ST : #3: Flat repossessed

Mar 28, 2010

#3: Flat repossessed

The tip-off came from the previous owner of a three-room flat in Bedok.

He told the HDB that after he had sold the flat to a couple in 2007, he and his family had continued to live in it as a tenant.

In 2008, after he and his family had moved out, he informed the HDB about this.

Investigations revealed that the flat had then been sublet to another family without the HDB's approval.

The HDB wrote to the owner to evict the tenants and to resume living in the flat immediately.

It said that the wife initially denied having sublet the flat but later admitted that she was not occupying it. She claimed her husband was in remand and felt it was inappropriate for her to live with the tenants.

Further checks revealed that she did not resume living in the flat after the tenants vacated it. She even sublet it to yet another group of tenants. She also did not pay the flat's loan instalments even though she had sufficient CPF funds, the HDB said.

The flat was repossessed in August last year.