· Belgravia Ace Insights
The usual new-versus-resale trade-off — wait years for something new, or buy something older today — does not apply here. Belgravia Ace is a new development that is already complete, which removes the main disadvantage of buying new.
A resale landed house in Seletar Hills may be twenty, thirty or forty years old. Even a well-maintained one carries a renovation question: rewiring, plumbing, roofing, waterproofing, and the cost of bringing layouts built for a different era up to current expectations. On a landed house those numbers run into the hundreds of thousands and take months.
At Belgravia Ace, the houses are new and finished. Kitchens carry V-ZUG and Samsung appliances, bathrooms TOTO and Grohe, and a Fermax smart home gateway is already installed. The project details page has the full specification.
A conventional landed house on its own title gives you complete control — you can rebuild it. What it does not give you is a 50m lap pool, a two-storey clubhouse with a gym and function room, a playground, a guard post and a maintained landscape.
Belgravia Ace gives the second set at a cost of S$528 to S$576 a month in maintenance, plus the MCST framework that comes with strata ownership. For a family that would not build a pool anyway, that is a favourable exchange. For a buyer who wants to knock down and rebuild, it is not: strata by-laws and the shared structure make that impossible.
This is the honest limitation. In a strata landed estate the external appearance, the common property and the estate rules sit with the management corporation. You cannot extend the footprint, alter the facade or redevelop. A freestanding landed house in the same district lets you do all three, subject to URA approval.
If the ability to rebuild is central to why you want landed property, resale is the right answer and Belgravia Ace is not.
Indicative starting prices at Belgravia Ace run from S$5.30 million at roughly S$1,247 to S$1,362 psf, on freehold tenure — see the pricing page. Strata landed typically transacts below equivalent freestanding landed in the same area, reflecting the strata form and the maintenance obligation.
The tenure point is worth isolating. Much of Singapore’s landed stock is freehold, but not all of it, and a 99-year landed house is a very different asset. When comparing a resale option, check the tenure before comparing the psf.
One factor that does not differ: eligibility. A freestanding landed house and a strata landed house outside an approved condominium development are both restricted residential property. Singapore Citizens buy freely; permanent residents and foreigners need Land Dealings Approval Unit approval either way. See who can buy Belgravia Ace.
View both. Walk a resale house in Seletar Hills and then walk Belgravia Ace, and the difference between a renovation project and a finished house becomes concrete quickly. Price the renovation honestly, add the time and the temporary accommodation, and compare total outlay rather than headline price. Then book a viewing — with 23 houses left, the comparison has a deadline attached.
The estate is complete and 23 houses remain. Book a viewing, or ask us for the current price list and availability.