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District 23 private condos at $1M to $2M: leases from 2009 had a median home 24% to 39% smaller than earlier leases

In the 12 months to September 2026, 69% of District 23's resales sold for $1M to under $2M. Among private 99-year homes, what a price range bought differed with the year the lease began: in each range from $1M to $2M, the median home on a lease from 2009 was 24% to 39% smaller than on an earlier lease, or 18% to 32% without Midwood, the development with the most resales among them.

Published
6 Oct 2026
Last fact-checked
6 Oct 2026
Data period
Oct 2025 – Sept 2026
Reading time
11 min

Filed underDistrict 23Condo resalePrices and transactions

What does a given budget buy in District 23?

Among private 99-year homes it differed with the year the lease began. Of District 23's 805 resales in the 12 months to September 2026, 69% sold for $1M to under $2M. At $1M to $1.25M the median home on a lease before 2009 was 1,028 sq ft (80 resales in 12 developments) and on a lease from 2009 it was 732 sq ft (36 in 10). At $1.25M to $1.5M the medians were 1,206 and 732 sq ft, and at $1.5M to $2M they were 1,302 and 990 sq ft: 24% to 39% smaller, or 18% to 32% without Midwood. In each range every development on an earlier lease with five or more resales had a larger median size than every such development on a later lease.

Key takeaways

  • Of District 23's 805 resales in the 12 months to September 2026, 138 (17%) sold for under $1M, 553 (69%) for $1M to under $2M and 114 (14%) for $2M or more.
  • Among private 99-year homes at $1M to $1.25M, the median size was 1,028 sq ft on leases before 2009 (80 resales in 12 developments) and 732 sq ft on leases from 2009 (36 in 10), which is 29% smaller.
  • The same held at $1.25M to $1.5M (1,206 against 732 sq ft, 39% smaller) and at $1.5M to $2M (1,302 against 990 sq ft, 24% smaller).
  • In each range, every development on a lease before 2009 with at least five resales had a larger median size than every development on a lease from 2009 with at least five. The figures lean on Midwood: without it the three gaps were 27%, 32% and 18%.
  • Freehold and 999-year homes were mostly at the top of the range: 127 of 148 resold for $1.5M or more, and they made 84 of the 114 resales at $2M and over.

Data snapshot

CalculatedEvery figure here is worked out on this site from the source below.

Resales priced from $1M to under $2M
69%
553 of 805
Median size at $1M to $1.25M: private lease before 2009
1,028 sq ft
80 resales in 12 developments
Median size at $1M to $1.25M: private lease from 2009
732 sq ft
36 resales in 10 developments
Median size on leases from 2009 smaller by
24% to 39%
Private 99-year homes, three price ranges from $1M to $2M; 18% to 32% without Midwood
Resales under $1M
138
82 of them private homes on leases from 2009 to 2014
Freehold or 999-year resales at $1.5M or more
127 of 148
84 of them at $2M and over

Source: URA Data Service: private residential property transactions (Urban Redevelopment Authority), Oct 2025 – Sep 2026. Extracted 5 Oct 2026.

Size of private 99-year homes resold for $1.25M to $1.5M in District 23, by the year the lease began

Middle half of floor areas (25th percentile, median, 75th percentile) · sq ft · Oct 2025 – Sep 2026

  • 25th percentile to 75th percentile
  • Median
Before 20001,249 sq ft

1,206 sq ft to 1,281 sq ft

2000 to 20081,130 sq ft

1,087 sq ft to 1,195 sq ft

2009 to 2014807 sq ft

710 sq ft to 829 sq ft

From 2015700 sq ft

689 sq ft to 786 sq ft

The scale starts at 600 sq ft, not zero, so the bands show position, not size.

Middle half of floor areas of private 99-year homes resold for $1.25M to under $1.5M in District 23 in the 12 months to September 2026, by the year the lease began. lease before 2000: 1,206 to 1,281 sq ft, median 1,249, from 37 resales; lease 2000 to 2008: 1,087 to 1,195 sq ft, median 1,130, from 27 resales; lease 2009 to 2014: 710 to 829 sq ft, median 807, from 22 resales; lease from 2015: 689 to 786 sq ft, median 700, from 24 resales.

Source: URA Data Service: private residential property transactions (Urban Redevelopment Authority), Oct 2025 – Sep 2026. Extracted 5 Oct 2026.

Single-unit resales of private apartments and condominiums on 99-year leases. One of three price ranges in the analysis. Calculated from URA's caveat records.

