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deaf4ever

sembawang town council ada contest

pemenang 1st prize, setahun tak yah bayar duit tong sampah

sutera_abadi

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itu pun nasib kalau memang...
hee..hee..heee..

Originally posted by deaf4ever at 18-3-2008 03:13 AM
sembawang town council ada contest

pemenang 1st prize, setahun tak yah bayar duit tong sampah

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HDB Launches Jade Spring @ Yishun Phase 2 Under Build-To-Order System



           HDB is launching Jade Spring @ Yishun Phase 2 under the Build-To-Order (BTO) system today. The project is the second BTO launch for 2008.

2         HDB had earlier announced plans to launch 4,500 new flats under BTO in the first half of 2008, and the public can look forward to 5 more BTO launches from now until June

virgomal

tpt aku tak nak ke wat camni
nak jugak rasa setahun tak yah bayar
kalau poeber.. lagiklah aku suka

fatz

HDB Launches Jade Spring @ Yishun Phase 2 Under Build-To-Order System
         HDB is launching Jade Spring @ Yishun Phase 2 under the Build-To-Order (BTO) system today. The project is the second BTO launch for 2008.

HDB receives overwhelming response to Jade Spring flats in Yishun
Posted: 19 March 2008 2328 hrs

SINGAPORE : The Housing and Development Board (HDB) has received an overwhelming response to its second batch of Build-to-Order flats in Yishun.

Jade Spring was launched on Tuesday, and as of 5pm on Wednesday, HDB received 771 applications for the 576 flats available.

715 of the applications were for the four-room units.

The prices of the two, three and four-room units range from S$77,000 to $253,000.

Interested applicants had been given until March 31 to submit their forms.

But following the overwhelming response, HDB has announced that it will now cut the application period and the balloting sales exercise to just two weeks - till 31 March - with immediate effect.

Jade Springs is located at the junction of Yishun Ring Road and Yishun Avenue 11.

It is situated near Yishun town centre, the MRT station and the upcoming Khoo Teck Puat Hospital. - CNA/ms

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Propnex says home buyers may snag good deals if they want to upgrade
By Wong Siew Ying, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 20 March 2008 2235 hrs

SINGAPORE: For those with an eye on property, it's a buyers market now, and home hunters who've done their homework may be able to snag some good deals, especially for those looking to upgrade.

This, according to real estate agency Propnex's CEO, Mohamed Ismail, who held a talk for alumni members at the National University of Singapore.

Prices of HDB flats jumped 17 per cent in 2007 and it is set to continue its climb in 2008, though at a more modest pace.

Industry players also expect robust demand with HDB ramping up its building programme.

But the private residential space is seeing prices moderate.

So, some property agents said it's an appropriate time to upgrade if home owners can afford it.

Mr Mohamed Ismail said: 揑f someone wants to buy a mass market property or upgrade to a landed property, I think this is the best time for the HDB owners.

揑t makes sense for them to sell their public housing when the market is positive and go look for a bargain buy to upgrade themselves when the market shifts and starts to move.

揂 10 per cent increase in the private property would mean that a million dollar property would cost 1.1 million. While at the same time, a 10 per cent increase of a HDB property that is worth S$400,000 is going to grow by 40,000. The net result - you are going to lose out.

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House buyer cheated of S$5,000 deposit
By Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 20 March 2008 2157 hrs

SINGAPORE: A house buyer was cheated of S$5,000 when she was buying a five-room resale flat in Woodlands.

Wong Git Siow said: "Since I was already buying the house, and... she (the flat owner) said she did not have enough money for the New Year, I did not mind giving her the $5,000 deposit."

Ms Wong claimed that the flat owner changed her mind after receiving the S$5,000 deposit, and never returned the money.

She also said that the owner failed to bring the relevant documents on two separate occasions when she tried to seal the deal last November.

The owner has been missing in action since then.

Ms Wong had applied for a house loan and if it is cancelled, she will have to pay a penalty of S$2,000.

She added that the seller had taken a S$2,500 loan from the property agent and did not pay back.

Both Ms Wong and the property agent have filed a police report and reported the matter to the Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE).

But CASE pointed out that this case is not within its jurisdiction as it only deals with companies and agencies. It advised Ms Wong and the property agent to approach a lawyer instead.

