Toa Payoh by the block: lease, price and what lands by 2030
Updated 2026-09-05
Toa Payoh is a mature central town in District 12 where two blocks on the same lorong can be forty years apart in age, which is why so many buyers search it by block number rather than by street. Hombble currently tracks 615 live listings here at an average asking price of S$1,715,376. A 12-hectare integrated development between Lorong 6 and the PIE is due to open in 2030, and three BTO launches have landed since 2025.
What is it like to live in Toa Payoh?
Toa Payoh is a mature estate in the Central region, postal district 12, built around Singapore's first purpose-built town centre. The shops, wet markets, hawker centres, public library, polyclinic, bus interchange and MRT station sit inside one walkable core, and most residents live in HDB blocks arranged along numbered lorongs radiating out from it, so daily errands are usually a short walk rather than a drive.
The centre is being refreshed rather than rebuilt. A 440m pedestrian mall running from Block 175 to the public library and the open plaza fronting HDB Hub is being upgraded with landscaping, more seating and sheltered rest areas, and heritage markers are going up at landmarks including the dragon playground and the Y-shaped Block 53. Across the town Hombble tracks 615 live listings averaging 1,371 sqft, split 334 HDB, 226 condominium and 55 landed.
How do you get around from Toa Payoh?
Toa Payoh and Braddell stations are both on the North South Line, and Toa Payoh Bus Interchange sits directly above the MRT station within HDB Hub. It opened in 2002 as Singapore's first air-conditioned bus interchange, which is why the town centre works as a single transfer point rather than a scatter of stops.
On the western edge, Caldecott is an interchange between the Circle Line and the Thomson-East Coast Line, giving the Lorong 1 and Braddell side of the town two lines within reach. Mount Pleasant station on the Thomson-East Coast Line has been built but is not yet in passenger service, with its opening tied to the completion of the housing developments around it.
Why do people search Toa Payoh by block number?
Because in this town the block number, not the street name, tells you the remaining lease. Blocks a few minutes' walk apart were completed decades apart, and remaining lease drives both price and how much CPF and financing a buyer can bring.
Block 107 Lorong 1 was completed in 1968 on a lease running from 1970, holding 96 three-room flats over ten storeys, and 169 Lorong 1 runs on a 99-year lease from 1972. Walk across to Lorong 2 and the picture inverts: 122 dates from 1999, 141 from 2001 and 152 from 2006, all of them four- and five-room stock.
That gap is a direct legacy of the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme. Blocks at Lorong 1 and Lorong 1A were taken under SERS following the October 1999 announcement, and replacement flats went up nearby at Lorong 1 and Lorong 2, including HDB's first 40-storey blocks, which were completed in Lorong 2 in 2005. The same spread runs through the rest of the estate. Block 205 Toa Payoh North was completed in 1973 and has roughly 55 years of lease left, while 268A Toa Payoh East was completed in 2023 with 98 years remaining. Block 14A at Lorong 7, on a lease from 1998 and made up mostly of five-room flats, sits between the two.
What do homes in Toa Payoh cost?
Across the 615 live listings the average asking price is S$1,715,376, working out to about S$1,289 per square foot on an average size of 1,371 sqft. That blended figure sits across three quite different markets, so read it alongside the mix rather than on its own.
On the public housing side Toa Payoh has become one of the country's most expensive towns. It recorded 66 million-dollar resale transactions in the second quarter of 2026, more than any other HDB town, and the median four-room flat changed hands at S$1.02 million, the second consecutive quarter above the million mark.
Private stock is thinner and newer. The Orie, a 777-unit 99-year leasehold project at 10 and 12 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh by CDL, Frasers Property and Sekisui House, sold 668 units, around 86 per cent, over its January 2025 launch weekend at an average of S$2,704 psf.
Schools and everyday amenities
The town's best known primary schools are CHIJ Primary (Toa Payoh) on Lorong 1, Pei Chun Public School, a Special Assistance Plan school, and Kheng Cheng School, founded in 1927. In the 2024 Primary 1 Phase 2C exercise CHIJ was the most heavily subscribed non-SAP option in the town and Pei Chun the most sought after SAP school, while Kheng Cheng had more places than applicants.
Everything else is concentrated rather than dispersed. HDB Hub anchors the retail, the library and the transport, the polyclinic and sports facilities sit within the town, and Toa Payoh Town Park provides the main green space alongside the older wet markets and hawker centres embedded in the residential blocks.
What is the outlook for Toa Payoh?
Two things will reshape the town this decade. A 12-hectare integrated development on land between Lorong 6 Toa Payoh and the PIE is due to open in 2030, bringing a regional sport centre with swimming pools, indoor halls, sheltered courts, a gymnasium and a football stadium, national training centres for aquatics, netball and table tennis, a polyclinic, a public library and a rejuvenated regional town park. It is led by Sport Singapore with National Healthcare Group Polyclinics, the National Library Board and NParks.
The second is supply. HDB launched two Prime projects here in 2025, Toa Payoh Ascent and Mount Pleasant, followed by Kim Keat Crest in February 2026, the town's first Plus project at around 1,150 units, and a roughly 1,600-unit project beside Caldecott MRT is slated for the October 2026 exercise. For anyone holding an older three-room flat on a 1960s or 1970s lease, that pipeline is genuine competition. For buyers it is the first meaningful new supply in a town that has had very little.