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Almost every video about the 15-month policy this week assumed you're a Singapore citizen. If you're a PR, your numbers are completely different and nobody's telling you.
If you're an SPR who owns a private apartment and you downgrade to a resale flat, ABSD remission is given upfront and you pay five percent โ not thirty. That's conditional on disposing of your private property within six months of completing the flat purchase.
Five percent instead of thirty. On a seven hundred thousand dollar flat, that's roughly a hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars resting entirely on hitting one deadline.
So the 15-month policy removal helps you the same as anyone. But your downside for missing that six-month window is far heavier, because your baseline rate is so much higher.
Which makes the buy-first-or-sell-first question a genuinely different calculation for you. Please don't take advice built for someone else's tax position.