Msian Cow: 1st-time buyers use 30% of income to pay housing loans

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[h=2]NEWS: 1st-time buyers use 30% of income to pay housing loans: Khaw[/h]

1st-time buyers use 30% of income to pay housing loans: Khaw

Monday, Jan 14, 2013

SINGAPORE - First-time buyers of HDB flats typically use about 30% of their monthly incomes to service their housing loans, Minister for National Development Khaw Boon Wan said in a written anwer to Member of Parliament Pritam Singh's question on what percentage of monthly income does HDB flat buyers fork out for BTO flats in mature estates.

Mr Pritam Singh:

To ask the Minister for National Development on average, what percentage of their monthly income do first-time buyers of BTO flats in mature estates use to pay off their housing loans.

Mr Khaw Boon Wan:

Flats in mature estates typically can command higher prices, as compared to those in non-mature estates. There is stronger demand as buyers are prepared to pay more for the locational and other advantages.

Nevertheless, with the market discount and subsidies provided by HDB, first-timers buying BTO flats in mature estates used about 30% of their monthly income to service their housing loans. This is still within the international benchmark on housing affordability.

First-timers looking for more affordable homes can opt to buy new flats in the non-mature estates, which is the main-stay of the BTO programme.​

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

If kena retrenched? What's the safety net?

 

[chupacabra]

Its more than 30 percent. Probably 45%

 

[cunnilaubu]

This is still within the international benchmark on housing affordability.

How come PAPpies don't cite international benchmark when talking about minimum wages?

 

[chupacabra]

You're right. In Peesai one can earn as low as 800 bucks. 30% of that can buy what house in peesai?