Show the data as a table
Size of private 99-year homes resold for $1.25M to $1.5M in District 23, by the year the lease began: data table
Year the lease began25th percentileMedian75th percentile
Before 20001,206 sq ft1,249 sq ft1,281 sq ft
2000 to 20081,087 sq ft1,130 sq ft1,195 sq ft
2009 to 2014710 sq ft807 sq ft829 sq ft
From 2015689 sq ft700 sq ft786 sq ft

Evidence

What the data shows

This analysis sits beside the District 23 property market page, which has the full tables for the district.

Most resales were between $1M and $2M

URA recorded 805 resales of private apartments, condominiums and executive condominiums in District 23 in the 12 months to September 2026. Of these, 553, or 69%, sold for $1M to under $2M. Another 138 sold for under $1M and 114 for $2M or more.

District 23 resales by price
PriceResalesShare
Under $1M13817%
$1M to $1.25M14418%
$1.25M to $1.5M18523%
$1.5M to $2M22428%
$2M and over11414%
All805100%

Source: URA Data Service: private residential property transactions (Urban Redevelopment Authority), Oct 2025 – Sep 2026. Extracted 5 Oct 2026.

Private apartments, condominiums and executive condominiums. Each price range runs up to but not including its upper figure. Calculated from URA's caveat records.

A price range holds very different homes. This analysis looks first at private 99-year homes, which made 469 of the 805 resales, and then at executive condominiums and freehold and 999-year homes.

Private 99-year homes, by the year the lease began

The district page groups 99-year homes by leases before 2000, from 2000 to 2014 and from 2015, as every district page on this site does. Here the middle group is split at 2009. The cut was chosen after looking at the records: the private 99-year developments with a resale have leases from 1981 to 2001, two from 2006 and 2008, a run from 2009 to 2013 and five more from 2016 to 2022, and the homes sold on the two sides of 2009 differ.

Private 99-year homes: median size of the homes resold in each price range, by the year the lease began
Lease$1M to $1.25M$1.25M to $1.5M$1.5M to $2M
Lease before 20001,060 sq ft (70 in 8)1,249 sq ft (37 in 6)1,324 sq ft (20 in 5)
Lease 2000 to 2008980 sq ft (10 in 4)1,130 sq ft (27 in 5)1,276 sq ft (24 in 5)
Lease 2009 to 2014797 sq ft (25 in 7)807 sq ft (22 in 6)1,098 sq ft (33 in 7)
Lease from 2015635 sq ft (11 in 3)700 sq ft (24 in 4)980 sq ft (27 in 3)
Lease before 2009 (all)1,028 sq ft (80 in 12)1,206 sq ft (64 in 11)1,302 sq ft (44 in 10)
Lease from 2009 (all)732 sq ft (36 in 10)732 sq ft (46 in 10)990 sq ft (60 in 10)
From 2009 smaller by29% (296 sq ft)39% (474 sq ft)24% (312 sq ft)

Source: URA Data Service: private residential property transactions (Urban Redevelopment Authority), Oct 2025 – Sep 2026. Extracted 5 Oct 2026.

Median floor area, with resales and developments in brackets. Executive condominiums and freehold and 999-year homes are in the next table. Each price range runs up to but not including its upper figure. Calculated.

In each of the three price ranges, the median size fell with each later group of leases. The largest step in each range was at 2009: 183, 323 and 178 sq ft, against 48 to 119 sq ft between the two earlier groups and 107 to 162 sq ft between the two later ones.

Taken as two groups, at $1M to $1.25M the median home on a lease before 2009 was 1,028 sq ft, from 80 resales in 12 developments, and on a lease from 2009 it was 732 sq ft, from 36 resales in 10 developments: 29% smaller. At $1.25M to $1.5M the medians were 1,206 sq ft and 732 sq ft, which is 39% smaller, and at $1.5M to $2M they were 1,302 sq ft and 990 sq ft, which is 24% smaller.

In price per square foot, the medians at $1M to $1.25M were $1,045 for leases before 2009 and $1,567 for leases from 2009.

Development by development

The order held for every development with enough resales to check. In each of the three price ranges, every development on a lease before 2009 with at least five resales in the range had a larger median size than every development on a lease from 2009 with at least five. That is five developments against two at $1M to $1.25M, five against four at $1.25M to $1.5M and four against six at $1.5M to $2M.

