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Find the date your HDB flat or EC meets its Minimum Occupation Period, how long is left, and what you can do after it: sell, buy private property or rent out the whole flat. Covers 5 and 10-year MOPs under the Standard, Plus and Prime framework.
For a new flat, the day you collected your keys.
For example while the whole flat was rented out with HDB's approval.
MOP date
15 Mar 2027
5-year MOP
Time left
5 months 11 days
162 days from 4 Oct 2026
Served so far
91%
of the MOP
What you can do from 15 Mar 2027:
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| Flat | MOP | Rent out the whole flat after MOP |
|---|---|---|
| Flat from HDB or resale flat: Standard, or sold before Oct 2024 | 5 years | Yes, citizens only |
| Flat from HDB or resale flat: Plus or Prime (PLH flats count as Prime) | 10 years | Never |
| DBSS flat bought from the developer | 5 years | Yes, citizens only |
| Fresh Start Housing Scheme flat | 20 years | Ask HDB |
| EC, land tender closed before 8 May 2026 | 5 years from TOP | Yes |
| EC, land tender closed on or after 8 May 2026 | 10 years from TOP | Yes |
From HDB's selling, private property, Standard Plus Prime and EC pages, read 4 Oct 2026. Short-lease 2-room Flexi flats cannot be sold or rented out; they are returned to HDB.
You collected the keys to a 4-room BTO flat, sold before the Standard, Plus and Prime framework, on 15 Mar 2022. Its MOP is 5 years, so you can sell it, buy a condo or rent it out from 15 Mar 2027.
Had the whole flat been rented out with approval for 8 months, the MOP would end 8 months later, on 15 Nov 2027. A Plus or Prime flat completed on the same day would wait until 15 Mar 2032, and could never be rented out whole.
Figures checked 4 Oct 2026.
The Minimum Occupation Period is the time you must live in your HDB flat before you can sell it on the open market, rent out the whole flat, or buy private property in Singapore or overseas. Everyone listed in the flat must physically live in it during the MOP.
5 years for Standard flats and flats sold before the October 2024 sales exercise, whether bought new or resale. 10 years for Plus and Prime flats, including PLH flats. 5 years for DBSS flats and 20 years for Fresh Start flats.
On the day your flat purchase is legally completed. For a new flat this is when you collect the keys. For an EC, the MOP runs from the TOP date.
No. HDB leaves out any period when you did not physically live in the flat, such as renting out the whole flat with HDB's approval, and any period of a lease infringement.
If you are a Singapore citizen and own a Standard or older flat, yes: the whole flat, for at least 6 months per tenant, within the non-citizen quota. Plus and Prime flats can never be rented out whole, even after the 10-year MOP. Permanent residents cannot rent out the whole flat.
After the MOP, yes, if at least one owner is a Singapore citizen. During the MOP, no one in the household may buy private residential property. Households where all owners are PRs must sell the flat within 6 months of buying private property.
5 years from TOP for most ECs. For EC projects whose land tender closed on or after 8 May 2026, it is 10 years. Foreigners can buy an older EC 10 years after TOP, or 15 years for the newer projects.
Since 28 Jul 2026 there is no 15-month wait-out to buy a resale flat without grants or an HDB loan, but you must sell your private property within 6 months. The 30-month wait-out still applies to buying a subsidised flat, an EC from the developer, or taking an HDB loan.
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