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Singapore Property Market Update — May 2026

Singapore's HDB resale market continues to climb at a measured pace, but the composition of that climb has shifted. Our hedonic factor model — a rolling cross-sectional regression on data.gov.sg resale transactions — shows the Baseline Market up +1.6% in the twelve months to September 2025, while age-related repricing has done most of the heavy lifting. Below we unpack the factor decomposition through the latest clean data window (we exclude the noisy two-to-three-month tail).

Headline factor returns

The 12-month picture is dominated by Log Building Age, which added +4.9% on a quality-adjusted basis — older flats have been repriced higher relative to newer stock, a reversal of the discount that typically attaches to remaining-lease decay. Room Density contributed +3.5%, reflecting buyer preference shifts across unit configurations. Meanwhile Age Deviation Squared printed -1.1%, indicating that the curvature of the age-price relationship flattened over the year.

Factor12-month return3-month returnInterpretation
Baseline Market+1.6%+0.4%Quality-adjusted market-wide level, still grinding higher
Log Building Age+4.9%+2.0%Older-flat premium continues to widen
Room Density+3.5%-1.8%Strong YoY but a sharp Q3 reversal
Location Premium-0.4%+0.0%Spatial pricing essentially flat
Age Deviation Squared-1.1%+0.4%Non-linear age curvature easing
Non-linear Floor Area-0.5%+0.0%Size-curvature contribution muted
High Floor (15+)+0.1%-0.0%Stack premium broadly stable

The age premium has become the story

Since the dataset began in 2017, Log Building Age has now compounded to +24.8% — running essentially in lockstep with the Baseline Market's +24.6%. That parity is itself notable: in a market where remaining-lease anxiety has been a recurring theme, the model says the age coefficient has trended in the opposite direction. The +2.0% three-month print to September 2025 confirms this is an active, ongoing repricing — not a base effect.

Room Density: strong year, sharp reversal

Room Density is the most volatile factor in the Singapore model. It posted +3.5% across the twelve months but gave back -1.8% in the latest three-month window. The cumulative-since-start figure remains slightly negative at -0.7%, underscoring that this is a high-frequency rotation factor rather than a structural driver.

What's flat, and what to ignore

Location Premium (-0.4% YoY, +0.0% over three months) and Price Tier (-0.1% YoY) are both inside noise bands. The cumulative-since-2017 contributions of +0.9% and -1.1% respectively reinforce that, after controlling for age and configuration, the spatial and tier dimensions of the HDB market have been remarkably stable. The granular floor-position factors — Low Floor and High Floor — are similarly negligible at the 12-month horizon.

Cumulative factor curves

Takeaways

The HDB resale story for the year to September 2025 is less about a market-wide rally — Baseline Market added only +1.6% — and more about which attributes the market is paying up for. Older flats and certain room configurations are being repriced; spatial premium and price tier are essentially dormant. For analysts, that means a headline median-price index will materially understate the dispersion happening underneath.

See the full factor model

Interactive charts for every factor, updated monthly.

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Methodology: monthly cross-sectional OLS of log price per sqm on flat characteristics over a rolling 3-month window, using data.gov.sg HDB resale transactions from 2017 onward. Full specification at about.