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Quarterly figures, launch take-up and Master Plan reading — with the source and the quarter attached to every number, so you can tell a current figure from one that was true eighteen months ago.
3 guides · 6 answered questions · last verified 2 August 2026
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- 8 min read
The URA Master Plan tells you where prices go next. Almost nobody reads it
The URA Master Plan is the statutory land use plan that sets what may be built on every parcel in Singapore and at what intensity, and reading it — plot ratios, zoning changes and the decentralisation strategy — explains most of the price movement that retrospective commentary attributes to luck.
Updated 2 August 2026
- 8 min read
Thomson Reserve: what a $1,178 psf ppr land rate tells you before the developer says anything
Thomson Reserve is 1,268 units on the former Thomson View site, from UOL, CapitaLand and Singapore Land, expected October 2026. The developer has released no pricing. What is public is the land rate — $1,178 psf ppr, the cheapest of the 2026 Rest of Central Region cohort — and that constrains the answer more than most people realise.
Updated 1 August 2026
- 6 min read
Singapore property, 2Q2026: private prices up 0.5%, HDB resale down for a second quarter
Private residential prices rose 0.5% in 2Q2026 to an index of 219.4, driven entirely by landed property at +2.5% while non-landed slipped 0.1%. The HDB resale index fell 0.3% to 202.8, its second consecutive quarterly decline.
Updated 1 August 2026