The transaction period for the flat expired earlier this month. - CNA/ac

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Home makeovers hard hit by price hikes
Spike in building material prices, labour crunch pushing renovation costs up by 20% this year
By Jessica Cheam


ESCALATING PRICES: The cost of reinforcing steel bars has increased by about
60 per cent in the span of one year, while cement prices have gone up by 30 per cent.
-- ST PHOTO: DESMOND LIM

PLANNING to renovate your home? If so, be prepared to pay 20 per cent more.

Construction costs - for both big projects and home renovations - have risen due to a rise in raw material prices and labour costs. And they are expected to increase even more this year.

Industry experts say overall construction costs are expected to rise by another 15 to 20 per cent this year - following a 40 per cent spike in the last two years.

A global spike in raw material prices, and a construction resources and manpower crunch here, are to blame for the relentless rise, say market players.

In particular, prices of reinforcing steel bars - used extensively in construction - have soared 64 per cent from $753 per tonne in January last year to $1,235 this January, according to data from the Building and Construction Authority (BCA).

Rising global demand for steel, fuelled by a building boom in developing countries such as China, India and Vietnam, is pushing prices up sharply.

The price of cement rose 30 per cent to $117 per tonne in the same period.

Consumers' pockets are hard hit by the price hikes. Contractors say home owners now have to fork out up to 20 per cent more for renovation works.

Renovating a 110 sq m five-room HDB flat, for example - which would have cost $80,000 at most at the start of last year - would now mean forking out $100,000, said contractor Steven Koh, 51, of Colorado Design.

But there is good news: the extra cost of building a new home is unlikely to be passed on to flat buyers.

Real Estate Developers Association of Singapore executive director Chia Hock Jin said developers cannot simply pass on the costs: 'It's the market that determines the prices.'

Given the recent cooling of the property market, price hikes for homes are also unlikely.

Local developer Frasers Centrepoint Homes said it has partly absorbed the rising costs and has also tried to mitigate them by adopting more efficient ways of building and securing raw material in bulk.

Construction costs typically make up 20 to 25 per cent of the total cost of a development, with the bulk coming from land cost, said Mr Seah Choo Meng, executive chairman of quantity surveying firm Davis Langdon & Seah Singapore.

Meanwhile, main contractors are starting to feel the pinch, with price rises eating into their profit margins. Wacon Construction & Trading, hired for a $5million spruce-up of MacRitchie Reservoir, was recently reported to have gone bust due to the hikes in raw material prices.

Mr Simon Lee, executive director of the Singapore Contractors Association Limited, said contractors had only a small margin in factoring such rises into building tenders.

One source of relief is the stabilising prices of sand, granite and concrete. BCA's latest data show prices of these materials are easing, after an artificial spike following Indonesia's abrupt ban of land sand exports last February. Still, compared to January last year, these prices have escalated and, in some cases such as sand, even doubled.

Mr Lee said there was concern that developers were slow in paying contractors, especially those affected by the sand ban, which might exacerbate contractors' cash-flow problems.

Mr Seah said he does not expect the construction crunch to abate, predicting that constructing demand will go up to $27 billion this year.

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fatz

Singapura : 24 Mac 2008         
         
'LAMPU HIJAU' BAGI PENSWASTAAN FLAT EUNOSVILLE

Oleh
Azahar Mohd

PEMILIK flat di Eunosville telah diberi 'lampu hijau' oleh Lembaga Perumahan dan Pembangunan (HDB) untuk meneruskan penswastaan estet mereka.

Ini selepas lebih 78 peratus pemilik estet tersebut mengundi untuk menjadikan estet itu sebagai estet privet dan bukan lagi estet di bawah kelolaan syarikat Perumahan dan Pembangunan Bandar (HUDC).

Pengundian tersebut dijalankan pada November dan Disember lalu.

Dengan penswastaan, setiap pemilik Eunosville boleh meraih durian runtuh berupa harga flat yang boleh mencecah $1 juta sekiranya estet mereka dijual secara en-bloc kemudian.

Ketika dihubungi, HDB mengesahkan pihaknya telah memberi kebenaran kepada Eunosville untuk meneruskan proses penswastaan tersebut.

Sekurang-kurangnya 75 peratus pemilik flat perlu memberi kebenaran sebelum permohonan boleh dibuat kepada Pejabat Pendaftar Hak Milik bagi mendapatkan sijil milik flat masing- masing.

Setiap pemilik flat pula perlu menanggung kos penukaran kepada status privet sekitar $30,000 bagi setiap flat.

Ketika dihubungi semalam, seorang anggota Jawatankuasa Protem Eunosville, Encik Shankar Hari, berkata bahawa dengan penswastaan, pemilik akan mempunyai lebih banyak kebebasan dalam mentadbir estet mereka.

