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Dear Gurus,
My wife and I had bought an EC (expected TOP in 2018) and had already paid 5% booking fee. We have yet to pay the next 15% (S&P) as I am still waiting to sell off my current HDB. I intended to use my sales proceed as I do not have enough cash & CPF to cover the 15%. The developer agreed to give us some time as we already had a buyer and signed the OTP.
However, the buyer backed out during the option period and I will need to re-market my unit. At the same time, the developer had already started to ask us to make payment for the 15%. My questions are:

Can we apply for bridging loan although we’ve yet to sell our flat? From my understanding, we can only apply for bridging loan after we produce proof that we have completed my first appointment of selling our flat. Either that, are there any loans that we can apply to make up for the shortage amount that we need?

We seek your advice and we greatly appreciate your help. Thank you!
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Hi,

Your understanding is not far off, typically the bank will not disburse the bridging loan amount until you have completed the 1st appointment. In this case its just a bit unfortunate and the best way needless to say is to quickly secure another buyer and discuss with developer for extension. If they are not open unfortunately you need to pay the late payment interest. I believe your current agent should have gone through all these with you? Other loans probably will mean personal loan or from loved ones.

May I have more info and requirements about your plans so to make better recommendations? Thanks and look forward to value-add to your housing plans.

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Robbie Chen Chee Howe
Hi,

Yes, you will have to secure a buyer for your property before the bank can disburse your bridging loan.

What you can do now, is to try and talk to developer about the delay, and see if you can work things out from there.

Meanwhile, you need to step up your efforts in marketing your flat. Do let me have more details of your flat, see if I can find you a fast match.

Should you need any further assistance in matters relating to property, please contact me at my mobile 9748 6305  . I will be happy to assess and share with you the possibilities for you and your partner in the current market.

Thank you.

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Hi There.
Unfortunately as you have not sold your hdb, you cannot get a bridging loan for your EC. Where is your HDB located? I would be pleased to assist you in your selling. Let me share with you how I have helped others owners moved on
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Dear sir,

I am really sorry to heat that. Usually for cases like this, I believe there might be some time line planning gone wrong along the way.

For your case, it is quite a tricky situation and it does not sound very positive. Usually when I answer questions in PropertyGuru, I will give some solutions here if possible but for your case, I will suggest that maybe you can give me a call and I can try to understand more from you and I see what advice I can provide for you. Do try to give me a call soon so that we can discuss about this as time is really not on our side.

Looking forward to hear from you soon! Cheers!

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