Frequently asked questions
What is the PropKaki Singapore HDB Town Price Tracker?
The PropKaki Singapore HDB Town Price Tracker is a free page on propkaki.sg that covers all 26 HDB towns and ranks them by median resale flat price each quarter, with separate medians for 3-room, 4-room, 5-room and Executive flats; towns without a current published median are disclosed rather than ranked on stale figures. Every figure comes from the Housing & Development Board's official median resale price statistics published on data.gov.sg, and the page refreshes automatically with each quarterly release.
Which is the cheapest HDB town in Singapore?
By median 4-room resale price, the cheapest HDB towns are consistently in the outer north and west — towns such as Woodlands, Choa Chu Kang, Jurong West and Sembawang — with the exact order shifting from quarter to quarter. The live ranking on this page shows the current cheapest town, its median price for each flat type, and the quarter the figures refer to.
Which is the most expensive HDB town in Singapore?
The highest median resale prices are consistently recorded in central towns — typically the Central Area, Queenstown, Bukit Merah, Kallang/Whampoa and Toa Payoh — where flats are nearer the city and resale stock includes newer high-floor units. The live table on this page shows the current order by median 4-room price, alongside the medians for other flat types.
Where do these median prices come from?
The medians are published by the Housing & Development Board (HDB), Singapore's public housing authority, based on resale applications registered in each quarter. PropKaki ingests the official dataset from data.gov.sg automatically and adds no estimates of its own — what you see is HDB's published median for each town and flat type, stamped with its quarter.
Why do some towns show no figure for certain flat types?
HDB does not publish a median where a town had no resale transactions for that flat type in the quarter, or too few transactions for a reliable median. Small or fully matured towns — for example Bukit Timah, or the Central Area for larger flat types — are most often affected. The tracker shows a dash rather than estimating a figure.
Are these prices for new BTO flats or resale flats?
Resale only. The medians cover open-market resale transactions between buyers and sellers of existing HDB flats. New flats sold directly by HDB through Build-To-Order launches are priced separately with subsidies and are not part of this dataset. For the overall direction of resale prices beyond town level, see the HDB Resale Price Index on PropKaki's Singapore HDB Resale Tracker.
Is a town's median price the same as its price per square foot?
No. The medians on this page are whole-flat transaction prices for a given flat type, which is how most buyers actually budget — but flat sizes within a type vary by town and by year of construction, so a town with larger 4-room flats can show a higher median without being more expensive per square foot. Comparing the same flat type across towns keeps the comparison meaningful.
What happened to the "mature" versus "non-mature" town classification?
From the second half of 2024, HDB replaced the mature/non-mature estate labels with a Standard, Plus and Prime classification for new flats, based on each project's location attributes rather than the town as a whole. The resale market still colloquially groups towns the old way, and central towns still command the highest medians — but this tracker deliberately ranks towns by their published median prices rather than by any label.
How often is the town data updated, and is it free?
HDB publishes the town-level medians with its full quarterly statistics, typically in January, April, July and October; the PropKaki tracker re-ingests the official dataset automatically every week, so new quarters appear within days of release. The page is completely free — no paywall, no account — and the underlying series are available as JSON from PropKaki's public data endpoint.