'Pemilik flat akan memiliki unit masing-masing serta hartanah bersama di estet ini, seperti tempat meletak kereta dan kawasan terbuka,' ujarnya.

Ini merupakan kali kedua estet yang mempunyai 10 blok dan 330 unit flat itu menjalankan pengundian untuk diswastakan.

Usaha pertama pada 1997 gagal kerana kurang daripada 75 peratus pemiliknya melahirkan persetujuan.

Estet itu didiami ramai penduduk Melayu termasuk karyawan seperti guru serta jurutera, dan amat popular kerana ia berdekatan stesen MRT, masjid dan pasar Geylang Serai.

Seorang penduduk yang ditemui semalam, Encik Mohd Rashid Mohd Ali, 55 tahun, seorang pengawal perkapalan di syarikat Shell, berharap penswastaan akan menambah pelbagai kemudahan bagi keselesaan penduduk.

Cik Helmilina Mohd Som dan bapanya, Encik Mohd Som Mohd Dom, pula prihatin kemungkinan estet mereka dijual secara en-bloc kemudian.

'Walaupun demam en-bloc kini tidak lagi rancak, kemungkinan ia dijual secara en-bloc tetap ada.

'Setelah duduk di sini lebih 20 tahun, sayang rasanya sekiranya kita perlu meninggalkannya,' ujar Cik Helmilina, 30 tahun, seorang guru.

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March 25, 2008         
3,500 vied for 714 condo-like flats in Boon Keng, but only 460 sold
By Fiona Chan, Property Reporter

THOUSANDS of applications poured in for a condo-like Housing Board project in January - but as of last week, less than two-thirds of the flats had been taken up.

About a third of the 714 units - or about 250 units - in City View @ Boon Keng remained unsold, said HSR Property Group, which is marketing the project.

These flats will be offered to the public, probably via walk-in selection.

The number of leftover units came as a surprise to market watchers, given that 3,500 applicants had vied for them.

This works out to five would-be buyers for each flat at City View, the second public housing project to be built by a private developer.

It boasts condo-like features such as timber floors, built-in wardrobes and air-conditioning.

All the applicants were given a chance to book the flats they wanted, said HSR project director Kellie Liew.

The selection process stretched over 20 days and ended last Thursday, with more than 3,000 potential deals falling through.

Developer Hoi Hup Sunway sold about 460 units, including six of the top-priced five-room units at $727,000 each, said Ms Liew.

But she added that some buyers backed out of their purchases due to the weakening property market, while others did not meet the required criteria to buy the flats.

'We've been having a series of not-too-positive news about the market, so that could have affected the sentiment of the buyers,' she said.

'Also, some applicants were over-qualified, with combined monthly incomes of more than $8,000, so they were not eligible for the flats.'

Hoi Hup declined to comment.

Market watchers suggested that the relatively high prices for the City View units could also have proved a deterrent at crunch time.

The three-room flats were priced between $349,000 and $394,000, double the price tag of similar flats in the vicinity.

Five-room flats went for up to $727,000, which experts said was close to condominium prices.

'Some people may have jumped on the bandwagon because of the hype, but when it was time to pick up a unit, they felt it was actually too expensive,' said Mr Mohamed Ismail, chief executive of property agency PropNex.

'In today's market, there are many 99-year leasehold properties with full condo facilities that are going for less than $600 per sq ft, so some buyers may have thought twice.'

But Mr Chris Koh, director of Dennis Wee Properties, believes the remaining units could be snapped up quickly.

'Fundamentals are still strong,' he said. 'We don't see property prices sliding at all.'

He added that the situation could mirror that of The Premiere @ Tampines, the first developer-built public housing project.

The Premiere drew almost 6,000 applications for its 616 units when it was launched in 2006, but fewer than 500 units were sold when the booking process was over.

When the remaining flats were released to the public, long queues formed and would not disperse despite a downpour.

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Singapura : 25 Mac 2008         
  
SENARAI SEMAK BARU WAJIB BAGI EJEN JUAL BELI FLAT HDB

Oleh
Hisham Hasim

MULAI 1 Mei ini, Lembaga Perumahan dan Pembangunan (HDB) akan memperkenalkan satu senarai semak baru yang wajib digunakan ejen rumah bagi urusan jual beli flat jual semula HDB.

Senarai tersebut merangkumi dasar-dasar penting dan prosedur yang harus dimaklumkan para ejen rumah kepada si pembeli dan penjual sebelum sesuatu urus niaga jual semula flat HDB diteruskan.

