Home/HDB/Bishan
Town Intelligence · HDB Singapore 2026

Bishan.

Raffles Institution, Catholic High, and a park connector worth fighting over. Everything about buying, selling and renting here, refreshed live.

BuyingBuyer's Market
SellingBalanced Market
RentingLandlord's Market
Live · Snapshot
Median PSF$702
MoM change▼ 5.5%
Estate Type Central
18-mo transactions33 / mo (Jul)
PSF rank#7 of 9 Central
— HDB / data.gov.sg · Verified as of 3 Aug 2026 · Data through Jul 2026
Median rent, Jul 2026$3,600 (+2.9% YoY)
The Neighbourhood · Bishan

The mature estate parents fight over, for the schools zoned around it, not the flats.

Bishan is the town parents quietly fight over, not for the flats but for what's zoned around them. Raffles Institution, Catholic High, and a park connector running the length of Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park make this one of the most contested mature estates for anyone playing the long education game. That reputation shows in the price, and Bishan HDB flats rarely come cheap for their age. Perhaps that's the whole point, for a family whose five year plan runs through a school gate.

Raffles Institution & Catholic High zoned nearby
Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park connector
One of the most contested mature estates
Premium pricing for the school-zone bet
Illustrative placeholders — future: curated pull from location_pois (2-4 hand-picked highlights, not a full list)
Median price
$788,000
-2.9% YoY
Median PSF
$702
-5.5% MoM
Transactions (18mo)
580
avg 32/mo
YoY volume Δ
-2.9%
vs Jul 2025
Txn velocity (proxy)
32/mo
SG resale has no "days on market" field — caveats/month is the closest live proxy.
Bishan · drag to explore
By flat type

Median PSF, Jul 2026

4 ROOM
Dominant · 15 caveats
$708
5 ROOM
10 caveats
$698
3 ROOM
5 caveats
$688
EXECUTIVE
3 caveats
$757
In view right now

What's nearby

Pans/updates live as you move the map — click any pin or row to jump there. Locked to this area only.
Data deep-dive · practitioner-grade research

PSF Trend

Here's how Bishan's HDB resale market actually breaks down, by flat type and remaining lease band, drawn from HDB caveats lodged through Jul 2026.

Live · BigQuery → Jinja2
PSF by type

Last 6 months

4-Room (dominant)5-Room3-RoomExecutive
Lease Decay — the Town Page differentiator

PSF & supply by remaining lease

90+ yrs14 blocks · 5% of stock
70-89 yrs16 blocks · 5% of stock
$892
50-69 yrs257 blocks · 88% of stock
$748
Under 50 yrs4 blocks · 1% of stock
$530
Price AND supply, per flat type — not just a blended town average. This is what District Pulse can't show at this granularity (n≥5 threshold suppresses noisy bands; full narrative depth moves to the quarterly cross-tenure Lease Decay study once that ships).
Home-School Distance Checker

Schools nearby

Within 2km of Bishan
Loading nearby schools…
See all schools in Bishan → Full postal-code checker lives on its own page — not rebuilt here
Newest BTO

Latest launch in this town

No confirmed BTO launch announced for Bishan as of Aug 2026.
Two data tiers, both sourced from HDB's own launch releases: preview (project/town/flat-count/flat-types, months ahead, no price) upgrading to full (price + nearby resale comps) once that exercise launches. Updates a few times a year, not a live feed. Nationwide application-rate/booking analytics stay out of scope — this is "what's new here," not a trend line.
Nearby new launches

Private & EC within ~2km

Artisan 8
Sin Ming Road
By BUC
Thomson Reserve
Leasehold, Bright Hill Drive
By BUC
Absorption signal

Ronnie's read

— Ronnie's signal · verified as of 3 Aug 2026

Bishan's psf fell 5.5% to $702 in July, and year-on-year volume dipped a mild 2.9% too — a buyer's market, if a quiet one, in a town that rarely trades cheap. Just 33 caveats lodged in the month is thin even for Bishan, and this mature estate now ranks #7 of 9 Central towns on price. Nearly nine in ten blocks here sit in the 50-69 year lease band, and the school-zone premium usually cushions any softening. For a family playing the long education game, a quieter month like this one is exactly when to look.

The Pulse, month over month

Bishan Pulse archive

Auto-updates · latest 4 shown
— This month's deep-dive

Want the full narrative — Ron's verdict, month-over-month story, every chart?
Read the July 2026 Bishan Pulse →