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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
SellingBalanced Market
RentingStable Rental Market
Live · Snapshot
Median PSF$592
MoM change▼ 1.3%
Estate Type North-East
18-mo transactions128 / mo (Aug)
PSF rank#4 of 5 North-East
— HDB / data.gov.sg · Verified as of 15 Sep 2026 · Data through Aug 2026
Median rent, Aug 2026$3,100 (+0.0% 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
$620,000
-0.8% YoY
Median PSF
$592
-1.3% MoM
Transactions (18mo)
1,978
avg 110/mo
YoY volume Δ
-0.8%
vs Aug 2025
Txn velocity (proxy)
110/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, Aug 2026

4 ROOM
Dominant · 70 caveats
$568
5 ROOM
29 caveats
$615
3 ROOM
15 caveats
$653
EXECUTIVE
14 caveats
$615
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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.

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PSF by type

Last 6 months

$519$685$851MarAprMayJunJulAug
2-Room3-Room4-Room5-RoomExecutive
Lease Decay — the Town Page differentiator

PSF & supply by remaining lease

90+ yrs202 caveats · 23% of resales
$669
70-89 yrs287 caveats · 32% of resales
$614
50-69 yrs394 caveats · 44% of resales
$558
Under 50 yrs12 caveats · 1% of resales
$487
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

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Admissions Leg-Up

Affiliated schools

Primary schools here with a direct secondary pathway
Affiliated schoolGirls primaryGirls secondary→ Catholic Junior College
PSLE COP 2025 (aff. → non-aff.):PG3 11 - 20 → 8 - 14· PG2 21 - 25 → 21 - 23· PG1 25 - 28 → 25 - 28
Affiliated schoolCo-Ed primaryCo-Ed secondary→ Catholic Junior College
PSLE COP 2025 (aff. → non-aff.):PG3 13 - 22 → 11 - 14· PG2 23 - 25 → 21 - 24· PG1 26 - 28 → 25 - 27
Affiliated schoolBoys primaryBoys secondary→ Catholic Junior College
PSLE COP 2025 (aff. → non-aff.):PG3 11 - 22 → 14 - 22· PG2 22 - 24 → 23 - 25· PG1 26 - 28 → 27 - 29
Affiliated schoolGirls primaryGirls secondary→ Anglo-Chinese Junior College
PSLE COP 2025 (aff. → non-aff.):PG3 7 - 20 → 7 - 10· PG2 21 - 25 → 21 - 23· PG1 26 - 27 → 25 - 30*
Full affiliation reference guide → Source: MOE Schoolfinder
New blocks · BTO in Hougang

New blocks in Hougang.

Every BTO launched in Hougang across the last four exercises, with the numbers HDB states in each sales brochure.

See every upcoming BTO →
Source · HDB sales brochures · assets.hdb.gov.sg Flat types are those offered, not unit counts
On the market · block level · by remaining lease

Blocks worth a look, by lease age.

The most actively-traded resale blocks in this town, grouped by remaining lease. Tap any block for its full price and transaction history.

Absorption signal

Ronnie's read

Ronnie's signal · verified as of 15 Sep 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

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