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Bukit Merah · HDB · S160049

Blk 49 Kim Pong Rd

Completed 1949 · 4 storeys · 24 flats · 48 years 05 months remaining · 7 resale transactions on record · median household income in Bukit Merah: $8,500/mo (lowest quartile island-wide)

3 room
$638,000
7 sold · all years · $618,000$720,000
$686 psf
Last sale
Oct 2023
no resales in the last 24 months - quiet block, tight holders
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Kim Pong Rd, Bukit Merah · 1 km P1 ring · mrt · school · food · park · mall · health · zones: parks, commercial, reserve - hover
Flat mix · 24 homes
3-room
24 · 100%

4 storeys · completed 1949

What the record shows

The last seller’s gain

A 3-room here sold for $720,000 in Oct 2023. The same flat type in this block averaged $644,000 in 2020 - a gain of $76,000 - about $35 a day while the owner slept.

The lease cliff

This block crossed 60 years remaining in 2012 - the line where CPF usage rules tighten for buyers. In Bukit Merah over the last two years, flats below that line sold at a median 39% below their younger neighbours' PSF (907 sales).

Rent check

What flats in this block actually rented for in the last 12 months - official approvals, not listings. If you’re quoted much more, you have a number to negotiate with.

TypeBlock medianRangeBukit Merah medianGross yieldRented
3-ROOM$4,300/mo$4,300$4,300$3,000/mo-1

Price trend

median PSF by year · ━ this block · ╌ Bukit Merah · gaps = years with no sales here

$524$679$834201720182020202220242026

Every recent sale HDB official record, latest 7

MonthTypeStoreyArea (sqm)PricePSFLease left
Oct 20233 ROOM01 to 0388$720,000$76048y 05m
Mar 20223 ROOM01 to 0375$620,000$76849y 11m
Dec 20213 ROOM01 to 0388$695,000$73450y 02m
Oct 20213 ROOM01 to 0388$638,000$67450y 05m
Dec 20203 ROOM04 to 0688$623,000$65851y 01m
Jul 20173 ROOM01 to 0388$618,000$65254y 06m
Jul 20173 ROOM01 to 0388$650,000$68654y 07m

Who lives in Bukit Merah

Census of Population 2020 · planning-area aggregates · SingStat via data.gov.sg

Residents
151,250
Median age
46 yrs
41% under 40 · getting older
Children 0–9
12,440
▼ 15% since 2015 · future P1 demand
Household size
2.7 avg
Homes
89% HDB
9% condo · 0% landed
Degree holders
32%
residents 15+
Commute
63% transit
17% drive
45 min+ to work
16%

The neighbourhood

What sits around this address - distances computed from official OneMap and LTA records.

MRT
Tiong Bahru EW17 · 415m - weekday mornings, riders head to Raffles Place, City Hall, Clementi (LTA)
P1 ring
Zhangde Primary School 508m · Phase 2C 0.9× - inside the 1km priority ring; Phase 2C demand is last year’s applicants ÷ vacancies (MOE)
Secondary
Outram Secondary School · 774m
Food
Tiong Bahru Market · 192m - 6 hawker centres within 1km
Green
Kim Pong Park · 125m - 4 parks within 1km
Mall
Concorde Shopping Centre · 648m
Health
Singapore General Hospital (hospital) · 765m

The neighbourhood, photographed

freely-licensed photographs taken within ~450 m · Wikimedia Commons

Kim Cheng HDB (13775970944)Nicolas Lannuzel from Singapore, S · CC BY-SA 2.0
Lim Liak HDB (13775602395)Nicolas Lannuzel from Singapore, S · CC BY-SA 2.0
EW16 NE3 Outram Park MRT linkway 20211118 142137ZKang123 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tiong Bahru Market, courtyard gardenKbseah · CC BY-SA 4.0
Outdoor Hari Raya Lighting decorations of a HDB flat in SingaporeJustanothersgwikieditor · CC BY-SA 4.0

Around this block

The nearest blocks by actual distance - street names are postal artifacts, so true neighbours often sit on a different road. Price gaps are median-vs-median on the flat type both blocks actually trade.

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Data: HDB resale transactions via data.gov.sg (updated weekly), OneMap. Prices are the official resale record - not estimates, not listings.
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