Tampines Street 81

Tampines Street 81: older blocks, a wide flat mix and what the resale records show

Tampines Street 81 is one of the older parts of Tampines, and its HDB records describe a mix of blocks rather than a single project. The site's 12 October 2026 street-guide build lists 38 blocks on the street. 33 of them have homes, 2,901 dwellings in all: 1,054 three-room, 937 four-room, 302 five-room and 400 executive flats, plus 75 two-room flats and 133 studio apartments, all of which are in Block 827A. Most of the residential blocks were completed between 1983 and 1988; Block 827A, at 15 storeys the tallest, was completed in 2001. Five blocks have no homes: 823, 826A and 828A are recorded as shops, 827B as a pavilion, and 823A as shops, a market and hawker centre and a car park.

Heights follow that history. Blocks 813 to 818 rise 12 storeys. The run of blocks from 820 to 829 is four storeys high, with shops recorded alongside the homes, and Block 819 has nine storeys with shops. Most of the blocks numbered 887 to 899A are 11 to 13 storeys. Within one street, then, the same flat type can be in a four-storey block above shops or in a taller block of 11 to 13 storeys, which is worth knowing before comparing two listings.

HDB resale registrations from October 2025 to September 2026 record 59 sales on the street: 24 three-room flats at a median of S$492,000 (S$435,000 to S$508,000), 13 four-room flats at S$650,000 (S$608,888 to S$688,000), 5 five-room flats at S$818,000 (S$725,000 to S$850,000) and 17 executive flats at S$1,010,000 (S$880,000 to S$1,120,000). These are past registered prices, not asking prices or valuations, and five sales is too few to treat the five-room figure as a benchmark. The leases began in the 1980s, and the latest registrations in the guide show remaining leases of about 57 to 61 years, so check the exact lease, floor, size and month of sale for any flat you consider.

Measured in a straight line from the nearest block with homes, the guide puts Springfield Secondary School at 86 m, Tampines West Community Club at 96 m, St. Hilda's Primary School at 112 m and Junyuan Primary School at 265 m. The nearest hawker centre in NEA's list is Hawker Centre @ Our Tampines Hub, 662 m away; Block 823A's own HDB record also lists a market and hawker centre use. Straight lines are not walking routes, and a school's distance in this guide does not decide Primary 1 admission: MOE uses the home-to-school distance for the specific address, so check the exact block.

Source datasets: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5