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Pinnacle in name, and in pricing too?

Posted on 6 Sep 2009 | Comments Off on Pinnacle in name, and in pricing too?

HDB has 111 units left for sale, and property agents say five-room flats could top $700k
The 50-storey Pinnacle@Duxton will have features seen only in top-end private properties, such as skybridges. — ST PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN

Property agents expect that the remaining 111 units of the iconic Pinnacle@Duxton in Tanjong Pagar, when sold, will make them the costliest public flats ever.

Built by the Housing Board, the 1,848-unit Pinnacle@Duxton is its tallest project at 50 storeys.

It will be completed by the end of the year.

The agents said that in the current property boom, the five-room units, the largest, may well fetch $700,000 or even more.

A likely spillover is that surrounding resale HDB flats will see their value rise appreciably.

The 111 units have yet to be put on sale – HDB could not say when but it did add that the units are a mix of four-room units of up to 97 sq m and five-room types of up to 108 sq m. Continue reading →

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View from the Pinnacle @ Duxton

Posted on 3 Sep 2009 | Comments Off on View from the Pinnacle @ Duxton

Enjoying the view from one of the skybridges at HDB’s Pinnacle@Duxton are (from left) Mr Sng Cheng Keh, deputy executive officer (building); Mr Lau Joo Ming, managing director (HDB Building Research Insitute); Associated Professor Koo Tsai Kee, Minister of State for Defence and MP for Tanjong Pagar GRC; National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan; HDB chief executive officer Tay Kim Poh, and Mr Yap Chin Beng, deputy chief executive officer (estates and corporate). — ST PHOTOS: CHEW SENG KIM, ALPHONSUS CHERN

SINGAPORE will be home to possibly the world’s largest sky garden – 500m long and 24m wide and perched up to 50 storeys above ground. Continue reading →

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