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List of SBF launches

Sale of Balance Flats, comprising unsold leftover flats from past BTO launches, surplus flats from SERS projects, old repurchased flats (including flats from some divorced or fiance couples), are done “when HDB accumulate sufficient flats“, usually twice per year, but this is NOT A RULE. Since 2010 the SBF exercise is done same day with a BTO launch.

Sale Launch date Studio 2-rm 3-rm 4-rm 5-rm Exec+MG 3gen Total
Half-Yearly Sale Of 3-Room Premium,
4-Room And Bigger Flats
10 Oct 2008 33 491 78 81 683
Half-Yearly Sale Of 3-Room Premium,
4-Room And Bigger Flats
13 Apr 2009 10 313 80 35 438
Sale of Balance Flats 01 Oct 2009 121 58 345 1261 315 32 2132
Sale of Balance Flats 31 Aug 2010 55 61 1081 338 89 1624
Sale of Balance Flats 22 Sep 2011 86 497 431 1536 297 2847
Sale of Balance Flats 28 Mar 2012 216 1058 627 1348 467 109 3825
Sale of Balance Flats 27 Sep 2012 818 697 302 1016 471 24 3328
Sale of Balance Flats 30 May 2013 602 219 396 1381 478 24 3100
Sale of Balance Flats 26 Nov 2013 502 405 818 1644 595 10 3974
Sale of Balance Flats 22 May 2014 887 95 476 1241 674 10 3383
Sale of Balance Flats 25 Nov 2014 298 412 690 1206 632 6 47 3291
Sale of Balance Flats 27 May 2015 227 272 1892 2091 862 11 32 5387
Sale of Balance Flats 17 Nov 2015 1218 1064 2062 959 11 36 5350
Sale of Balance Flats 24 May 2016 900 1070 1942 1168 13 77 5170
Sale of Balance Flats 22 Nov 2016 635 1266 2233 837 13+1 23 5008
Sale of Balance Flats 18 May 2017 693 938 1305 967 17 26 3946
Re-Offer of Balance Flats 01 Aug 2017 110 384 624 260 9 7 1394
Sale of Balance Flats 14 Nov 2017 759 692 1407 460 7 76 3401
Re-Offer of Balance Flats  06 Feb 2018 50 217 109 331 7 3 717
Sale of Balance Flats 22 May 2018 754 655 1143 305 8 157 3022
Re-Offer of Balance Flats 28 Aug 2018 67 171 294 152 9 33 726
Sale of Balance Flats 13 Nov 2018 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Re-Offer of Balance Flats 12 Feb 2019 173 166 129 10 3 96 577
Sale of Balance Flats 22 May 2019 535 432 1384 799 7 111 3268
Re-Offer of Balance Flats 11 Sep 2019 268 202 90 49 3 104 716
Sale of Balance Flats 12 Nov 2019 760 536 1677 561 9 56 3599
Sale of Balance Flats 17 Nov 2020 1977 701 1740 668 14 120 5220
Sale of Balance Flats 25 May 2021 1217 348 636 231 14 48 2494
Sale of Balance Flats 17 Nov 2021 553 300 667 243 4 31 1798
Sale of Balance Flats 26 May 2022 614 251 770 279 5 33 1952

In May 2015 HDB announced that have 9,000 unsold flats that will be offered in two SBF exercises concurrent with May and August BTO launches, but in press release of 1 July 2015 HDB announced that the exercise was delayed to September, then the BTO launch was cancelled and mixed up with November BTO launch, and SBF was done at same time. Reason: HDB needed extra time to implement the new schemes of 2-Room Flexi and grants.

Fiance-fiancee couples who break up and do not get married within 6 months after receiving keys, as well as other people who for whatever reason need to sell the flat back to HDB during minimum occupation period, need to pay a penalty of 5% of market value of the flat, but more severely, they lose the first-timer status, and the flat is sold again via Sale of Balance Flats.

Sale of Balance Flats brochures

I visted HDB InfoWeb for first time in late 2008 and saved only SBF brochures, being interested in floor plans of individual units. Since early 2010 I started saving every BTO brochure too, so earliest BTO brochures I was able to find were December 2009 ones.

If you are looking for older BTO, you can try your luck below, if the block had leftover / unsold flats you may find block floor plans below (these SBF brochures also contain floor plans of individual flats, repurchased by HDB).

2012-onward SBF brochures I can provide on request basis for some $, because HDB no longer provide one brochure for each town, they provide instead separate files for each site plan, each block plan, each individual flat available for sale, making a total of over 1000 PDF and JPG files for each sale launch, had to spend 10-15 hours right clicking > save file as, until 2016 when I started feeling that I am wasting time downloading brochures for too little benefits.

