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Compare flats side by side

Two flats are rarely alike enough to judge on the asking price. Put up to 4 blocks next to each other and the differences that matter — the lease, the floor area, what each costs for every month you get — line up in a single column each.

Block 488A Tampines Avenue 9Tampinesremove
Median price, past 12 months$735,000
Price per sq ft$564 psf
Based onfour salesacross two flat types — see below
Lease remaining62 years
Lease began / runs to1989–2088
Commonest flat type5 Room, 1302 sq ft
Cost per month of lease$1,687
Cost per sq ft, per year of lease$16
Cash needed up front$203,300
Monthly while repaying$2,974
Everything, over the whole lease$1,255,367
Nearest hawker centre—
Food shops within 400 m / 800 m—

The same flat type, side by side

A block median mixes whatever happened to sell. If one block traded two-room flats last year and another traded five-room ones, their medians are not comparing like with like — so here each flat type is given its own row, and a blank means that block sold none.

Flat typeBlock 488A
4 Room$468,000$418 psf · 1119 sq ft · seven sales
5 Room$632,500$486 psf · 1302 sq ft · 12 sales

The sales behind the medians

The most recent transactions at each block, as HDB recorded them. Where a median rests on two or three sales, this is what those sales actually were.

Block 488A Tampines Avenue 9

SoldTypeFloorSizePrice
Oct 20265 Room07 to 091302$700,000537 psf
June 20265 Room04 to 061302$730,000560 psf
May 20265 Room07 to 091302$740,000568 psf
Dec 20255 Room07 to 091302$740,000568 psf
Feb 20255 Room07 to 091302$730,888561 psf
Feb 20254 Room07 to 091119$620,000554 psf
Jan 20244 Room07 to 091119$600,000536 psf
Aug 20225 Room07 to 091302$650,000499 psf
May 20224 Room01 to 031119$482,000431 psf
Oct 20215 Room07 to 091302$615,000472 psf