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February 17, 2024
Location, nearby amenities, purchase price, resale price, application rates, mature/non-mature estate, room types, heck, even the direction of the sun. There are a multitude of factors to consider when choosing your HDB Build-to-Order (BTO) flat. It can be very overwhelming-especially after flat non-selection rules were tightened last year from the September 2023 BTO launch onwards. So this year for the...
June 11, 2022
For singles to buy a home in Singapore, it is frankly a bit of an arduous process. As a quick summary, you aren’t able to buy a BTO flat unless it’s a 2-bedder, and in a non-mature location. Even if you choose to buy a resale flat, you’d still need to be at least 35-years old regardless. Of course, there’s...
February 6, 2022
New to the whole BTO game? Not sure what's the difference between a project in a mature estate versus one in a non-mature estate? And how is the PLH BTO different from a mature estate BTO? If you're considering to ballot for an HDB BTO project, location, amenities and accessibility shouldn't be the only factors to consider. One main factor...
November 23, 2021
After day one of HDB’s BTO November 2021 launch, 4-room flats at Rochor’s River Peaks I and II have registered an application rate of 4.6. That’s 3,158 applicants for 680 4-room flats (so far). Second-timers form a bulk of it – at 49.3 times – compared to 2.3 times for first-timers. For the 3-room flats, there are 356 applicants for...
August 16, 2021
It’s that time of the year again – the mad rush to select your BTO unit. This time, it’s the much anticipated August 2021 BTO launch, with 4,989 units across five estates on offer. These are spread across seven projects in Hougang, Jurong East, Kallang Whampoa, Queenstown, and Tampines. And well, because more than half the units on offer are...
August 11, 2021
SINGAPORE - A total of 4,989 Build-To-Order (BTO) flats across seven housing projects in five estates were launched for sale by the Housing Board (HDB) on Wednesday (Aug 11). This was the third sales exercise for the year, with a median waiting time of just over four years for flats to be completed. A highly anticipated BTO project is Queen's...