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haio News
Singapore property news, explained with the numbers behind each story.
General7 Oct 2026
HDB borrowed S$1.2 billion to finance or refinance green buildings. Why your flat is unlikely to feel it
A four-year green bond at 2.586% a year tells you what HDB pays to borrow, but it is unlikely to move your flat price or your loan.
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Condo2 Oct 2026
Cheapest 1-bedroom developer units under $1.5M
Developer asking prices as of 2 Oct 2026 put an available 1-bedroom below $1.5 million in 21 private condo projects, from $1,019,000 at Duet @ Emily (D09) to $1,488,000 at Midtown Bay (D07). For each one we show the floor plan of the cheapest available unit, what the developer paid for its land and when its ABSD clock runs out, with charts of resale returns in its district.
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General2 Oct 2026
Private home sales fell about 30% in Q3. Prices rose anyway.
URA's flash estimate puts private home prices up 1.4% in 3Q2026, and the Outside Central Region led the non-landed regions while the city centre went flat.
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Condo29 Sept 2026
Cheapest 2-bedroom developer units under $2.5M
Developer asking prices as of 29 Sep 2026 put an available 2-bedroom below $2.5 million in 36 private condo projects, from $1,339,000 at Narra Residences (D23) to $2,499,000 at Sophia Regency (D09). For each one we show the floor plan of the cheapest available unit, what the developer paid for its land and when its ABSD clock runs out, with charts of resale returns in its district.
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General28 Sept 2026
Your HDB loan rate holds at 2.6%. Think twice before you empty your CPF OA to pay it down.
HDB's loan rate stays pegged 0.1% above the 2.5% your Ordinary Account earns through 31 Dec 2026. Unless your other CPF balances already fill the $60,000 that earns extra interest, part of your OA can earn more than the loan costs.
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Condo28 Sept 2026
Cheapest 3-bedroom developer units under $3.6M
Developer asking prices as of 28 Sep 2026 put an available 3-bedroom below $3.6 million in 39 private condo projects, from $1,800,000 at The Shorefront (D17) to $3,551,000 at Meyer Blue (D15). For each one we show the floor plan of the cheapest available unit, what the developer paid for its land and when its ABSD clock runs out, with charts of resale returns in its district.
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Condo27 Sept 2026
Chuan Park: A $1,203 psf ppr Collective Sale And A $2,598 psf Transacted Median
Nine sections on Chuan Park, with the 2022 collective-sale land rate set against the 36 Singapore-wide government land awards of 2025 and 2026, 896 URA caveats at a $2,598 psf median, 13 unsold homes asking $2,682 to $2,725 psf, 2,079 exact-unit pairs across 13 labelled Kingsford and MCC Land projects, forty comparables within 2 km and the exit audience around Lorong Chuan station. The brochure's site and floor plans remain the gap.
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Condo27 Sept 2026
Lucerne Grand: A $1,132 psf ppr Tender And A $2,251 psf Developer From-Price
Nine sections on Lucerne Grand, with the land price set against the 35 other Singapore-wide government land awards of 2025 and 2026, 23,707 exact-unit resale and sub-sale pairs across 123 labelled City Developments projects, the brochure's plans, three developer from-prices with a haio unit model, nineteen comparables within 2 km and the site's own exit audience. The unit price list remains the gap.
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General25 Sept 2026
HDB wants to build BTOs with fewer hands. Don't expect your keys sooner yet.
Smart hoists go to about half of BTO sites tendered from 2027, and a new precast parts catalogue could save up to 20% of project man-hours. Both apply to future tenders.
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General24 Sept 2026
BTOs put to design tender since Dec 2023 share HDB's standard unit plans. So what are you actually choosing?
The award-winning first BTOs in Berlayar and Mount Pleasant show where HDB's standard flat plans stop and each project's own character starts.
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Condo19 Sept 2026
Thomson Reserve: A $1,178 psf ppr Collective Sale, 11% Under The 2025-2026 Government Land Median
Eight sections on Thomson Reserve: land basis, an illustrative cost model, an official-document developer roster, unit mix and plans, modelled pricing, nearby comparables and the site's exit audience. The price list remains unavailable before the October 2026 preview.
