A Housing & Development Board (HDB) flat is a “good store of asset value” for those who plan ahead and make prudent housing decisions, National Development Minister Lawrence Wong said. His comments, made in a Facebook post on Wednesday (Apr 12), come in response to online debate over his comments that not all HDB flats will be eligible for the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme...
The Housing & Development Board (HDB) received an average of 2.7 applications for every two-room Flexi Build-To-Order (BTO) flat offered in 2016, said Minister for National Development Lawrence Wong in Parliament on Monday (Apr 3). The applications came from a mix of families, elderly and singles, said Mr Wong who was responding to a parliamentary question by Dr Lee Bee Wah, Member of Parliament (MP)...
Resale prices of Housing & Development Board (HDB) flats declined by 0.6 per cent in the first quarter of the year compared to the previous quarter, according to flash estimates released by HDB on Monday (Apr 3). The resale price index - which provides information on the general price movements in the resale public housing market - is estimated to have slid to 133.8 from 134.6 the previous quarter, HDB...
HDB resale prices fell 0.3 per cent in February compared with January. Resale prices of HDB four-room, five-room and executive flats fell 0.2 per cent, 0.5 per cent and 1.7 per cent respectively, while those of three-room flats rose 0.2 per cent. This was according to the SRX Property Price Index for HDB Resale. Year-on-year, prices have decreased by 0.6 per cent from February 2016, and 11.5 per...
MORE help to first-timer homebuyers is underway, including shorter waiting time for build-to-order (BTO) flats in non-mature estates and quicker access to balance flats, Minister for National Development Lawrence Wong said. The Housing & Development Board (HDB) also aims to - by leveraging on technology - shorten and streamline the resale transaction process. The current process takes about 16 weeks to...
THE two largest property realtors in Singapore have yet to receive any cancelled prior sale submissions for resale flats following the announcement of bigger housing grants for first-time HDB buyers in the Budget reading on Monday. Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat had announced in Parliament that young couples buying a resale HDB flat for the first time will be enjoying higher subsidies of up to...
Final-year university student Belle Low has been looking to settle down with her boyfriend of four years. So far, her search for a first home has been concentrated largely on Build-to-Order (BTO) flats. But she said the increase in the CPF Housing Grant has opened up an additional option for them: the resale market. In his Budget statement delivered on Monday (Feb 20), Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat...
A total of 4,056 Build-To-Order (BTO) flats were launched in Punggol, Clementi and Tampines on Tuesday (Feb 14), the Housing and Development Board (HDB) announced. This is the first tranche of 17,000 flats to be launched in 2017, it said. Flats offered in this BTO launch range from 2-room Flexi to Three-Generation (3Gen) flats. The price range for these flats range from S$81,000 for a 2-room Flexi...
Prevailing market conditions may affect prices of new HDB units offered under the Sale of Balance Flats (SBF) exercises, said National Development Minister Lawrence Wong in Parliament on Tuesday (Feb 7). He was responding to a question by Workers' Party chief Low Thia Khiang on the pricing mechanism of units under Build-To-Order (BTO) and SBF exercises and why prices could differ for the same flat in...
THE Housing & Development Board (HDB) on Tuesday launched 4,056 flats for sale under the February 2017 Build-To-Order (BTO) exercise. The flats being offered in the first tranche for 2017 span across six projects in the non-mature town of Punggol, and the mature towns of Clementi and Tampines.They range from two-room Flexi to three-generation (3Gen) flats. A project in Woodlands, originally planned...
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