilities.
In an interview, Tejendra Nath Shrestha, managing director of CCD, spaks about the proejct. Excerpts:
Earlier, CCD announced to build a 16-storey apartment block cum shopping complex. Why the plan was changed in favor of standalone homes?
Due to lack of government monitoring, housing and apartment projects mushroomed in the valley outstripping the actual demand. As the customers are preferring individual homes, we have decided to fulfill the demand of the customers.
Among various standalone home projects in the valley, what are the distinctive features of your project?
Our homes have unique and elegant design. They are located at a prime location and are very economical. Besides, we have incorporated water use and energy use reduction system, vertical farming, among others.
As you are into tourism and restaurant business, what made you venture into the housing sector?
Besides being president of Thamel Tourism Development Council (TTDC) and Restaurant and Bar Association of Nepal (REBAN), I planned to enter the housing sector to make best use of ancestral property. As I found housing is the best business to make maximum utilization of space, I decided to enter this sector.
When will you hand over the homes to the customers?
We are going through the legal process of ownership transfer, which will be completed within a month. Soon after it completes, we will start the construction. We will hand over the homes to our clients within a year.
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