At $1M to $1.25M the margin was narrow and the evidence thin. The closest pair was Maysprings, on a lease from 1994, at a median of 861 sq ft, and Kingsford Hillview Peak, on a lease from 2012, at 850 sq ft, and only two developments on leases from 2009 had five or more resales in that range. In the other two ranges the gaps between the closest pairs were 247 and 81 sq ft.

That is a statement about what sold in a price range. Across all of their resales the line is less clean: nine of the eleven developments on leases from 2009 with at least five resales had a median size below that of every development on an earlier lease, but Tree House and Foresque Residences, at 1,152 and 1,184 sq ft, did not.

Which developments are behind the figures

Some rows of the table rest largely on one development. In the row for leases from 2015, Midwood made 6 of the 11 resales at $1M to $1.25M, 17 of the 24 at $1.25M to $1.5M and 16 of the 27 at $1.5M to $2M. In the row for leases from 2000 to 2008, the cell at $1M to $1.25M is 10 resales in four developments, Hillview Regency made 14 of the 27 at $1.25M to $1.5M, and The Warren 11 of the 24 at $1.5M to $2M.

The two combined rows are broader: in those six cells no development made more than 37% of the resales. They still lean on Midwood. Leaving Midwood out, homes on leases from 2009 were 27%, 32% and 18% smaller in the three ranges, not 29%, 39% and 24%. Leaving out any other single development, the three figures stayed within 28% to 33%, 33% to 41% and 23% to 25%.

The size of the gap moves with the year of the cut, and so does how cleanly the developments divide. With the cut at any year from 2000 to 2015, the later leases had medians 15% to 41% smaller in these three ranges. But 2009 is the only cut at which, in all three ranges, every earlier-lease development with five or more resales had a larger median size than every later-lease one.

Executive condominiums and freehold

Executive condominiums and freehold or 999-year homes: median size of the homes resold in each price range
Group$1M to $1.25M$1.25M to $1.5M$1.5M to $2M
EC, lease before 2000Low sample (3)1,292 sq ft (13 in 3)1,442 sq ft (10 in 3)
EC, lease 2000 to 2014732 sq ft (16 in 2)958 sq ft (43 in 6)1,098 sq ft (53 in 6)
EC, lease from 2015Low sample (2)990 sq ft (9 in 1)1,087 sq ft (14 in 1)
Freehold or 999-year732 sq ft (7 in 6)953 sq ft (10 in 7)1,087 sq ft (43 in 18)

Source: URA Data Service: private residential property transactions (Urban Redevelopment Authority), Oct 2025 – Sep 2026. Extracted 5 Oct 2026.

Median floor area, with resales and developments in brackets. Fewer than five resales is a low sample, with no median. Each price range runs up to but not including its upper figure. Calculated.

Executive condominiums with leases from 2000 to 2014 had medians of 732 sq ft, 958 sq ft and 1,098 sq ft in the three ranges. Sol Acres, on a lease from 2014, made 11 of the 16 resales in the first, 19 of the 43 in the second and 21 of the 53 in the third. Most of this group is on leases from 2011 and 2014: 123 of its 133 resales in the 12 months.

Executive condominiums with leases before 2000 had medians of 1,292 sq ft and 1,442 sq ft at $1.25M to $1.5M and $1.5M to $2M, from 13 and 10 resales; Yew Mei Green made 7 of each. All the resales of executive condominiums with leases from 2015 were at one development, iNz Residence.

Freehold and 999-year homes in these ranges had medians of 732 sq ft, 953 sq ft and 1,087 sq ft, smaller in each range than private 99-year homes on leases before 2009. The first two figures are from 7 and 10 resales.

Below $1M and above $2M

Resales under $1M and at $2M and over, by group
GroupUnder $1M$2M and over
Private 99-year, lease before 2000980 sq ft (13 in 5)Low sample (3)
Private 99-year, lease 2000 to 2008–1,615 sq ft (5 in 4)
Private 99-year, lease 2009 to 2014560 sq ft (82 in 7)1,345 sq ft (13 in 4)
Private 99-year, lease from 2015484 sq ft (18 in 2)1,249 sq ft (5 in 3)
EC, lease before 2000––
EC, lease 2000 to 2014570 sq ft (20 in 1)Low sample (1)
EC, lease from 2015Low sample (1)Low sample (3)
Freehold or 999-yearLow sample (4)1,453 sq ft (84 in 16)

Source: URA Data Service: private residential property transactions (Urban Redevelopment Authority), Oct 2025 – Sep 2026. Extracted 5 Oct 2026.

