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Couple fight over ‘windfall’ from BTO flat in Tampines
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It is not common for married couples to return their flats to the HDB when they split.
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Being allotted a new Build-To-Order flat in a mature estate is akin to winning the real estate lottery, but a man wanted to return his prized apartment to the Housing Board rather than let his estranged wife have it in a bitter divorce.
The man was so determined to deny his former wife a “windfall” by selling the new flat in the future that he clashed with her over the property three times, all the way to the appeals court.
