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Silverene, Dubai Marina - anyone viewed/moving in?

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 09 October 2011 - 11:34

Hi,

Thinking of moving from current place at Marina to elsewhere in same area. Plan to view the new Silverene building next to Marina Mall this week, wondered if anyone has viewed or indeed is moving in? Any feedback welcome - size, value for money, is finish as good as they are saying?

Thanks in advance.

S

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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 09 October 2011 - 22:51
The finish is ok- better than jbr but not as good as the emaar finishes. Location is good next to the mall and you can get Marina views, but the room sizes seriously let it down. The two beds are the size of a 1 bed and all the rooms tiny. Some do have reasonable size balconies ( in comparison with the apartment size). I think you'll find that the newer building do offer smaller apartments. This is purely a consequence of the boom - the thinking being that since people were falling over themselves to get any kind of accommodation, it didn't really matter what it was actually like, and from a developers point of view, more units = more profit. You'll possibly notice (not necessarily in Silverene) that the common areas are also less generous... because there's no profit to be made there. All the buildings that are being built now are the last throw-backs of 2008.
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 09 October 2011 - 21:36
Hi, Thanks for your comments. Yes, viewings in last few weeks and move in very end of Oct/beg of Nov. Interesting re size. Suspected so but you do struggle to get generous proportions at the Marina. I am in a newish Emaar property at the moment - was first tenant and handover late last year - good size and we would ordinarily have stayed as negotiated good price but has some fundamental issues that they cannot seem to fix so will have to move. Landlord has been offering refund for several months now but we cannot find anywhere to move to!
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 09 October 2011 - 20:45
The finish is ok- better than jbr but not as good as the emaar finishes. Location is good next to the mall and you can get Marina views, but the room sizes seriously let it down. The two beds are the size of a 1 bed and all the rooms tiny. Some do have reasonable size balconies ( in comparison with the apartment size).
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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 09 October 2011 - 14:47
Didn't realise it was even finished yet! It's the same designers as the Jewels, so pretty good design...
 
 

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