Every HDB BTO launch since 2023: the projects, flats, prices and waiting times, how many applied for each flat type, and what that means for your chances. The next launch too.
The latest launch
The June 2026 BTO exercise, launched 17 Jun 20266,952 flatsin 7 projects; first-timer families’ middle rate 1.1×; the shortest wait 2 years 7 months, Sembawang Portico
Bukit Merah · 4 years 1 month to 4 years 6 months’ wait · 14% subsidy recovery
Flat
Flats
Price
Size
First-timer families
Second-timers
Singles
2-room Flexi
816
S$247k–406k
40–48 m²
0.1×
0.4×
7.8×
3-room
172
S$435k–591k
67 m²
1.3×
23.9×
4-room
988
S$592k–810k
90 m²
3.3×
23.9×
Prices are HDB’s indicative ranges before grants, for a first-timer. Rates are applicants ÷ the flats set aside for each household, from the HDB Flat Portal; a rate shared by two projects is for their flats together. From HDB’s launch release and price table.
0.6× under 1×: fewer applicants than flats2.0× 1× to 3×4.1× over 3×
The next launch
The next BTO launchNovember 2026about 7,960 flats in 7 projects, in Bedok, Geylang, Sembawang, Tengah, Toa Payoh and Yishun
4 more, 5,085 flats or so, in Bedok, Geylang, Toa Payoh and Yishun: named at the launch
From HDB’s announcement. Which projects are Standard, Plus or Prime, the prices and the exact launch date come with the launch. You need an HDB Flat Eligibility (HFE) letter before you apply.
🔔 BTO launches on Telegram
Our Telegram bot, @liddat_bot, tells you the day HDB opens each BTO launch, with every project’s flats, prices and waiting time; the application rates once HDB puts them out; and the next launch as soon as HDB announces it. For every town, or only the towns you follow.
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Rates for your household and flat type
First-timer families, 4-room: the middle rate of 172.0×from 0.6× at Sembawang Portico / Sembawang Brook (Jun 2026) to 7.2× at Tampines Bliss / Tampines Nova (Feb 2026); 4 under 1×
Every 4-room rate HDB published for first-timer families in Feb 2023, Feb 2025, Feb 2026 and Jun 2026, lowest first. Flats are all of the project’s 4-room flats; HDB sets aside a share of them for each household (see Your chances).
What are my chances?
HDB doesn’t publish anyone’s odds, and neither do we. Here’s what its numbers do and don’t say:
An application rate is applicants ÷ flats, for one household type and flat type. A rate of 3.2 means about 3 applicants for each flat set aside for you; 0.8 means fewer applicants than flats.
Each household gets its own share of the flats. In a Standard project, first-timer families get 95% of the 4-room and bigger flats and 85% of the 3-room flats, second-timer families the rest; in Plus and Prime projects first-timer families get 95% of every 3-room and bigger flat. Of 2-room Flexi flats, 40% (at least 100 a project) go to seniors, and of the rest 65% to first-timer singles, 20% to first-timer families and 15% to second-timer families. That’s why second-timers’ rates run so much higher.
First-timers get more ballot chances. First-timer parents and married couples get three, and first priority for 4-room and smaller flats in Standard projects; other first-timer families two; second-timer families one. After two or more unsuccessful tries at Standard flats, a first-timer family gets one more chance each time it tries again, up to five (four for other first-timers). From the February 2027 exercise, a first-timer family with or expecting children gets one more chance for each Singapore Citizen child aged 18 or under.
A rate under 1 isn’t a sure flat, and over 3 isn’t hopeless. HDB gives queue numbers to more applicants than there are flats (up to three times as many), as many who are invited don’t book: HDB has said about 40% didn’t, and that most applicants could pick a flat where the rate was under 1.7. About 20% of applications are from people who applied in earlier launches and are still waiting to book.
Rates move during the week applications are open, and HDB shows them as they come in. Its advice: look for flat types and projects with rates below the median. A good queue number still depends on which flats are left when your turn comes.
We don’t turn a rate into a percentage: HDB doesn’t publish how many in each group got a queue number within the flats, and the extra ballot chances change it for every household.
Standard, Plus and Prime flats
Since the October 2024 exercise, HDB calls each new project Standard, Plus or Prime by how well placed it is: how near the city centre, how well connected and what’s around it. Older flats keep the old rules.
Standard
Plus
Prime
Where
Most new flats, perhaps near an MRT station or good amenities
Choicer: nearer the city, well connected, or by the water
The choicest: central, the best connections and amenities
Subsidies
Significant market discounts
More subsidies on top
The most subsidies on top
Minimum occupation period
5 years
10 years
10 years
Subsidy recovery when sold
None
Yes, a % of the price
Yes, more than Plus
Renting out the whole flat
After the MOP
Never
Never
Renting out spare rooms
3-room or bigger flats
Who can buy it resale
Anyone eligible for a resale flat
Tighter: buyers have an income ceiling of S$16,000 a month (S$8,000 for a single buying a 2-room Prime flat)
The subsidy recovery is a percentage of the resale price or the valuation, whichever is higher, paid to HDB when you sell. HDB sets it for each Plus and Prime project at launch: so far 6% to 14% (it’s on each project’s page).
The 10-year MOP also means no buying a private home before it’s up.
