Tag: HDB flats

(Header image credit: Life Art Reno Design) Are you tired of living in spaces so cramped, you’ve memorised the pattern of veins on your sibling’s eyeballs? Do you long to rush to the toilet in the morning, and not have to wait 20 minutes while someone puts on their makeup? (Cover image credits) Then you…

The Housing Development Board (HDB) has provided homes for majority of Singaporeans for almost six decades. With more than one million flats built across 23 towns and three estates in Singapore, we explore the evolution of HDB flat designs since its formation in 1960. Be prepared for the nostalgia to hit as we take a…

Dwellings here, Dwellings there, Dwellings everywhere The jigsaw puzzle that is the Singaporean real estate market can be divided up, labeled, categorized, and sliced into various forms and types of housing types – or, dwellings. To make sense of it all we have created an excruciatingly comprehensive – yes, that kind of comprehensive – overview of…

If you’ve ever stepped into an Executive Maisonette, commonly known as EM, your eyes would probably have widened at the sheer size and spaciousness of these very unique HDB apartments. EMs are HDB flats that span two storeys, with a floor area of up to 2,615 square feet (sq ft). The bedrooms are usually found…

The Covid-19 outbreak has shone the spotlight on sub-par living conditions of hundreds of thousands of foreign workers in Singapore. With cramped and often unsanitary living spaces, the dormitories are perfect environments for the coronavirus to spread like wildfire. And spread it did. In April 2020 alone, the Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed more than 11,000…

Sure, BTO flats look nice and all, but for those who’re a little bit older, like us, we’re missing the days when the Housing & Development Board (HDB) were more creative with their block designs. In the day and age of prefabricated concrete construction, you probably won’t find them building these weird blocks of HDB…

You think not having lift access on every floor isn’t a big deal? You’re wrong, and there are some reasons why needing to “just climb a few stairs” can suck more than think: There are still 150 blocks of flats that can’t have 100 per cent lift access We’ve spent about $5 billion on the…

Before there was such a thing as BTO flats, blocks of HDB flats were built BEFORE they were sold. Sometime in the 1990s, there was a massive oversupply of flats in Woodlands and Yishun. In response to the oversupply, HDB combined the many of the unsold units into jumbo flats, effectively halving the number of…

There was an increase in resale flats sold in May, even as resale prices dipped month on month. Here’s what’s happening: There were 2,075 resale flat transactions in May, an increase of 7.5 per cent from the 1,931 transacted units in April. Resale volume was 18.3 per cent higher compared to the same time last…

Every day, 99.co picks a piece of property jargon and demystifies it. Today, we’re looking at the Voluntary Early Redevelopment Scheme (VERS), also known as Value Ending Real Soon: What is the Voluntary Early Redevelopment Scheme (VERS)? VERS is a solution to the issue of expiring HDB leases. It was announced in August 2018, and…