What is a phase in a compound?

Why do developers build a compound in phases?

A large compound covers a wide area, and no developer builds all of it at once. The site is divided into stages, and each stage is released, built and handed over before or alongside the next. A phase is one such stage: a defined group of buildings on its own part of the land, with its own beginning and its own end.

How does a phase differ from the rest of the compound?

The compound is the whole development planned for the site. A phase is the part of it being built and sold at a given time. A phase can have its own gate, its own internal road, its own pool or garden, and its own mix of building types, while it stays joined to the compound's main entrance and its services.

Does each phase have its own delivery date?

Yes. Each phase carries its own delivery year, because each is built on its own schedule. A compound's page shows the delivery years its units carry today, and the phase you buy in is the one whose date applies to you. Two units in the same compound can carry different delivery years when they sit in different phases.

Can the price differ from one phase to the next?

Prices are set phase by phase and at launch, and they reflect what has been built and what buyers will pay at that time. The catalogue holds asking prices as they stand the moment you read them, so a unit in a later phase and a unit in an earlier phase of the same compound can carry different figures. Compare the two units' own pages rather than the compound's overall range.

Do later phases get the same facilities?

The facilities are planned for the whole development, and each phase connects to them as the build advances. What a phase has at handover depends on what is complete by then. A later phase opens onto facilities finished before it, while an early phase can be handed over before every shared building is up. The amenities a compound lists describe the development as a whole.

What should I check about the phase I am buying in?

Four things: the delivery year written against your unit; which facilities are built and which are still planned; whether your phase has its own entrance, gate or shared area; and how the phase relates to the parts still to come, so you know what will be under construction beside you. The contract and the drawings attached to it name the phase your unit sits in.

Will the phase I buy in be finished before the rest?

The phase is what the developer commits to deliver for your unit; the rest of the compound is delivered on its own phases and its own dates. Handover of your phase does not wait for the whole site to be complete, and the remaining phases continue around you. What the developer commits to at handover is set out in the contract's delivery clause.