We’re dipping our toes in the real estate market in Shanghai and as a first step called an agent who was referred to us by a friend.
After telling him the price range, the first question was: “How many bathrooms do you want?”
Are bathrooms the new status symbol?
Data about construction in Shanghai
from the latest 8days magazine
- Total are of Shanghai that has been reconstructed – 22.650.000 m2
- Number of architecture firms – 44
- Number of high-rise commercial buildings built every year – 400
- Total area of all the public parks in Shanghai by 2010 – 20.000.000 m2 *
- Total expansion of Shanghai’s downtown area since the 1980s – 480 km2
- Total land area that has been used to build new residential areas over the last 5 years – 80.000.000 m2
* I doubt this will materialize with the said square meters. Real estate/city development plans always include parks and green areas. They somehow are just forgotten at the end stage of the building.
Source: 8days
Picture: My old bathroom in Kunming. Fill it up, heat it and don’t forget to pull out the plug before taking the shower machine
haha, that is actually true
there should be the same number of bathrooms as bedrooms.
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Comment by Chinabounderess — August 23, 2006 @ 7:50 pm