Dalam satu kenyataan semalam, HDB berkata langkah tersebut merupakan usaha berterusan HDB untuk memastikan pihak pembeli dan penjual menyedari dasar-dasar kewangan dan jual-beli HDB sebelum menjual atau membeli flat.

Di bawah langkah terbaru itu, para ejen rumah harus menyerahkan senarai yang telah diisi, kembali kepada HDB bersama dengan dokumen permohonan jual beli.

HDB kemudian akan menjalankan pemeriksaan untuk memastikan sama ada para ejen telah memaklumkan kepada klien mereka sebelum Opsyen untuk Membeli (OTP) diluluskan.

'Para pemohon yang tidak memenuhi kriteria ini akan ditolak permohonan mereka dan mereka yang mengisytiharkan maklumat salah akan menghadapi tindakan undang-undang,' kata HDB.

Senarai jual semula itu boleh didapati bersama borang OTP yang sedia ada di HDB Hub dan di laman InfoWeb HDB di www.hdb.gov.sg.

Mengulas, Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif (CEO) PropNex, Encik Mohd Ismail Gafoore, berkata inisiatif ini meningkatkan ketelusan antara pihak penjual dengan pembeli serta memastikan tahap profesionalisme yang tinggi di kalangan ejen hartanah.

'Dasar-dasar perumahan awam mungkin sukar difahami ramai, jadi dengan senarai ini penjual dan pembeli sedar tentang hak mereka serta pelbagai insentif yang ditawarkan,' kata beliau.

Sebagai usaha berterusan HDB untuk melicinkan prosedur flat jual semulanya, khusus bagi mereka yang ingin membuat urus niaga secara sendiri, beberapa inisiatif secara elektronik turut disediakan.

Antaranya, mengaitkan laman internet e-Khidmat Urus niaga jual semula flat HDB kepada portal Institut Juruukur dan Penilai Singapura (SISV) bagi membolehkan pembeli dan penjual flat HDB untuk mencari flat jual semula, atau mengiklankan flat-flat mereka menerusi laman web ini.

Dan mulai 1 April ini kaedah SMS akan digunakan untuk memaklumkan kepada penjual dan pembeli tarikh temu janji urus niaga pertama mereka.

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HDB introduces higher CPF grant for singles who live with parents
By Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 27 March 2008 1126 hrs

SINGAPORE: Starting next month, single Singaporeans aged 35 and above who buy HDB resale flats to live together with their parents may apply for a higher CPF housing grant of S$20,000 if they meet the eligibility conditions.

The Housing and Development Board said this higher-tier singles grant will also apply to eligible singles buying the Design, Build and Sell Scheme (DBSS) flats with their parents.

Under the existing Single Singapore Citizen Scheme, single Singaporeans aged 35 and above can get a CPF housing grant of S$11,000 to buy a HDB resale flat.

Minister in the Prime Minister's Office Lim Boon Heng announced the above higher-tier singles grant in Parliament on 5 March.

It is a pro-family initiative to encourage children to look after their parents.

To qualify for the higher-tier singles grant, the eligible single must commit to living together with his/her parents in the resale flat for at least five years.

Within this minimum occupation period of five years, the parents cannot buy or take over the ownership of another HDB flat separately from this same single child, or invest in a private property.

All other prevailing policies such as the income ceiling, minimum occupation period for resale, resale levy liability, will apply.

Property agents said this new scheme is unlikely to have any impact on the market given the small segment it serves. - CNA/ac

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March 29, 2008         
HDB resale market healthy but prices rising at slower pace
Total sale prices likely to be steady or higher while upfront cash demands may continue to slide
By Joyce Teo, Property Correspondent


Resale prices of HDB flats are still rising - albeit at a slower rate than last year -
as valuations have generally risen, property agents say.
-- ST PHOTO: NG SOR LUAN

WHILE quiet may prevail in the private homes market, the resale market for HDB flats offers another picture - one filled with steady activities.

Still, a number of potential HDB resale flat buyers are kept out of the market by the high upfront cash sums that some sellers demand.

These cash sums are on top of the valuation price of a flat and can be paid only in cash.

Last year, when HDB resale prices rose 17.5 per cent in line with the private property boom, many sellers rode on the buying wave and started asking for cash- over-valuation sums ranging from $50,000 to more than $100,000.

For those who are holding off their HDB purchases for a lower price, property agents say cash- over-valuation amounts could continue to slide. But HDB resale flat prices are unlikely to tumble in the foreseeable future, they say.

