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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...

Tampines and Punggol have now joined the million-dollar HDB resale club. A resale HDB maisonette in Tampines was sold for $1.013 million this month, while a five-room resale loft unit at Punggol became the first flat in the estate to breach the million dollar mark recently. The Tampines flat spans around 1,658 sq ft, translating to a price psf of...

Welcome Punggol to the million dollar flat club.

2022 has seen a bumper crop of flats reach their MOP; around 31,000+ flats to be precise. Good news for home buyers who can’t wait for four to five years for a BTO flat, but there’s one problem: Many of these newer flats are at a premium, and first-time buyers may be priced out. For those of you in this...

Project: Matilda Sundeck HDB Town Punggol Address: 228A-B Punggol Field, 229A-B Sumang Lane Lease start date: 2021 No. of units: 490 Matilda Sundeck is no ordinary HDB development. This seemingly innocuous HDB development happens to pay homage to a century-old bungalow in Punggol that had a reputation for being “haunted”. The home was once owned by one of the wealthiest Eurasian family in Singapore who owned opium farms (then l...

BTO projects are taking longer to build due to the Circuit Breaker last year, as well as manpower and supply crunch driven by the pandemic. The construction delays have even led HDB to allow you to cancel your BTO to buy a resale flat if you have urgent housing needs. On the other hand, buying a resale flat comes with...