COE quota to increase by 1.5% for November to January period

The number of certificates of entitlement (COEs) available for the three months from November will rise to 18,984 — 1.5 per cent more than the 18,701 certificates available from August to October.

- Lee Nian Tjoe Senior Transport Correspondent

The Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced on Oct 24 that there will be 7,662 Category A COEs, meant for smaller and less powerful cars and electric vehicles (EVs), available for bidding between November 2025 and January 2026.

This is a 1 per cent increase over the 7,586 COEs between August and October, and translates to fewer than 13 more Category A certificates for each of the upcoming tender exercises.

“COE supply for Category A is expected to peak and even out supply in this and the coming quarters,” LTA said.

COEs give people the right to own a vehicle in Singapore. A tender exercise is conducted twice a month.

The supply of Category B COEs for larger and more powerful cars and EVs will also rise by 1 per cent in the next three months, to 4,783 from the current 4,737 available.

The Open category (Category E) COE supply will go up by 7.2 per cent, from the current 1,538 certificates to 1,649 certificates.

While Open category COEs can be used to register any vehicle type other than motorcycles, they are almost always used for bigger, more powerful cars.

Taken together, the supply of Category B and E COEs will increase by 2.5 per cent. This works out to 26 more COEs available for larger cars per tender than in the current period.