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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 493A Tampines Avenue 9Tampinesremove
Median price, past 12 months$745,000
Price per sq ft$547 psf
Based ontwo sales
Lease remaining66 years
Lease began / runs to1993–2092
Commonest flat type5 Room, 1345 sq ft
Cost per month of lease$1,624
Cost per sq ft, per year of lease$14
Cash needed up front$206,100
Monthly while repaying$3,010
Everything, over the whole lease$1,286,117
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 493A
5 Room$550,000$406 psf · 1345 sq ft · 11 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 493A Tampines Avenue 9

SoldTypeFloorSizePrice
July 20265 Room07 to 091378$780,000566 psf
May 20265 Room04 to 061345$710,000528 psf
July 20255 Room13 to 151345$800,000595 psf
June 20225 Room04 to 061335$608,000456 psf
Nov 20215 Room04 to 061345$550,000409 psf
Sept 20215 Room01 to 031345$530,000394 psf
Oct 20205 Room10 to 121345$538,000400 psf
April 20195 Room01 to 031345$470,000349 psf
April 20195 Room04 to 061335$462,000346 psf
Dec 20185 Room13 to 151345$535,000398 psf