The Tropica
58 filed transactions · District 18 · OCR
S$1,500k median price
URA Data Service — PMI_Resi_Transaction · 2021-09 to 2026-09 · accessed 2026-09-10
Which of these are you
- What it costs on the day, at $1,500,000Loan, downpayment, the cash CPF cannot cover, and both stamp duties
- Run six checks before you commitThe asking price, nearby MOP supply, land coming, and what could be built next door
- What a higher floor is worth hereMeasured within this building, not across the country
- What is within reach of itSchools, stations and shops, at straight-line distance
- Put it beside another blockTwo or three side by side, in a link you can send to whoever else is deciding
Median price by month24 months with a sale
The transactions behind those figures20 of 58
Nothing modelled — these are the filed sales.
What the floor is worth
Not enough filed sales at both ends of this project to compare it with itself. It needs 3 or more high and 3 or more low. The figure beside this one is the town, not here.
Middle of 6 projects in District 18 that clear the bar — half fall between -5.4% and +4.4%. 2 came out negative — high floors sold for less in 2 of them.
Every band in District 18, for reference. This pools all buildings in the town, so it carries the estates as well as the storeys — a town whose tall blocks are its newest ones will show a steeper climb than height alone buys. The two figures above are the ones that hold a building constant.
| Storeys | Median psf | Filed sales |
|---|---|---|
| 01-05 | S$1,289 | 1,915 |
| 06-10 | S$1,403 | 1,716 |
| 11-15 | S$1,445 | 950 |
| 16-20 | S$1,210 | 44 |
URA Data Service — PMI_Resi_Transaction · accessed 2026-09-10T21:15:39.110Z. Storey bands are the source's own — no floor number is inferred from them. A premium is a median of filed transactions, not a valuation of any home.
What's around
Straight-line distance from the building — the walk is longer, and how much longer depends on what is in the way.
7 more between 1km and 2km
- St. Hilda'S Primary School1.1km
- Junyuan Primary School1.4km
- Poi Ching School1.4km
- Damai Primary School1.6km
- Yu Neng Primary School1.7km
- Red Swastika School1.9km
- Tampines Primary School1.9km
- Tampines West1.3km
- Bedok Reservoir1.5km
- Bedok North1.8km
- ParkBedok Reservoir PK253m
- Other schoolsSpringfield Secondary School395m
Coordinates from OneMap, © Singapore Land Authority. Distances are straight-line.
Station exit locations — LTA (data.gov.sg), under the Singapore Open Data Licence. Accessed 2026-08-23.
School addresses — MOE School Directory and Information (data.gov.sg), under the Singapore Open Data Licence. Accessed 2026-08-23.
Park locations — NParks (data.gov.sg), under the Singapore Open Data Licence. Accessed 2026-08-23.
What has sold nearby300m
From 60 filed sales — the 20 most recent at each project, which is all this index keeps. 3 of them are at that limit, so they have sold more than is counted here.
| Project | Away | Filed | Floor | Size | PSF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waterview | 167m | 2026-08 | 01-05 | 110 sqm | $1,537 |
| Waterview | 167m | 2026-07 | 01-05 | 106 sqm | $1,595 |
| Arc at Tampines | 218m | 2026-07 | 06-10 | 75 sqm | $1,348 |
| Q Bay Residences | 219m | 2026-07 | 06-10 | 108 sqm | $1,598 |
| Q Bay Residences | 219m | 2026-07 | 06-10 | 48 sqm | $1,500 |
| Q Bay Residences | 219m | 2026-07 | 06-10 | 104 sqm | $1,679 |
| Q Bay Residences | 219m | 2026-07 | 01-05 | 74 sqm | $1,444 |
| Q Bay Residences | 219m | 2026-07 | 11-15 | 131 sqm | $1,652 |
| Q Bay Residences | 219m | 2026-07 | 11-15 | 104 sqm | $1,617 |
| Waterview | 167m | 2026-06 | 06-10 | 73 sqm | $1,495 |
| Waterview | 167m | 2026-06 | 06-10 | 110 sqm | $1,698 |
| Arc at Tampines | 218m | 2026-06 | 06-10 | 74 sqm | $1,430 |
| Waterview | 167m | 2026-05 | 01-05 | 86 sqm | $1,480 |
| Waterview | 167m | 2026-05 | 11-15 | 110 sqm | $1,628 |
| Waterview | 167m | 2026-05 | 06-10 | 123 sqm | $1,592 |
| Waterview | 167m | 2026-04 | 01-05 | 132 sqm | $1,281 |
| Waterview | 167m | 2026-03 | 11-15 | 73 sqm | $1,502 |
| Waterview | 167m | 2026-02 | 01-05 | 110 sqm | $1,562 |
| Waterview | 167m | 2026-02 | 06-10 | 86 sqm | $1,464 |
| Waterview | 167m | 2025-12 | 01-05 | 111 sqm | $1,565 |
The 20 most recent are listed, out of 60 in the index at this radius. The floor band is what URA and HDB publish; neither feed carries a unit number.
