Mount Pleasant estate to have 6,000 HDB flats, up from 5,000 previously announced
The Mount Pleasant estate remains on the site of the Old Police Academy (OPA), near to the Thomson Flyover off the Pan Island Expressway. The OPA was run as the training institute for the Singapore Police Force (SPF) till 2005.
Mount Pleasant’s closeness to Toa Payoh will also factor right into demand and prices. “The project might be a Prime BTO as resale flat costs in Toa Payoh are fairly high and the older estate has among the highest numbers of million-dollar resale flats,” Lee adds. Prime lodgings are subject to tighter guidelines, like a 10-year minimum occupation duration and an aid clawback.
Eugene Lim, key executive officer at ERA Singapore, notes that the white flat layout at Mount Pleasant Crest might appeal to younger Singaporeans and house owners planning to do extensive renovations. “A white flat typology will certainly give them the option to customise their design to cater to their real estate needs, permitting flexibility over the longer term,” he says.
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Four Build-to-Order (BTO) ventures are prepared for the upcoming Mount Pleasant estate, that are going to yield about 6,000 brand-new apartments upon finish. This is 1,000 more than the 5,000 units formerly released for the 33ha site, HDB claims in a Sept 2 press release.
Offered by the brand-new Mount Pleasant MRT Stop on the Thomson-East Coast Line, Mount Pleasant are going to be a car-lite estate and include Transit Priority Corridors with dedicated bus lanes, wider foot pathways and biking paths. New roadways, including a main road named “Old Police Academy Roadway”, will additionally be created to enhance availability. There will even be a protected pedestrian highway that connects the different precincts in Mount Pleasant, HDB mentions.
This will be the 2nd BTO project to present the white flat layout, after the Crawford Heights BTO project, that released last October. According to HDB, around four in 10 flat customers went with the layout at that project.
Lee Sze Teck, leading director of data analytics at Hiuttons Asia, thinks the Mount Pleasant Crest project that will be launched for sale in October will attract solid attention, because of its place near Mount Pleasant MRT Terminal and schools such as CHIJ Primary Toa Payoh and Singapore Chinese Girls’ School.
According to HDB, the expanded supply complies with “additional detailed planning researches” and are going to help to meet good real estate necessity.
The very first BTO project in the Mount Pleasant estate will be started as part of the October 2025 BTO activity. Labelled Mount Pleasant Crest, it will provide around 1,350 units of two-room flexi to four-room flats. There will additionally be 270 units of public rental apartments.
HDB states the “white flat” layout will be given at Mount Pleasant Crest. Flat clients can select the open-concept layout, that offers a contiguous living and bedroom room without dividers walls, when they are encouraged to reserve a flat.
Six buildings, which HDB states were “recognized as one of the most significant depictions of authorities heritage”, have actually been saved and will be incorporated into the brand-new estate. 4 blocks will be repurposed for different uses including a neighbourhood police post and SPF Heritage Gallery. One block will continue to act as the Senior Law Enforcement Officer’ Mess, whilst another will be integrated into future projects. Furthermore, the former OPA parade square will be preserved as public space for community use.
