{"id":107846,"date":"2019-06-06T11:05:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T04:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/new-bto-housing-units-to-get-modern-high-quality-furnishings\/"},"modified":"2019-06-06T12:03:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T05:03:39","slug":"new-bto-housing-units-to-get-modern-high-quality-furnishings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/new-bto-housing-units-to-get-modern-high-quality-furnishings\/","title":{"rendered":"New BTO housing units to get modern, high-quality furnishings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/PGSG_Consumer_GuruDeals_In-house_Content_Banner-1-5.jpg?fit=728%2C120\" width=\"728\" height=\"120\">&#013;<br \/>\nBTO buyers from February onwards will get to enjoy new bathroom upgrades, new floor designs, and enhanced grilles and doors, among others.\u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>\nThe Housing and Development Board (HDB) revealed on Wednesday that new Build-to-Order (BTO) flats purchased from February onwards will have higher-quality furnishings, reported Channel News Asia.<br \/>\nThese modifications, HBD said, are an attempt at modernising new flats and to bring standards nearer to mass market condominiums.<br \/>\nHDB deputy director of project development and management Jansen Foo assured that the new flats\u2019 price tags are not going to rise because of the upgrades.<br \/>\n\u201cThere is a marginal cost increase, but for HDB, we are able to achieve economies of scale, so all cost involved will be absorbed by HDB. The pricing of new flats will not be affected by these changes.\u201d<br \/>\nThe units will receive bathroom upgrades, new floor designs and enhanced gates and doors.<br \/>\nWATCH: What new upgrades will these BTO have?<br \/>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"740\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AD3hYPh3A_0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><br \/>\nVideo source: youtube.com\/straitstimesonline<br \/>\nAll taps will have a rating of at least \u201cVery Good\u201d under the Water Efficient Labelling Scheme of the national water agency PUB. Toilets would also come fitted with low-capacity dual flushes.<br \/>\nThresholds between the living room and the bathroom and thresholds between the service yard and the kitchen will now be a 20 mm drop instead of a ramp.<br \/>\nThis is a reaction to homeowners\u2019 feedback that ramps often make water seep out from the kitchens and toilets into other rooms.<br \/>\nAlso, the inside of steel entrance gates will have thumb-turn knobs, so that owners would no longer need a key to unlock their house from the inside.<br \/>\nGates and doors will also sport more modern designs to fit the flats\u2019 newer looks.<br \/>\n\u201cThe changes were brought about due to feedback that we received from our residents and also future needs of our residents as well. We took that into consideration for the changes that we established,\u201d said Foo.<br \/>\n\u201cOver the years, the designs and fittings of HDB flats have evolved from the simple and functional furnishings in the 1960s, to higher quality furnishings which are sleek, durable and eco-friendly to suit the different needs of residents,\u201d the board added<br \/>\nPlanning to buy a new private property? Get a new property at prices before the 2018 cooling measures with GuruDeals now! See the full deals here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Victor Kang, Digital Content Specialist at PropertyGuru, edited this story. To contact him about this or other stories, email victorkang@propertyguru&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : proppertyguru.com.sg\/Property Market&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertyguru.com.sg\/property-management-news\/2019\/6\/180459\/new-bto-housing-units-to-get-modern-high-quality-furnishings\" target=\"_blank\">New BTO housing units to get modern, high-quality furnishings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; BTO buyers from February onwards will get to enjoy new bathroom upgrades, new floor designs,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107847,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/PGSG_Consumer_GuruDeals_In-house_Content_Banner-1-5.jpg?fit=728%2C120&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-s3s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":61276,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hdb-to-offer-bto-flats-with-shorter-waiting-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":107846,"position":0},"title":"HDB to offer BTO flats with shorter waiting time","date":"July 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \u00a0 To help young couples get their new homes sooner, the Housing and Development Board (HDB) will introduce a new sales mode for balance flats and will start the construction of select build-to-order (BTO) projects ahead of their launch. 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