5-Room Flat In Henderson Listed For Sale At $1.8M, Features Carrara Marble & French Terrazzo Flooring
With Italian Carrara marble floors and 1,216sqft of space, this 5-room HDB flat in Henderson is on the market for almost $2 million dollars.
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As shocking as the new normal of HDB resale flats might be, sometimes the high price tag might be justified. Case in point: this 5-room flat at City Vue @ Henderson bears an asking price of $1.8M. If you’re just looking at those figures alone, you might laugh it off as another greedy seller who wants to flip their home for a quick buck. But on closer inspection, this flat has plenty of reasons why it deserves a million-dollar price tag.
Carrara marble & French terrazzo flooring
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Rest assured that with the price that you’re paying for this unit, you won’t be greeted by a floor that’s covered in cheap vinyl. The flat was renovated when the original homeowners moved in━they replaced the floor in the kitchen and living room with premium Carrara marble from Italy, and French terrazzo tiles.
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This was definitely not cheap. Plus, since the TOP for the development was in 2018, the unit is super new and the renovation would still be holding on pretty well.
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The bedrooms, however, have been covered with a walnut-coloured tile instead of marble or terrazzo. Having high-quality flooring ready to go would definitely help save some money if you aren’t looking to do any major renovation work.
A corner unit on a high floor & a great view
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This 5-room HDB flat in Henderson has all the makings of an ideal unit. It boasts 1,216sqft of floor space, is a corner unit on a high floor, and has a great view of the surrounding neighbourhood.
A glance at the BTO development’s brochure also showed that Block 96A only has 4 units on each floor, from the 30th- to the 48th floor.
Looking at past resale transactions in this development, similar units were transacted between $1.2M-$1.45M, although the “cheapest” unit was sold back in 2021, before prices inflated to today’s numbers.
Remaining lease of around 94 years
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The lease period is another factor that can determine how pricey an HDB resale flat gets. You wouldn’t see a flat that only has sub-50 years left on its lease go on to the market for anywhere around a million dollars. Conversely, the “fresher” the HDB flat is, the more it can command, which is probably why this 5-room HDB flat in Henderson is asking for $1.8M.
However, with many of the recent record-breaking resale flat transactions only hitting the $1.5M mark, it’s a little unrealistic for a flat with 94 years remaining to be asking for $300K more than the most expensive HDB flat ever sold so far.
5-room HDB flat in Henderson on sale for $1.8M
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This 5-room HDB flat in Henderson might not be a fake jumbo flat in Sengkang that costs $2M, but it’ll still set anyone back at least $1.8M. To be asking at least $300K more than the most expensive HDB flat ever sold—to date—is frankly, a little out of pocket.
Even with the newly renovated interior and all the marble, this home would only be considered by a homeowner who can afford to drop nearly $2 million on a flat and not want to pay for a renovation. After all, there’s no point paying a premium for a transformed HDB flat and hack the results away.