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Singapore property news, explained with the numbers — every story built from a primary government source and haio’s full transaction data.
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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Condo12 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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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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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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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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