The Housing Development Board (HDB) has received five bids for the sale of a site at the junction of Tampines Avenue 5 and Tampines Central 8. The 32,000 square metre site is designated for public housing under the Design, Build and Sell Scheme, also known as DBSS. It was launched in June and the tender closed at noon on Tuesday. The top bid came from Sim Lian Land, which bid S$178 million for the site....
DBSS Flats
Homebuyers can look forward to another Design Build and Sell Scheme (DBSS) project in Tampines. The Housing and Development Board (HDB) is launching a residential site for sale Wednesday by public tender in Tampines under the Design, Build and Sell Scheme or DBSS. The site is located at Tampines Avenue 5 and Central 8, and is adjacent to the first DBSS project, The Premiere@Tampines. The site area is...
APPLICATIONS were only supposed to open tomorrow - but the overwhelming response to the Housing and Development Board's (HDB) latest housing project in Simei under the Design, Build and Sell Scheme (DBSS), prompted developer Sim Lian Group to accept bookings on Saturday. On Friday, over a hundred people began queuing for the flats at Parc Lumiere, after Sim Lian said bookings would be accepted on a...
Applications were only supposed to open on Tuesday, but the overwhelming response to the Housing and Development Board's (HDB) latest housing project in Simei, under the Design, Build and Sell Scheme (DBSS), prompted developer Sim Lian Group to accept bookings on Saturday. Under DBSS, private developers manage the project from its design to construction and sale, and applications are accepted on a...
Main board listed developer Sim Lian Group will launch its latest development, Parc Lumiere, by walk-in-selection on April 18. Parc Lumiere is a public housing project under the Housing & Development Board's "Design, Build and Sell Scheme" (DBSS). The development which is located near the Simei MRT station will comprise 360 four and five room units. Sim Lian said the average selling price for the...
Some 4,000 people showed up at the launch of "The Peak at Toa Payoh" on Wednesday - a project under the HDB's design, build and sell scheme (DBSS). There were some 100 people lining up outside the development even before it was launched at 8am. Analysts said that's not a bad turnout especially since a premium five-room flat there costs more than S$700,000. The development offers some condominium-style...
I REFER to the report "No-frills housing, please" (Feb 9). MP Lim Wee Kiak is right to note that 3- and 4-room flats cost only $15,000 and $20,000, respectively, in the '70s. In fact, even 5-room flats cost only $27,500 to $35,500 then. How did they all come to cost 10 to 30 times more in a matter of 30 years? Have construction costs and salaries gone up that much? Not only have prices gone up, the sizes...
AT first glance, you might not have thought an economic slowdown was in the wind, with 1,000 visitors thronging the sale launch of the Housing and Development Board's latest project at Bishan on Day One. Natura Loft, a Design, Build and Sell Scheme (DBSS) project, features three 40-storey blocks of 160 four-room flats and 320 five-room units. Describing the response as "enthusiastic", developer Qingjian...
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...