When the Housing Development Board (HDB) launched some 5,000 Build-to-Order (BTO) flats on their website yesterday (May 30), several prospective buyers found themselves having to wait in line to apply for a flat. HDB had earlier rolled out this virtual waiting room feature in the November 2022 sales exercise to better manage online traffic in cases where there are many...
In the comments, several netizens shared their woes of being in the virtual queue.
"It's actually good," one netizen said, while another shared that successful applicants will be determined by a computer ballot and not on first-come-first-serve.About 90 per cent of the BTO flats have a waiting time of less than four years, according to HDB.
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