Policy before and after · Eligibility change
Singapore raises HDB and Executive Condominium income ceilings and adds a ballot chance for each child
Announced 23 August 2026 · Effective date not recorded
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Comparison anchored to announcement date because no effective date is recorded: 23 August 2026. Before: 25 May 2026 to 22 August 2026. After: 23 August 2026 to 20 November 2026. The same 90 days on each side; the anchor day counts as after.
Before · 25 May 2026 to 22 Aug 2026
5 land-sales awards
- 17 land-sales steps in all
- 2 other archive events
The event
Announced 23 Aug 2026
No effective date recorded
The announcement date is the anchor.
After · 23 Aug 2026 to 20 Nov 2026
2 land-sales awards
- 4 land-sales steps in all
- 41 of 90 days observable so far; the last 49 are after 2 Oct 2026
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Recorded
- 7 verified claims on this event record a before and an after value.
- 5 land-sales awards in the 90 days before the announcement date, and 2 in the 41 observable days after.
- None of the 1 tracked series has a whole period on both sides of a 90-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.
- Anything about the last 49 of the 90 days after: they are after the date of this reading.
- 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
- 23 August 2026
- Effective
- Not recorded
- Issuing authority
- Prime Minister's Office Singapore, Ministry of National Development, Housing & Development Board
- Category
- Eligibility change
- Affected market
- New HDB flats bought from HDB, resale HDB flats bought with a CPF Housing Grant or a Singles Grant, HDB housing loans, and new Executive Condominium units bought from a property developer. The same revision reaches the Parenthood Provisional Housing Scheme, the Fresh Start Housing Scheme, the Step-Up CPF Housing Grant, the Lease Buyback Scheme and the Silver Housing Bonus. The ballot change reaches first-timer families applying for a new flat.
- Primary source
- National Day Rally 2026 (English transcript)
On 23 August 2026 the Government raised the monthly household income ceiling for most new HDB flats, for resale flats bought with a CPF Housing Grant and for HDB housing loans from S$14,000 to S$16,000, and the ceiling for new Executive Condominium units from S$16,000 to S$18,000. The flats and loan ceilings reach households that apply for an HDB Flat Eligibility letter on or after 24 August 2026. The singles ceiling rose from S$7,000 to S$8,000 on some routes, the extended family ceiling was set at S$24,000, and from the February 2027 sales exercise a first-timer family receives one additional ballot chance for each Singapore Citizen child aged 18 and below. The annex to the release shows the headline figures are not a single ceiling: a 2-room Flexi flat on a 99-year lease moved from S$7,000 to S$8,000.
In brief
In brief
- 5 GLS site awards were recorded in the before window and 2 in the after window.
What changed
No policy matrix is recorded for this event. These are its verified claims that store a before and an after value.
| As recorded in the claim | Before | After | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly household income ceiling for most new flats, resale grants and HDB loansS$ per month | 14,000 | 16,000 | +14.3% | Claim 1 |
| The monthly household income ceiling for a family buying a 2-room Flexi flat on a 99-year lease from HDB was raised from S$7,000 to S$8,000.S$ per month | 7,000 | 8,000 | +14.3% | Claim 2 |
| Monthly income ceiling for singles aged 35 and above, up from S$7,000S$ per month | 7,000 | 8,000 | +14.3% | Claim 3 |
| The monthly household income ceiling for the Parenthood Provisional Housing Scheme was raised from S$7,000 to S$8,000.S$ per month | 7,000 | 8,000 | +14.3% | Claim 14 |
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| The monthly household income ceiling for the Fresh Start Housing Scheme and the Step-Up CPF Housing Grant, both for second-timer families, was raised from S$7,000 to S$8,000.S$ per month | 7,000 | 8,000 | +14.3% | Claim 15 |
| The monthly household income ceiling for the Lease Buyback Scheme, for the Silver Housing Bonus, and for the purchase of a Community Care Apartment or a 2-room Flexi flat on a short lease was raised from S$14,000 to S$16,000 for eligible seniors.S$ per month | 14,000 | 16,000 | +14.3% | Claim 16 |
| Monthly income ceiling for new EC units, raised from S$16,000S$ per month | 16,000 | 18,000 | +12.5% | Claim 6 |
Observed around this event
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HDB Resale Price Index
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After
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Difference
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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 announcement date
19 lines
17 land-sales steps (5 awards) · 2 archive events
From the announcement date
6 lines
4 land-sales steps (2 awards) · 2 archive events
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Before (19)
26 May 2026 · Land sales
Canberra Drive: Launched for tender, Confirmed ListExecutive Condominium housing · status on 26 May 2026: Tender open
11 June 2026 · Land sales
Peck Hay Road: Tender closedResidential · status on 11 June 2026: Tender closed, award pending
