Private property prices per square foot in Downtown Core
High confidence95% CI $1,960–$2,060 per ft²n = 287 caveats
The median private resale price in Downtown Core (Central Region) is S$2,020 per square foot (S$21,800 per square metre), from 287 caveats in the 12 months to September 2026. HDB resale here runs S$769 per square foot from 18 resales, at a median 4-room price of S$791,500 (on a sample too small to publish as a market rate): a separate register, never combined with the private figures.
Map of 12 private developments in Downtown Core that recorded a caveat in the last 24 months. Each square is one development, placed at its own coordinate and coloured by median price per square foot. URA permits derived statistics and not the caveats themselves, so a square is a median across a development rather than one sale.
Private prices in Downtown Core
Median price per ft²
$769
n = 18 resales (24 months)
Median resale price
$750,000
median flat 856 ft²
Median lease remaining
53 yrs
of a 99-year lease
How prices are spread in Downtown Core
Distribution of S$/ft² for 18 resales in Downtown Core over the last 24 months. They run from $554 to $1,110. The median is $769/ft² with a 95% CI of $635 to $906 and a middle 60% running $637 to $923. Every one of these sales is listed in the table below.
- p20 $637
- p80 $923
- 95% CI $635–$906
By flat type
Every HDB resale registered here in the last 24 months.
Price by remaining lease
Every HDB flat is a 99-year leasehold, and the resale market prices the shortening tail in.
Too few 4-room resales per lease band (8 per band, over 36 months) to chart lease decay here. Central Region usually can.
Price by floor
HDB publishes a storey range on every resale.
Too few 4-room resales per storey band (8 per band, over 24 months) to chart a floor premium here.
Sellers: How much is my flat worth?
At the median of S$769 per square foot, over 18 resales (24 months).
A market figure for that size in Downtown Core, not a valuation of your flat.
S$750,000
middle 60% of resales: S$622,000 to S$901,000 for that size · 18 resales, 24 months
Resales (last 24 months)
18 sales
| Address | Details | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | 233 Bain St | S$980,000 | 4-room | 53 yrs | $1,110 | |
| Mar 2026 | 232 Bain St | S$783,000 | 4-room | 53 yrs | $887 | |
| Jan 2026 | 15 Beach Rd | S$750,000 | 4-room | 48 yrs | $905 | |
| Jan 2026 | 233 Bain St | S$750,000 | 4-room | 53 yrs | $850 | |
| Jan 2026 | 1 Beach Rd | S$492,888 | 3-room | 53 yrs | $674 | |
| Dec 2025 | 1 Beach Rd | S$912,000 | 5-room | 53 yrs | $554 | |
| Nov 2025 | 1 Beach Rd | S$471,888 | 3-room | 53 yrs | $645 | |
| Sep 2025 | 233 Bain St | S$828,000 | 4-room | 54 yrs | $938 | |
| Jul 2025 | 15 Beach Rd | S$570,000 | 4-room | 49 yrs | $687 | |
| Jul 2025 | 1 Beach Rd | S$470,000 | 3-room | 53 yrs | $642 | |
| Apr 2025 | 1 Beach Rd | S$465,000 | 3-room | 54 yrs | $635 | |
| Mar 2025 | 232 Bain St | S$825,000 | 4-room | 54 yrs | $938 | |
| Feb 2025 | 232 Bain St | S$800,000 | 4-room | 54 yrs | $907 | |
| Jan 2025 | 232 Bain St | S$850,000 | 4-room | 55 yrs | $966 | |
| Jan 2025 | 232 Bain St | S$780,000 | 4-room | 54 yrs | $884 | |
| Jan 2025 | 1 Beach Rd | S$510,000 | 3-room | 54 yrs | $640 | |
| Oct 2024 | 1 Beach Rd | S$470,000 | 3-room | 54 yrs | $590 | |
| Oct 2024 | 1 Beach Rd | S$450,000 | 3-room | 54 yrs | $615 |
Private prices in Downtown Core
Median price per ft²
$2,020
95% CI $1,960–$2,060 · n = 287 strata caveats (12 months)
Median price
$1,780,000
n = 287 resale caveats (12 months)
How private prices are spread in Downtown Core
Distribution of S$/ft² across 287 private resale caveats in Downtown Core over the last 12 months. They run from $1,000 to $3,720. The median is $2,020/ft² with a 95% interval of $1,960 to $2,060 and a middle 60% running $1,790 to $2,300.
