Homes in Singapore include different lease periods:

30-year lease (HDB studio apartments)

60-year lease (private housings)

99-year lease (executive condominiums, private housings, all HDB flats except for studio apartments)

103-year lease (private housings) (Theses houses sit on freehold land owned by private developers.)

999-year lease (private housings)

Freehold (private housings)

*A land affinity at serangoon Jalan Jurong Kechil is your initial 60-year-lease plot to be sold (on 15 November 2012) for residential development; thus 60-year-lease homes get available ultimately.

Most housings in Singapore either set freehold or 99-year lease, with messy making along the bulk.

A 999-year lease will be equivalent to freehold.

While 30-year-lease HDB studio apartments can be bought in short supply and are merely meant for elderly occupants.

Private developments with a 103-year lease period (the lease period is determined by the developer) on freehold land are few and far between. In the expiry among the lease, the non-governmental land owner gets right to re-acquire turned (i.e. reversionary right), sell the freehold tenure or extend the lease for their price.

Residential properties with 60-year lease aren’t available yet, but is in several years’ time when development on the first 60-year leasehold residential land plot at Jalan Jurong Kechil is accomplished.

Homes in Singapore are predominantly 99-year leasehold because the government sells most arrives at 99-year tenure due to land scarcity in this country. At the end of the lease period, the state can obtain the land without any compensation to the home operators. Currently, the government does not offer freehold land parcels for sales anymore, except for the sale of remnant State land to the adjoining landowner whose existing private land is already held under a freehold book.

However, topping up of the lease of leasehold private housings is allowed.

Lessees may apply for one renewal among the lease the actual SLA (Singapore Land Authority). The granting of extension is on a case-by-case basis and seem considered generally if the development inside line with Government’s planning intentions, maintained relevant agencies, and just ends up with land use intensification, mitigation of property decay and preservation of community. When the extension is approved, a land premium, decided by the Chief Valuer, will be charged. The new lease will not exceed the original, the bootcamp will be the shorter belonging to the original as well as lease in accordance with URA’s planning intention.

In addition, near the finish of the lease period the State may need the land become returned in the original complications. If so, demolition of buildings, land fillings, numerous others. will have to be borne coming from the current lessees.

For HDB flats, legally the flat will be returned to HDB in the end for the lease. HDB does don’t have to make any monetary compensation, or offer a fresh one flat towards owners. The owners may also be required to take out any fixtures fitting.