List of BTO projects

Advice: if you applied for a BTO and a good queue number, don’t apply via SBF hoping to get a better flat in better location and available sooner, the battle for each flat in SBF in mature towns is huge and you risk to remain homeless! Well, you can apply via SBF in Sembawang where application rate hardly reach 1:1.

Looking for future BTO launches?

Visit Hometrust to read Singapore interior designer reviews.

Digital Lock from USA for your Home @$399 with Lifetime Warranty. Contact 9002 9923 for the complete product demonstration or please watch this product demo video. Visit our website www.homedigitallock.com and tell us that you were referred by Teoalida to get 10% discount on installation price of $170.

Excel tables

Same like above table, but in Excel, allow you to sort and filter by each column. Free – Free download Checkout Added to cart

A more detailed table that allow you to compare prices of BTO from 2001 to 2016. If you have any suggestion how to make table easier to use, tell me!  2001-2017, 289 BTO projects, 10 cents for each – $28.90 Buy & download Checkout Added to cart Free SAMPLE

Future BTO launches

Many people come there from google searches like “2017 BTO list” or “BTO launch location 2017“, as well as asking me such things over chat.

There is NOT possible to predict future accurately, except what we see in HDB Upcoming Sales Launches, the location of BTO in next launch.
For people who report me “next month will be BTO launch in towns X and Y” – “Yes I know” – “So why your site do not show that?“, I cannot know in advance the project name, completion date and number of units, so… I add new BTO projects in the above table in the day of launch, not in advance.

The launch date cannot be predicted, but as you can see from past launches it is usually in second day of month.

I was surprised to see since 2012 more and more BTO in mature towns.
Now we can expect new BTO launches in EVERY town with land available, you can use Google Maps / Earth (satellite photos) to see the available land (Marine Parade is the only town with no BTO guaranteed). But nobody knows how sooner a land parcel will be developed as BTO, some parcels can be sold to private developers instead.

Large amount of BTO flats are expected in Bukit Batok West (around Millennia Institute – confirmed by maps of May 2013 SOBF), Choa Chu Kang South, Jurong West Street 22-25, Yishun South-East (note: my personal predictions, based by past launches and maps).

Mature towns can get BTO flats too, on the land cleared via SERS. Example: Ang Mo Kio blk 247-252, Clementi blk 401-409, Sims Lane blk 54-60, also Jalan Tenteram.

The only official info from HDB was on 29 August 2013, the Public Exhibition on New Housing Areas: Bidadari (estate within Toa Payoh town, first BTO early 2015), Tampines North (first BTO late 2014), Punggol Matilda (first BTO Sep 2013).

Tengah New Town was announced in 2016, next new towns may be Seletar and Simpang.

Flat supply for next year is announced in December. 2017 supply as announced in 2016, will be 17000 BTO flats. This is a very low supply which contradict with a news from 2013: 700000 new homes by 2030.

Application ratio

An application ratio 3.00:1 means that theoretically 1 of 3 people will be invited to select a flat. An application ratio 1.00:1 does not always mean that everyone got a flat, because some flat types gets oversubscribed while others undersubscribed. Please see on HDB InfoWeb the application rate for each BTO project and flat type (note: until October 2015 HDB site redesign, the application ratio for past BTO far back as Aug 2010, was still accessible via direct links although no longer visible in the Application Status page). I saved them and you can download from me.

For example, the May 2013 BTO set a new record of low applicant ratio: 1.07:1 overall, this does not mean that everyone got a home. The 4-room units got 4:3:1 in Hougang BTO while in Sembawang BTO the ratio was 0.4:1 (60% flats remained unsold). Stupid idea to launch BTO in such bad location in the same time with SBF, obviously people go for better flats in SBF.

In May 2015 for the first time HDB announced the launch date 1 week before the actual launch, the application ratio being unusual high even after one day of sales, proving that HDB is still undersupply. Surprisingly, first time BTO exceeded SBF application ratio.

Starting from November 2015, the Ratio refers only at 3-room and bigger flats, as 2-room are shown in separate table.

Statistics

As end of 2016, 186344 flats were launched in 274 BTO projects (of which 2709 flats were cancelled in 5 BTO projects). The estimated average BTO flat size is 82.68 sqm and is dropping due to raising supply of 2-room flats since 2013 (for comparison: 1990s HDB flats were 120 sqm in average). Estimation was done using the standard internal floor areas:

Studio (35 sqm) x 4391 units
Studio (45 sqm) x 4943 units
2-Room (35 sqm) x 4216 units
2-Room (45 sqm) x 15507 units
3-Room (65 sqm) x 29477 units
4-Room (90 sqm) x 94958 units
5-Room (110 sqm) x 31756 units
3gen (115 sqm) x 1096 units

Real floor area shown in HDB Resale Transactions will be bigger because it will include A/C ledge (2-3 sqm) and balcony (3-4 sqm) if available. Pinnacle @ Duxton and Dawson BTO flats are smaller than the standard flat sizes.

