More than 18,000 BTO flats launched in Tengah; makes up over half of planned public housing supply
SINGAPORE – More than half of the 30,000 public housing units in Tengah have been launched so far, asBilled as a “forest town”, the 700ha area in the west – roughly the same size as Bishan – is the 24th Housing Board town and the first to be developed since Punggol two decades ago.
HDB data showed there was an average of 5,464 applicants per exercise in the four most recent BTO exercises from November 2021 to February 2023, compared with an average of 3,138 applicants per exercise in the previous four exercises. The largely forested area is located between the existing towns of Jurong East, Choa Chu Kang and Bukit Batok, with the upcoming Jurong Lake District to its south and Tengah Air Base in the north, past the Kranji Expressway.
Buyers who went for the estate’s second BTO project – Plantation Acres – which launched in May 2019 with a shorter waiting time, are expected to get their keys in the second half of 2023. In comparison, some BTO projects in Bidadari – a new estate that is part of the mature town of Toa Payoh – attracted up to six applicants for each available flat. Application rates in other, more established, non-mature estates like Lakeside were just as high.
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