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Town Intelligence · HDB Singapore 2026

Hougang.

A mature North-East estate running the same proven formula for decades. Everything about buying, selling and renting here, refreshed live.

BuyingBalanced Market
SellingSeller's Market
RentingLandlord's Market
Live · Snapshot
Median PSF$600
MoM change▲ 0.8%
Estate Type North-East
18-mo transactions133 / mo (Jul)
PSF rank#5 of 5 North-East
— HDB / data.gov.sg · Verified as of 3 Aug 2026 · Data through Jul 2026
Median rent, Jul 2026$3,100 (+3.3% YoY)
The Neighbourhood · Hougang

A mature North-East estate where three generations of one family might live a ten-minute walk apart.

Hougang runs on a formula that's worked for decades: Hougang Mall, a North East Line stop that actually gets you somewhere, and a hawker culture locals will defend to the death. It's a mature estate through and through, the kind of town where three generations of one family might still live within a ten minute walk of each other. Nothing here is new or trying to be, that's the trade-off and also the appeal. For a buyer who wants heartland Singapore exactly as it's always been, Hougang HDB resale flats deliver precisely what they promise.

Hougang Mall anchors the town centre
North East Line — Hougang & Kovan stations
Strong, multi-generational hawker culture
Fully mature estate, minimal new-build noise
Illustrative placeholders — future: curated pull from location_pois (2-4 hand-picked highlights, not a full list)
Median price
$648,888
-7.0% YoY
Median PSF
$600
+0.8% MoM
Transactions (18mo)
1,946
avg 108/mo
YoY volume Δ
-7.0%
vs Jul 2025
Txn velocity (proxy)
108/mo
SG resale has no "days on market" field — caveats/month is the closest live proxy.
Hougang · drag to explore
By flat type

Median PSF, Jul 2026

4 ROOM
Dominant · 61 caveats
$590
5 ROOM
32 caveats
$615
3 ROOM
26 caveats
$600
EXECUTIVE
11 caveats
$612
2 ROOM
3 caveats
$810
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What's nearby

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Data deep-dive · practitioner-grade research

PSF Trend

One line per flat type, July 2026 transactions — not a single blended average. 4-Room and 5-Room flats carry the bulk of volume in this mature estate.

Live · BigQuery → Jinja2
PSF by type

Last 6 months

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

PSF & supply by remaining lease

90+ yrs65 blocks · 9% of stock
$692
70-89 yrs161 blocks · 23% of stock
$619
50-69 yrs468 blocks · 67% of stock
$582
Under 50 yrs6 blocks · 1% of stock
$523
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).
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Schools nearby

Within 2km of Hougang
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Newest BTO

Latest launch in this town

No confirmed BTO launch announced for Hougang as of Aug 2026.
No confirmed BTO launch
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

Jansen House
21 units · 25 Jansen Rd
TOP soon
Riverfront Residences
1,472 units · TOP 2024
Completed
Absorption signal

Ronnie's read

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

Hougang is about as steady as HDB towns get — PSF edged up just 0.6% MoM, with volume down 7.0% YoY to 133 sales, consistent with a mature estate settling into its usual rhythm rather than swinging hard either way. 4-Room flats dominate at 46% of July's caveats. Rental is flat, June's median rent unchanged YoY at $3,000 — no landlord windfall, but no softness either. With 67% of blocks sitting in the 50-69 year band, lease decay is a longer-run consideration here rather than an immediate one.

The Pulse, month over month

Hougang Pulse archive

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

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Read the July 2026 Hougang Pulse →