Lease Buyback Scheme

344 sign up for HDB Lease Buyback Scheme

344 Singaporeans have signed up for the Housing and Development Board's Lease Buyback Scheme since its launch in March. HDB gave out its first batch of upfront payment of S$5,000 to flat owners on Tuesday. Residents in the 30-year-old Queenstown estate were the first to receive the initial payouts from the HDB Lease Buyback Scheme. Under the scheme, senior citizens aged 62 years and above from...

HDB receives 178 applications so far for Lease Buyback Scheme

The Housing and Development Board (HDB) has received 178 applications since the Lease Buyback Scheme was launched last month. It is a scheme which helps seniors monetise their flats. With the Lease Buyback Scheme, these seniors will now be able to receive a monthly payout of a few hundred dollars and continue living in their flats for 30 years after they sign up. The scheme helps cash-poor, asset-rich...

I can’t take the flat with me when i die

AT 72, Mr Koh Chiong Eng is worried he may lose his job as a petrol pump assistant. That is why he was among the five who signed up for the Lease Buyback scheme, which was officially launched yesterday some two years after Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong mooted the idea. "I can‚t take the flat with me if I die. It‚s better to sell it to the Government and get some money to meet my daily needs," he...

HDB Lease Buyback Scheme kicks off

Singapore's Housing and Development Board Lease Buyback Scheme started on Sunday, after two years in the works. Five applications were received in the first hour. The scheme is designed to help cash-poor, asset-rich seniors meet their retirement needs. 72-year-old Koh Chiong Eng is afraid he may lose his petrol pump attendant job soon because of his age. If that happens, meeting daily expenditure will...

An option, not a last resort

WE REFER to Mr Quek Soo Beng‚s letter "A second chance at home" (Feb 10), on the Lease Buyback Scheme (LBS). The LBS is a generous scheme specially designed to meet the needs of the elderly. It allows them to continue living in the same HDB flat and neighbourhood, while leading a more financially secure retirement. It is an option to unlock the value of the flat, in addition to subletting a room or...

HDB to accept applications for Lease Buyback Scheme from Mar 1

From Mar 1, HDB will accept applications for the Lease Buyback Scheme (LBS). LBS is a new monetisation option to help elderly households in three-room or smaller flats unlock their housing equity to meet their retirement needs. This was announced by National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan in Parliament on Friday. Under this scheme, HDB will buy back the tail-end of the lease of their flats, leaving...

The best option for elderly flat owners

THE Housing and Development Board's (HDB) lease buyback scheme appears to be the best option for the elderly who wish to "unlock" the value of their homes. The lease buyback scheme, which the HDB will implement next year, provides the highest monthly payouts compared with other plans that enable the elderly to monetise their flats for retirement income. Under the lease buyback model, HDB will buy back...

HDB Lease Buyback Scheme could be implemented in January 2009

The Lease Buyback Scheme (LBS) to help low-income households monetise their flats for their retirement needs could be implemented as early as January next year. Senior Minister of State for National Development Grace Fu gave this update in Parliament on Tuesday when replying to a question brought up by MP for Aljunied GRC Cynthia Phua. Under the scheme, first announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong...

Lease Buyback Scheme: ‘Unlocking’ value

Lease Buyback Scheme to benefit the elderly Some 25,000 households - or 70 per cent of elderly two and three-room flat owners - will qualify for the Housing and Development Board’s (HDB) new Lease Buyback Scheme (LBS) that kicks off next year. The HDB will buy back the tail end of the flat’s lease from elderly owners at market value, so that they can “unlock” the value of their flat. The lessee...

HDB’s new lease buyback scheme to benefit 25,000 elderly households

Some 25,000 households, or 70 per cent, of two- and three-room flat owners will benefit from HDB's new Lease Buyback Scheme. Under this scheme, the Housing Board will buy back the tail end of the flat lease from elderly owners, to help them unlock the value from their flat. Details were announced by National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan in his speech Low income elderly households can sign up for the...

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