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Tiong Bahru Road

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HDB · 8 blocks157 homesBuilt 1937–1949
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Tiong Bahru Road at a glance

8 HDB blocks with homes in Bukit Merah. Distances are straight lines from the nearest block.

Nearest hawker centre
110 mTiong Bahru MarketClosed 16 Nov (cleaning)
Nearest park connector
610 mSingapore River RIR
Nearest MRT / LRT
330 mHavelock MRT
Primary schools within 1 km
24 within 2 km

Within 1 km: 8 hawker centres, 6 parks, 4 park connectors, 2 primary schools, 1 secondary school, 29 CHAS clinics and 3 community clubs.

Tiong Bahru Road: HDB homes, registered resale prices and neighbourhood connections

Panoramic view across greenery towards Singapore buildings from Mount Faber Park, with a stone viewing wall and a visitor in the foreground.
Panorama from Mount Faber Park, photographed on 15 August 2020. Historical wider-town recreation context, not a view of Tiong Bahru Road or a listed flat, and not evidence of current conditions. Full frame retained; resized from 8570×3820 to 1600×713 pixels. JPEG re-encoded at quality 85; the website may re-encode it again. Image remains CC BY-SA 4.0. “Mount Faber Park panoramic view” — Lot509sc / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

The HDB property dataset’s Tiong Bahru Road entry covers eight residential blocks and 157 homes, as checked on 19 October 2026. Seven blocks have a recorded completion year of 1949 and Block 55 has 1937. These are the dates carried by the property inventory, not a claim that HDB constructed buildings before the board existed or a substitute for an individual building’s history.

The recorded stock consists of 121 three-room, 34 four-room and two five-room sold flats. Most residential blocks are recorded at four storeys, while Block 55 is recorded at three. The guide describes these specific HDB inventory entries; it does not count every condominium, shophouse or other property along the wider road as part of that stock.

Only four resale transactions were registered on Tiong Bahru Road in the complete October 2025–September 2026 window. Three three-room sales ranged from S$700,000 to S$800,000, with a median of S$750,000. Their small number makes the midpoint sensitive to the particular homes sold, so it should not be treated as a street-wide valuation.

The remaining registration was a single four-room Standard flat in Block 17: 110 square metres, in the 04–06 storey band, registered in November 2025 at S$1,010,000. It is one observed sale rather than a representative four-room benchmark. The three-room records were Standard flats of 75 or 88 square metres. All four sales carry a 1973 lease commencement year, separate from the much earlier completion labels in the property inventory.

Property.co’s current guide lists Havelock on the Thomson–East Coast Line and Tiong Bahru on the East–West Line. Its minimum straight-line distances from residential blocks are 326 and 331 metres respectively. Those minima can refer to different blocks and do not establish walking distances or entrance access, so compare the actual route and onward connection from the address being viewed.

Zhangde Primary School’s current official contact page lists 51 Jalan Membina as its campus address. That confirmed location can help organise a school-day travel check from a chosen Tiong Bahru Road block. The real route, entrances and current registration rules must be assessed separately; a nearby-school listing does not establish admission eligibility or an available place.

NParks locates Tiong Bahru Park along Tiong Bahru Road and Lower Delta Road and records its size as 3.3 hectares. The tilting-train playground is a distinctive family recreation feature. The park belongs to the wider neighbourhood setting; consult its current map and notices and assess the journey from the exact block rather than assuming that the shared road name places every home beside it.

Explore homes on Tiong Bahru Road in the listings section, or browse Property.co’s Bukit Merah homes for sale and rent. Compare each listing’s asking price, floor area, layout and lease details with the historical resale evidence in this guide.

Source datasets: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

What’s nearby

Within 1 km, nearest first. Walking routes are longer than these straight-line distances.

