The Merton - facilities

Posted by cheeky (401 days ago)

I understand the charges for swimming pool/gym are in addition to the management fees - anyone know what the costs are, or how good the facilities are?

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Posted by mark_palmer (401 days ago)

Cheeky! You certainly do ask a lot of questions! he he he... From what i understand with the new developments ive been to...it makes more sense to join "sports clubs" such as Football Club etc... as the monthly fee is similarly priced, but with much better facilities and use of restaurants, bars etc...

Posted by cheeky (401 days ago)

MP! I thought that was what a forum was all about! LOL

The agent yesterday said I couldn't see the facilities, but the pool looked nice from the balcony higher up! I agree it probably doesn't compare with Football Club etc, but I wonder what my total fee would be if i decided to use the facilities now and then as apparently it's not included in the expensive management fee...

Posted by ldavy (401 days ago)

Hi cheeky,

Are you sure about this? I understood that the facilities were included.

Posted by cheeky (401 days ago)

No, not sure at all which is why I was asking. If someone lived there I was hoping they would be able to advise.

Posted by mark_palmer (401 days ago)

Ha ha! im only jking with u! Well i dont know about The Merton, but when i went to see Harbour Green which is a new development in kowloon, the clubhouse looked very nice from the outside. I could not go in to have a proper look until i had bought a unit!!!!!

The management fee was $1600 and then you had to pay extra for the use of certain facilities. To me, that seems VERY expensive. A membership at HKFC costs $1000 per month with full access to everything. Of course, on top of that you must pay the $20K for sports membership etc... but it seems more worth it!!!

Posted by ldavy (401 days ago)

Hi cheeky,
I'm pretty sure that the facilities at the Merton are included in the management fee. I'll try and check and get back to you.

Posted by Amanda Le (392 days ago)

hi, management fees has nothing to do with clubhouse facilities...as we found out after moving into the Merton...pamphlets are all in chinese! For Block1&2 the pool is $20HK per visit. The gym is $10HK (7:15-18:00) and $20HK (18:00-22:00 and all hours weekends. Gym is great..pool I am not sure as when I saw it there was no water in it (too early in the season for swimmers). However there is an excellent public pool nearby with lap lanes for $19HK.

Posted by cheeky (390 days ago)

thanks for the info AL, useful.

Posted by ankle biter (265 days ago)

Um, not sure if anyone is still interested in this topic, but if you need to pay club membership of $1k/mth, plus leave $20k sitting with HKFC for the whole year, in affect you are paying the equivalent of an apartment's monthly maintanence fee just to be with HKFC.

Take Harbour Green for instance, very high standard of facilities 5 star/htl like from what I have seen from my friend's place there. He pays 1600 a mnth but that includes only a marginal portion of weigh less than $600 a month for the facilities to be on standby a minute away from his apartment. The rest of the maintenance fee, no matter where you live, needs to be paid to cover building insurance, cleaners, security staff, government charges, sinking funds etc. So when considered, I think it is at least breakeven or better than at HKFC

You need to take in to account, you could easily park $20k somewhere and make 3-5% return on the money you leave with HKFC a year.