THE public first got wind of the ambitious vision last August, when Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong spoke of giving the 56-year-old Dawson Estate a new face. Now, the surgeons who will design its new face have been appointed, and flats could go on sale by next year. Construction is expected to start six months after the sale and the new generation of flats would be ready by around 2014, said Ms Grace Fu,...
BTO Flats
Two award-winning private architects have been officially appointed by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) on Wednesday to put a new spin to the old Dawson Estate in Queenstown. SCDA Architects Pte Ltd and WOHA Architects Pte Ltd were earlier commissioned to draw up plans for two separate public housing sites at the junction of Margaret Drive and Dawson Road. The new flats will be launched for sale...
New rules for BTO applications have helped genuine public housing buyers: Mah THE private market may have quietened, but the housing board resale market remains “quite active”, said Minister for National Development Mah Bow Tan. :”Transactions are still strong - not as strong as six months ago, but still relatively strong,” Mr Mah said, on the sidelines of a community event...
Three-year wait likely, so couples in a hurry will have to resort to resale market AS MORE flats come on stream under the Housing and Development Board’s (HDB) build-to-order (BTO) scheme, the board says such units will be its main source of supply in future, and would-be home buyers would have to factor in a three-year wait. This is because construction work on a project under the scheme will only...
The Housing and Development Board (HDB) said build-to-order (BTO) flats will constitute the main supply of new flats going forward. HDB also plans to build another 5,000 units under this scheme, between now and September 2008. The move comes as HDB’s stock of unsold flats is progressively being taken up. During the days of excess supply of HDB flats, there were over 25,000 ready-built flats waiting...
Board should do more to weed out insincere applicants My fiancee and I are young executives who are looking for a place to live after we get married. We have applied for a Housing and Development Board (HDB) flat under the Design, Build and Sell Scheme (DBSS) and the Build-To-Order (BTO) schemes several times, but have repeatedly drawn very high queue numbers. The application fee of $10 should be raised...