Which Income Ceiling and MOP Apply to Jurong East Avenue 1 EC? The Tender-Date Answer

Two HDB dates decide which Executive Condominium rules a buyer at Jurong East Avenue 1 will live under: 24 August 2026 for the income ceiling and 8 May 2026 for the Minimum Occupation Period (MOP). Both rules are tied to the date the land tender closes, not the date you book a unit. So the real question for this project is simple: when does its tender close?

This article was first published on 24 August 2026, before HDB had confirmed when the higher ceiling would take effect. It has been rewritten now that HDB's rules spell it out.

The short answer

The Jurong East Avenue 1 tender has not been launched yet. HDB's Government Land Sales list shows it as an Executive Condominium site with an estimated launch of December 2026, and it does not appear on HDB's list of EC sites already sold. A tender that has not opened cannot close before 24 August 2026 or 8 May 2026. Under the rules HDB publishes today, buyers of new units here would therefore be assessed against:

• a monthly household income ceiling of S$18,000, and
• a 10-year MOP, counted from the project's Temporary Occupation Permit (TOP), with open-market resale limited to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents until 15 years from TOP.

How each HDB cut-off works

Rule	HDB cut-off	Which side Jurong East Avenue 1 falls on
S$18,000 income ceiling	New units in EC projects whose tenders close on or after 24 August 2026. EC sites whose tenders were awarded before that date keep S$16,000.	After. The tender has not launched, so it has neither closed nor been awarded.
10-year MOP	EC projects whose land sales tender closed on or after 8 May 2026. Other EC projects keep the 5-year MOP.	After, for the same reason.
Citizenship limit on resale	For 10-year MOP projects, open-market buyers must be Singapore Citizens or PRs until 15 years from TOP; after that, foreigners and companies can also buy.	Follows the 10-year MOP rule above.

MND said the same about the income ceiling when the change was announced at the National Day Rally on 23 August 2026: the revised S$18,000 ceiling applies to new EC units with land sale tender closing dates on or after 24 August 2026.

What happens under each tender scenario

Scenario	Income ceiling	MOP
Tender launches around December 2026 as HDB estimates, and closes some weeks later	S$18,000	10 years
Launch slips into 2027 or later	S$18,000	10 years
HDB announces a further change to EC rules before this tender closes	Whatever the new HDB rule sets for that closing date	Whatever the new HDB rule sets for that closing date

The first two rows give the same answer because both cut-off dates are already in the past. Only a new policy announcement could change the outcome. The tender closing date itself will be confirmed when HDB launches the site and releases the detailed sale conditions.

What this means for your household

• Household income between S$16,001 and S$18,000 a month: under today's rules you would be within the ceiling for this project, where you would not be for an EC on an older site. The ceiling is only one gate, and the developer will guide you on the income documents to submit when you book.
• Planning how long you will stay: a 10-year MOP from TOP means the whole unit cannot be sold on the open market or rented out during that period. The TOP date has not been announced yet, so the year the MOP ends cannot be worked out today.
• Thinking about resale: between year 10 and year 15 from TOP, your pool of buyers is limited to Singapore Citizens and PRs. From year 15, that limit falls away.

The full list of household, citizenship, ownership and grant conditions is covered in our Jurong East EC eligibility and financing guide.

What to watch next

1. HDB launching the site for tender, with its closing date and detailed sale conditions.
2. The tender closing and HDB naming the successful tenderer.
3. The developer releasing the project name, unit mix and prices.

Developer, price, unit mix, showflat dates and TOP have not been announced yet. Follow the registration status page for each step, and check the price, floor plans and showflat pages, which will be updated once the developer releases details. For anything not yet published, contact us.