National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan has given the assurance that no household will be left out of the benefits of basic home improvement works. Mr Mah, who is also MP for Tampines GRC, was speaking at the launch of an upgrading project at a Tampines precinct. Under the scheme - known as the Home Improvement Programme - introduced last year, basic repairs are fully funded by the government, while...
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Seven blocks along Commonwealth Drive are the latest to come under the Housing and Development Board's (HDB) Selective En Bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS). Blocks 74 to 80, which are 44 years old, will make way for redevelopment. The latest site has a total of 669 flats. This brings the total number of sites identified for SERS since the scheme started in 1995 to 72. HDB said it will build 730 units of...
The Housing and Development Board (HDB) said its latest survey showed that residents under the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS) were satisfied with their new and improved living environment. More than 1,000 households were interviewed in the 2007 survey. 96 per cent of the respondents said their present living arrangement was ideal because replacement sites were generally located close to...
The latest HDB survey of residents affected by the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS) showed the scheme is still a popular one among residents. The majority of the 1,000 households polled said they were given enough time to prepare for the relocation and that they were relocated to a place within the same estate near their previous neighbours. This is in addition to having a better living...
Singapore’s third condominium-style public housing project, Park Central@AMK received over 2,300 applications at the end of a two-week sales period. That’s four times more than the total number of units available. The project will comprise 578 units of four and five-room flats, including 20 penthouse apartments. They cost an average S$500 per square foot. Its developer, United Engineers, said Park...
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,...
Applications for Park Central@AMK roll in, but how many will translate into actual sales? SINCE its launch last week, :more than1,000 applications have been received for 578 units at Park Central@AMK, Singapore’s third condominium-style public housing development. With developer United Engineers (UE) pricing its Design, Build and Sell Scheme (DBSS) project at $490 psf to $500 psf, it remains to be seen...
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...
Some 20,000 people have visited the showflats at Park Central@AMK, Singapore’s third condominium-style public housing development. The project, launched last week, has received over 1,000 applications so far, marginally lower than City View@Boon Keng, a similar development nearer the city that went on sale earlier this year. Applications for Park Central units will close on August 5. David Liew,...
More choice for home-buyers HAD you $20,000 in cash to pay for the Cash-Over-Valuation (COV) component of a resale 4-room Housing and Development Board (HDB) flat, you would have better bargaining power now than in the last quarter of 2007. Back then, you might just have been able to afford such a flat in far-flung areas such as Bukit Panjang, Chua Chu Kang, Jurong or Woodlands. But between April and...