The Trilinq

The ground under it was tendered in 2012. Both ends of that are public; nobody puts them together.

The land under The Trilinq

HDB put this parcel out to tender and names The Trilinq as what was built on it. Everything below is from that tender: the dates, the winning price, and the 8 bids that came in.

  1. Tender launched29 Nov 2011
  2. Tender closed12 Jan 20128 bids received
  3. Awarded16 Jan 2012Multi Wealth (Singapore) Pte Ltd
  4. Winning tenderS$408,000,800S$5,968 per sq m of gross floor area · S$554 per sq ft
Parcel
Clementi S16 Jalan Lempeng
Site area
24,418 sq m
Lease
99 yrs
Plot ratio
2.8
Gross floor area
68,369 sq m
Sold as
Condominium
Every bid — all 8, as HDB published them
Ranked by amount. The gap column is each bid measured against the winning one — subtraction, not a judgement about whether anyone bid well.
#TendererBidBehind the winner
1Multi Wealth (Singapore) Pte LtdS$408,000,800—
2UOL Venture Investments Pte. Ltd., S.L. Development Pte. Limited, Russville Pte LtdS$360,970,000S$47,030,800 · 11.5%
3FCL Topaz Pte. Ltd., F.E. Lakeside Pte. Ltd., Sekisui House Singapore Pte. Ltd.S$333,777,000S$74,223,800 · 18.2%
4MCL Land LimitedS$320,000,000S$88,000,800 · 21.6%
5First Changi Development Pte LtdS$319,660,000S$88,340,800 · 21.7%
6Ho Lee Group Pte Ltd & Hwa Seng Investment Pte Ltd & Chye Joo Construction Pte LtdS$302,100,000S$105,900,800 · 26.0%
7Mezzo Development Pte LtdS$268,000,000S$140,000,800 · 34.3%
8Soilbuild Group Holdings LtdS$260,100,000S$147,900,800 · 36.3%

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 16 Jan 2012 · 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 Trilinq”. This parcel, from tender to today · Every land sale

What has been filed there since

2012 · the groundS$408,000,800S$554 per sq ft of gross floor area
Today · the homes on it$1,696median of 233 filed transactions, 2021-09 to 2026-09

Those two are not the same square foot. Gross floor area includes what nobody buys — the corridors, the car park, the plant rooms — so the land rate is spread across more area than a unit is sold by. The ratio is arithmetic on two published figures and is not a return, a profit, or an appreciation.

Year by year, for a median-sized unit

90–100 sqm band. Counts in brackets; a year with fewer than 3 filed sales is kept and marked rather than dropped, because a reader can discount a thin year and cannot discount one that was silently removed.
YearMedian psfAgainst the year before
2021$1,590 (4)—
2022$1,647 (3)+3.6%
2023$1,904 (1)+15.6%
2024$1,981 (5)+4.0%
2025$1,844 (2)-6.9%
2026$1,963 (2)+6.5%

The two ends of this page are not two ends of one sum. Between the tender and the first unit sold sit construction over a multi-year build, financing, the development charge, marketing and agent commissions, GST, and the cost of holding unsold stock. None of those is published for a named project, so nothing here estimates a developer’s cost or margin and no figure on this page should be read as one. Why that is refused.

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