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By Jessica Cheam

 

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The Housing Board is relaxing the rules on two-room flats in mature estates and raising the monthly household income ceiling for applicants to $5,000 from $2,000.

 

'This provides an additional housing option for households who prefer to live in mature estates, but whose monthly income exceeds $2,000,' said the Housing Board in a statement on Wednesday.

 

The income ceiling for 2-room flats in non-mature estates will remain at $2,000 to safeguard these flats for low-income families, added the Board.

 

The Housing Board's string of initiatives aimed at easing demand among certain buyers and forging closer family ties will apply to the bumper crop of 8,000 flats that it launched on Wednesday.

 

 

forging closer family ties ar.... zhun bo?

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how to see mature or non mature estates?by population?

they can always re-zone(like what they always do before GE) it to merge with other GRC/SMC and it will become mature estate.

either the gahment thinks they are smartest or they think the people are the dumbest on the planet.

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http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/S...ory_782594.html

 

By Jessica Cheam

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Housing Board is relaxing the rules on two-room flats in mature estates and raising the monthly household income ceiling for applicants to $5,000 from $2,000.

 

'This provides an additional housing option for households who prefer to live in mature estates, but whose monthly income exceeds $2,000,' said the Housing Board in a statement on Wednesday.

 

The income ceiling for 2-room flats in non-mature estates will remain at $2,000 to safeguard these flats for low-income families, added the Board.

 

The Housing Board's string of initiatives aimed at easing demand among certain buyers and forging closer family ties will apply to the bumper crop of 8,000 flats that it launched on Wednesday.

 

 

forging closer family ties ar.... zhun bo?

 

So cramp that you and family members all eat, sleep, sh*t together. Of course closer lah.

 

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in marketing terms, this called market segmentation. tis garhmen get all their scholars to practise what they learn in biz school to leeched citizens in the name of improving our lives.....

 

 

a country cannot be operated like biz and citizens are not ur cash cows!

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how to see mature or non mature estates?by population?

they can always re-zone(like what they always do before GE) it to merge with other GRC/SMC and it will become mature estate.

either the gahment thinks they are smartest or they think the people are the dumbest on the planet.

 

estates like tampines were new in the past and is neither new nor old now...

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how to see mature or non mature estates?by population?

they can always re-zone(like what they always do before GE) it to merge with other GRC/SMC and it will become mature estate.

either the gahment thinks they are smartest or they think the people are the dumbest on the planet.

Most probably gahment should think the people are the dumbest on the planet. :D

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Most probably gahment should think the people are the dumbest on the planet. :D

not bad wad... dumb enough to vote for them

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Turbocharged

There are people who will actually welcome this, you know.

 

It's aimed at those young or not-so-young couples without children. They don't need such large living space, but they want to stay somewhere "trendy" or close to the city. These areas are usually mature estates like tiong bahru, queenstown, toa payoh, etc.

 

The prices of standard 4-room or larger flats there are sky-high, so of course there is a demand for smaller flats which can be offered at cheaper prices.

 

Of course, somebody is making a huge profit and laughing all the way to the bank, offering these little coops/pigeon-holes for sale - but believe me, there's actually quite a demand for this.

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Turbocharged

I like the headline "smaller flat do not mean lower standard of living". [laugh]

 

Then how come all those rich, rich people like to stay in big, big houses and landed properties?? Somebody pls explain... [laugh]

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Then how come all those rich, rich people like to stay in big, big houses and landed properties?? Somebody pls explain... [laugh]

Smaller flat really do not mean lower standard of living, cause if you refer to those 1 bed room or 2 bed room private condo, not cheap le. :D

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Smaller flat really do not mean lower standard of living, cause if you refer to those 1 bed room or 2 bed room private condo, not cheap le. :D

 

It is not about the size, it is about the location and neighborhood environment.

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