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District Intelligence · Singapore 2026

District 3.

Alexandra / Queenstown — Singapore's original satellite town, growing a private property second act. Everything about buying, selling and renting here, refreshed live.

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Live · Snapshot
Median PSF$2,223
MoM change▼ 2.1%
Market Segment RCR
18-mo transactions31 / mo (Jul)
PSF rank#1 of 9 RCR
— URA Realis · Verified as of 3 Aug 2026 · Data through Jul 2026
New launch unsold stock
Rental vacancy
Rent, QoQ
The Neighbourhood · District 3

Heritage shophouses and fresh towers share the same postcode, and the price gap between them keeps widening.

District 3 is Singapore's original satellite town growing a private property second act. Tiong Bahru's art deco shophouses set the tone, Dawson's newer launches like Avenue South Residence and Queens Peak brought fresh towers into a heritage postcode, and IKEA Alexandra keeps the practical crowd happy too. Most of the district is still HDB, so private stock stays comparatively rare and gets bid up when it appears. For a buyer who wants heritage charm with a modern tower attached, District 3 is one of the more interesting rejuvenation stories in the central region.

Tiong Bahru — art deco shophouse district
Dawson — Avenue South Residence & Queens Peak towers
IKEA Alexandra — anchor for the practical crowd
Mostly HDB — private stock stays comparatively rare
Illustrative placeholders — future: curated pull from location_pois (2-4 hand-picked highlights, not a full list)
Median price
$1.65M
-44.6% YoY
Median PSF
$2,223
-2.1% MoM
Transactions (18mo)
879
avg 49/mo
YoY volume Δ
-44.6%
vs Jul 2025
Txn velocity (proxy)
49/mo
SG resale has no "days on market" field — caveats/month is the closest live proxy.
District 3 · drag to explore
By bedroom type

Median PSF, Jul 2026

2BR
Dominant · 14 caveats
$2,155
3BR
9 caveats
$2,340
1BR
8 caveats
$2,048
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What's nearby

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Data deep-dive · practitioner-grade research

PSF Trend

One line per bedroom type, May 2026 data, not a single blended average. 3-bedders carry the volume here; watch the spread between 1BR and 4BR+ widen or compress.

Live · BigQuery → Jinja2
PSF by type

Last 6 months

1BR2BR3BR (dominant)4BR+
Special units

The MOAT

Penthouse
3 transacted, 18mo
$1,580
Dual-key
11 transacted, 18mo
$2,052
Study
13 transacted, 18mo
$2,184
Duplex / Sky
8 transacted, 18mo
$1,958
Private resale's differentiator vs Town Page: special-unit inventory (penthouse/dual-key/study/duplex) that HDB has no equivalent for.
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Schools nearby

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GLS + New Launch supply

Units in the pipeline, 2024–2026

Launch pipeline

Next 90 days

The Landmark
396 units, TOP 2026
TOP Soon
Zyon Grand
706 units, By BUC
Selling
Promenade Peak
596 units, By BUC
Selling
Absorption signal

Ronnie's read

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

District 3 leads all of RCR on price, $2,341 psf and still climbing, up 3.2% month on month. Volume tells a steadier story though, 47 caveats in May against a mild 4.1% yoy pullback, more a normalisation than a slowdown. Dawson's newer towers keep pulling the median up against Tiong Bahru's older heritage stock, and that gap between old and new is the real story here. For a district built on HDB scarcity value, the private stock keeps proving it can command RCR's top price.

The Pulse, month over month

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