An archive of homes
Ninety-Nine
Every HDB flat in Singapore is leased, not owned, for ninety-nine years. Here is each one, and the time it has left.
Where it stands
this homemet
The archive
Google Street View
Meet a home.
every flat here is leased, not owned — for ninety-nine years
Pull a home and you'll see the building itself, where it stands, and the year its lease runs out.
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What you're looking at

Almost everyone in Singapore lives on land they will never own. An HDB flat is sold on a 99-year lease, and the clock starts the day the block is built. When it ends, the flat and its land return to the state. So every home has two dates — the year it was built, and the year it dies.

This is an archive of those dates. Pull a home and meet it: the real building, where it stands, and its lifespan. The oldest flats still standing have already spent two-thirds of their lives. And 137 are gone entirely — under "the gone," you'll see what stands in their place today.

Not a forecast of eviction: some blocks are redeveloped early (SERS), a voluntary scheme (VERS) is planned, most simply run their lease down.

Photographs: Google Street View · lease dates: HDB resale records · locations: OneMap · data.gov.sg · built by ——