First-timer singles can apply for 2-room Flexi flats in any Standard, Plus or Prime project.
Income ceilings for a new flat: S$16,000 a month for families (S$24,000 for extended families) and S$8,000 for singles, for HDB Flat Eligibility letters applied for from 24 Aug 2026 (it was S$14,000 and S$7,000).
Before October 2024 flats were mature-estate or non-mature-estate (both a 5-year MOP, no subsidy recovery), or Prime Location Public Housing (PLH): a 10-year MOP, a subsidy recovery of 6% to 9% and no renting out the whole flat, much like today’s Plus and Prime.
As HDB published them, a town’s projects grouped where HDB grouped them. The HDB Flat Portal shows only the last two exercises’ rates; Flat Prices keeps them, and earlier ones the Internet Archive kept from HDB’s old rates page.
First-timer families’ rate in Feb 2023, Feb 2025, Feb 2026 and Jun 2026, the exercises whose rates HDB still shows or the Internet Archive kept, newest first. For the other households, pick them above.
Every launch since 2023
Each BTO exercise’s projects, flats, kinds, HDB’s estimated waiting time and the 4-room price range. Tap a project for its flats, prices, rates and what’s nearby, or a town for all its launches.
From HDB’s launch releases and their price tables (Annex A), as Flat Prices keeps them: there’s no HDB API or data.gov.sg dataset for BTO launches. Download it all (CSV).
🏠 Flat Prices: BTO projects
Flat Prices (hdbprices.com) is Liddat’s sister site for HDB flats, and the launches on this page come from it: each exercise’s projects, flats, prices, sizes and waiting times from HDB’s launch releases and price tables, and the application rates HDB published after each one closed, which Flat Prices keeps after HDB’s own pages drop them. The blocks, storeys and completion dates are from its list of every BTO project.
Flat Prices has every BTO project since December 2009 on a map, each with its completion date and whether it’s late, the blocks it became and what they now sell for, alongside every HDB resale since 1990 and a page for every block.
Questions
What were the application rates for the June 2026 BTO?
For first-timer families, from 0.1× for 2-room Flexi flats at Kebun Baru Breeze to 4.1× for 4-room flats at Woodgrove Acres, with 1.1× in the middle of HDB’s 16 rates. Second-timer families’ ran from 0.2× to 24.3×. Every rate.
When is the next BTO launch?
HDB’s next BTO exercise is in November 2026: about 7,960 flats in 7 projects. HDB has named Sembawang Anchor (Sembawang, 1,310 flats, 2 years 10 months’ wait), Bayshore Oasis (Bedok, 855 flats, 3 years 2 months’ wait) and Plantation Dew (Tengah, 710 flats, 3 years 2 months’ wait); the others are in Bedok, Geylang, Toa Payoh and Yishun. HDB usually launches in February, around June or July, and in October or November.
Which BTO had the highest application rate?
Of the rates we have (Feb 2023, Feb 2025, Feb 2026 and Jun 2026), first-timer families’ highest for a 3-room or bigger flat was 7.2× for 4-room flats at Tampines Bliss / Tampines Nova in Tampines (Feb 2026): 3,484 applicants for 337 flats. First-timer singles’ highest for a 2-room Flexi was 117.5×, at Tampines Nova (Feb 2026).
How many BTO flats did HDB launch in 2026?
11,644 in 2 exercises so far (Feb 2026, 4,692 and Jun 2026, 6,952), and about 7,960 more in November 2026.
How much is a 4-room BTO flat in the June 2026 launch?
From S$302,000 at Sembawang Brook (Sembawang) to S$810,000 at Berlayar Rise (Bukit Merah), HDB’s indicative prices before grants. First-timers may get up to S$120,000 of the Enhanced CPF Housing Grant on top: work out your grants.
Which upcoming BTO has the shortest waiting time?
Sembawang Anchor in Sembawang, in the November 2026 launch: 2 years 10 months, 1,310 flats.
What does an application rate of 3.2 mean?
About 3 applicants for each flat set aside for your household type: 3.2 applications ÷ 1 flat. It isn’t a 1-in-3.2 chance, as HDB invites more applicants than there are flats and many who are invited don’t book, and first-timers get more ballot chances.
What’s the difference between Standard, Plus and Prime BTO flats?
Where they are, and the rules that come with them. Standard flats have a 5-year MOP and no subsidy recovery, and can be rented out whole after the MOP. Plus and Prime flats are in choicer places with more subsidies, so they have a 10-year MOP, a subsidy recovery of a percentage of the price when sold, can never be rented out whole, and have tighter rules on who can buy them resale.
Do second-timers stand a chance?
A smaller one: second-timer families get only 5% of the 4-room and bigger flats (15% of 3-room flats in Standard projects) and one ballot chance, so their rates are often 10× or more. Lower rates show up in non-mature towns and in 5-room flats.
Where does this come from?
From HDB: each exercise’s launch release and price table, and the application rates on the HDB Flat Portal or, for earlier exercises, HDB’s old rates page as the Internet Archive kept it. There’s no HDB API, so Liddat’s sister site Flat Prices keeps them, and the totals are checked against each other.
Is anything I pick sent anywhere?
No. It’s all in your browser, and nothing you pick goes into the page’s address.