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District Intelligence · Singapore 2026

District 9.

Orchard / River Valley — Singapore's benchmark address, still setting the price everyone else gets compared against. Everything about buying, selling and renting here, refreshed live.

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Live · Snapshot
Median PSF$2,398
MoM change▲ 2.0%
Market Segment CCR
18-mo transactions56 / mo (Jul)
PSF rank#1 of 6 CCR
— URA Realis · Verified as of 25 Aug 2026 · Data through Jul 2026
New launch unsold stock
Rental vacancy
Rent, QoQ
The Neighbourhood · District 9

Singapore's most famous address since the 1970s, Orchard Road still hasn't handed over the crown.

District 9 has been Singapore's most famous address since the 1970s, and Orchard Road still hasn't handed over the crown. ION Orchard and Ngee Ann City anchor the retail, Cairnhill and Emerald Hill keep the old money quiet just off the main strip, and every launch here trades at a premium that assumes you already know what you're buying into. There's no HDB and barely any landed, just condos built for people who never wanted a garden anyway. For a buyer who wants Singapore's most recognisable postcode, District 9 is still the benchmark everyone else gets compared against.

ION Orchard and Ngee Ann City anchor the retail strip
Cairnhill and Emerald Hill's old-money quiet streets
No HDB, barely any landed — condo-only postcode
Every launch trades at a premium address tax
Illustrative placeholders, future: curated pull from location_pois (2-4 hand-picked highlights, not a full list)
Median price
$2.55M
-1.8% YoY
Median PSF
$2,398
+2.0% MoM
Transactions (18mo)
1,083
avg 60/mo
YoY volume Δ
-1.8%
vs Jul 2025
Txn velocity (proxy)
60/mo
SG resale has no "days on market" field, caveats/month is the closest live proxy.
District 9 · drag to explore
By bedroom type

Median PSF, Jul 2026

3BR
Dominant · 22 caveats
$2,676
2BR
19 caveats
$2,351
1BR
9 caveats
$1,986
4BR+
6 caveats
$2,214
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What's nearby

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Data deep-dive · practitioner-grade research

PSF Trend

A closer look at how District 9 breaks down by unit type, special configurations like penthouses and dual-keys, and what's coming through the pipeline next.

Live · BigQuery → Jinja2
PSF by type

Last 6 months

1BR2BR3BR (dominant)4BR+
Special units

The MOAT

Penthouse
6 transacted, 18mo
$1,783
Dual-key
19 transacted, 18mo
$2,128
Study
6 transacted, 18mo
$2,707
Duplex / Sky
0 transacted, 18mo
Private resale's differentiator vs Town Page: special-unit inventory (penthouse/dual-key/study/duplex) that HDB has no equivalent for.
Home-School Distance Checker

Schools nearby

Within 2km of District 9
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Full postal-code checker lives on its own page, not rebuilt here
Admissions Leg-Up

Affiliated schools

Primary schools here with a direct secondary pathway
Affiliated schoolBoys primaryBoys secondary→ Anglo-Chinese Junior College
PSLE COP 2025 (aff. → non-aff.):PG3 8 - 21 → 6 - 9· PG2 21 - 25 → 21 - 21· PG1 25 - 28 → 25 - 26
Affiliated schoolGirls primaryGirls secondary→ St Andrew's Junior College
PSLE COP 2025 (aff. → non-aff.):PG3 10 - 20 → 8 - 11· PG2 21 - 25 → 21 - 23· PG1 25 - 28 → 25 - 26
Full affiliation reference guide → Source: MOE Schoolfinder
GLS + New Launch supply

Units in the pipeline, 2024–2026

Launch pipeline

Next 90 days

River Green
524 units, under construction
Preview
River Modern
455 units, under construction
Preview
The Collective At One Sophia
367 units, TOP 2029
Upcoming
Absorption signal

Ronnie's read

Ronnie's signal · verified as of 25 Aug 2026

District 9's median psf held near $2,331 this May, down just 1.6% month on month, a genuinely balanced reading for Singapore's most watched postcode. Transaction volume is down 6.8% year on year, in line with the broader core central region cooling. Sitting at #2 of 6 in the CCR segment, District 9 remains the benchmark every other prime district gets measured against. With a steady pipeline of new Orchard-fringe launches still to come, this is a market pausing for breath rather than turning.

The Pulse, month over month

District 9 Pulse archive

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