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Town Intelligence · HDB Singapore 2026

Sembawang.

The North's quietest, most underrated HDB town. Everything about buying, selling and renting Sembawang flats, refreshed live.

BuyingBuyer's Market
SellingBalanced Market
RentingStable Rental Market
Live · Snapshot
Median PSF$569
MoM change▼ 3.5%
Estate Type North
18-mo transactions78 / mo (Jul)
PSF rank#1 of 3 North
— HDB / data.gov.sg · Verified as of 3 Aug 2026 · Data through Jul 2026
Median rent, Jul 2026$3,200 (+0.0% YoY)
The Neighbourhood · Sembawang

The North's calm, without the North's density.

Sembawang never quite lost its small-town pace, even as the rest of the North grew up around it. Sun Plaza anchors the centre, naval base history lingers in the street names, and Sembawang Hot Spring Park remains the one genuinely odd, genuinely lovable landmark no other town can copy. The retail scene runs thinner than towns twice its size, fair to say. But for a buyer who wants the North's calm without the North's density, Sembawang HDB flats are underrated for exactly that reason.

Sun Plaza anchors the town centre
Sembawang Hot Spring Park — a genuinely unique landmark
Naval base history lingers in the street names
Retail scene thinner than towns twice its size
Illustrative placeholders — future: curated pull from location_pois (2-4 hand-picked highlights, not a full list)
Median price
$578,000
-36.6% YoY
Median PSF
$569
-3.5% MoM
Transactions (18mo)
1,563
avg 87/mo
YoY volume Δ
-36.6%
vs Jul 2025
Txn velocity (proxy)
87/mo
SG resale has no "days on market" field — caveats/month is the closest live proxy.
Sembawang · drag to explore
By flat type

Median PSF, Jul 2026

4 ROOM
Dominant · 39 caveats
$579
5 ROOM
20 caveats
$502
3 ROOM
8 caveats
$693
2 ROOM
7 caveats
$791
EXECUTIVE
4 caveats
$525
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What's nearby

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Data deep-dive · practitioner-grade research

PSF Trend

One line per flat type, Jul 2026 — not a single blended average. 4-Roomers carry the volume; the smaller 2- and 3-Room units command a real premium, watch that spread.

Live · BigQuery → Jinja2
PSF by type

Last 6 months

4-Room (dominant)5-Room3-Room2-RoomExec.
Lease Decay — the Town Page differentiator

PSF & supply by remaining lease

90+ yrs120 blocks · 32% of stock
$681
70-89 yrs260 blocks · 68% of stock
$536
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 Sembawang
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Newest BTO

Latest launch in this town

No confirmed BTO launch announced
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

The Watergardens at Canberra
D27 · Leasehold · TOP 2026
Under construction
Provence Residence (EC)
D27 · Leasehold · TOP 2026
TOP soon
Absorption signal

Ronnie's read

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

Sembawang is the one town in this batch with a genuine Buyer's Market signal — psf down 3.5% MoM and volume down a sharp -36.6% YoY (78 vs 123 transactions), a real cooling rather than noise given the healthy base on both sides. Rents are flat YoY at $3,200, so this isn't a rental-driven story. All of Sembawang's blocks fall in the 70-89 or 90+ year lease bands — there's no old stock dragging on the mix, so the price softness is a demand story, not a lease-decay one. No confirmed new BTO launch as of this writing.

The Pulse, month over month

Sembawang 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 Sembawang Pulse →