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Hoping to extend the land lease on your private home? Don’t count on it

Getting owners to agree on lease extension duration and amounts payable will be tough

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Leslie Yee

Leslie Yee

Published Mon, Jun 3, 2024 · 12:51 PM
    • Residents of the Chempaka housing estate in the Bedok area are grappling with their land lease expiring in 10 years.
    • Residents of the Chempaka housing estate in the Bedok area are grappling with their land lease expiring in 10 years. PHOTO: BT FILE

    THINKING of getting a private landed home for under a million Singapore dollars? Not impossible.

    Sure, some much sought-after Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats transact for well over that amount these days.

    Still, two terrace houses sold for way below S$1 million each in Jalan Chempaka Kuning in District 16 in the east last December. One house with land area of 4,136 square feet (sq ft) changed hands for S$570,000, while another house with land area of 3,904 sq ft fetched S$800,000.

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