Kallang: City-Fringe Living with the Sports Hub on Your Doorstep
Updated 2026-10-14
Kallang sits on the East West Line two stops from City Hall, with 68 listings averaging S$1,306,774. A mix of mature HDB estates and private condos, the area is anchored by the Singapore Sports Hub and shaped by major waterfront redevelopment plans along the Kallang River.
What is it like living near Kallang MRT?
Kallang is a city-fringe neighbourhood that pairs everyday convenience with large-scale leisure facilities found nowhere else in Singapore. The MRT station (EW10) sits on Sims Avenue at the junction with Lorong 1 Geylang, putting Raffles Place two stops and roughly six minutes away on the East West Line.
Day to day, residents split between the quieter HDB heartland streets around Geylang Bahru and Bendemeer and the busier commercial strip along Sims Avenue and Geylang Road. Old Airport Road Food Centre, one of the largest hawker centres in Singapore, is a short walk south of the station. Leisure Park Kallang adds bowling, ice skating and a cinema within the same precinct. The area does not feel suburban, but it is noticeably calmer than the CBD once you step off the main road.
Transport connections
Kallang MRT is an above-ground station on the East West Line, connected directly to Aljunied to the east and Lavender to the west. City Hall interchange is two stops away, and Changi Airport is reachable without changing lines. Bus services along Sims Avenue and Geylang Road connect to Toa Payoh, Marine Parade and Bedok.
The area also benefits from road access via the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE) and Nicoll Highway, making driving to the CBD, East Coast or Changi straightforward. Cyclists and joggers use the Park Connector Network along the Kallang River, which runs north toward Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park.
Where is Geylang 66 and what is near it?
Geylang 66 refers to Block 66 Kallang Bahru, part of the Geylang Bahru HDB estate north of Kallang MRT. The block sits within a mature residential cluster served by the Geylang Bahru Market and Food Centre and a row of ground-floor coffeeshops and provision shops.
The estate is a quieter pocket of Kallang, set back from the main commercial belt along Geylang Road. Nearby food options include hawker stalls at the market and a handful of zi char restaurants and local eateries at street level. For families, Bendemeer Primary School and Hong Wen School are both within the neighbourhood. The area draws searches from buyers looking at resale HDB flats in the Kallang-Whampoa town, where three-room resale flats have a median price around S$460,000 and four-room flats around S$882,500.
Housing stock and prices
Hombble currently lists 68 properties near Kallang MRT, with an average asking price of S$1,306,774 at S$1,136 per square foot across an average size of 1,062 square feet. The mix skews heavily toward public housing: 43 HDB flats, 23 condominiums and 2 landed properties.
HDB resale prices in Kallang-Whampoa have risen steadily. A five-room flat at Kallang Trivista set a town record in September 2026, selling for S$1,588,888 at S$1,273 per square foot. The town-wide median resale price over the past 12 months sits around S$727,000, up 3.6 per cent year on year. On the private side, condominiums in Kallang average around S$1,958 per square foot, which is roughly S$258 below the Rest of Central Region average, making the area relatively affordable for its location.
Schools and amenities
Families in Kallang have several primary schools within the one-kilometre priority enrolment zone, including Bendemeer Primary School and Hong Wen School. Secondary options nearby include Kong Hwa School, Chung Cheng High School (Main) and Geylang Methodist School. SJI International is also in the wider precinct for those seeking the IB pathway.
The Singapore Sports Hub, rebranded as The Kallang, is the area's defining amenity. The 35-hectare complex includes the 55,000-seat National Stadium, the OCBC Aquatic Centre, indoor courts for basketball and netball, and running and cycling paths around the Kallang Basin. Phased upgrades that began in mid-2026 will add competition-grade padel courts and an expanded children's water playscape, with completion expected by 2028.
Outlook and upcoming development
The biggest change on the horizon is Kampong Bugis, a 17-hectare waterfront site along the Kallang River where URA has revised plans to accommodate around 4,000 new homes. The original concept of handing the entire site to a single master developer has been replaced by a more phased approach: the government will build infrastructure and roads before tendering individual residential plots to private developers. Two of the four original white-site parcels have been rezoned and subdivided.
Further upstream, the Draft Master Plan 2025 earmarks Kallang Distripark and parts of Kallang Industrial Estate for future residential conversion, signalling thousands more homes over the next decade. For current owners, these plans add long-term upside but also future supply. Buyers looking at Kallang today are getting city-fringe access at prices still below the Rest of Central Region average, with a neighbourhood that is being reshaped around the Kallang River corridor.