Policy before and after · Eligibility change
Singapore cuts the EC cancellation fee to 5%, adds a resale levy for second-timers and caps MSR at 30% on EC bank loans
Announced 9 December 2013 · Effective 10 December 2013
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Comparison window
Comparison anchored to effective date: 10 December 2013. Before: 10 November 2013 to 9 December 2013. After: 10 December 2013 to 8 January 2014. The same 30 days on each side; the anchor day counts as after.
Before · 10 Nov 2013 to 9 Dec 2013
3 land-sales awards
- 10 land-sales steps in all
- 0 other archive events
The event
Announced 9 Dec 2013
Effective 10 Dec 2013
The effective date is the anchor.
After · 10 Dec 2013 to 8 Jan 2014
1 land-sales award
- 9 land-sales steps in all
- All 30 days observable
What this comparison can and cannot show
Generated from this window's records
Recorded
- 2 policy parameters recorded with a before and an after value on this event.
- 3 land-sales awards in the 30 days before the effective date, and 1 in the 30 observable days after.
- None of the 1 tracked series has a whole period on both sides of a 30-day window, so no market figure is compared.
Cannot be concluded
- That this event moved any figure on this page. The comparison is by date; nothing here is attributed to the event.
- A reading of the concurrent land sales and events as responses to this one. They are listed by date alone.
About this eventIssuing authority, category, affected market, primary source, summary
- Announced
- 9 December 2013
- Effective
- 10 December 2013
- Issuing authority
- Monetary Authority of Singapore, Ministry of National Development
- Category
- Eligibility change
- Affected market
- Executive condominium units bought directly from property developers. The MSR cap reaches housing loans from financial institutions for such units where the Option to Purchase is granted on or after 10 December 2013, in any project. The cancellation fee cut and the resale levy for second-timer applicants reach projects on EC land sales launched on or after 9 December 2013, including sales whose tenders had not closed. Resale EC purchases, HDB flats and private housing are outside it.
- Primary source
- Refining the Executive Condominium Housing Scheme
On 9 December 2013 MND announced three changes to the Executive Condominium Housing Scheme. From 10 December 2013, for EC purchases whose Option to Purchase is granted on or after that date, MAS capped the Mortgage Servicing Ratio for financial-institution loans on ECs bought from developers at 30% of gross monthly income. For EC land sales launched on or after 9 December 2013, the cancellation fee fell from 20% to 5% of the purchase price and second-timer applicants buying from developers must pay a resale levy, as second-timers buying BTO flats do. MND said the aim was to bring EC terms closer to public housing and support a stable and sustainable EC market. The release made no other change to the scheme.
In brief
In brief
- EC_CANCELLATION_FEE, share of purchase price, ec land sales launched from 9 dec 2013: decreased from 20% to 5%.
- 3 GLS site awards were recorded in the before window and 1 in the after window.
What changed
| Policy parameter | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| MSR · threshold, otp granted from 10 dec 2013, ec bought from developer | Unknown | 30% | Not stated |
| EC_CANCELLATION_FEE · share of purchase price, ec land sales launched from 9 dec 2013 | 20% | 5% | Decreased |
Where these values come from
- Source
- Recorded on this event's policy matrix in Prevo's archive. The event's primary source: Refining the Executive Condominium Housing Scheme.
- Primary source published
- 9 December 2013
- Validity
- In force from the event's effective date, 10 December 2013. The row records no date of its own; the date is the event's.
- Basis
- Archive record. The matrix row carries no source reference of its own; the event's sources are listed below.
Observed around this event
View linked outcomesThe same statistic over the 30 days before and after the anchor. Figures describe what was recorded in each window; they do not attribute a change to this event.
HDB Resale Price Index
index (2009Q1=100) · Value in the latest whole quarterly period inside each 30-day window
Before
None
Coverage 0/30 days
After
None
Coverage 0/30 days
Difference
Not stated
No whole quarterly period of this series falls inside either window, so no comparison is stated. A longer window may contain one.
Provenance
- Source
- Housing & Development Board
- Series kind
- INDEX
- Basis
- Observation periods wholly inside each window, values as originally recorded.
- Origin
- Source fact (latest whole period)
- Shown because
- Mapped to this kind of event
Concurrent planning and land activity
Land sales and other archive events dated inside the windows, listed by date only. Each land-sales line shows the site as the record stood on that day.
