Frequently asked questions
What is the PropKaki Singapore HDB Resale Tracker?
The PropKaki Singapore HDB Resale Tracker is a free dashboard on propkaki.sg that follows Singapore's public housing resale market using official Housing & Development Board statistics. It carries the HDB Resale Price Index with history from 1990, whole-island and per-flat-type median resale prices, quarterly transaction volumes and resale application counts, plus price-momentum and demand readings judged against their own 20-year range.
Where does the tracker's data come from?
Every underlying figure comes from the Housing & Development Board (HDB), Singapore's public housing authority, via the official datasets the government publishes on data.gov.sg. PropKaki computes the median prices, transaction counts and 20-year-range verdicts from those official records and adds no estimates or forecasts of its own.
How often is the tracker updated?
HDB publishes a flash estimate of the Resale Price Index on or around the first working day after each quarter ends, with full quarterly statistics later that month, and the underlying resale transaction dataset is refreshed continually as registrations complete. The PropKaki tracker re-ingests the official datasets automatically every week, and every metric on the page displays the quarter it refers to.
What does the HDB Resale Price Index measure?
The HDB Resale Price Index tracks how transacted prices of resale HDB flats in Singapore change over time, using a quarterly index based at 100 in the first quarter of 2009. A reading of 190 means resale flat prices are roughly 1.9 times their early-2009 level. The series goes back to 1990, making it the longest official price record for Singapore public housing.
What is the median HDB resale price in Singapore?
The tracker publishes the latest whole-island median HDB resale price each quarter, computed from every resale transaction registered with HDB in that quarter, alongside separate medians for 3-room, 4-room, 5-room and Executive flats. The current figures, each stamped with the exact quarter they refer to, appear in the median price section of this page.
Why can the median price and the Resale Price Index move differently?
The median resale price reflects whatever mix of flats actually sold in a quarter, so it shifts when the mix shifts — for example, more 5-room or newer flats transacting will lift the median even if like-for-like prices are flat. The Resale Price Index is designed to control for that mix and measure pure price change. Reading the two together tells you whether a move is genuine price growth or a change in what is being sold.
What is the difference between resale applications and resale transactions?
A resale application is the formal submission a buyer and seller lodge with HDB to carry out a resale, counted when it is registered; a resale transaction is the completed sale recorded in HDB's resale dataset. Applications lead transactions by several weeks, so application counts work as a near-term demand signal while transaction counts measure completed market activity.
Does the tracker cover BTO flats or executive condominiums?
No. Built-to-Order flats are sold by HDB at launch prices rather than on the open market, so they have no resale price to track until they reach their minimum occupation period and enter the resale market. Executive condominiums are reported by URA alongside private housing and are covered by the PropKaki Singapore Private Residential Tracker instead.
Is the PropKaki Singapore HDB Resale Tracker free?
Yes. The tracker is completely free on propkaki.sg — there is no paywall, no account requirement and no locked deeper tier. PropKaki is operated by Straits Intelligence Pte. Ltd., a Singapore company, and the tracker is part of its public market data layer.