Mount Pleasant estate to have 6,000 HDB flats, up from 5,000 previously announced
Mount Pleasant’s closeness to Toa Payoh will also factor right into demand and pricing. “The project may be a Prime BTO as resale flat rates in Toa Payoh are fairly high and the mature estate has among the highest numbers of million-dollar resale flats,” Lee adds. Prime apartments are subject to tighter regulations, such as a 10-year minimum occupation duration and an aid clawback.
The first BTO project in the Mount Pleasant estate will be started as section of the October 2025 BTO exercise. Named Mount Pleasant Crest, it is going to provide around 1,350 units of two-room flexi to four-room flats. There are going to even be 270 units of public rental apartments.
Six structures, which HDB states were “identified as the most substantial depictions of police heritage”, have actually been conserved and will be integrated right into the brand-new estate. Four blocks will be repurposed for alternate usages such as an area authorities post and SPF Heritage Gallery. One block is going to continue to function as the Senior Police Officers’ Mess, while another will be incorporated right into future developments. Additionally, the previous OPA parade square will be maintained as public space for community use.
According to HDB, the increased supply follows “additional detailed planning researches” and will assist to match strong real estate interest.
This will be the second BTO project to present the white flat layout, after the Crawford Heights BTO project, that released last October. According to HDB, around four in 10 flat customers opted for the design at that project.
Eugene Lim, key director at ERA Singapore, notes that the white flat layout at Mount Pleasant Crest might attract younger Singaporeans and property owners meaning to do extensive renovations. “A white flat typology will certainly give them the choice to tailor-make their design to accommodate their housing needs, enabling versatility over the longer term,” he states.
HDB claims the “white flat” layout will be offered at Mount Pleasant Crest. Flat buyers can choose the open-concept layout, which offers a contiguous living and bedroom space without dividers surfaces, when they are welcomed to book a flat.
The Mount Pleasant estate rests on the location of the Old Police Academy (OPA), close to the Thomson Flyover off the Pan Island Expressway. The OPA was used as the training institute for the Singapore Police Force (SPF) until 2005.
Lee Sze Teck, leading supervisor of data analytics at Hiuttons Asia, thinks the Mount Pleasant Crest project that will be launched for sale in October will draw solid attention, due to its location near to Mount Pleasant MRT Terminal and schools like CHIJ Primary Toa Payoh and Singapore Chinese Girls’ School.
Offered by the brand-new Mount Pleasant MRT Station 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 paths and cycling pathways. New roadways, consisting of a major thoroughfare named “Old Police Academy Roadway”, will even be built to improve ease of access. There will even be a protected pedestrian thoroughfare that attaches the different precincts in Mount Pleasant, HDB mentions.
Four Build-to-Order (BTO) projects are planned for the upcoming Mount Pleasant estate, that will generate approximately 6,000 new condos upon completion. This is 1,000 greater than the 5,000 units previously announced for the 33ha site, HDB says in a Sept 2 press release.
