HDB • Building flats before sales launch a game changer
The Straits Times|October 24, 2024
About 8,500 flats are available in the recent October 2024 Build-To-Order (BTO) sales exercise. Of these, more than 2,000 flats have a wait time of under three years (Over 2,000 BTO flats with waiting time of under 3 years to be launched in October, Oct 6).
Michelle Chin
HDB • Building flats before sales launch a game changer

These include Fernvale Sails in Sengkang with a wait time of two years and three months, and West BrickVille @ Bukit Batok with an impressive two-year wait time.

Housing Board chief executive Tan Meng Dui was reported to have said the board worked closely with various government agencies to make project sites available earlier. As a result, the construction works start many months or even more than a year ahead of a project launch.

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