aug 2016 bto - tampines green verge, tampines green view

DISCLAIMER:​​

1. Readers are advised to use information available here as study guide and use it at your own risk. 
2. Please note that changes/ update based on available information will be made from time to time, readers are advised to check on this page regularly.
3. Analysis was done based on available data at the time of publishing of this review.
4. As each and every unit has it's own attributes, analysis shown here only represent the majority units in the stacks having the same attribute including sun, wind, view, distance etc. 

​Tampines North Masterplan
​Video courtesy of HDB

​tampines green verge

1. This development consists of 2,022 units with commercial components of eating house, supermarket and restaurant. The land itself is almost 10ha with plot ratio of 2.8.​
2. This development is part of 240ha Tampines North Masterplan to cater for 21,000 new dwelling units which was introduced back in 2013 and implemented under Master Plan 2014.
3. The Central Spinal Park idea is a nice touch but somehow the proposed development doesn’t fully utilise the frontage of this central park.  Rather than hugging the perimeter of the park, most of the blocks were somehow aligning parallel to Tampines Avenue 9 which doesn’t benefit the home owners in terms of view and spatial quality.
4. Note that Tampines Avenue 12 will be realigned to expand the site reserved for park or make way for more dwelling units and make sense of the masterplan itself as the proposed Tampines Avenue 12 were originally being designed to be there with an overhead park connector being built across as shown in the earlier perspective. URA Masterplan 2014 doesn’t show water body reserved at Sun Plaza Park, so there won’t be one like what being illustrated in the earlier proposal.
5. We won’t dwell much into the amenities as you can access all these data from government website apart from all the info given in the HDB site plan and website.
6. In terms of pricing comparison, we have in our database record for all units (except rental units) for Tampines Green Weave (2015), Tampines Green Leaf (2011) and Tampines Green Lace (2012) to give you a better idea of how price on each level should be rather than comparing an average pricing or range bound which doesn’t give an accurate representation and leading to future losses. 

For 1st or 2nd timer buyer, you will have to ask yourself these questions:

1. How will the eating house, supermarket, restaurant affect you? How the smoke flow, etc…
2. What is the wind exposure to your unit? Where and when?
3. Will you get even a glimpse towards the central park? To what extend or even if you have it!
4. Will the sun shade provided by the design enough to shield you from hot afternoon sun? Sizes of window hood and position will lead to different outcome but you will know years in advance!
5. What is the price upside potential for your selection? Different level have a difference price jump as recorded in all developments.
6. How will the future development to the north east affect you as there are at least 4 more plots the size of Tampines Green Verge yet to be developed?
7. How will the school to the north across Tampines St 21 affect you?
8. How near are the building blocks facing each other and is it good enough for privacy?
9. How will your unit look like? Knowing the space will allow you to plan your purchase years in advance and phase out your budget and get the best deal in town when you find one!  
10. Should you go for the cheapest unit? You will be surprised as pricing for previous launches have shown many good catches which others with good Q number misses and landed with bad decision!     

personalised analysis for BTO pre-booking, post-booking, condo pre-booking are currently available with more detailed informations. 

details available here

           "even buying a $300 thing some of us research for weeks on which is the best brand etc what more a $300k house? ​"
- mrs. lim (2015) Tampines

​tampines green view

1. This development consists of 714 units with commercial components of shops and restaurant. The land itself is almost 4ha with plot ratio of 2.8.​
2. This development is part of 240ha Tampines North Masterplan to cater for 21,000 new dwelling units which was introduced back in 2013 and implemented under Master Plan 2014.
3. To the south of this plot is Tampines Greenweave which was launched back in May 2015. Both will share a central park along Tampines North Drive 1. Both will have plenty of commercial amenities along Tampines Avenue 6 and across Tampines Avenue 6, there will be a mixed development in the future. Across Tampines North Drive 1 to the west, there will be plenty of sites reserved for industrial development which falls under category B1 (Business 1). We will elaborate further about what falls under B1 in our paid analysis and how it may affect the Tampines Green View residents.   
4. In general, the site layout was constraint by the common green/park and MSCP (multi storey car park). Rather than obliged to the predefined shape of the common green, both developments can be better layout and designed to maximized the common green and avoid having a regimented blocks which is overlooking each other. While a true north-south facing unit maybe better to minimized west sun exposure, do remember that horizontal and vertical shading elements do play a part in minimizing exposure as well.  Based on our previous analysis, the 450mm-600mm hood used for this development may not yield desired result as it may be exposed to 12pm and 1pm sun exposure.
5. We won’t dwell much into the amenities as you can access all these data from government website apart from all the info given in the HDB site plan and website.
6. In terms of pricing comparison, we have in our database record for all units (except rental units) for Tampines Green Weave (2015), Tampines Green Leaf (2011) and Tampines Green Lace (2012) to give you a better idea of how price on each level should be rather than comparing an average pricing or range bound which doesn’t give an accurate representation and leading to future losses.

For 1st or 2nd timer buyer, you will have to ask yourself these questions:                                                    

1. How will the eating house, supermarket, restaurant affect you? How the smoke flow, etc…
2. What is the wind exposure to your unit? Where and when?
3. Will you get even a glimpse towards the common green? To what extend or even if you have it!
4. Will the sun shade provided by the design enough to shield you from hot afternoon sun? Sizes of window hood and position will lead to different outcome but you will know years in advance!
5. What is the price upside potential for your selection? Different level have a difference price jump as recorded in all developments.
6. How will the future development across Tampines Avenue 6 affect you as these are mixed development?
7. How will the B1 land use across Tampines North Drive 1 to the west affect you?
8. How near are the building blocks facing each other and is it good enough for privacy?
9. How will your unit look like? Knowing the space will allow you to plan your purchase years in advance and phase out your budget and get the best deal in town when you find one! 
10. Should you go for the cheapest unit? You will be surprised as pricing for previous launches have shown many good catches which others with good Q number misses and landed with bad decision!
11. Which unit layout to go for? As both have pro and cons, getting the right one will save you renovation cost and unwanted spaces.    ​

personalised analysis for BTO pre-booking, post-booking, condo pre-booking are currently available with more detailed informations. 

details available here

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- mr. and mrs. gan (2016) Bukit Batok

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