Resale prices of Housing Board flats rose in the third quarter of this year, with the resale price index reaching 133.7, said HDB yesterday. This is an increase of 1.4 per cent from the previous quarter. Last quarter’s performance also marked a significant improvement from the previous quarters. The resale price index had risen by[…]
SINGAPORE – A total of 1,356 households that could not meet their monthly mortgage payments received help from the Housing Board from April to June this year, as Singaporeans grapple with the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is nearly a threefold increase from the 517 households in financial difficulty that received help during[…]
SINGAPORE – A number of projects in the mega build-to-order (BTO) sales exercise on Wednesday (Aug 12) may take up to five years to complete due to safety measures introduced at construction sites to curb Covid-19. The Housing Board said home buyers keen on the 1,785-unit UrbanVille @ Woodlands project, a five-minute walk from Woodlands[…]
SINGAPORE – Housing Board flat resale transactions took a plunge in the second quarter of 2020 in light of the circuit breaker measures. The number of resale transactions fell by 41.9 per cent, from 5,893 flats sold in the first quarter of 2020 to 3,426 flats in the second quarter, according to data from the[…]
SINGAPORE – Retail sales assistant Joyce Loh and her husband were supposed to get the keys to their new Build-To-Order (BTO) flat in Bukit Batok last month but will now have to wait till the start of next year. Their block in West Plains @ Bukit Batok is one of several in BTO projects facing[…]
SINGAPORE – Housing Board resale prices increased marginally in the second quarter of 2020 amid the Covid-19 break, compared with the first quarter of the year. The resale price index was 131.8, up 0.2 per cent from the previous quarter, according to HDB flash estimates released on Wednesday (July 1). The prices rose marginally after staying[…]
SINGAPORE – The volume of private apartments and Housing Board flats rented may have bottomed out in the second month of the circuit breaker period but rents could continue to weaken, market observers said in response to flash data released by real estate portal SRX Property on Wednesday (June 10). The number of non-landed private homes leased increased[…]
SINGAPORE – In the first government land sale (GLS) in 2020, the Housing Board on Thursday (April 30) put on the market an executive condominium site in Yishun Avenue 9, and extended the public tender period to six months because of the coronavirus outbreak. The tender for the 99-year leasehold land parcel will close at[…]
SINGAPORE – The sales exercise for Build-To-Order (BTO) flats in May will be deferred until further notice, said the Housing Board (HDB). Some 3,700 BTO flats in Choa Chu Kang, Tengah, Pasir Ris and Tampines, and about 160 assisted living flats for seniors in Bukit Batok were supposed to launch next month. This comes after[…]
SINGAPORE – Resale and rental volumes of Housing Board flats fell in the first quarter of 2020 amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. Data provided by the HDB on Friday (April 24) showed that resale flat transactions fell from 6,339 in the last quarter of 2019 to 5,893 in the first three months this year –[…]
SINGAPORE – Housing Board resale prices were flat in the first three months of 2020 amid the Covid-19 outbreak, compared with the last quarter of 2019. The resale price index was 131.5, the same level as in the last quarter of 2019, according to the latest HDB flash estimates released on Wednesday (April 1). The[…]
SINGAPORE – Heavy bamboo poles loaded with laundry will soon be a thing of the past in some 230,000 Housing Board (HDB) flats, as they will be replaced with a new retractable clothes drying rack. Flats built between 1987 and 1997 will be eligible for the upgrade under the extended Home Improvement Programme (HIP), the[…]