Buyers of a development under construction are buying a delivery date as much as a home, and the sequence from land award to keys is more predictable than it looks. It runs in stages, each with a name that turns up in the Sale & Purchase Agreement and in the payment schedule.
The first stage is design and approval. After a Government Land Sales award — confirmed on 17 July 2025 in the case of the Chuan Grove parcel, following a tender that closed on 8 July — the developer appoints consultants, develops the scheme and applies for Provisional Permission and then Written Permission from the Urban Redevelopment Authority.
Only once the scheme is settled can the unit mix, the layouts and the facilities plan be fixed, which is why those documents appear when they do rather than earlier. A sales licence and the developer’s own launch planning follow.
Building itself follows the same order as the payment schedule, which is not a coincidence: foundation, then the reinforced concrete framework, then brick walls, roofing and ceiling, electrical wiring and plumbing and internal plastering, then car park, roads and drains.
Foundation work on a site of this scale typically runs six to nine months, and the framework a similar period; the finishing stages run three to six months each and overlap considerably in practice, because different blocks reach different stages at different times.
Two milestones end the process and they are frequently confused. The Temporary Occupation Permit is the point at which the building is safe and fit to occupy: keys are handed over, the defects liability period starts, and 25 per cent of the purchase price falls due.
The Certificate of Statutory Completion follows once every regulatory requirement is signed off, typically a year or so later, and carries the final 15 per cent. Legal completion happens at CSC, but a buyer has been living in the home since TOP. The payment scheme page sets out both.
A three-to-four-year build is the ordinary expectation for a development of around 550 homes, and the payment profile follows it. The first 20 per cent falls due in the opening eight weeks; the bank then disburses progressively, so the monthly instalment starts small and steps up.
That profile is what allows a buyer to hold an existing home while a new one is built, and it is the main structural advantage of buying under construction. It also means the full instalment is not reached until well into the project — a point worth modelling rather than assuming, which is what the progressive payment calculator is for.
Construction timelines move for ordinary reasons: labour and materials availability, weather, and the sequencing of regulatory inspections. The Sale & Purchase Agreement carries the developer’s expected delivery date and the contractual position where that date is not met, and those provisions are the ones that matter rather than any projection made earlier.
The tender for the parcel closed on 8 July 2025 and the award was confirmed on 17 July 2025; the development is in its pre-launch period. The developer confirms the construction programme and the expected delivery date in the Sale & Purchase Agreement, and the release log records each confirmation as it is issued. The project details page carries the parcel facts established so far.
One stage matters after the keys and is often overlooked. From the Temporary Occupation Permit a defects liability period runs, during which the developer is responsible for rectifying defects notified to it in the unit and the common property.
The practical implication is that the months immediately after handover are the window in which a careful inspection pays for itself, and that the period runs from TOP rather than from the date a buyer moves in. The Sale & Purchase Agreement states its length and the notification procedure, and the Building and Construction Authority sets the standards that apply.
Once construction is under way a buyer is not left guessing. Each progressive payment notice is itself a progress report: a demand for the foundation instalment means foundation work has been certified complete by the project’s qualified person, not merely that it looks finished from the road.
That makes the payment schedule the most reliable running account of where a development has reached, and it is one reason the schedule in the Sale & Purchase Agreement repays close reading at the outset rather than at the point each notice arrives. The release log on this site records confirmations as the developer issues them.
The e-brochure, the floor plans and the pricing reach registered parties as the developer issues them.