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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 ...
WAULT, short for weighted average unexpired lease term, is a measurement used in commercial real estate to quickly judge the value of contracted rents in a property, or more commonly, a portfolio of properties.
When the Housing and Development Board (HDB) purchases state land for the purpose of building flats, the price is paid into Past Reserves. [ 1 ] Further, Central Provident Fund (CPF) money is used by the CPF Board to invest, as exclusive purchaser, in Special Singapore Government Securities (SSGS), with payments made into Past Reserves.
The HDB Hub at Toa Payoh, headquarters of the Housing & Development Board of Singapore. HDB flats in Jurong West. The Housing & Development Board (HDB; often referred to as the Housing Board), is a statutory board under the Ministry of National Development responsible for the public housing in Singapore.
A 99-year lease is, under historic English law, since widely received abroad, the longest permissible term of a lease of real property. It is no longer the law in most common law jurisdictions today, yet 99-year leases continue to be common as a matter of business practice and conventional wisdom .
Build to order (BTO) is a real estate development scheme enacted by the Housing and Development Board (HDB), a statutory board responsible for Singapore's public housing. First introduced in 2001, it was a flat allocation system that offered flexibility in timing and location for owners buying new public housing in the country.
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Jacqueline K. Barton joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a -17.6 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
A ground lease is a wasting asset to the leaseholder because the value of the property declines relative to its long lease value as the lease becomes shorter. In the absence of legislation allowing leaseholders to extend their lease the property would revert to the freeholder upon expiry of the lease at which point the value of the leaseholder ...