Hawker centres8 within 1 km

  • Tiong Bahru MarketClosed 16 Nov (cleaning)110 m
  • Havelock Road Cooked Food CentreClosed 7 Dec (cleaning)270 m
  • Beo Crescent MarketClosed 14 Dec–15 Dec (cleaning)490 m

Parks6 within 1 km

  • Kim Pong Park250 m
  • Pearl's Hill City Park510 m
  • Ganges Avenue Os560 m

Park connectors4 within 1 km

  • Singapore River RIR610 m
  • Tiong Bahru Park620 m
  • Alexandra Park Connector690 m

Primary schools2 within 1 km

  • Zhangde Primary School520 m
  • Alexandra Primary School910 m

Secondary school1 within 1 km

  • Gan Eng Seng School830 m

CHAS clinics29 within 1 km

  • Tiong Bahru Medical Centre140 m
  • Kim Tian Clinic170 m
  • Onecare Clinic Tiong Bahru190 m

Community clubs3 within 1 km

  • Tiong Bahru CC250 m
  • Kim Seng CC440 m
  • Henderson CC790 m

Schools & services

The nearest primary schools. Other services are listed under What’s nearby.

Primary schools

  • Zhangde Primary School520 m
  • Alexandra Primary School910 m
  • River Valley Primary School1.0 km

Primary 1 registration uses the official home–school distance, not these figures. Check OneMap for your block.

26 preschools within 1 km (ECDA list, updated Jun 2024).

Getting around

MRT or LRT within 1 km. Stations not yet open are not counted.

MRT and LRT

Cycling & walking

  • Singapore River RIR610 m

NParks park connector network.

Recent resale prices

4 HDB resale flats on Tiong Bahru Road registered Oct 2025 – Sep 2026. What buyers paid, from HDB; not a valuation.

Flat typeSalesMedian priceRangeMedian per sq ft
3-room3$750,000$700K – $800K · $845 psf$700K – $800K$845
4-room1$1,010,000$1.01M · $853 psf$1.01M$853

Latest sales

MonthBlockFlat typeStoreysSizePriceLease left
Aug 2026Blk 17173-roomStoreys 01–03947 sq ft01–03947 sq ft$800,00045 yrs 5 mths left45 yrs 5 mths
Jun 2026Blk 26263-roomStoreys 01–03807 sq ft01–03807 sq ft$750,00045 yrs 7 mths left45 yrs 7 mths
Nov 2025Blk 22223-roomStoreys 01–03947 sq ft01–03947 sq ft$700,00046 yrs 3 mths left46 yrs 3 mths
Nov 2025Blk 17174-roomStoreys 04–061,184 sq ft04–061,184 sq ft$1,010,00046 yrs 3 mths left46 yrs 3 mths

Check a flat: recent sales like it in this block and street →

Median: half the sales were above, half below. Per sq ft uses each flat’s floor area. Lease left is at the time of sale.

The blocks

HDB lists 8 buildings on Tiong Bahru Road; 8 with homes.

BlockUseStoreysCompletedHomesPostal
17163017Homes 4 storeys · built 19494194932163017
18163018Homes 4 storeys · built 19494194916163018
20163020Homes 4 storeys · built 19494194916163020
22165022Homes 4 storeys · built 19494194916165022
24164024Homes 4 storeys · built 19494194916164024
26164026Homes 4 storeys · built 19494194916164026
28163028Homes shops4 storeys · built 19494194912163028
55160055Homes shops3 storeys · built 19373193733160055

“Completed” is the building’s completion year from HDB, not the lease start date.

Not shown yet: bus stops and services, and supermarkets. Distances are straight lines from the nearest block with homes.

Sources · data.gov.sg under the Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0

  • HDB Property Information, HDB (updated 2026-10-08)
  • Resale flat prices based on registration date from Jan-2017 onwards, HDB (updated 2026-10-19)
  • Hawker Centres (GEOJSON), NEA (updated 2026-10-18)
  • Parks, NParks (updated 2026-10-18)
  • Park Connector Loop, NParks (updated 2026-07-15)
  • CHAS Clinics, MOH (updated 2024-06-06)
  • Pre-Schools Location, ECDA (updated 2024-06-06)
  • Community Clubs, PA (updated 2024-06-06)
  • Libraries, NLB (updated 2024-06-06)
  • SportSG Sport Facilities (GEOJSON), SportSG (updated 2025-11-13)
  • Dates of Hawker Centres Closure, NEA (updated 2026-10-16)
  • General information of schools, MOE (updated 2026-04-17)
  • Block and school locations: OneMap, Singapore Land Authority · Town: URA Master Plan 2025