'The HDB market is still very healthy,' said Mr Chris Koh, director of Dennis Wee Properties.

Resale prices are still rising - albeit at a slower rate than last year - as valuations have generally risen, property agents say.

Even if the cash-over-valuations are slightly lower than late last year, the total resale price will still be steady or higher.

nestame

tadi pegi  ke ctview showflat.. cantik memang lah cantik harga nya pun cantik.. dep 5% ..

fatz

bila siap rumah tu?..jangka2nya amik kunci?......

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Approval period for Home Office Scheme extended to 5 years
By Wong Siew Ying, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 31 March 2008 1549 hrs

SINGAPORE: From 1 April, Home Office Scheme approvals granted by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) and Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) for new applications and renewals will be valid for five years - up from the current three years.

This is to provide greater convenience to home office users and to help them formulate longer term business plans.

The scheme was introduced in 2003 to allow private property and HDB homeowners to conduct small-scale businesses from their homes, if they fulfil certain criteria.

So far, more than 20,600 applications have been approved. Among them, 19,500 are for HDB flats and 1,100 for private properties.

The authorities said most of these applications are for IT consultancy, web design, real estate services and advertising.


- CNA/so

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HDB and private property prices up in Q1 flash estimates
Posted: 01 April 2008 1345 hrs



Private residential property prices in Singapore rose 4.2 percent in the first quarter this year, according to the latest preliminary estimates from the Urban Redevelopment Authority.

The pace was slower than the 6.8 percent clip recorded in the fourth quarter of last year.

On a quarter-on-quarter basis, the biggest rise in property prices for non-landed properties came from outside central region - up 4.8 percent in the January-March quarter compared with the October-December period.

Properties in the prime districts of 9, 10 and 11, as well as the downtown area and Sentosa, rose 4.4 percent on quarter.

Prices in the rest of the central region increased 3.9 percent in the first quarter from the previous three months.

The preliminary estimates were based on transaction prices given in caveats lodged during the first 10 weeks of the quarter, as well as the number of new units sold.

Meantime, the Housing and Development Board (HDB) said prices of HDB resale flats rose 3.4 percent in the January to March period over the previous three months. This was lower than the 5.7 percent increase in the fourth quarter.

Both the URA and HDB will release final figures at the end of April.

The URA said that as at 4th Quarter 2007, there are about 64,900 private residential units in the pipeline, of which about 56,100 new private housing units are expected to be completed between 2008 and 2011.

There are also some 38,300 units that have yet to be put on sale by developers.

As for the supply of government flats, the HDB said it had made available in the first quarter of this year some 1,100 new flats in two Build-To-Order (BTO) projects in Punggol and Yishun.

It said that depending on demand, there could be another 5,000 new BTO flats in towns such as Punggol, Sengkang, Woodlands and Bukit Panjang.

The total planned BTO supply of 6,100 new flats for January till September 2008 will surpass the annual BTO flat supply in 2007 and 2006.

This new supply of flats will be in addition to those offered under Balloting Exercises for surplus replacement SERS and other flats, as well as the planned release of three Design-and-Build sites in Simei, Toa Payoh and Bedok with some 1,500 flats in the first half of 2008. - CNA/sf

alexandria_iz

sapa laaa yg mampu beli rumah kat spore taim2 ni? mahal gilos.... :kant:

sewa lagi laaaa.... macam hauk..... 2 bedroom flat kat queen street - now $2800 per month..... :kant: :kant:  tu baru hdb flat.... kalo private....

fatz

so...alex blom ada rumah lagi la kat singapore ya alex?...

alexandria_iz

Originally posted by fatz at 1-4-2008 10:13 PM
so...alex blom ada rumah lagi la kat singapore ya alex?...

eh.... alex dah ada rumah kat sini.... alhamdulillah..... dah 1 year ++ ..... alex & suami sangat bernasib baik sbb kitorang beli rumah masa mkt tengah rendah..... after 3 months kitorang beli rumah, harga rumah seantero spore terus naik bagai nak rak..... skyrocket high lagi....

kalo laa ditakdirkan kitorag decide utk postpone beli rumah dulu, agaknyer sampai sekarang xde rumah lagi.....

alexandria_iz

alex tau pasal harga sewa kat queen st tu - sbb my hubby nyer staff menyewa kat situ.... last 2 years sewa $ 1500..... last year, owner naikkan sampai $ 2800...... up by $1300.....