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General19 Sept 2026
HDB's first testbed BTO is done, and its beam-free living space has been rolled out to six projects
Garden Waterfront II @ Tengah was completed in June 2026 and both Construction Transformation Project sites are on track for a 25% site productivity gain. Inside the flat, the design change is the beam- and column-free living space, rolled out to six projects to date, including Bayshore, Bukit Merah, Kallang/Whampoa and Mount Pleasant.
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General19 Sept 2026
$208m for one plot off Sin Ming: what Bishan buyers should read into it
Eco World Development has taken the 99-year site at Lorong Puntong / Sin Ming Avenue for $208.1 million, a land rate of about $1,612 psf ppr, which is likely to set a floor under the price of whatever gets built there.
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Condo15 Sept 2026
Amberwood at Holland: What Does The $2.568m Starting Price Buy?
Eight sections on Amberwood’s family layouts, land cost, asking prices and recorded sales, with floor plans and dated comparisons.
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Landed29 Aug 2026
What The Listing Does Not Say: Six Checks Before You Buy A Landed House
Two terrace houses on the same side of the same district, both advertised as 99-year leasehold, sold at $284 and $1,605 per square foot. The gap was printed in the public record the whole time, just never on the listing.
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HDB28 Jul 2026
Removal Of 15-Month HDB Wait-Out Period: What This Means For HDB Downgraders
Private property owners can now buy a non-subsidised HDB resale flat with no waiting period, provided they do not take an HDB housing loan. The separate 30-month wait for subsidised flats, ECs bought from a developer, and HDB loan purchases is unchanged.
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General14 Jul 2026
HDB just raised S$1 billion at 2.21%. Here's what it's really funding.
You can't buy these bonds, the AAA rating and near-government borrowing cost are the quiet machinery behind the flats HDB keeps building.
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General13 Jul 2026
Parliament just put your HDB resale fee into the statute book
The Workers' Party asked whether those fees were ever legally collected. MND says yes, and the new Bill spells it out.
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General11 Jul 2026
Singapore's Top Transformation Areas: Where the Master Plan Is Actually Redrawing the Map
We ranked every URA planning area by the development potential the Master Plan actually unlocked, land area × plot-ratio uplift = new floor space. Woodlands, the Jurong precincts and the Greater Southern Waterfront lead; the honest asterisk is Sungei Kadut.
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General10 Jul 2026
JTC releases its last two industrial sites of the half, 1H2026 land supply closes at 6.89 ha
Two B2 plots, one in Boon Lay, one in Tuas, go to tender on 33-year terms, both closing 25 August. Here is what the numbers mean if you have never read an industrial land launch before.
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General6 Jul 2026
The Quality Grade That Follows Your Developer's Name: How BCA's CONQUAS Bands Read a Track Record
At the May 2023 launch of Singapore's construction-quality banding, 20 property developers and 15 builders sat in the top tier, Band 1, and no firm sat in the bottom tier, Band 6. That single line captures the shift the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) has been driving
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General5 Jul 2026
Up to 1,200 homes wired into an MRT interchange, Jurong Lake District's newest site just launched
URA has put up a White site at Town Hall Link that could hold up to 1,200 private homes, 40,000 sqm of offices and 44,000 sqm of retail and other uses, plugged straight into the Jurong East MRT interchange.
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General1 Jul 2026
Home prices rose just 0.5% last quarter, the average is hiding a market splitting in two
URA's Q2 2026 flash estimate: landed homes rose 2.6% and the prime core 2.0%, while the city fringe fell 1.4% and the suburbs edged down. The gains are all at the top.
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General1 Jul 2026
Long Island Plan: East Coast is getting a new coastline, what it means for your property
URA has confirmed Long Island's prep works start end-2026, an 800ha sea defence that will redraw the East Coast over decades. Here's what's actually happening and what it means for residents.
