Mount Pleasant estate to have 6,000 HDB flats, up from 5,000 previously announced
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 is going to give around 1,350 units of two-room flexi to four-room flats. There are going to even be 270 units of public rental apartments.
Lee Sze Teck, higher director of data analytics at Hiuttons Asia, thinks the Mount Pleasant Crest project that will be launched for sale in October will draw strong attention, due to its location close to Mount Pleasant MRT Terminal and schools like CHIJ Primary Toa Payoh and Singapore Chinese Girls’ School.
Eugene Lim, key executive officer at ERA Singapore, notes that the white flat layout at Mount Pleasant Crest might appeal to more youthful Singaporeans and home owners planning to do extensive renovations. “A white level typology will certainly provide the option to customise their layout to accommodate their real estate needs, allowing for versatility over the much longer term,” he claims.
Presented by the brand-new Mount Pleasant MRT Terminal on the Thomson-East Coast Line, Mount Pleasant will be a car-lite estate and include Transit Priority Corridors with dedicated bus lanes, broader foot tracks and biking routes. New roadways, including a primary thoroughfare named “Old Police Academy Roadway”, will even be created to enhance ease of access. There will additionally be a protected pedestrian thoroughfare that links the numerous precincts in Mount Pleasant, HDB mentions.
The Mount Pleasant estate rests on the spot 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) until 2005.
According to HDB, the raised supply follows “more detailed planning investigations” and will guide to fulfill strong property demand.
This will be the 2nd BTO project to offer the white flat layout, after the Crawford Heights BTO project, which launched last October. According to HDB, referring to four in 10 flat purchasers selected the style at that project.
Four Build-to-Order (BTO) ventures are planned for the upcoming Mount Pleasant estate, that are going to yield approximately 6,000 brand-new condos upon completion. This is 1,000 greater than the 5,000 units formerly revealed for the 33ha site, HDB states in a Sept 2 news release.
HDB claims the “white flat” layout will be given at Mount Pleasant Crest. Flat investors can select the open-concept layout, which offers a contiguous living and bedroom room without dividers wall structures, when they are welcomed to reserve a flat.
Six structures, which HDB says were “identified as the most considerable representations of police heritage”, have actually been preserved and will be integrated into the new estate. 4 blocks are going to be repurposed for alternative purposes like an area authorities post and SPF Heritage Gallery. One block is going to remain to work as the Senior Law Enforcement Officer’ Mess, while another will be incorporated into future property developments. Furthermore, the previous OPA parade square will be preserved as public space for community use.
Mount Pleasant’s closeness to Toa Payoh will also factor right into need and pricing. “The project might be a Prime BTO as resale flat costs in Toa Payoh are quite high and the older estate has one of the greatest numbers of million-dollar resale condos,” Lee adds. Prime flats are subject to tighter guidelines, like a 10-year minimum occupation period and an aid clawback.
