Home/HDB/Bukit Merah
Town Intelligence · HDB Singapore 2026

Bukit Merah.

Tiong Bahru charm, Redhill's grit, Alexandra's edge — one town, closer to the CBD than most. Everything about buying, selling and renting here, refreshed live.

BuyingBuyer's Market
SellingBalanced Market
RentingStable Rental Market
Live · Snapshot
Median PSF$755
MoM change▼ 14.5%
Estate Type Central
18-mo transactions93 / mo (Jul)
PSF rank#5 of 9 Central
— HDB / data.gov.sg · Verified as of 3 Aug 2026 · Data through Jul 2026
Median rent, Jul 2026$3,500 (-5.4% YoY)
The Neighbourhood · Bukit Merah

Central-region proximity at heartland prices, if you can live with the lift lobby's age.

Bukit Merah is really five neighbourhoods sharing one postcode: Tiong Bahru's art deco charm, Redhill's old school blocks, Alexandra's industrial edge, all filed under one HDB town closer to the CBD than almost anywhere else in public housing. The trade-off is age, some of these blocks are among the oldest standing in Singapore, and the lift lobbies show it. Still, for the young professional chasing city fringe living without city fringe rent, Bukit Merah HDB flats remain one of the sharpest value plays in the central region.

Tiong Bahru, Redhill, Alexandra in one town
Among the oldest blocks in Singapore
Closer to CBD than almost any HDB town
Sharp value play for city-fringe living
Illustrative placeholders — future: curated pull from location_pois (2-4 hand-picked highlights, not a full list)
Median price
$850,000
+6.9% YoY
Median PSF
$755
-14.5% MoM
Transactions (18mo)
1,416
avg 79/mo
YoY volume Δ
+6.9%
vs Jul 2025
Txn velocity (proxy)
79/mo
SG resale has no "days on market" field — caveats/month is the closest live proxy.
Bukit Merah · drag to explore
By flat type

Median PSF, Jul 2026

4 ROOM
Dominant · 52 caveats
$917
3 ROOM
18 caveats
$587
5 ROOM
18 caveats
$711
2 ROOM
5 caveats
$638
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 Bukit Merah'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-Room2-Room
Lease Decay — the Town Page differentiator

PSF & supply by remaining lease

90+ yrs24 blocks · 4% of stock
$999
70-89 yrs194 blocks · 34% of stock
$980
50-69 yrs132 blocks · 23% of stock
$627
Under 50 yrs214 blocks · 38% of stock
$580
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 Bukit Merah
Loading nearby schools…
See all schools in Bukit Merah → 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 Bukit Merah 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

Promenade Peak
Leasehold, Zion Promenade
By BUC
Zyon Grand
Leasehold, Kim Seng Road
By BUC
The Reef at King's Dock
Leasehold, TOP 2024
TOP soon
Absorption signal

Ronnie's read

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

Bukit Merah's psf dropped 14.5% to $755 in July, the sharpest pullback in this batch, even as year-on-year volume held up with a 6.9% gain. Ninety-three caveats lodged in the month keeps this central-region town active, and Bukit Merah still ranks #5 of 9 Central towns on price. Lease bands here split wide, over a third of blocks are under 50 years old and another third sit at 70-89 years, so age varies block to block more than most towns. For the young professional chasing city-fringe access without city-fringe rent, a pullback like this one is worth a serious look.

The Pulse, month over month

Bukit Merah 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 Bukit Merah Pulse →