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General1 Jul 2026
HDB resale prices just fell for the second quarter running, and 7,960 flats are coming in October
The Resale Price Index slipped again in Q2 2026 just as HDB readies about 7,960 new flats for October, shifting the leverage toward buyers.
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General30 Jun 2026
Sembawang's next housing site is up for tender, HDB now calls it Admiralty Walk
HDB has launched the sale tender for the Admiralty Walk plot, the site listed as Sembawang Drive in the 1H2026 land-sale programme. Here's what a north buyer should watch.
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Condo28 Jun 2026
Dunearn House: a data-driven analysis
The Frasers / CSC Land / Sekisui House venture paid $1,410 psf ppr for the Dunearn Road land, $215 below the plot next door. haio's data-driven read: the land-tender context, the breakeven ladder (≈$2,168 psf), the twelve Bukit Timah neighbours already trading $1,874–$2,730 psf, and what a 99-year lease does over time.
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General26 Jun 2026
Two MRT-side plots just opened, with room for around 285 new homes
URA has put up land near Bright Hill and Farrer Park MRT, yet just one of the two sites is certain to ever be tendered, here's what that thin pipeline means if you're house-hunting in either area.
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General26 Jun 2026
URA is selling a 0.43-hectare Bishan plot. It can go 120 metres up.
The Lorong Puntong / Sin Ming Avenue site is on the Confirmed List and closes for tender on 15 Sept 2026, small footprint, high ceiling, 99-year lease.
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Landed25 Jun 2026
A Comprehensive Guide to A&A, Reconstruction & Rebuilding Your Landed Home
If you own a landed home in Singapore and want to rebuild or renovate, the first decisions are made before a single line is drawn, whether your works count as an A&A or a reconstruction, how to budget on the area you actually build, the licensed team the law requires, the two completion certificates, and the surveys underground that quietly swing six figures. This is the whole path, taught plainly.
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Condo24 Jun 2026
How much of your condo can you actually live in? The year it was approved decides.
Over fifteen years, URA rewrote what counts as floor area in a Singapore condo, bay windows, balconies, AC ledges, voids. Each change reshaped the layouts and unit sizes on sale today. Here's the timeline, and how to read an old floor plan because of it.
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Condo19 Jun 2026
River Valley's last plot drew 4 bids. The top: $750.6m, $1,730 psf ppr.
SMCL Haven 3 and CSC Land Group topped the River Valley Green (Parcel C) tender at $750.57m, $1,730 psf ppr, 22% above the plot next door. COLI, a GuocoLand-led team and Kingsford Huray followed. haio's read: the four bids, the price climb up the same street, and a breakeven near $2,551 against River Modern's $3,239. Tender closed 18 Jun 2026; URA awards next.
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General17 Jun 2026
HDB Launches 6,952 Flats Across 7 Projects in June 2026 BTO Sales Exercise
HDB is offering 6,952 flats across seven projects this June, in Standard, Plus and Prime tiers, with 4-room prices ranging from $302,000 in Sembawang to $592,000 in Bukit Merah.
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Condo13 Jun 2026
Singapore's second-priciest plot of land just drew a bid. Here's how much.
CDL and Hong Leong's $542.4m top bid for a prime-Newton plot is a land rate beaten only once, by Cuscaden Road in 2018. haio's read: the four-bidder ladder, the breakeven that frames the future launch, and a school catchment that thins from 2030.
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Condo12 Jun 2026
Lentor Gardens Residences: the cheapest land in Lentor's history, a data-driven review
Kingsford paid $920 psf ppr, $358 less than the parcel awarded eleven months later. haio's eight-section dossier: the breakeven ladder, the developer's track record, every unit type, the floor-plan fine print, and the six neighbours whose 2,715 caveats frame what launch day has to beat.
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General11 Jun 2026
Sitting on a paid-down home? MAS just clarified how much you can cash out, and the income test you can skip
MAS confirms you can borrow against a paid-down home and skip the income-based TDSR test entirely, as long as your total secured debt stays at or below 50% of the home's current market value.
