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Central Area · HDB · S160053

Blk 53 Chin Swee Rd

Completed 1973 · 26 storeys · 96 flats · 47 years 11 months remaining · 20 resale transactions on record

4 room
$548,000
1 sold · $548,000$548,000
$661 psf
Vs Central Area
-21.5%
block PSF vs town median · last sale Aug 2025
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Chin Swee Rd, Central Area · 1 km P1 ring · mrt · school · food · park · mall · health · zones: parks, commercial, reserve - hover
Flat mix · 96 homes
4-room
96 · 100%

26 storeys · completed 1973 · shops below

What the record shows

The last seller’s gain

A 4-room here sold for $548,000 in Aug 2025. The same flat type in this block averaged $527,360 in 2021 - a gain of $20,640 - about $11 a day while the owner slept.

The storey premium

In this block, 4-room flats from floor 18 up have sold for a median of $518,000 - $4,000 more than floors 8 and below, same flat type, same block.

The lease cliff

This block crossed 60 years remaining in 2013 - the line where CPF usage rules tighten for buyers. In Central Area over the last two years, flats below that line sold at a median 44% below their younger neighbours' PSF (226 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 medianRangeCentral Area medianGross yieldRented
4-ROOM$3,700/mo$2,700$4,000--7

Price trend

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

$538$711$884201720182020202220242026

The height gradient

every sale in 5 years, plotted by starting floor · 12 sales - do higher floors really fetch more here?

$536$652$768510152025storey →

Every recent sale HDB official record, latest 20

MonthTypeStoreyArea (sqm)PricePSFLease left
Aug 20254 ROOM07 to 0977$548,000$66147y 11m
Jun 20244 ROOM10 to 1277$520,000$62749y 02m
Mar 20244 ROOM04 to 0677$510,000$61549y 05m
Feb 20244 ROOM04 to 0677$500,000$60349y 06m
Sept 20234 ROOM16 to 1877$520,000$62749y 11m
Jun 20234 ROOM10 to 1277$523,000$63150y 01m
May 20234 ROOM13 to 1577$505,000$60950y 02m
Apr 20234 ROOM07 to 0977$518,000$62550y 03m
Mar 20224 ROOM10 to 1277$463,000$55951y 05m
Dec 20214 ROOM04 to 0677$611,800$73851y 08m
Oct 20214 ROOM22 to 2477$518,000$62551y 10m
Jul 20214 ROOM01 to 0377$506,000$61152y
Mar 20214 ROOM19 to 2177$538,000$64952y 06m
Mar 20204 ROOM16 to 1877$460,000$55553y 04m
Mar 20204 ROOM13 to 1577$460,000$55553y 04m
Jul 20194 ROOM07 to 0977$483,000$58354y
Apr 20184 ROOM16 to 1877$508,000$61355y 03m
Dec 20174 ROOM13 to 1577$490,000$59155y 07m
Jun 20174 ROOM16 to 1877$510,000$61556y 01m
Feb 20174 ROOM10 to 1277$480,000$57956y 05m

The neighbourhood

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

MRT
Chinatown DT19,NE4 · 429m - weekday mornings, riders head to Downtown, Harbourfront, Bayfront (LTA)
P1 ring
River Valley Primary School 933m · Phase 2C 1.0× · Afterschool @ River Valley Primary School 933m - inside the 1km priority ring; Phase 2C demand is last year’s applicants ÷ vacancies (MOE)
Secondary
Outram Secondary School · 489m
Food
Jalan Kukoh Blk 1 (Kukoh 21 Food Centre) · 170m - 5 hawker centres within 1km
Green
Pearl'S Hill City Pk · 428m - 8 parks within 1km
Mall
Ue Shopping Mall · 579m
Health
Singhealth Polyclinics (Outram Polyclinic) (polyclinic) · 976m

The neighbourhood, photographed

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

Singapore from ChinatownEntropy1963. · Public domain
Block 34 in Upper Cross Street (21193697550)Nicolas Lannuzel from Singapore, S · CC BY-SA 2.0
HDB at 34 Upper Cross Street (14007605275)Nicolas Lannuzel from Singapore, S · CC BY-SA 2.0
HDB flats at York Hill, Singapore (15030441057)Nicolas Lannuzel from Singapore, S · CC BY-SA 2.0
EW15 Tanjong Pagar MRT Platform B 20200918 151540zhenkang · CC BY-SA 4.0
(SGP Singapore) Outram Park MRT Station North East Line Platforms 2024 09 14S5A-0043 · CC BY 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.

Condos nearby

The private premium, measured: the nearest condo trades at 2.8×this block’s PSF.

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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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