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How the law prevents ‘ineligible people’ from staking claims to HDB flats
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The law has been used by the courts here to deny some people from having shares in their relatives’ flats because they already have their own homes.
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Claiming a stake in an HDB property is a far trickier proposition than in the private real estate market, as some have discovered to their cost.
Those termed in law as “ineligible people” cannot hold a share in an HDB unit, such as by asking someone else to buy the property on their behalf.
