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Central Area · HDB · S050533

Blk 533 Upp Cross St

Completed 1979 · 18 storeys · 127 flats · 53 years 07 months remaining · 18 resale transactions on record

3 room
$566,000
5 sold · $490,000$613,888
$875 psf
Vs Central Area
+3.9%
block PSF vs town median · last sale Jan 2026
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Upp Cross St, Central Area · 1 km P1 ring · mrt · food · park · mall · health · zones: parks, commercial, reserve - hover
Flat mix · 127 homes
3-room
124 · 98%
5-room
3 · 2%

18 storeys · completed 1979

What the record shows

The last seller’s gain

A 3-room here sold for $566,000 in Jan 2026. The same flat type in this block averaged $502,250 in 2020 - a gain of $63,750 - about $29 a day while the owner slept.

The lease cliff

This block crossed 60 years remaining in 2019 - 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
3-ROOM$3,200/mo$3,100$4,000--5

Price trend

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

$599$751$903201720182020202220242026

Every recent sale HDB official record, latest 18

MonthTypeStoreyArea (sqm)PricePSFLease left
Jan 20263 ROOM07 to 0960$566,000$87653y 07m
Nov 20253 ROOM07 to 0960$570,000$88353y 10m
Oct 20253 ROOM10 to 1268$613,888$83953y 10m
Oct 20253 ROOM13 to 1560$565,000$87553y 11m
Dec 20243 ROOM04 to 0660$490,000$75954y 09m
Mar 20243 ROOM07 to 0960$500,000$77455y 06m
Feb 20233 ROOM07 to 0960$528,000$81856y 08m
Nov 20223 ROOM13 to 1560$550,000$85256y 10m
Dec 20213 ROOM16 to 1868$590,000$80657y 09m
Jun 20213 ROOM10 to 1260$418,000$64758y 03m
Nov 20203 ROOM10 to 1268$545,000$74558y 10m
Sept 20203 ROOM13 to 1560$456,000$70658y 11m
Jan 20193 ROOM16 to 1860$485,000$75160y 07m
Jul 20183 ROOM10 to 1268$430,000$58761y 01m
Jan 20183 ROOM07 to 0960$430,000$66661y 08m
May 20173 ROOM16 to 1868$515,000$70462y 04m
May 20173 ROOM16 to 1860$530,000$82162y 04m
Mar 20173 ROOM16 to 1860$458,000$70962y 05m

The neighbourhood

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

MRT
Chinatown DT19,NE4 · 211m - weekday mornings, riders head to Downtown, Harbourfront, Bayfront (LTA)
Secondary
Outram Secondary School · 945m
Food
Upper Cross Street Blk 531a (Hong Lim Food Centre And Market) · 93m - 8 hawker centres within 1km
Green
Hong Lim Pk · 290m - 15 parks within 1km
Mall
Ue Shopping Mall · 932m
Health
Singhealth Polyclinics (Outram Polyclinic) (polyclinic) · 969m

The neighbourhood, photographed

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

Traditional shophouses in Upper Cross Street, Chinatown, Singapore (17161367876)Nicolas Lannuzel from Singapore, S · CC BY-SA 2.0
Upper Cross Street (17187922511)Nicolas Lannuzel from Singapore, S · CC BY-SA 2.0
Upper Cross Street, Chinatown, Singapore (13694682545)Nicolas Lannuzel from Singapore, S · CC BY-SA 2.0
Hotel Park Royal on Pickering from Hong Lim Park in SingaporeBasile Morin · CC BY-SA 4.0
Library@chinatown bookdrop 09 11 2023LN9267 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Library@chinatown 09 11 2023(8)LN9267 · 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.

Condos nearby

The private premium, measured: the nearest condo trades at 1.1×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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