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Dakota Crescent was also the first public-housing estate to feature one-room flats. Dakota Crescent was named after the Douglas DC-3 , which was referred to by the British as the Dakota (particularly for the military variant of the same plane, the C-47 Skytrain ), which was commonly spotted landing and taking off at the nearby Kallang Airport .
Construction costs for 5-room, 4-room, 3-room & 2-room units respectively averaged about $160,000, $120,000, $80,000 & $40,000 (based on 2004 cost). This also include the cost of sub-contractors and construction of multistorey car parks , lifts , electrical substations (ESS), child-care centres, playgrounds, fitness corners, linkway shelters ...
In 2009, the HDB introduced the Lease Buyback Scheme, under which the HDB buys a proportion of the housing unit's lease at current resale prices. Additional schemes, such as the Silver Housing Bonus, under which the homeowner moves to a smaller flat, and the two-room Flexi scheme consisting of smaller flats with shorter leases, were introduced ...
Block 45 in 2021 Blocks 48 and 49 in 2021. 45, 48 and 49 Stirling Road are three residential flats on Stirling Road in Queenstown, Singapore.They were the first three blocks completed by the Housing and Development Board (HDB), having been previously left unfinished by its predecessor, the Singapore Improvement Trust.
A window which was octagonal and read "Meyer Flats" was placed above the roof. [1] A window, described by Davison as a "quasi-Venetian affair", could be found at the upper stairwell. [1] Each of the 12 units in the building featured two bedrooms with attached bathrooms, a living area, a "small" dressing room, two servants' rooms and a kitchen. [2]
The Pinnacle@Duxton project holds the record for the highest average price of new flats purchased directly from HDB, as well as the most expensive unit offered and purchased at $646,000. In September 2020, the development held the record for both of the most popular sizes of 5-room and 4-room HDB units at $1.23 million and $1.19 million.
A flat stuck with the en-bloc notice. The Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme , or SERS for short, is an urban redevelopment strategy employed by the Housing and Development Board in Singapore in maintaining and upgrading public housing flats in older estates in the city-state.
Tanglin Halt is a public housing estate, planning subzone and former industrial estate in Queenstown, Singapore. Most of the older buildings in the estate are set to be demolished by 2024 to make way for redevelopments under the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme. It is the third housing estate to be redeveloped under the scheme.