LTA - Expiring leases Landed Property - Lorong 3 Geylang

 LTA - Expiring leases Landed Property - Lorong 3 Geylang (2020 1223)

Tenure: 60-year leasehold from 1960

Lease expiry: 2020

Last transaction: $88,000 in December 2015, 854 sq ft

Getting There:

Route 1: MRT Geylang Bahru Station Exit A (DT24)/BLK 73/Geylang Bahru Stn Stop ID: 60221 board bus 140 and alight at Blk 3B Stop ID: 80311 for 2 stops

Route 2: MRT Boon Keng (NE9) Exit A/Boon Keng Stn/Blk 102 Stop ID: 60121 board Bus 140 and alight at Blk 3B Stop ID: 80311

Route 3: MRT Kallang (EW10) Exit B/ Kallang Stn/Opp Blk 2C Stop ID: 80101 Board Bus 140/175 alight at Geylang West CC Stop ID: 80319 for 1 stop

Leaky roof extensions, shoddily patched walls and rubbish-strewn alleys are a common sight in Geylang Lorong 3, a world apart from the neater, well-manicured private estates elsewhere.

The 2ha estate is making history as Singapore’s first private residential plot to be returned to the State on the expiry of its 60-year lease.

SLA had announced in June 2017 that 191 terrace house units at Lorong 3 Geylang would return to the State upon expiry of their leases on Dec 31

The land, which has a 60-year lease, will be redeveloped for public housing as part of the larger plan to rejuvenate Kallang, SLA said.