What is the purpose of SERS? we can't relax ....

Leogirldreamer SG

i don’t understand what is the purpose of SERS ? after we work so hard to pay off a flat and we want to heave a sigh of relief, one round of SERS come and we have to pack and move. Worse, i understand that the flat owner has to pay for the replacement flat for the current market price. Is that true ? the flat we buy years old can’t catch up with the price of the flat nowadays.

Can we appeal to stop SERS in our neighbourhood? We want to relax after the flat is finally paid off…not go on another round of monthly payment.

sinicker SG

yeah. my aunt been staying at bedok south blk 51 since the late 70s....
then kena move to bedok central the new flats...
then now the old place rented out for foreigners.....

good part - get new place
bad part - nostalgia, memories all gone. and taken over by foreign workers.

next SERS i know of is at clementi. beside the MRT station opposite side of clementi mall.

Rooney9 SG

why cant they give foreigners new flat to live then?

sinicker SG

why cant they give foreigners new flat to live then?

because that would overwrite the primary function of HDB.

Leogirldreamer SG

sinicker, does your aunt need to pay extra money for her new flat? top up the difference between the value of her old flat and the new one ?

or she is given one to one replacement?

likeyou SG

The purpose is to have a more beautiful new flats.

Maybe ts current flat is more than 30 yrs old?

sinicker SG

sinicker, does your aunt need to pay extra money for her new flat? top up the difference between the value of her old flat and the new one ?

or she is given one to one replacement?

top-up. but not sure one lump sum or take another loan for years.....

sinicker SG

The purpose is to have a more beautiful new flats.

Maybe ts current flat is more than 30 yrs old?

if the purpose is to have more beautiful new flats, then what are they doing with the old flats?

they're not demolishing it... they're letting private companies take over the management of them and renting it out.... take a look for yourself... Bedok South blocks 48/49/50.

alize SG

Don’t forget having to pay interest on a new loan.

Yup, the old flats become either expat apartments like at Tanjong Pagar, or foreign worker dorms like at Kallang.

BanguIzai SG

Ya, same too, after driving off the residents from Toa Payoh East Blocks 30/31/32/33, they converted these old flats into slumps.

likeyou SG

I am one of the sers home owners too.

Being staying in my old flat for more than 35 yrs. Got the feeling liao.

Then pple / neighours begin to talk about moving new homes. Pple got excited.

Neighbours issue form to vote whether want to move out or not.

Eventually majority of them want.

I still walk to my old flats that still exists, but with all sorts of foreigners staying there, the flat looks very dirty.

Leogirldreamer SG

top up the difference?!!! what if the owner is retired and have no more cpf ?

Being a Singaporean is so tiring…........

likeyou SG

Maybe, just maybe, that is one of their intention of sers...

Leogirldreamer SG

i don’t understand 34 years of flats must be enbloc…why not wait until almost 99 years then do it la.

99-34 = 65 the flat lifespan is still so long and then it must be domolished.

Why must flats that have 65 years lifespan be torn down? or worse converted to residences for foreign workers. Why can’t our government build big domitaries for these foreign workers instead of forcing Singaporeans to move and vacant their homes for these foreign workers.

Who is the imbecile who made all these decisions. Ask them to enbloc their own houses first.

BanguIzai SG

government don't want us to relax. relax liao will think of ways to oppose government. must slog our life so we don't think much about dirty politics.

likeyou SG

i don’t understand 34 years of flats must be enbloc…why not wait until almost 99 years then do it la.

99-34 = 65 the flat lifespan is still so long and then it must be domolished.

Who is the imbecile who made all these decisions. Ask them to enbloc their own houses first.

They wont wait that long cos majoirty of them alrady pay off the flats. So how? Sers lor....that is another way to earn money and profit.

lemon1974 SG

actually, they can dun implement SERS at all, lots of ppl willing to pay high price to buy the flats at Bedok Central or Clementi Central or AMK... but for the sake of the current residents and to maximum the land usage, they implement SERS..but then now the price is too high, so not that worth it... during the 90s, my neighbouring blocks in TPY was the first to be selected under the SERS scheme.. and all the residents are glad to have a bigger flat (4 or 5 rooms compared to 3 rooms) and the price is reasonable then and those residents that bought the 5 rooms flat at S$350 000 at that time were laughing..

Once all the residents move out, they usually will demolish the old flats immediately but as in the case in TPY (former block 89/136-140/164-167), the lands were left vacant for several years before the new flats are build or land being sold to private developers.. so right now they are smart, they keep the flats for some time and rent out and earn some more income and solve some housing problem, until the time come for the area to be rebuild...

look at TPY, the old flats were of 11 storeys high.. now they build it to 40 storeys to maximize the usage....

likeyou SG

Nowadays sers flat looks more like condo stlye. even the interior also looks good. You pay for it to get good interior things. maybe that is why nowadays new flats are expensive.

Leogirldreamer SG

but i heard that the space shrink. 4 room become 3 room, 3 room become like studio.

Paying more for smaller space. I still like the old high ceiling spacious flat design.

The issue here is we don’t have the choice to stay put. We must move irregardless whether we want or not. Like being forced. Sigh !

likeyou SG

but i heard that the space shrink. 4 room become 3 room, 3 room become like studio.

Paying more for smaller space. I still like the old high ceiling spacious flat design.

The issue here is we don’t have the choice to stay put. We must move irregardless whether we want or not. Like being forced. Sigh !

I am not sure about the shrinking part but mostly is standard flat. 5 rm = 110 sqm, 4 rm = 92 or 85 sqm, and so on.

Maybe you see shrink might due to the design and layout.

With the spiral downwards of birth rates, couples will not want to have such a big house, possibly 3 room or 4 room will do. Small house = less costly.