Flip Flop
And who was trying to sell you what?
Have you seen all the private homes north of the cut? We certainly have title to our homes there.
There are still a number of different land title ownership structures north of the river. Yes Scubalady, people that own private homes own title to their land. The difference with condos and villa projects is that there are multiple owners sitting on one piece of land, and in the case of condos one might actually own a piece of "air" where your home is situated since it is standing on the same area of ground as other units. Condo titles could only be issued to land that was owned with the new registration titles. So up until only a few years ago all "condos" built on the north side of the bridge could only be "owned" by way of corporate share and then unit owners were granted "exclusive rights of governance" of their unit. When a large area north of the bridge was declared to be in the compulsory new registration area the ablity to issue strata titles was attained.
So Flip Flop, only a few short years ago you could not own a strata title (condo title) north of the bridge. But now you can.
Private homes, owned by one owner, have had individual titles north of the bridge for over 100 years.
Hope that is clear, if it isn't I can try and explain in another manner.