The afternoon sun, and what is approved in it247°–293°
Seen from here, the sun sets at 247° (WSW) in December and 293° (WNW) in June — a swing of 47° across the year. A window on one of those bearings takes the low sun for part of the year and none of it for the rest.
Today the sun drops below 15° at 06:04 pm and sets at 07:00 pm, arriving from 273° (W). Above that angle it is over the roof rather than through the window; near the equator the midday sun is almost overhead, which is why this is only ever about the last hour.
Nothing published says which way a unit points — not URA, not HDB. You are the one standing in it, or holding the plan. If the floor plan carries a north arrow, the plan reader will read it off and say so when it cannot.
Nothing with planning permission sits on those bearings within 400m. That is a fact about this radius and these bearings, not a guarantee of a view — an application not yet decided does not appear here, and neither does anything further out.
The land under The Tropica
HDB put this parcel out to tender and names The Tropica as what was built on it. Everything below is from that tender: the dates, the winning price, and the 10 bids that came in.
- Tender launched31 May 1996
- Tender closed25 Jul 199610 bids received
- Awarded6 Sep 1996City Developments Ltd/Hong Leong Holdings Ltd
- Winning tenderS$194,663,000HDB publishes no gross floor area for this site, so a rate per square foot cannot be worked out from what is published
- Parcel
- Tampines S3 Tampines Avenue 1
- Site area
- 34,894 sq m
- Lease
- 99 yrs
- Plot ratio
- 2.1
- Gross floor area
- Not published
- Sold as
- Condominium
Every bid — all 10, as HDB published them
| # | Tenderer | Bid | Behind the winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | City Developments Ltd / Hong Leong Holdings Ltd | S$194,663,000 | — |
| 2 | RichDeal Investment Pte Ltd | S$168,311,000 | S$26,352,000 · 13.5% |
| 3 | Allgreen Properties Ltd / Hoe Seng Company (Pte) Ltd | S$155,398,000 | S$39,265,000 · 20.2% |
| 4 | Erishi Holdings Pte Ltd | S$154,590,000 | S$40,073,000 · 20.6% |
| 5 | Azurite Land Pte Ltd | S$151,100,000 | S$43,563,000 · 22.4% |
| 6 | First Capital Corporation Ltd | S$147,200,000 | S$47,463,000 · 24.4% |
| 7 | NTUC Choice Homes Co-Operative Ltd | S$139,227,060 | S$55,435,940 · 28.5% |
| 8 | OUB Centre Ltd | S$136,509,149 | S$58,153,851 · 29.9% |
| 9 | Sin Soon Lee Realty Co Pte Ltd | S$131,388,888 | S$63,274,112 · 32.5% |
| 10 | Alkaff Complex Pte Ltd | S$93,880,000 | S$100,783,000 · 51.8% |
What the land cost and what a unit sells for are not two ends of one sum. Between them sit construction over a multi-year build, financing, the development charge, marketing and agent commissions, GST, and the cost of holding unsold units. None of those is published for a named project, so this site does not estimate a developer’s cost or margin and no figure here should be read as one.
Source: HDB — Sites Sold by HDB · tender awarded 6 Sep 1996 · transcribed from HDB’s published tables on 2026-08-31 · prices are nominal and are not adjusted for inflation. HDB names the development on this row as “The Tropica”. This parcel, from tender to today · Every land sale
Where the money actually goes
Drag the sale price. Everything moves.
Look up somewhere else
Any HDB block or private project in Singapore.