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When co-owners refuse to sell their HDB flats
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An elderly woman had to go to court to sell her HDB flat because her son, who was the co-owner, refused to sell.
ST ILLUSTRATION: MANNY FRANCISCO
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SINGAPORE - The sale of a Housing Board flat that has almost doubled in value would normally be a happy affair for its owners, but not so for an elderly woman and her son, who got embroiled in a dispute over it.
They were equal owners of the $700,000 flat in Toa Payoh, but the 90-year-old woman had been living elsewhere with her eldest daughter for the past two decades.
