HDB is working on flats in Clementi, Toa Payoh, and Bukit Merah that have not been announced for sale
SINGAPORE – Hundreds of new Housing Board Build To Order (BTO) flats that are yet to be announced for sale are currently being constructed in Clementi, Toa Payoh and Bukit Merah.
According to The Straits Times, 753 units are planned for the 1.6ha plot located near the intersection between Clementi Avenue 6 & Commonwealth Avenue West. Additionally, 741 units are being constructed on a 1.7ha parcel at the intersection of Braddell Rise & Toa Payoh rise.
HDB also received permission from the Building and Construction Authority in August to begin construction work on 1,462 flats on a Bukit Merah housing site in Alexandra Road.
Out of the 1,462 units which are being built, 964 of them are part of the Alexandra Peaks project launched in December 2023, while the remaining 498 units will be constructed next to Alexandra Peaks in a development which hasn’t yet been made available to be sold.
The new Clementi apartment buildings are being constructed on a site that was evacuated in the Selective En bloc Development Scheme (Sers) that was launched in 2005, to revive the Clementi Town Centre. Sers is a scheme that permits the government to rejuvenate old estates by redeveloping flats situated on land that has high-development potential.
HDB notices posted near the site show that construction began on the 20th of september. The 753 units, which include three, two and four-room flats, were to be completed in the first quarter of 2029. The flats are expected to be finished by the beginning of the quarter of 2029.
On-site, there is an information board that says the project will have four residential blocks, three 40-storey structures and one 34-storey building, as well as childcare, eating houses Miniarts, pavilions and a car park with seven floors and a roof garden.
Clementi Flats is likely to be called Plus Flats because it is not part of the central region. However, they’re located just 300m from Clementi MRT Station and the town’s centre.
In the meantime, work on the 741 units of Toa Payoh began around the middle of 2024, and is expected to be completed by the second quarter of 2029.
Two towers of 40 stories and an all-level carpark, a childcare center along with a commercial structure and two precinct pavilions, according to a signboard located at the site. It is across the road from the planned Toa Payoh Ridge BTO project.
First Toa Payoh Primary School had previously occupied the campus that was then re-zoned to housing in the month of February 2023.
The flats will likely be classified as Plus because they are outside the city centre but are within 300m of Caldecott MRT station, an interchange for the Circle and Thomson-East Coast lines.
HDB is likely to have substantial subsidies included in the purchase price, given similar four- and five room resale apartments with the same location characteristics as this project sold for at least $1,000,000.
The BTO project, which is expected to have 498 units and is not yet made public in Bukit Merah at the junction between Prince Charles Crescent Road and Alexandra Road, will be constructed near the intersection of Prince Charles Crescent Road. It will be built on a 1.4ha site that was once the Alexandra Post Office once stood. The post office shut down in June 2023.
The new flats are expected to be in the Plus category, as they are located on the edge of the city, and are about 400m from Redhill MRT station, which is just a few stops away from the Central Business District.
According to an HDB notice that was posted at a nearby apartment block, construction work for the Alexandra Peaks project started in June. It is anticipated to be completed by the second quarter of 2029.
Future residents will be able to access facilities that are being constructed within Alexandra Peaks. These include a pre-school and eating house, as well as stores, a miniart, and a Residents’ Network Centre.
Alexandra Peaks was launched under the Prime Location Public Housing model which was the precursor to the current Prime flats.
None of the flats that are scheduled to be built located in Clementi, Toa Payoh or Bukit Merah are part of the February 2025 BTO exercise, suggesting that they’ll likely launch later in 2025 at the most likely time. The February exercise will feature about 5,000 apartments in Kallang/Whampoa and Queenstown.
The board had been working with other government agencies to get project sites up and running earlier.
The construction work begins many months, or even over one year prior to the time when the project’s start. This is why apartments with a shorter wait time can be offered.
Separately, the supply of new flats in Ang Mo Kio will get an increase with the forthcoming Pine Ville @ AMK project which will be the replacement location for the residents of 606 units impacted by a Sers project located in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3 that was first announced in April 2022.
Construction of the 1,068-unit development is continuing and will be completed in the third quarter 2027. The six blocks will include two-room flexi flats as well as three-room flats as well as four-room apartments.
The development will also include a single-storey commercial block, and an eight-storey carpark with kidney dialysis facilities and a childcare centre.
HDB has previously announced that 104 of the 606 households affected by Sers were able to apply for new flats during BTO exercises held in the months of May and August 2022. The applicants pool for flats located in Pine Ville @ AMK will be smaller.
The remainder of the flats in the development will probably be sold at an Sale of Balance Flats (SBF) exercise that takes place once a year.
In February 2025 the next SBF sale will be held in February 2025 and more than 5,500 apartments remaining to be sold during the biggest sale to date.
