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[…]
Price and location are top of the list when potential home owners decide to buy Housing Board flats. No. 3 on the list is to be far away from HDB public rental blocks, a study has found. Owing to the deeply entrenched national aspiration surrounding home ownership, HDB public rental flat dwellers are stigmatised and[…]
But fewer transactions last month compared with Jan, property portal’s flash data shows The Housing Board resale market remained robust last month despite experiencing a seasonal dip from January. Fewer HDB flats changed hands last month compared with January, as prices inched up by 0.7 per cent. In all, 1,668 HDB resale flats were sold[…]
SINGAPORE – To help home buyers access flats more quickly, the Housing Board will scrap the existing Re-Offer of Balance Flats (ROF) exercises. All unsold Build-To-Order (BTO) flats will first be offered through Sale of Balance Flats (SBF) exercises, and those that remain unselected will be directly offered for open booking, instead of going through[…]
Units in Woodlands, Choa Chu Kang, Tengah available at next BTO exercises More two-room Build-To-Order (BTO) flats will be offered in the non-mature towns of Choa Chu Kang, Tengah and Woodlands. This comes as 15,700 singles secured homes following a 2013 rule change which allowed singles aged 35 and above to buy new flats as[…]
92% of them opted for short leases of 15 to 45 years, with 40-year lease being most popular Slightly more than half of all new two-room flats have been bought by seniors aged 55 and above since the two-room Flexi Scheme was introduced in 2015. Of these senior buyers, about nine in 10 opted for[…]
SINGAPORE – The Housing Board (HDB) on Tuesday (Feb 11) launched 3,095 Build-To-Order (BTO) flats in the first sales exercise of the year. The flats are spread across two housing projects in the mature estate of Toa Payoh – one in Kim Keat and another near Caldecott – and one project in Sembawang. In Toa[…]
4,578 units that were less than 10 years old changed hands, 33.4% up from previous year Increasing numbers of home owners have been selling their Housing Board flats the moment they hit the minimum occupancy mark. Sales of HDB flats less than 10 years old hit a nine-year high last year, when 4,578 units changed[…]