I would expect this to benefit OCR property in long run

OF the 16 pre-schools that applied to be part of the government's Anchor Operator scheme - which offers preferential allocation of choice HDB sites at subsidised rentals, amongst other privileges - three have been chosen, including two commercial operators.

Metropilitan YMCA's MY World Preschool, Kinderland Consortiums-School4Kidz, and EtonHouse International's E-Bridge Pre-School now join PAP Community Foundation and NTUC First Campus's My First Skool as anchor operators, bringing the total number of selected pre-schools up to five. School4Kidz and E-Bridge are for-profit operators.

All five pre-schools have been appointed for a tenure of five years. Collectively, they are expected to provide around 16,000 additional pre-school places by 2017.