1,521 Flats Sold Under HDB’s Open Booking Scheme
A total amount of 1,521 flats have already gotten marketed in the available choosing scheme after its commence in June 2019, revealed Minister of State for National Development KH Tan at Parliament on 2Mar.
He was answering MP TP Gan who inquired about the quantity of Housing and Development Board public housing marketed in the release choosing system from its release.
The available booking program allows home applicants “to request a public home over the internet, furthermore attain their flat choosing scheduled visit on a first-come-first-served manner, which can possibly be as soon as the next working day”.
Tan shared a total amount of Forty-six 2 room Flexi flats, 273 three room flats, Six hundred and one 4 room flats, 5hundred 97 five room/ Three Gen flats, and 4 Exec flats have already gotten booked since 22February via the release selection process.
Gan also inquired about whether HDB would consider inserting a fresh number of public housing more often in addition to escalate the number of public housing provided within the system.
To this, Tan shared that HDB, presently, “puts on hold release booking two times a yr to insert a fresh amount of flats. The large number of public housing supplied in the available booking emerged from the pot of public housing particularly stick around unselected during the twice-yearly Sale of Balance Flats exercises”.
Tan added that HDB has been looking into tactics to provide a bit more public housing by means of release selection.
Housing and Development Board, as an example, has actually stopped the ROF routines from Feb’20 to ensure that additional left out public housing from the Sale of Balance Flat exercises could be supplied directly through open booking, he stated.