Median floor area, with resales and developments in brackets. Fewer than five resales is a low sample, with no median. Calculated.

Under $1M the homes were small or on older leases. Of the 138 resales, 82 were private homes with leases from 2009 to 2014, at a median of 560 sq ft; 20 were in one executive condominium, Sol Acres, at a median of 570 sq ft; 18 were private homes with leases from 2015, at a median of 484 sq ft, 12 of them at Midwood; and 13 were private homes with leases before 2000, at a median of 980 sq ft.

At $2M and over, 84 of the 114 resales were freehold or 999-year homes, at a median of 1,453 sq ft. Freehold and 999-year homes were mostly in the two highest ranges: 127 of the 148 resold for $1.5M or more. Midwood made 3 of the 5 resales on leases from 2015 at $2M and over.

What the records support

In District 23 over these 12 months, private 99-year homes in the same price range differed in size with the year the lease began. In each of the three ranges from $1M to $2M, the median home on a lease from 2009 was 24% to 39% smaller than the median on an earlier lease, or 18% to 32% with Midwood, the development with the most resales, left out. Every development on an earlier lease with at least five resales in a range had a larger median size there than every such development on a later lease.

That is a pattern in what sold, across different developments in different parts of the district. It is not a measure of what a lease is worth, and a price range is not one price: the median paid on leases before 2009 and from 2009 was $1.10M and $1.17M in the first range, $1.38M and $1.37M in the second, and $1.62M and $1.75M in the third.

The records give size, price, tenure and lease. They do not give condition, facing, floor plan or distance to a station, and they do not show what any one home is worth.

Disclosure

James Wong has sold a home in Sol Acres, the executive condominium with the most resales in the district. It is listed on the District 23 page.

Analysis · opinion

James's interpretation

I read this as a district where the first question is often not which development but which kind of lease. In the three price ranges from $1M to $2M, the median private 99-year home resold on a lease from 2009 was 296 to 474 sq ft smaller than the median on an earlier one, on figures that lean on one development, Midwood.

I would not say one choice is better than the other. A lease from before 2009 has fewer years left than a later one, and the records do not put a value on that. They only show what buyers paid.

What I take from it is that a household could fix the budget and the size it needs first. In this district those two answers may rule some groups out before any development is named.

What it may mean for buyers

  • At $1M to $1.25M, the medians of what sold among private 99-year homes were 1,028 sq ft on leases before 2009 and 732 sq ft on leases from 2009.
  • If you want freehold or a 999-year lease, most of what sold was $1.5M or more: 127 of 148 resales.
  • For a 99-year home with an older lease, ask CPF Board and your bank early whether the remaining lease affects the CPF you may use and the loan you can get.

What it may mean for sellers and owners

  • A buyer in your price range may be weighing your home against a larger one on an older lease or a smaller one on a newer lease. It helps to know which, and what each sold for.
  • If your home is on a lease from before 2009, buyers in its price range may be comparing it with smaller homes on later leases: the medians at $1.25M to $1.5M were 1,206 sq ft and 732 sq ft. Midwood made 17 of the 46 resales behind the second figure.
  • If your home has a lease from 2015, the comparison buyers make may be with developers' sales of new homes, listed on the District 23 page, as well as with resales.

Limitations

URA's records cover only sales with a caveat lodged, and recent months are incomplete. September 2026 in particular is likely to gain sales as more caveats are lodged.

URA records some sales without a development name. Those cannot be placed in a district from the feed used here and are not counted.

The records give a home's size, floor range, tenure and price. They do not give its condition, facing, layout or renovation, and a development's median depends on which of its homes happened to sell.

Freehold developments carry no lease start year in the records, and the start year of a 999-year lease says nothing about when the homes were built, so the age of these developments is not known from this data. A 99-year development's lease start year is not its completion year.

Future Government Land Sales sites, en-bloc redevelopments and launches that have not yet recorded a sale are not covered.

The sizes are medians of what sold in a price range, not of what is available. A group with few resales in a range may still have homes for sale there.

A lease from before 2009 has fewer years left than a later one. The records show what was paid and do not value the difference.

The cut at 2009 was chosen from these records, and it is the only cut at which the developments divide cleanly. It turns on two developments: Mi Casa (lease from 2008, 9 resales) on one side and Tree House (2009, 9 resales) on the other. With the site's standard groups, the median at $1M to $1.25M was 1,060 sq ft for leases before 2000, 850 sq ft for 2000 to 2014 and 635 sq ft for leases from 2015, the last from 11 resales.

