Kallang Trivista Five-Room Flat Fetches a Record S$1,588,888

A five-room flat at Block 8A Upper Boon Keng Road has changed hands for the unusually precise sum of S$1,588,888. The September 2026 transaction sets a new five-room resale record for Kallang/Whampoa.

The buyer received a 116 sq m Premium Apartment—about 1,249 sq ft—on floors 28 to 30. Its lease began in 2017, leaving approximately 89 years and 10 months when the transaction was registered.

What S$1,588,888 bought

Block 8A is part of Kallang Trivista, a relatively young public-housing development along Upper Boon Keng Road. The flat’s remaining lease is one concrete advantage over much older resale options in the broader Kallang area, while its floor band places it high above street level.

At the recorded floor area, the price works out to approximately S$1,273 per sq ft. That is mastREplan’s calculation: the official price divided by 116 sq m, after converting the area to square feet.

Five-room flats are designed to provide more living space than four-room units, but “five-room” does not mean five bedrooms. In this case, the official classification is a five-room Premium Apartment, and the registered area is the more useful measure of what the buyer actually acquired.

The public transaction data does not identify the buyer or seller. It also does not describe the home’s renovation, facing, view or exact condition—all details that can matter greatly when two units in the same block attract different offers.

A record set below the former record-holder’s floor band

The previous Kallang/Whampoa high for a five-room flat was S$1.55 million, paid for a roughly 1,259 sq ft unit at City View @ Boon Keng. That transaction was registered in October 2025 and sat on floors 31 to 33.

The Kallang Trivista sale surpassed it by S$38,888, or about 2.5%. Curiously, the new record-holder occupies a lower recorded floor band—28 to 30—even though its floor area is broadly similar.

That comparison helps make the record tangible, but it cannot fully explain the buyer’s price. The homes are in different developments, with different lease ages, layouts, outlooks and interiors. A floor band alone is not a valuation.

Nor should proximity to Kallang MRT carry the entire explanation. The location is convenient, but the transaction combines several observable attributes: a large five-room layout, a high floor and a relatively young lease in a central-fringe estate. The price paid ultimately reflects the particular home and the agreement reached between two parties.

The same block offers another useful comparison

A second transaction at Block 8A shows how wide the price gap can be even within one address. In July 2026, another 116 sq m five-room flat in the block sold for S$1.33 million. That unit was on floors 1 to 3.

The difference between the two registered prices is S$258,888, or roughly 19.5% of the lower sale price. The September flat’s much higher floor band is the clearest distinction visible in the public records.

Still, this should not be read as the block appreciating by nearly 20% in two months. HDB’s data records completed resale applications by registration month; it does not provide a full account of each unit’s renovation, orientation, view or sale circumstances.

The comparison is useful precisely because the two flats share an address, flat type and recorded area. It narrows the obvious differences without eliminating them—and shows why headline prices rarely tell the whole story.

A precise price, but an incomplete portrait

HDB says its resale-price information is based on registered resale applications and updated regularly, making the transaction independently checkable rather than merely a reported asking price.

What the records establish is straightforward: S$1,588,888 bought a 116 sq m, high-floor five-room flat with close to 90 years left on its lease, and the price exceeded the previous Kallang/Whampoa record by S$38,888.

What remains private may be just as interesting: the condition of the home, the outlook from its windows and why this buyer settled on a string of eights. Until those details emerge—if they ever do—the record is best understood as one exceptional, clearly documented transaction rather than a new price tag for every five-room flat nearby.