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 |
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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 | |
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
First time I visited HDB website was in late 2008 and saved SBF brochures only due to my interest for floor plans. 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, don’t ask for original BTO launch brochures because I don’t have them, but you can try your luck in below brochures from Sale of Balance Flats, 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).
Since 2012, HDB no longer provide one brochure for each town, instead there is a separate file 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 them with too little benefits. I can provide them on request basis for some $.
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
Please notice me if has BTO balance flat for 4 room.
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