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Housing

Renting Out of Flat Approvals by Flat Type, Quarterly

HDB (Housing & Development Board)

Data from Jan 2007 to Sep 2021

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

Number of approvals by Quarter

Data explorer

RentingOutofFlatApprovalsbyFlatTypeQuarterly.csv (354 rows, 6.8 KB)

Quarter Quarter (Q)	Flat Type Text	Number of Approvals Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2007-Q1	1-room	1
2007-Q1	2-room	22
2007-Q1	3-room	847
2007-Q1	4-room	735
2007-Q1	5-room	602
2007-Q1	Executive	239
2007-Q2	1-room	5
2007-Q2	2-room	38
2007-Q2	3-room	1279
2007-Q2	4-room	1078

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Quarter	quarter	Quarter (Q)	-	-
Flat Type	flat_type	Text	-	-
Number of Approvals	no_of_approvals	Numeric	Number of Approvals	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_dad4567fc02596774010f765567780e3"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Housing & Development Board. (2016). Renting Out of Flat Approvals by Flat Type, Quarterly (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_dad4567fc02596774010f765567780e3/view

About this dataset

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Created on

14 Jun 2016

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

HDB (Housing & Development Board)