{"id":54127,"date":"2017-05-09T09:03:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T02:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/proportion-of-hdb-flats-down-in-2016\/"},"modified":"2017-05-09T09:50:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T02:50:47","slug":"proportion-of-hdb-flats-down-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/proportion-of-hdb-flats-down-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Proportion of HDB flats down in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nAs Singapore\u2019s total housing stock share of private properties increases to 27 percent, HDB flats falls 73 percent to 1.011 million units in 2016.<br \/>\nWhile the number of HDB flats increased from 880,000 units in 2006 to 1.011 million units in 2016, the proportion of such flats out of the total housing stock fell from 78 percent to 73 percent, revealed National Development Minister Lawrence Wong in Parliament on Monday.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the number of private properties, including landed ones, rose from 243,000 to 372,000. This brings their share of the total housing units from 22 percent to 27 percent.<br \/>\nWong made the statement in replying to Gan Thiam Poh\u2019s (Ang Mo Kio GRC) query on the proportion of different dwelling units in Singapore.<br \/>\nLooking ahead, Wong expects the proportion of HDB flats to non-HDB flats to remain stable.<br \/>\n\u201cOur projections are that in 2020, the proportion of HDB flats out of the total dwelling units in Singapore will remain at around 72 percent.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThis article was edited by Denise Djong.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : proppertyguru.com.sg\/Property Market&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertyguru.com.sg\/property-management-news\/2017\/5\/152068\/proportion-of-hdb-flats-down-in-2016\" target=\"_blank\">Proportion of HDB flats down in 2016<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; As Singapore\u2019s total housing stock share of private properties increases to 27 percent, HDB flats&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-54127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-e51","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":76198,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hdb-flat-sellers-restricted-by-ethnic-integration-policy-may-get-extension-wong\/","url_meta":{"origin":54127,"position":0},"title":"HDB flat sellers restricted by ethnic integration policy may get extension, Wong","date":"January 10, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Owners of Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats who are finding it hard to dispose of their units due to the ethnic integration policy (EIP) can ask for an extension of time, revealed Minister for National Development Lawrence Wong in Parliament on Tuesday (9 December). \u201cFor those who are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":110663,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/enhanced-housing-grant-to-boost-demand-for-hdb-resale-flats\/","url_meta":{"origin":54127,"position":1},"title":"Enhanced housing grant to boost demand for HDB resale flats","date":"September 11, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The new housing grant, streamlines two existing grants and comes with a higher wage ceiling. 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