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SPOTTING ILLEGAL STAYS<\/span><\/h2>\n

Detection can become more difficult once occupants are already living in a residential development.<\/span><\/p>\n

People staying in a unit may have access cards just like legitimate residents, while surveillance cameras alone may not be enough to establish if someone is living there illegally.<\/span><\/p>\n

Property managers therefore keep a lookout for patterns of unusual behaviour, said Mr Ng.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSome will appear to be a bit confused \u2026 they don’t know where to go. They ask for directions, so I would say all these are tell-tale signs,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But tackling illegal accommodation requires cooperation among various parties, said Professor Sing Tien Foo, provost’s chair professor of real estate at the National University of Singapore\u2019s (NUS) Business School.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOn one hand, regulators need to impose stricter enforcement. On the other hand, you also need somebody on the ground to actually be able to identify and to report to some of these cases,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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