Sale of Balance Flats September 2011

Ang_Mo_Kio.pdf
Bukit_Merah.pdf
Bukit_Panjang.pdf
Clementi.pdf
Hougang.pdf
Introduction.pdf
Jurong_East.pdf
Jurong_West.pdf
Kallang_Whampoa.pdf
Punggol1.pdf
Punggol2.pdf
Punggol3.pdf
Queenstown.pdf
Sembawang.pdf
Sengkang.pdf
Tampinebts.pdf
Woodlands.pdf
Yishun.pdf

Sale of Balance Flats August 2010

Bukit_Batok.pdf
Bukit_Panjang.pdf
Choa_Chu_Kang.pdf
Hougang.pdf
Introduction.pdf
Jurong_East_West.pdf
Punggol_Part1.pdf
Punggol_Part2.pdf
Punggol_Part3.pdf
Sembawang.pdf
Sengkang_Part1.pdf
Sengkang_Part2.pdf
Sengkang_Part3.pdf
Woodlands.pdf

Half Yearly Sale October 2009

Ang_Mo_Kio.pdf
Bedok.pdf
Bishan.pdf
Bukit_Batok.pdf
Bukit_Merah.pdf
Bukit_Panjang.pdf
Central.pdf
Choa_Chu_Kang.pdf
Clementi.pdf
General_Specs.pdf
Geylang.pdf
Hougang.pdf
Jurong_East.pdf
Jurong_West.pdf
Kallang_Whampoa.pdf
Pasir_Ris.pdf
Punggol.pdf
Queenstown.pdf
Sembawang.pdf
Sengkang.pdf
Serangoon.pdf
Tampines.pdf
Toa_Payoh.pdf
Woodlands.pdf
Yishun.pdf

Half Yearly Sale April 2009

Ang_Mo_Kio.pdf
Bedok.pdf
Bishan.pdf
Bukit_Batok.pdf
Bukit_Merah.pdf
Bukit_Panjang.pdf
Central.pdf
Choa_Chu_Kang.pdf
Clementi.pdf
Cover_Contents.pdf
General_Specs.pdf
Geylang.pdf
Hougang.pdf
Jurong_East.pdf
Jurong_West.pdf
Kallang_Whampoa.pdf
Pasir_Ris.pdf
Punggol.pdf
Queenstown.pdf
Sembawang.pdf
Sengkang.pdf
Serangoon.pdf
Tampines.pdf
Woodlands.pdf
Yishun.pdf

Half Yearly Sale October 2008

Bedok.pdf
Bishan.pdf
Bukit_Merah.pdf
Bukit_Panjang.pdf
Central.pdf
Choa_Chu_Kang.pdf
Clementi.pdf
Cover_Contents.pdf
General_Specs.pdf
Geylang.pdf
Hougang.pdf
Jurong_West.pdf
Kallang_Whampoa.pdf
Marine_Parade.pdf
Pasir_Ris.pdf
Punggol.pdf
Queenstown.pdf
Sembawang.pdf
Sengkang.pdf
Tampines.pdf
Toa_Payoh.pdf
Woodlands.pdf
Yishun.pdf

11 thoughts on “List of SBF launches”

  1. Hi Teoalida,

    I’m currently in a queue to purchase a 5room or executive unit in Bedok at these two locations:

    1) 634 Bedok Reservoir Rd, Block 634, Singapore 410634 Unit 02-09

    2) Blk 669 Jalan Damai, Singapore 410669 #12-59

    I would appreciate a rough guide for their floor plans as I’ve already visited the locations but can’t seem to fathom how they will look like inside.

    Cheers!

    1. 634 = a block 4 different layouts of EA, see floorplans in https://www.teoalida.com/singapore/hdbfloorplans/#1993-EA
      669 = a block with 4-room and 5-room, floorplans posted just above the EA one, most likely the 5-room is like this https://www.teoalida.com/singapore/HDB-1996-1998-5I-corner-end-122sqm.png
      telling me unit number is useless because can’t know on which side of block your unit is
      if you applied via SBF you should wait until application results are finalized as they will publish exact floorplans… rather than asking people online to give you possible floor plans.

  2. Hi,

    I am looking for floor plans of a 5-Rm HDB 122 sqm Block 224 Choa Chu Kang Central.

    Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you.

  3. I would like to know if the warmness of tiles on one floor of a unit could be affected in any way by the wiring of the ceiling in the unit below it?
    Is this possible in a condo?

    Is there any gap in the flooring of one unit and the ceiling of the one below it?

    1. Why are you asking same thing over and over again, after I answered you?

      LiveChat conversation transcript:

      Name (optional): Valerie chiang
      Message: any BTO balance flat

      Teoalida (Wed, 9/8/2021, 09:01:28 am)
      what do you want me to say?

      Name (optional): Valerie chiang
      Message: any BTO balance flat avaibed to buy

      Teoalida (Wed, 9/8/2021, 10:55:27 am)
      if you visit http://www.hdb.gov.sg you will see that open booking for flats is currently undergoing. What I can do for you?

      Name (optional): Valerie chiang
      Message: please notice me for bto balance flat for 4 room

      Valerie chiang (Fri, 9/17/2021, 05:15:05 am)
      please notice me for bto balance flat for 4 room

      Teoalida (Fri, 9/17/2021, 11:21:14 am)
      I CANNOT “notice you” when flats are available for sale, I told you to visit http://www.hdb.gov.sg and look at Open booking for flats to see which flats are available for sale

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