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Block 259 Tampines Street 21

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Median, past 12 months
$542,500
$542 psf
Lease remaining
58 years
lease began 1985, runs to 2084
Postal code
520259
worked out, not published

What this block is

AddressBlock 259 Tampines Street 21, Tampines, Singapore 520259
Flat types here3-room, 4-room — on the evidence of 28 sales since April 2017, so a type that has never been resold here will not appear
Unit sizes3-room about 797 sq ft, 4-room about 1,130 sq ft (797 to 1,130 sq ft across the block)
Lease99 years from 1985, expiring 2084 — 58 years left
Floors that have sold1 to 12, so the block stands at least 12 storeys
Flat modelsModel A
Town and districtTampines, district 18 (Tampines, Pasir Ris)
Compare it withthe rest of Tampines Street 21, 4-room flats across Tampines

Two things this page deliberately does not have. There is no floor plan: the resale register carries none, and drawing one from the median floor area would be an invention. And there is no nearest station, for the same reason — no rail data is published here, so the distance would be guessed. What is near this block, measured rather than assumed, is the food: hawker centres within a walk.

What a flat here really costs each month

Bought at the median price, a flat in this block works out at $1,406 for every month of the 58 years its lease still has to run. That figure takes in the price itself, both stamp duties, legal and valuation fees, the whole of the mortgage interest and the running costs for as long as the lease lasts.

It is a different question from the monthly instalment, which stops after 25 years while the lease carries on being used up.

Cash needed up front$149,400
Mortgage interest over 25 years$171,959
Running costs over the remaining lease$250,560
Total over the lease$978,794
Monthly while repaying$2,289
Monthly once repaid$360

Assumes a Singapore citizen buying a first home with a 75 per cent loan at 3 per cent over 25 years, $2,500 in legal fees, $400 for valuation, $1,200 a year in property tax and $260 a month for conservancy, upkeep and insurance. Change any of these. Figures are not discounted: a dollar paid in the final year of the lease is counted the same as a dollar paid today. Opportunity cost, CPF accrued interest and any resale value are excluded.

The median above is based on just four sales, which is too few to call a market rate.

By flat type

TypeMedianRangeSizepsfSales
3-room$415,000$295,000–$500,000797 sq ft49410
4-room$477,500$385,000–$618,8881,130 sq ft40718

By floor

Measured inside a block, where the address, the age and the lease are all held still, a storey is worth about 0.63 per cent of the price per square foot — so the difference between the second floor and the twentieth is roughly 11 per cent, not the 2.1 times the market-wide storey bands appear to show. Why those bands mislead.

01 to 03$415,000473 psf7
04 to 06$420,000477 psf13
07 to 09$508,000449 psf3
10 to 12$475,000459 psf5

Year by year

2017$415,000370 psfthree sales
2019$383,500393 psftwo sales
2020$405,000364 psffour sales
2021$410,000409 psffive sales
2022$459,000469 psftwo sales
2023$540,000487 psffive sales
2024$420,000500 psfone sale
2025$550,000584 psftwo sales
2026$542,500542 psffour sales

28 transactions in all, from April 2017 to Oct 2026. The flat models recorded here are Model A.