{"id":35202,"date":"2026-03-10T21:03:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=35202"},"modified":"2026-03-10T21:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:03:36","slug":"woman-applied-for-bto-13-times-over-3-years-ends-up-purchasing-a-resale-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=35202","title":{"rendered":"Woman Applied For BTO 13 Times Over 3 Years &#038; \u201cStill Didn\u2019t Get A Unit\u201d; Ends Up Purchasing A Resale Flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Some Singaporeans get lucky and snag their ideal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.8days.sg\/entertainment\/local\/celeb-bto-flat-delays-817246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Build-To-Order (BTO) flats<\/a> on the first try, while others spend years repeatedly trying just to secure a ballot number.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, one of the sisters from the TikTok account <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@xinandxuan\/video\/7613052518859410708\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xin &amp; Xuan<\/a> falls into the second group. She recently shared a video documenting her struggles to secure a BTO flat and how, after multiple failed attempts, she had to turn to a resale flat instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI applied for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.8days.sg\/entertainment\/local\/yishun-bto-long-wait-848766\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BTO<\/a> for 13 times and still did not manage to get a unit,\u201d said Chua at the start of her clip.<\/p>\n<p>Referencing a recent a Straits Times article on muted demand for Plus and Prime HDB flats amid stricter resale conditions for first-time buyers, she remarked: \u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s the most accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She then shared data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/housing\/muted-demand-for-some-plus-prime-hdb-flats-as-first-time-buyers-weigh-stricter-resale-conditions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a>, which detailed the percentage of unsold flats in several projects, including Ulu Pandan Vista and Ghim Moh Ascent. Chua had applied for the Bukit Merah Ridge project, which listed 28 per cent of three-room flats and 16 per cent of four-room flats as \u201cbalance units\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to Chua, the stats did not line up with her experience.<\/p>\n<p>She applied for a four-room flat but was assigned a queue number of 3,120, well above the 1,226 available units. She was told she would be notified if any flats became available during the selection process, but ultimately, she never received any such notification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the graph, it showed there were leftover units. I understand that sometimes people might select a unit and give it up, but for over 200 units being given up, I don\u2019t think it makes sense,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Chua included screenshots in her post, with some dating from 2021, explaining that she had been trying to get a unit for quite some time. She\u2019s balloted for units several times, but often met with the notice that her application was \u201cnot successful\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou might be thinking \u2018Oh because you keep balloting central and key locations everyone wants, it\u2019s impossible\u2019. But let me tell you, all we get is exceeded flat supply, we were never asked to go down to select a unit,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen who exactly is being called up and who is getting these units we balloted for?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, she even met her MP but was only told to wait for the ballot results.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  { if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n   n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n   if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n   n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n   t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n   s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n   'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n   fbq('init', '686778738188379');\n   fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.8days.sg\/entertainment\/local\/bto-13-times-unsuccessful-855091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Singaporeans get lucky and snag their ideal Build-To-Order (BTO) flats on the first try, while others spend years repeatedly trying just to secure a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}