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SINGAPORE – Around 17,000 built-to-order (BTO) floors will be launched in 2021, keeping the supply of new floors in line with what was launched this year.
However, given the economic uncertainty due to Covid-19, the Housing Board will closely monitor the housing market and calibrate the offer flat if necessary, National Development Minister Desmond Lee said in a Facebook post on Monday (December 21).
This year, a total of 16,752 BTO floors were launched in three sales exercises.
Typically, the HDB conducts four BTO sales exercises in one year, but due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the May BTO exercise was postponed and merged with the August BTO exercise.
Next year, new flats will be offered in mature estates such as Geylang, Kallang / Whampoa, Bidadari estate in Toa Payoh and Ulu Pandan estate in Queenstown.
Immature estates like Bukit Batok, Tengah and Woodlands will also see new flooring, to offer home buyers “a wide range of options to choose from,” said Mr. Lee.
This includes Singapore’s first public assisted living housing for seniors in Bukit Batok, which will launch next February.
These 160 apartments, expected to be completed in 2024, come with a mandatory service package to help seniors who want to live alone and yet enjoy some community care, support and activities.
Many upcoming public housing developments will incorporate features like EV-ready parking lots, smart LED lighting in common areas that dims when there is little human traffic, and smart pneumatic waste transport systems, which send household waste through a network. underground pipeline closed to a centralized garbage center, Mr. Lee said.
These features are part of HDB’s new roadmap called Designing for Life that will guide the design and planning of HDB’s cities and apartments for the next decade.
“Homeowners can expect features that will help make our cities and farms more livable, efficient, sustainable, and safe,” said Mr. Lee.
Green will continue to be a large part of public housing developments.
“When developing the house plans, HDB engaged and received feedback from various partners, including nature groups, to try to strike a balance between conservation and development needs,” said Mr. Lee.
For the first time in 14 years, new BTO apartments were launched in the mature development of Bishan in two housing projects, both of which were heavily over-subscribed.
The first batch of BTO flats was also launched in Tengah’s newest Park district as the “forest city” continues to take shape.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the completion dates of various BTO projects were also delayed by six to nine months.
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