ANOTHER 1,429 flats will be up for grabs in fast-developing Punggol after the HDB launched two new build-to-order (BTO) projects yesterday. The developments - Punggol Emerald and Punggol Waves - will deliver 188 studio apartments, 201 three-room units, 609 four-room units and 431 five-room units to eager home buyers. Yesterday's launches are part of a broader HDB plan to launch 12,000 flats in the first...
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THE Housing and Development Board (HDB) yesterday launched two new build-to-order (BTO) projects in Punggol, offering a total of 1,429 flats. Both projects will be near the Punggol MRT Station, bus interchange and the future Punggol town centre. Punggol Emerald, at the junction of Punggol Way and Punggol Central, will have 856 standard flats. These consist of 188 studio apartments, 96 three-roomers, 350...
Two new Built-To-Order (BTO) projects have been launched in Punggol Town making 1,429 government flats available. In addition, the Housing and Development Board said it will launch another 7,400 BTO flats from May to September 2010, bringing the total number of flats launched in the first three quarters of 2010 to about 12,000. It said the upcoming projects will have a good geographical spread, covering...
MORE than 85,000 Housing Board flats in eight neighbourhoods in central Singapore will be upgraded in a project that will cost $1 billion, said Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng yesterday at an event to mark HDB's 50th anniversary this year. The Government has already spent $3.4 billion in some form of upgrading for 150,000 public flats in these towns which include Ang Mo Kio, Bishan, Toa Payoh,...
It's a key source of financial security upon retirement, home owners told DEPUTY Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng yesterday urged home owners to think before selling their HDB flats in the current upbeat property market. 'In today's brisk market, some of us may be tempted to sell our flat for a profit. I urge you to think carefully before you act on it. Your HDB flat is meant for you to keep for a longer...
The Housing and Development Board (HDB) has committed another $1 billion to upgrade eight towns. Deputy PM and Minister for Home Affairs, Wong Kan Seng announced this at the HDB's 50th anniversary celebrations on Sunday. The eight towns are in the Central zone, namely Ang Mo Kio, Toa Payoh, Bishan, Serangoon, Kallang/Whampoa, Queesntown, Bukit Merah and Central. This is on top of $3.4 billion spent...
PRICES of resale executive condominiums (ECs) have risen much faster than those of private mass market homes in recent years, and have hit yet another high, a recent study has found. From the first quarter of 2007 to the first quarter of this year, the prices of resale ECs shot up 70 per cent, compared with the 39.6 per cent rise in mass market private home prices, the study from Savills Singapore...
SINGAPORE'S public housing programme is testament to the foresight of its leaders. That was the view of Dr Fang Xinghai, head of the Shanghai Municipal Government financial services office, who arrived here on Sunday. He is visiting Singapore for a week as the 30th Lee Kuan Yew Exchange Fellow. Speaking last night at a welcome dinner in his honour at the Shangri-La Hotel, Dr Fang noted that it was...
FOUR plum residential sites which will yield almost 2,000 new homes are being released for tender by the Government in a move to ramp up supply in Singapore's hot property market. They include Punggol's first executive condominium (EC) site, to boast 615 homes, which will be released for tender early next month as a developer has already made a minimum bid of $147.7 million. In stark contrast, when a...
More new housing units will be added to the market to give buyers more choices. The Housing and Development Board (HDB) will put on sale on Wednesday two residential sites in Sembawang and Sengkang. It also put two other sites in Punggol and Yishun on the reserve list for public tender early next month. They are expected to yield about 1,970 dwelling units. About 60 per cent or about 1,215 are Executive...