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HDB7 Jun 2026
The shorter-wait BTO flats are real this June, but only two towns make the cut
HDB is offering 2,520 flats with a wait of around three years or less in June 2026, here's who they actually suit, and the trade-off hiding behind the headline.
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Condo4 Jun 2026
Singapore's land-sales taps are wide open, what that means for your next home
The Government is releasing more than 50% more land for private housing than its decade average, and the next two years could quietly tilt toward buyers.
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General4 Jun 2026
32,000 unsold private homes are coming, and the government just topped up the pipeline again
The 2H2026 land sales programme adds another 4,745 units, pushing full-year supply more than 50% above the decade average. For buyers, that points to more choice and less reason to rush.
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HDB26 May 2026
HDB just borrowed S$1.1 billion at 2.472%, here's what cheap, top-rated debt means for flat buyers
The board's latest 10-year bond is rated Aaa and priced under 2.5%, a quiet signal about the financial machine behind your BTO.
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General26 May 2026
Your HDB loan rate held at 2.6% again. Here's what would actually move it
The HDB concessionary rate is pinned just above a CPF Ordinary Account rate that's stuck at its floor, so your repayment won't budge this quarter.
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HDB16 May 2026
18,000 more flats are getting a refresh, and seniors get the most out of it
HDB is extending its Home Improvement Programme to 18,000 more homes, with subsidised senior-friendly fittings bundled in, here's what it actually means if you own an ageing flat.
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General13 May 2026
One bidder, $454 million: what Sim Lian's lone bet on Holland Plain tells you
URA's Holland Plain site drew a single tenderer at $16,047.51 per sq m of floor area, a quiet result for a prime-fringe address that buyers should read closely.
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General5 May 2026
A single Dunearn Road plot just sold for nearly $533 million, here's what that does to your budget
URA has awarded a 99-year Dunearn Road site at $17,490.32 per square metre of floor area, and that land bill eventually lands in the price of the homes built on it.
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General23 Apr 2026
Bought a heritage shophouse? The renovation rules now come with a $250,000 price tag
URA's first-ever conservation prosecution is a blunt warning to anyone eyeing an old or protected building: the restrictions come with the keys.
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General25 Mar 2026
One London rail line helped unlock 71,000 homes. Here's the property lesson for Singapore.
London just won the city prize Singapore's URA created, and the citation reads like a case study in why transport, not postcode prestige, moves home values.
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General6 Mar 2026
A whole 1927 streetscape in Little India is up for grabs, and it tells you where District 8 is heading
URA is selling 18 conserved pre-war buildings to be reborn as homes, and the move says more about Little India's future than its past.
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General15 Jan 2026
A four-hour overnight closure in Tampines, and the quiet accessibility win behind it
HDB is shutting one Tampines junction from 1am to 5am to tear down an old overhead bridge, the real story is the lift-access bridge that replaced it.
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Condo14 Jan 2026
A developer just bet over $1.5 billion on Hougang, here's what's coming
The winning tender for a mixed-use plot at Hougang Avenue 10/Hougang Central points to roughly 835 new private homes sitting on top of a bus interchange, and a fresh price benchmark for the area.
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General10 Jan 2026
HDB just made budget meals voluntary, and tripled the rent break to keep them coming
From 10 January 2026, offering budget meals stops being compulsory for HDB coffee shops; in return, HDB triples the rent discount and locks down exactly what a budget meal must include.
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Condo3 Jan 2026
Private home prices grew the slowest since 2020, and the Government just widened the supply taps
URA's flash estimate shows prices rose only 0.7% last quarter and 3.4% for all of 2025, while 1H2026 Confirmed List land supply runs 50% above the decade norm, here's what that combination means if you're buying.
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HDB2 Jan 2026
HDB resale prices just stopped climbing, the first flat quarter since early 2020
Prices held steady, volume kept sliding, and another ~7,600 flats are on the way, here's what a cooling resale market means before you buy or sell.
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