What HDB resale transactions show about price per square foot in Singapore, written from the same data behind every area page.
There is no single good PSF in Singapore: the number that matters is the one for your town, your flat type and your lease. How to read a PSF figure without being misled by it.
Every HDB flat is a 99-year leasehold and the market prices the tail decades before it runs out. What the resale data shows about lease decay, and why the curve bends when it does.
Comparing town medians is easy and usually wrong. The four things to hold constant first: window, flat type, lease and floor.
HDB records a storey range on every resale, so the high-floor premium can be measured rather than assumed. What the transactions show, and why it varies so much by town.
The mean and the median answer different questions, and in a single town one million-dollar resale can pull them tens of thousands apart. Why every figure here is a median.
HDB records floor area in square metres. Singapore talks in dollars per square foot. Why both appear on every page here, and how to convert without getting it backwards.
HDB publishes every resale transaction since 1990 on Data.gov.sg, with price and floor area on the same record. What is in it, what is not, and what that means for the numbers.
