After two years of selling women’s clothing online through their business Mini House, Mr Adrian Tan, 38, and his wife Tran Vu Yen Vy, 34, seized the chance to open a physical store when they secured a good deal on the rent. They live next to new mall and neighbourhood centre Oasis Terraces in Punggol[…]
Centre in Punggol developed by HDB after taking in residents’ feedback The first of a new generation of neighbourhood malls, developed by the Housing Board with the feedback of residents, has opened in Punggol. Oasis Terraces, a seven-storey mall next to Oasis LRT station, has more open spaces for people to gather and a tenant[…]
The first Housing Board sales exercise this year includes two projects in Kallang/Whampoa, which experts expect to be popular despite having prices that are just shy of those of resale flats in the area. A new four-room flat in the mature estate costs $598,000 on average, only 7.4 per cent cheaper than the average price[…]
Most bought smaller units with govt grants in past 6 years For five years, delivery driver Mohammad Suhaimi Junaini, his wife and their two daughters aged six and two called a rental flat in Telok Blangah home. Last September, the 32-year-old and his family moved to a three-room flat in Jurong West. Mr Suhaimi, who[…]
8.8% more flats resold last month compared with Dec; may signal sellers’ acceptance of tighter property rules More Housing Board flats changed hands last month compared with December, the first increase in HDB resale transactions since last July’s cooling measures. In all, 1,560 flats were resold last month, 8.8 per cent more than in December,[…]
Units offered on rolling basis for booking any time; first batch of 120 available in mid-2019 Eager home buyers can soon book a Housing Board flat the next working day after applying. A new sales option will offer unsold flats on a rolling basis, available for booking any time. The first batch of 120 flats[…]
How about having freehold units with buyback clause at end of 99 years? The Voluntary Early Redevelopment Scheme (Vers) that will allow home owners to vote on whether to sell their Housing Board flats to the Government once the leases on the apartments near their end was arguably the most significant policy announced last year.[…]
A Housing Board flat owner who converted the doorstep of his property into a fish tank for his koi fish has been asked to remove the unusual structure. The Tampines Street 41 resident had enclosed the area surrounding the steps up to his ground-floor unit to form a glass tank housing around a dozen pet[…]
Lawrence Wong: Such flats to be sold in sale-of-balance exercises About 900 flat buyers cancelled their Build-To-Order (BTO) bookings with the Housing Board last year because they could no longer afford the unit, changed their minds about moving or had bought a resale flat. Of the cancelled bookings, 38 per cent were for four-room flats,[…]
The number of Housing Board flats that changed hands last month was 23.9 per cent lower than in November, a bigger fall than a year ago, flash data from real estate portal SRX showed yesterday. This was the fifth straight month of decline since the cooling measures announced by the Government in July, which included[…]
SINGAPORE – Housing Board resale flat prices fell slightly by 0.2 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2018 compared with the quarter before, according to the latest HDB flash estimates. Resale flat prices also dropped 0.9 per cent in the fourth quarter from a year ago. For the whole of 2018, HDB resale prices[…]
Price decline more gradual than in 2017; 2018’s fourth quarter saw 0.2% price drop Housing Board resale flat prices edged down 0.2 per cent in the fourth quarter of last year, resulting in a full-year price drop of 0.9 per cent, according to HDB’s flash estimates released yesterday. This means the price decline last year[…]