The comparison of developments at $1M to $1.25M rests on two developments on leases from 2009, which made 12 of the 36 resales there, and on a margin of 11 sq ft.

Sub sales are not in the resale figures. There were 27 in the 12 months, 24 of them at Dairy Farm Residences, a private development on a lease from 2018. URA's records class 4 of its sales, all in December 2025, as resales, and 16 later ones as sub sales; the figures here follow the records as they stand.

Records that are identical in every field are counted as separate sales, because the feed carries no unit number to tell two like sales from one sale entered twice. Three sets of such records, 7 records in all, are among the 805 resales.

Methodology

The figures are calculated from URA's records of caveated sales in postal district 23, read through URA's Data Service on 5 October 2026. The feed holds the past five years, so the earliest sale is from September 2021. The headline period is the 12 months to September 2026.

Included: single-unit sales of apartments, condominiums and executive condominiums with a strata floor area. Left out: 36 sales of landed and strata-landed houses and 0 caveats covering more than one unit.

Each development is grouped by tenure and, for 99-year developments, by the year its lease began. Where a record of a 99-year sale gives no start year, the year is taken from the development's other records. Leases of more than 900 years are grouped with freehold. Executive condominiums, which URA records as their own property type, are grouped apart from private condominiums and apartments.

Floor area is converted at 10.7639 square feet to the square metre, and price per square foot is the price divided by that area. The size bands are under 500, 500 to 799, 800 to 1,199, 1,200 to 1,599, and 1,600 sq ft and over. Medians and quartiles are taken across the sales in each group, with quartiles by linear interpolation. A group with fewer than five sales is marked low sample. Prices of $1M and over are rounded to the nearest $10,000, lower prices to the nearest $1,000, and percentages to the nearest whole number.

Prices are given by group. No single price is used to describe the whole district, because the groups differ in lease era, size and tenure.

Resales are placed in price ranges by the price in URA's record: under $1M; $1M to under $1.25M; $1.25M to under $1.5M; $1.5M to under $2M; $2M and over. The size given for a group in a range is the median floor area of the homes resold there.

For private 99-year homes, the site's group of leases from 2000 to 2014 is split at 2009 in this analysis, giving leases before 2000, 2000 to 2008, 2009 to 2014 and from 2015, and the two combined groups before 2009 and from 2009. The cut was chosen after looking at the records. Executive condominiums and freehold and 999-year homes keep the site's standard groups.

New sale, sub sale and resale
URA's types of sale. A new sale is a sale by the developer, and a sub sale a sale by a purchaser, before the Certificate of Statutory Completion and the strata titles have been issued for all units in the development. A resale is a sale after they have been issued.
Executive condominium (EC)
URA's own property type for a development sold by a property developer to buyers who meet HDB's eligibility conditions. HDB sets a minimum occupation period, counted from the Temporary Occupation Permit, and a unit can be sold on the open market only after it. ECs are shown apart from private condominiums and apartments on this page.
Caveat
A notice lodged with the Singapore Land Authority, usually by the buyer's lawyer, after an option is exercised or an agreement signed. URA's records are of caveats lodged, so a sale with no caveat is not in them.
Postal district
One of 28 areas defined by the first two digits of the postal code. District boundaries are not the same as HDB towns or URA planning areas.
Tenure and lease era
Freehold developments and those on leases of more than 900 years, most of them 999-year, are grouped together. A 99-year development is grouped by the year its lease began, which is not the year the homes were completed. Newer and older on this page refer to the year the lease began.
Middle half (25th to 75th percentile)
The range that the middle half of sales fall in. A quarter of sales were below the 25th percentile and a quarter were above the 75th.
Price per square foot
The price divided by the strata floor area in URA's record.
Low sample
Fewer than five sales in a group. No median is shown, because one or two sales can move it a long way.

How all research on this site is built

Sources

  1. 1.
    URA Data Service: private residential property transactions

    Urban Redevelopment Authority · Period: Sep 2021 – Sep 2026 · Extracted 5 Oct 2026

    Caveated sales of apartments, condominiums and executive condominiums in the district.

  2. 2.
    REALIS data dictionary

    Urban Redevelopment Authority · Period: Oct 2026 · Extracted 5 Oct 2026

    Definitions of new sale, sub-sale and resale.

  3. 3.
    Conditions After Buying an Executive Condominium

    Housing & Development Board · Period: Jul 2026 · Extracted 5 Oct 2026

    Minimum occupation period of an executive condominium.

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