The BTO project, the first to be launched on the 48ha site, will have two-room flexi to four-room flats and public rental flats. Photo: Desmond Lee/Facebook
Located within the Greater Southern Waterfront - Singapore’s most ambitious and breathtaking urban transformation poised to redefine the future of coastal living in Singapore, HDB is launching the BTO project on the site of the former Keppel Club, National Development Minister Desmond Lee said in a Facebook post on 15th May 2025.
HDB will be expected to launch around 1,000 Housing Board Build-To-Order (BTO) flats in blocks between 19 and 46 storey height that will comprise of two-room flexi to four-room flats as well as public rental flats for sale in October 2025 this year.
The 48-ha site is part of the matured town of Bukit Merah estate located next to the Berlayer Creek mangrove trail and residents will be able to enjoy the conveniences of downtown living and panoramic views of the waterfront. The estate will be sensitively designed in response to the area’s rich biodiversity with lush green spaces and stepped building heights of between 19 and 46 storeys. It will also feature green corridor installations that were based on environmental studies and consultations with nature groups.
Standard, Prime or Plus Flats?
Future residents there will be served by Labrador Park and Telok Blangah MRT stations on the Circle Line, which will be connected to the estate via walking trails. Within the 48-hectare former Keppel Club golf-course site, about 20 per cent of the area – close to 10ha, which is the size of around 18 football fields – will be set aside for parks and open land.
"It was previously announced in 2022 that about 9,000 new homes will be built on the Keppel Club site, with about two-thirds being Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats." said Kiwi Lim, associate Group Director at Propnex Realty, "whether the Keppel Club site would be Prime flats, I believe HDB will consider a range of location attributes and market value of the properties there."
Prime flats are priced with more subsidies to ensure affordability, but also come with tighter restrictions on resale and rental to reduce the “lottery effect”. One such restriction is the subsidy clawback – derived as a percentage of the flat’s resale or valuation price, whichever is higher. Prime flats also come with a 10-year minimum occupation period.
740 New Flats in Toa Payoh Town
National Development Minister Desmond Lee also said about 740 flats in Toa Payoh Town (West) will go on sale in the July BTO exercise by HDB. The new estate will have an eating house, shops and a preschool. "Apart from being conveniently located near Caldecott MRT station, residents will also have easy access to a hawker centre and neighbourhood shops".
The new flats will be at the junction of Toa Payoh Rise and Braddell Rise, and is next to Lighthouse School, according to a map on HDB's website. It is within a five-minute walk of Caldecott MRT station and is also near Braddell MRT station. The flats in Toa Payoh Town (West) are among the 5,400 flats that will be launched in the July BTO exercise. Flats in Bukit Merah, Bukit Panjang, Clementi, Sembawang, Tampines and Woodlands will also be up for sale.
Minister Lee reiterated the government's committment to ensure that public housing remains affordable, inclusive and accessible for Singaporeans by building more homes across the island, including in areas near to the city centre to enable families to live closer to their workplaces or their elderly parents who may be staying in the older HDB towns nearer to the city centre, for mutual care and support.
Source: The Straits Times © SPH Media Limited.
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