Sure House Price Increases
Real Estate November 23rd, 2009
- Plan for electric base rate increase beginning in July 2010 to property developers nervous. Rate increase was considered to affect the structure increase the production cost of the house.
Chairman of the Association of Housing and Settlement Development All Indonesia (Apersi) Eddy GANEFO in Jakarta, Thursday (18 / 3), said the increase in basic electricity tariff (TDL) for the industry will affect the price of raw materials for making home industry production cost of raw materials home will increase.
Raw materials are expected house price will go up, among others cement, steel, and electrical components such as cables. Moreover, although there is no increase in TDL, the price of steel (one component of the production house) has been rising.
“The increase in TDL will have an impact on increasing the price of raw material components of the house. In fact, a simple house subsidized price set must not exceed the maximum price, “said Eddy.
To build a simple house subsidized for lower income people at Rp 4.5 million per month, the government set a maximum price of a modest home health USD 55 million per unit and the price of a simple apartment USD 144 million per unit.
House production cost increase, according to Eddy, is not comparable to the benchmark price of subsidized homes. This makes the developer profit margins increasingly depressed.
Therefore, Eddy asked the government to immediately review the benchmark price of a modest home healthy and simple flats owned.
Moreover, continued Eddy, an increase in TDL not guarantee the availability of electricity network for healthy simple house and simple flats owned. According to data Apersi, at least 25,000 houses built today have not Apersi electricity.
Chairman of the Central Executive Council of Real Estate Indonesia (REI) Teguh Satria confirmed, the absence of electrical connections in the house that was up to the house is not worthy to live.
Electricity supply shortage of housing, said Teguh, each year tends to increase. Government advised to make a serious effort to ensure the availability of electricity for homes.
“Barriers residential electricity supplies if allowed to continue to make the rate of supply shortage of habitable houses getting bigger,” said Eddy.
Based on data from the Ministry of Housing, an estimated 100,000 healthy simple house until January 2010 have not connected electricity.
Minister of Housing Monoarfa Suharso assess, plan TDL increase will not affect the provision of housing for lower middle income. The increase in TDL is only applicable to housing that has a capacity above 900 kilovolt amperes.
TDL increase Menpera hoping to increase the ratio of electricity in all parts of Indonesia. “I hope, with the increase in TDL, electricity in Indonesia byarpet no longer,” he said.
Earlier, Director General of Electricity and Energy Utilization of Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources J. Purwono argued, the government is preparing detailed TDL increase.
TDL increase in planned quantities varied effect. There are groups of customers who experience an increase in TDL more than 15 percent, but there are less than 15 percent