- p20 $1,790
- p80 $2,300
- 95% CI $1,960–$2,060
By property type
Resale only, over the same 12 months. The headline above is condominiums and apartments; executive-condominium and landed rows appear here and are not in it.
| Property type | Median price per ft² | Transactions behind the figure |
|---|---|---|
| Apartmentmedian $1,645,000 | $2,010/ft² | n = 268 |
| Condominiummedian $3,000,000 | $2,170/ft² | n = 19 |
By sale type
All private sales lodged in the same 12 months.
| Sale type | Median price per ft² | Transactions behind the figure |
|---|---|---|
| Resalemedian $1,780,000 | $2,020/ft² | n = 287 |
| New Salemedian $2,085,000 | $3,070/ft² | n = 224 |
| Sub Salemedian $2,390,000 | $2,880/ft² | n = 15 |
Buyers: Where does a price sit?
Placed on the published percentiles for 287 caveats in Downtown Core (12 months).
S$1,780,000 for 879 ft² is around the 51st percentile of the 287 caveats recorded here.
Sellers: How much is my home worth?
At the median of S$2,020 per square foot, over 287 caveats (12 months).
A market figure for that size in Downtown Core, not a valuation of your flat.
S$1,780,000
middle 60% of caveats: S$1,570,000 to S$2,020,000 for that size · 287 caveats, 12 months
Private sales by project in Downtown Core
14 developments with at least ten caveats in the last 12 months.
URA permits derived statistics and not the caveat records, so the private register is published by development rather than sale by sale. Each row is a median across that development’s caveats in the window.
Public (HDB) rents in Downtown Core
No HDB rental figures are published for Downtown Core: too few renting-out applications were approved here in the last twelve months to clear the publishing floor. Private rents are published here, on the other market.
Private rents in Downtown Core
Lease contracts lodged with URA in the last 12 months, against resale prices for units of the same floor area.
Gross yield, 70–80 m²
4.7%
the band this area's median private home falls in, from 479 lettings and 34 resales
Median rent, 70–80 m²
$5,200/mo
from 479 lease contracts (12 months)
Median resale price, 70–80 m²
$1,335,000
from 34 resale caveats (12 months)
Gross, before costs; a ratio is dimensionless so it compares with the HDB yield, but a 99-year HDB lease and a possibly-freehold private unit are not the same asset.
URA’s own median rent per ft² here is $7.21 for 2026 Q2, from 24 projects.
Rent by unit size
Lease contracts lodged with URA in Downtown Core over the last 12 months, each size band against the resale price of the same size band.
| Unit size | Median monthly rent | Gross yield |
|---|---|---|
| 30–40 m² | $3,700/mo | too few resales |
| 40–50 m² | $4,000/mo | too few resales |
| 50–60 m² | $4,350/mo | 4.6% |
| 60–70 m² | $4,900/mo | 4.4% |
| 70–80 m² | $5,200/mo | 4.7% |
| 80–90 m² | $6,000/mo | 3.9% |
| 90–100 m² | $7,000/mo | too few resales |
| 100–110 m² | $7,450/mo | 3.9% |
| 110–120 m² | $8,000/mo | too few resales |
| 120–130 m² | $8,225/mo | too few resales |
| 130–140 m² | $9,000/mo | too few resales |
| 140–150 m² | $9,750/mo | too few resales |
| 150–160 m² | $11,000/mo | too few resales |
| 160–170 m² | $12,000/mo | too few resales |
| 170–180 m² | $11,000/mo | too few lettings and too few resales |
| 180–190 m² | $15,000/mo | too few resales |
| 190–200 m² | $13,200/mo | too few resales |
| 210–220 m² | $16,500/mo | too few lettings and too few resales |
| 220–230 m² | $16,200/mo | too few lettings and too few resales |
4,852 of 4,911 contracts are in the rows above. The rest sit in floor-area bands URA publishes wider than 10 m², which cannot be matched to a sale band without folding two sizes into one.
Rent by bedrooms
Lease contracts lodged with URA in Downtown Core over the last 12 months.
| Bedrooms | Median monthly rent | Transactions behind the figure |
|---|---|---|
| 1 bedroom | $4,400/mo | n = 2,293 |
| 2 bedrooms | $6,175/mo | n = 1,596 |
| 3 bedrooms | $9,325/mo | n = 434 |
| 4 bedrooms | $13,500/mo | n = 148 |
4,471 of 4,911 contracts are in the rows above. 436 carry no bedroom count and 4 are in sizes with too few lettings to publish.
Contains information from the URA Data Service. Private rents and HDB rents are two registers and are never combined; the only figure that spans them is the gross yield, which is a ratio, and even there the assets differ: every HDB flat is a 99-year lease that cannot be let at all during its first five years, while a private unit may be freehold.
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