Frequently asked questions
What is the PropKaki Singapore Private Residential Tracker?
The PropKaki Singapore Private Residential Tracker is a free dashboard on propkaki.sg that follows Singapore's private housing market using the Urban Redevelopment Authority's official quarterly statistics. It covers the property price index (history from 1975), the rental index, vacancy rate, completed stock, unsold inventory, the construction pipeline, and quarterly sales volumes, and it adds derived readings such as months of supply judged against their own 20-year range.
Where does the tracker's data come from?
Every underlying figure comes from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), Singapore's land-use planning and property market authority, via the official datasets the government publishes on data.gov.sg. PropKaki computes the derived metrics — months of supply, pipeline pressure, absorption rate and the 20-year-range verdicts — from those official figures and does not add estimates or forecasts of its own.
How often is the tracker updated?
URA publishes its private residential statistics quarterly, with the full release typically on the fourth Friday of January, April, July and October. The PropKaki tracker ingests each release automatically within days of publication, and every metric on the page displays the quarter it refers to, so you always know exactly how current each number is.
What does the URA private residential property price index measure?
The URA private residential property price index tracks how transacted prices of private homes in Singapore change over time, using a quarterly index based at 100 in the first quarter of 2009. A reading of 200 means private home prices are roughly double their early-2009 level. The series goes back to 1975, making it the longest official price record for Singapore private housing.
What do CCR, RCR and OCR mean in Singapore property data?
CCR, RCR and OCR are URA's three market segments for Singapore private housing. The Core Central Region (CCR) covers the prime central districts, the Rest of Central Region (RCR) covers the city fringe, and the Outside Central Region (OCR) covers the suburban mass market. URA publishes separate non-landed price and rental indices for each segment, and the PropKaki tracker carries all three.
What is months of supply and how should I read it?
Months of supply estimates how long Singapore's current unsold inventory of private homes would take to sell at the recent pace of developer sales: unsold units divided by the average monthly sales rate over the past year. A low reading signals a tight market where inventory clears quickly; a high reading signals an overhang. The PropKaki tracker judges each reading against its own 20-year range rather than against an arbitrary threshold.
What is the private residential supply pipeline?
The supply pipeline is the total number of private residential units that are under construction or hold planning approval and have not yet been completed in Singapore. Comparing the pipeline with the recent annual sales rate — the tracker's "pipeline pressure" reading — indicates how many years of future supply the market is carrying.
Does the tracker cover HDB flats or executive condominiums?
The tracker focuses on Singapore's private residential market as defined by URA, which includes condominiums, apartments and landed homes. Executive condominiums appear within several URA series because URA reports them alongside private housing, but HDB resale flats are a separate public-housing market and are not covered on this page.
Is the PropKaki Singapore Private Residential 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.