Source of data

2001-2009: Wikipedia’s BTO article, it had a list of BTO projects (now deleted, because it had too much info for such a general encyclopedia), initially I used it to compile the above List of BTO in 2011.

2010-present: the brochures issued by HDB at every new launch. I saved all brochures and offer them for free download on my website too, see BTO brochures.

Later I found that Wikipedia was full of mistakes. One visitor reported that Spring Lodge was not cancelled. I checked the map and he is RIGHT, Wikipedia was WRONG, showing Spring Lodge as block 465 cancelled, with completion date 2007, Spring Lodge has been built, BUT as block 466 (lease commence date 2006, completion probably 2005). WTF!!?? River Edge supposedly completed in 2005 seems that was the one cancelled? In case Wikipedia shows Spring Lodge under name River Edge, does anyone know which BTO has been cancelled in 2003?

Few more mistakes reported by visitors, mostly regarding number of units, have been corrected. Please report any more mistakes!

Note about completion date

Many people asked me if a BTO can be completed earlier. YES, the estimated completion acts like a deadline, in most cases residents collect keys up to 3-6 months earlier. Note that Pinnacle @ Duxton residents collected keys and moved in Dec 2009, but work continued at skybridges until May 2010 scheduled completion date.

Originally I took completion dates from Wikipedia which specify same month 4 years ahead, and I kept adding 4 years of the projects not listed in Wikipedia, but I realized THAT WAS WRONG as most 2009-2010 BTO are completed in 3-3.5 years (6-12 months faster) because HDB decided in 2010 to speed up BTO production, affecting the already-launched projects. In 2011 I have corrected the completion date for the post-2009 BTO, now specifying the “Estimated completion date” shown in sale brochures provided at BTO launch date.

Occasionally HDB show a different, updated completion date when unsold flats are re-launched in SBF, earlier than completion date estimated at the BTO original launch, but since not all BTO have unsold flats, and to prevent being blamed for providing WRONG completion date by people looking in original BTO brochures, I choose to show the original estimated completion date.

Under construction BTO have communities on Facebook and on various forums, residents posting construction updates and predict completion date. Check them!

Some people ask me what is the ACTUAL completion date or key collection date of completed BTO, I cannot answer, you should ask someone residing in that BTO, or check HDB Events Calendar, look for Welcome Party / Completion Ceremony.

Lease commence date is about 1 year after estimated completion date. Minimum occupation period is 5 years starting from key collection, and residents may collect keys at different dates. If you want to estimate when first flats will be available in resale market from certain BTO project, you should add 4 years and half to estimated completion date from above table.

Non-BTO projects

Build-To-Order scheme introduced in 2001 became main supply of HDB flats, at same time precint names became standard for all new HDB developments (precint names were also added for older blocks during upgrading programmes, also added at an unknown date for all blocks in Sengkang including the ones built before introduction of BTO scheme.

But such precint names were used for other schemes too, such as SERS replacement blocks. Numerous people thinks that any HDB block that have a name is a BTO, and when a Sale of Balance Flats is done, they asked me info about “these BTO which are not found in your list of BTO projects” or blamed me for having an incomplete list of BTO launches.

The above list is the complete list of BTO projects, however HDB does build other flats which are NOT offered for sale via BTO scheme.

List of DBSS projects – blocks built and sold by private developers, but managed by HDB like public housing.
List of SERS sites – blocks built for redevelopment of old blocks, which their surplus flats are also offered via SBF in same manner with unsold flats from BTO projects.

There are also projects which are neither BTO or SERS, the first of them, Fernvale Lodge, Wikipedia listed it as BTO, launched date 2009, completion date unknown, so I included it in my BTO table too. I saw many visitors coming to my website via google search Fernvale Lodge, so I checked it, is not a BTO neither SERS, it was built in advance and put on sale first time in the Sale of Balance Flats of September 2011, completed in 2012. I deleted it from my table of BTO.

Other projects that are neither BTO or SERS: Buangkok Court, Fernvale Lodge, Golden Peony (Tampines), Jurong East Court, Jurong East Vista, Marsiling Heights, Tampines Lodge, Tampines Ria. Tell me if you know any more!