Being property specialists in Macau, Ambiente team members are often called upon for a comment or opinion relating to what is happening in and around the property scene here.
The Macau Closer magazine has an opinion column, ‘In Residence’, which Ambiente managing director Suzanne Watkinson writes each month. Some of these opinions are featured here. We also intend to include thoughts or comments from other publications that we feel would be of interest to our readers.
Homes on the Hill
Estrada de Cacilhas runs alongside the picturesque Guia Hill Municipal Park, a leafy green ‘lung’ and highest point of Macau at 94 meters above sea level, popular for day and evening family strolls, and the more rigorous sporting types. It used to hug the coast line from just under the lighthouse. Today it’s a way […]
Extraordinary Times
Something rather astonishing is happening in the residential enclave on Coloane’s Hac Sa Beach, known as Hellene Garden.
A facelift for well-loved lake area
Residents in several buildings on the lower end of Praia Grande edging Sai Van lake woke up one morning to an official government notice. The announcement: their buildings are to be given a facelift. That is to say that the scruffy, peeling external walls are to be cleaned up and given a couple of coats […]
The Great Outdoors
From a postage stamp-sized smoker’s balcony to a roof top complete with furnishing and BBQ, outdoor space in residential apartments vary greatly in Macau.
Public Housing Lament
Not being an architect, and speaking from a lay-person’s perspective, I have to wonder at the wisdom behind much of Macau’s newer public housing estates.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations is a novel set in early Victorian England, a time when great social changes were sweeping the nation. At its core is the desire for wealth and social advancement. The Industrial Revolution of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries had transformed the social landscape, enabling capitalists and manufacturers to amass huge fortunes.
Carpark Conundrum
For anyone hoping to run a business in Macau that requires some amount of easy mobility, be it for clients or for goods, a car is essential. But with this comes the drama of finding places to park. Macau is fast following its other city cousins, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, New York – there’s no […]
The Look of Love
How does that old Dusty Springfield song go; “ The look of love is in your eyes, the look your heart cant disguise, the look of love is saying so much more than just words could ever say”.
Maintenance Matters
As we all know, even in one’s home, things get worn and need to be cleaned and maintained on a regular basis. Walls repainted every so often, air conditioners and gas heaters serviced, repairs to kitchen cabinets and the like … these need to be done to keep the home a healthy environment and one […]