Before the effective date
10 lines
10 land-sales steps (3 awards) · 0 archive events
From the effective date
9 lines
9 land-sales steps (1 award) · 0 archive events
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Before (10)
12 November 2013 · Land sales
Havelock Road: Tender closedHotel · status on 12 November 2013: Tender closed, award pending
18 November 2013 · Land sales
Anchorvale Crescent: Launched for tenderExecutive Condominium housing · status on 18 November 2013: Tender open
18 November 2013 · Land sales
Canberra Drive: Launched for tenderExecutive Condominium housing · status on 18 November 2013: Tender open
18 November 2013 · Land sales
Upper Paya Lebar Road: Launched for tenderResidential · status on 18 November 2013: Tender open
18 November 2013 · Land sales
Havelock Road: AwardedHotel · status on 18 November 2013: Awarded · awarded to I Hotel Pte. Ltd. at S$30,090,000
22 November 2013 · Land sales
East Coast Road: Launched for tenderHotel · status on 22 November 2013: Tender open
28 November 2013 · Land sales
Upper Serangoon View: Tender closedResidential · status on 28 November 2013: Tender closed, award pending
28 November 2013 · Land sales
Upper Serangoon View: Tender closedResidential · status on 28 November 2013: Tender closed, award pending
2 December 2013 · Land sales
Upper Serangoon View: AwardedResidential · status on 2 December 2013: Awarded · awarded to Kingsford Development Pte Ltd at S$258,800,000
2 December 2013 · Land sales
Upper Serangoon View: AwardedResidential · status on 2 December 2013: Awarded · awarded to Kingsford Development Pte Ltd at S$201,630,000
After (9)
10 December 2013 · Land sales
Gambas Crescent: Tender closedBusiness 1 · status on 10 December 2013: Tender closed, award pending
13 December 2013 · Land sales
Gambas Crescent: AwardedBusiness 1 · status on 13 December 2013: Awarded · awarded to Grow-Tech Properties Pte Ltd at S$39,333,000
16 December 2013 · Land sales
Choa Chu Kang Grove (Parcel A): Launched for tenderExecutive Condominium housing · status on 16 December 2013: Tender open
16 December 2013 · Land sales
Choa Chu Kang Grove (Parcel B): Launched for tenderExecutive Condominium housing · status on 16 December 2013: Tender open
16 December 2013 · Land sales
Yishun Avenue 9 / Yishun Avenue 6: Launched for tenderResidential · status on 16 December 2013: Tender open
16 December 2013 · Land sales
Geylang East Avenue 1: Launched for tenderResidential · status on 16 December 2013: Tender open
17 December 2013 · Land sales
Woodlands Square: Launched for tenderCommercial · status on 17 December 2013: Tender open
30 December 2013 · Land sales
Sims Drive: Launched for tenderCondominium; or Flats; or, with prior written approval, a combination of Flats and Strata Landed Houses (Serviced Apartments are not allowed) · status on 30 December 2013: Tender open
7 January 2014 · Land sales
Westwood Avenue: Tender closedExecutive Condominium housing · status on 7 January 2014: Tender closed, award pending
Recorded relationships
- This event has as its direct predecessor Singapore raises ABSD, tightens housing finance and extends cooling measures to public housing, executive condominiums and industrial property.
- This event has as a structural ancestor Singapore tightens HDB loan rules and introduces a three-year PR wait-out period.
- Singapore doubles the MOP for future EC projects, removes deferred payment and delays full privatisation to year 15 has as a structural ancestor this event.
Methodology5 rules
- Comparison anchored to effective date: 10 December 2013. The anchor is the effective date where one is recorded, otherwise the announcement date.
- The windows are the same number of days on each side of the anchor, and the anchor day belongs to the after window.
- A series counts toward a window only for observation periods wholly inside it, with values as originally recorded, not as later revised.
- Where no whole period falls inside a window, no value and no difference is stated; a day no whole period covers is missing, never zero.
- Concurrent land sales and archive events are listed by date alone. Nothing on this page is attributed to the event.
Sources
The event's sources (4)
Primary sources4
Refining the Executive Condominium Housing Scheme
Ministry of National Development · Primary source · Published 9 December 2013
Refining the Executive Condominium (EC) Housing Scheme
Council for Estate Agencies · Primary source · Published 11 December 2013
MAS Notice 645, Computation of Total Debt Servicing Ratio for Property Loans (last revised 10 February 2014)
Monetary Authority of Singapore · Primary source · Published 10 February 2014
Macroprudential Policies in Singapore
Monetary Authority of Singapore · Primary source · Publication date not recorded
Event checked against its primary sources on 27 September 2026. Each claim keeps its own verification status.
Observed series come from the published statistics named on each card. Land-sales lines link to the site record and its releases.