By Business Reporter-The live, work, shop and play customer-centric Westprop Holdings is offering its residential property customers at Pomona City the opportunity of a lifetime to pay a 50 per cent deposit for their brick requirements and enjoy a two-year instalment payment. The company is setting up a US$1 million brick moulding company to assist in the realisation of the one billion bricks vision by 2050 and to speed development after encountering delays in brick delivery and, at times, standard bricks. Of all its development projects so far – only customers at Pomona City are building their own homes, while at other developments, the company is offering complete turn-key products.
Only 29 residential stands remain at Pomona phases 1B & C and 1A out of the initial 765 ahead of the introduction of the exciting leasehold concept next year. The brick factory is designed to supply bricks to WestProp projects, and with growth, the company will then be able to supply excess bricks to “outside customers”. Chief executive officer Mr Ken Sharpe says the new venture is in response to market delays in delivering bricks to the company’s construction sites and a quest to manage brick quality.
“As of March, next year, we start production. Those bricks are pre-sold. They are going to our customers.
Our customers will pay a 50 percent deposit and pay the balance in instalments over two years,” he said. The initiative is meant to incentivise the customers to build and not be bu.