Split identities of the 9 Spottiswoode Park HDB flats: Same same, but different

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After our JTC Jurong flats from 1977 story, a reader wrote to us requesting that we look into the history behind a cluster of HDB flats at Spottiswoode Park Road. What's interesting is that while there are nine similar-looking 'HDB' blocks (blocks 101-110) in that cluster (block 108 is a multi-storey carpark), not all of them are public - some...

After our JTC Jurong flats from 1977 story, a reader wrote to us requesting that we look into the history behind a cluster of HDB flats at Spottiswoode Park Road.

One can understand the attractiveness of these residential blocks as they are just within walking distance to the former Tanjong Pagar KTM railway station . Yep, these penthouses - nine of which are split-level - were offered to senior PSA staff at $120,000. "We fail to understand why the PSA had been selling these flats to its own employees and other public and civil servants at such high cost compared with what it could sell to HDB," they wrote.

The other four aren't. Based on URA private residential transaction data, these four blocks seem to have also been reclassified as "apartments" .

 

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