16 June 2026 · Land sales
Peck Hay Road: AwardedResidential · status on 16 June 2026: Awarded · awarded to CDL Constellation Pte. Ltd. and Garden Estates (Pte.) Limited at S$542,400,000
18 June 2026 · Land sales
River Valley Green (Parcel C): Tender closedResidential · status on 18 June 2026: Tender closed, award pending
23 June 2026 · Land sales
River Valley Green (Parcel C): AwardedResidential · status on 23 June 2026: Awarded · awarded to SMCL Haven 3 Pte. Ltd. and CSC Land Group (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. at S$750,569,199
25 June 2026 · Land sales
Lorong Puntong / Sin Ming Avenue: Launched for tender, Confirmed ListResidential · status on 25 June 2026: Tender open
25 June 2026 · Land sales
Kitchener Link: Released on the Reserve ListResidential · status on 25 June 2026: On the Reserve List
30 June 2026 · Land sales
Admiralty Walk: Launched for tender, Confirmed ListExecutive Condominium housing · status on 30 June 2026: Tender open
3 July 2026 · Land sales
Town Hall Link: Launched for tender, moved from the Reserve List to the Confirmed ListWhite site · status on 3 July 2026: Tender open
15 July 2026 · Land sales
Bayshore Drive: Tender closedCommercial and residential · status on 15 July 2026: Tender closed, award pending
20 July 2026 · Land sales
Bayshore Drive: AwardedCommercial and residential · status on 20 July 2026: Awarded · awarded to Gemini Residential Pte. Ltd. and Gemini Trustee Pte. Ltd. (as trustee-manager of Gemini Mall Trust) at S$2,128,000,000
28 July 2026 · Land sales
Chitty Road and Veerasamy Road: Tender closedResidential: 18 conserved two-storey buildings of 1927, within the existing envelope under the Conservation Guidelines · status on 28 July 2026: Tender closed, award pending
28 July 2026 · Archive event
Singapore removes the 15-month wait-out for private-property owners buying non-subsidised HDB resale flats without an HDB housing loanAnnounced 28 July 2026
28 July 2026 · Archive event
Singapore lengthens developer ABSD remission timelines for large and mega en bloc redevelopmentsAnnounced 28 July 2026
4 August 2026 · Land sales
Berlayar Drive: Tender closedResidential · status on 4 August 2026: Tender closed, award pending
7 August 2026 · Land sales
Chitty Road and Veerasamy Road: AwardedResidential: 18 conserved two-storey buildings of 1927, within the existing envelope under the Conservation Guidelines · status on 7 August 2026: Awarded · awarded to YK Land Pte. Ltd. at S$35,288,000
7 August 2026 · Land sales
Berlayar Drive: AwardedResidential · status on 7 August 2026: Awarded · awarded to Intrepid Investments Pte. Ltd. and GuocoLand (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. at S$576,778,554
13 August 2026 · Land sales
Marina Gardens Lane (6,007.4 sqm parcel): Launched for tender, Confirmed ListResidential with commercial at 1st storey · status on 13 August 2026: Tender open
13 August 2026 · Land sales
Orchard Boulevard (3,438.0 sqm parcel): Launched for tender, Confirmed ListResidential · status on 13 August 2026: Tender open
After (6)
23 August 2026 · Planning
Singapore sets out a long-term outer islands land strategy at the National Day RallyAnnounced 23 August 2026
31 August 2026 · Archive event
Singapore raises Land Betterment Charge rates for five of nine use groups from 1 September 2026Announced 31 August 2026
1 September 2026 · Land sales
New Upper Changi Road: Tender closedResidential · status on 1 September 2026: Tender closed, award pending
4 September 2026 · Land sales
New Upper Changi Road: AwardedResidential · status on 4 September 2026: Awarded · awarded to United Venture Development (Daisy) Pte. Ltd. and CL Sapphire Pte. Ltd. at S$1,425,388,000
15 September 2026 · Land sales
Lorong Puntong / Sin Ming Avenue: Tender closedResidential · status on 15 September 2026: Tender closed, award pending
18 September 2026 · Land sales
Lorong Puntong / Sin Ming Avenue: AwardedResidential · status on 18 September 2026: Awarded · awarded to Eco World Development (S) Pte. Ltd. at S$208,099,000
Recorded relationships
- This event has as its direct predecessor Singapore replaces the AHG and SHG with the Enhanced CPF Housing Grant (EHG) and raises HDB income ceilings.
- This event updates Singapore introduces the Standard, Plus and Prime flat classification for new BTO flats, with a 10-year MOP and subsidy recovery for Plus and Prime.
Methodology5 rules
- Comparison anchored to announcement date because no effective date is recorded: 23 August 2026. 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 (5)
Primary sources5
National Day Rally 2026 (English transcript)
Prime Minister's Office Singapore · Primary source · Published 23 August 2026
Increase in Income Ceilings and Greater Support for Families with Children
Housing & Development Board · Primary source · Published 23 August 2026
Residential Development Sites Open for Tender
Housing & Development Board · Primary source · Published 24 July 2026
HDB Launches Tender for Sale Site at Admiralty Walk
Housing & Development Board · Primary source · Published 29 June 2026
HDB Launches Tender for Sale Site at Canberra Drive
Housing & Development Board · Primary source · Published 25 May 2026
Event checked against its primary sources on 28 August 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.