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Meyer Flats was an apartment building on Meyer Road in Katong, Singapore. Completed in 1928, it served as a companion block to the Crescent Flats , which was the first apartment building built in Singapore.
In a 1995 Singapore Literature Prize Competition, a Commendation Prize was awarded for a collection of poems called Void Decks and Other Empty Places by Colin Cheong. [32] The first section consisted 20 poems about life in Singapore revolving the void deck. The first one goes as follows: Long after the birdsong ends. spirits gather that never left
Commonwealth is a subzone of Queenstown, located in the central-western part of Singapore.It is named after the Commonwealth of Nations.Commonwealth consists of Housing and Development Board flats, and there is one primary school and a secondary school in the area, New Town Primary School and Queensway Secondary School.
The remaining HDB flats at Tanglin Halt will be demolished by 2021. It is also the third rebuilt estate under SERS. Commonwealth Estate is located near Commonwealth MRT station and consists of precincts like Commonwealth Close and Commonwealth Crescent. It is best known for having a fantastic view of Singapore's Downtown.
Most public housing in Singapore is lessee-occupied. Under Singapore's housing leasehold ownership programme, housing units are sold on a 99-year leasehold to applicants who meet certain income, citizenship and property leasehold ownership requirements. The estate's land and common areas continue to be owned by the government. [79]
This is a list of places in Singapore based on the planning areas and their constituent subzones as designated by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). Based on the latest URA Master Plan in 2019, the country is divided into 5 regions , which are further subdivided into 55 planning areas , and finally subdivided into a total of 332 subzones.
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.
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.