1,521 Flats Sold Under HDB’s Open Booking Scheme
A total of 1,521 public housing have recently gotten sold under the release reservation program ever since its commence in Jun2019, communicated MND Tan Kiat How at Parliament on 2 Mar.
Tan was responding to MP TP Gan who queried about the sum of HDB public housing sold within the release booking scheme since its commence.
The open booking system helps private housing seekers “to secure a public home on-line, and even get their flat choice scheduled time on a first-come-first-served basis, which might be as early as the following working day”.
Tan declared a total of 46 2 room Flexi flats, 2hundred 73 three room public housing\, Six hundred and one 4 room public housing, 597 five room/ Three Generation public housing, and four Executive public housing have actually been booked since 22February from the release booking procedure.
Gan additionally inquired about if Housing and Development Board would consider throwing in a new amount of flats a bit more frequently and boost the number of public housing in the market within the scheme.
Towards this, Tan mentioned that HDB, today, “suspends open scheduling two times a yr so as to inject a new amount of public housing. Most of public housing offered within the open booking originated from the pool of public housing which stick around unselected after the twice-yearly SBF activities”.
Tan add on that HDB has recently been investigating approaches to present extra public housing using release choosing.
Housing and Development Board, for example, has discontinued the ROF activities after February2020 to make sure that higher unselected public housing out of the Sale of Balance Flat activities can be provided directly using release reservation, Tan claimed.
