Downtown Core · central

Anson

S$18.00 per sqft a month, asking shop rent85,906 taps a working day at TANJONG PAGAR (EW15), 132m to Exit A

The published record for this corner: measured numbers with their receipts, named absences where the record is empty. No scores, no forecasts, nothing invented.

Asking shop rent here

S$18.00per sqft, a month asking as of 2026-08

S$18.00 psf25th to 75th percentile; the tick is their medianS$19.50 psf

the darker band is Downtown Core, the lighter one the island; the mark is this corner

Half of Downtown Core’s 13 shopfront-led corners rent between S$9.47–17.39 psf. Half the island’s 229 fall between S$6.89–13.33 psf.

ihow this figure was read

n=6: This rests on 6 units: asking prices, not signed leases.
unchanged since Jul 2026 · 6 days: This asking price was posted 2026-07-27 and had stood 6 days when the listings were read. It is the landlord's own date, carried from the portal, and it is known for every listing behind this figure. An age measured on a minority of a pool is not that pool's age, so a row that cannot say is not given one.
units of 1,834–7,600 sqft: The units behind this figure run 1,834 sqft (170 sqm) to 7,600 sqft (706 sqm), median 2,360 sqft (219 sqm). The ends are the smallest and largest unit in the pool, not quartiles. It is the portals' own published floor area, the same denominator the per-sqm figure was divided by, and the number that decides which of URA's size bands this row is weighed against.
the two ends: quartile ends: the 25th and 75th percentile of the asks; the tick is their median
source: listings.commercialguru.street-ask:carried · measured on HOE CHIANG ROAD, 100% of whose 6 geocoded postals sit in this corner, so it is filed at this corner at subzone grain · :carried = aggregated up from finer measurements (streets, postals, doors) into this grain, never a direct reading at it · as of 2026-08-03 · a census: all 1 sources known in this subzone answered · 6 units, 5 agents. The ends are the quartiles of the asks · units of 1,834–7,600 sqft · unchanged since Jul 2026 · 6 days

The plan zones 55% of this corner for uses that can hold a shopfront; its largest single use is road at 45%, a plurality, not a majority

4,919 taps in and out on a working day · 3,070 on a weekend or public holiday (buses only, no rail in this number)

Served by TANJONG PAGAR (EW15), 85,906 taps a working day, 132m to Exit A

100 residents · 332,600 work here daytime (planning area)

No HDB flats here. This corner is outside HDB's register, not empty of homes

Households around here spend about S$9,567 a month across all categories (every home here is one type, so this IS the national figure for that type, from the 2023 survey, and not a measurement of this corner)

No income figure for this planning area: SingStat pools it into "Others"

Homes here rent at S$4,450/mo, an income proxy, never a shop rent

An apartment here sold for S$2M (278 sales to Apr 2026)

Pick what you sell in the app to count competitors. 7 of the 62 trades carry a counted register; a food format without one gets the licensed-food bound instead; the rest say why no count exists.

NEA lists no hawker centre in this corner. Nearest on its list is Tanjong Pagar Plaza Blk 6 (Blk 6 Tanjong Pagar Plaza Market and Food Centre), 103m away (52 stalls)

5 rent readings measured here do not lead this card: 4 not shop space, 1 stood too long

Office space: S$13.20 psf, n=3, quarter to 2026-06 not shop space

All strata pooled: S$18.00 psf, n=8, as of 2026-08, unchanged since Jul 2026 · 7 days, units of 1,834–7,600 sqft not shop space

Shophouse: S$10.30 psf, n=6, as of 2026-08, unchanged since Mar 2026 · 141 days, units of 900–4,000 sqft stood too long

Office space: S$8.90 psf, n=74, as of 2026-08, unchanged since Jan 2026 · 194 days, units of 463–20,000 sqft not shop space

Grade A building: S$9.00 psf, n=1, as of 2026-08, unchanged since Aug 2025 · 345 days, units of 2,668 sqft not shop space

7 listings under 30 sqm (S$9.00–34.69 psf) are not pooled into this corner’s rent. 30 sqm is the top of URA’s smallest published size band excluded

The app draws this corner’s buildings, shows it on the island map, checks a rent you were quoted against this record and runs your own numbers.

Open Anson in the app →

This page never scores a door and never predicts a business. You know your margin, staffing and opex; we publish what the ground measures. (The one number that pretended to score was withdrawn on 2026-08-05.)

Every receipt for this corner ↓ What this is

surface written 2026-10-12. Every figure on this page is read from that one file

Anson: every published receipt

How to read a row: the bold figure is the middle of its range and the figures either side are the range’s ends; “carried” means aggregated up from finer measurements (streets, postals, doors) into this corner, never a direct reading at it. The n is the count behind the figure: contracts, awards, units or taps, by instrument. An absent row carries a code and a side, never an instrument or a date, because nothing was measured. Every rent row was measured per square metre a month by its publisher (URA’s street medians, HDB’s awards over their printed floor area, the portals’ asks) and is printed here per square foot, divided once by this record’s own bridge of 10.76 sqft per sqm.

Who is here

Resident population as of 2025-06-30

100 persons

singstat.ghs2025.C020123 · subzone grain

Resident households as of 2025-06-30

20–25–31 households n=1

NOT A MEASUREMENT: residents by dwelling (C020125) ÷ the NATIONAL average household size for that dwelling type (17863, 2025), CALIBRATED by the planning area's own published/derived household ratio (C020141) where the area publishes one. The divide alone ran ~9% low with a measured per-area spread; the calibration applies the reconciliation instead of merely reporting it.

ghs2025.residents-div-hhsize · subzone grain

Daytime workers by place of work (planning area) as of 2025-06-30

332,600 persons

GHS 2025: employed RESIDENTS by workplace planning area. Foreign-worker commuters are outside the frame entirely, so this is a FLOOR on true daytime workers; no-fixed-location (201,500) and work-from-home (82,200) sit in categories, not areas. Planning-area grain: the table publishes nothing finer, so every subzone in DOWNTOWN CORE with premises, taps or residents published at the corner shows this same figure.

singstat.ghs2025.C020148 · planningArea grain

Rent: every published stratum

propertyType: retail ask carried lowest–highest ask as of 2026-08-03

S$17.72–17.86–18.00 psf n=2

a census: all 1 sources known in this subzone answered

listings.commercialguru.street-ask:carried · subzone grain

propertyType: f-and-b · leads the card ask carried as of 2026-08-03

S$18.00–18.00–19.50 psf n=6

a census: all 1 sources known in this subzone answered

listings.commercialguru.street-ask:carried · subzone grain

hdbTender rent

not yet published: our gap

not_yet_wired: a gap on OUR side of the pipeline. no hdb-tender fact, valued or absent, reached this subzone, and an unexplained gap is ours by rule

Held back (not shop space) · use: office carried quarter to 2026-06-30

S$11.70–13.20–13.20 psf n=3

a census: all 1 sources known in this subzone answered

the publisher's own facet types this row "office", which is not shop space. Measured over every per-sqm rent in this artifact, the median of the 804 shopfront rows sits at 1.5x the median of the 171 rows typed "office". Two markets, and this one is not the shop market. The figure is real for what it measures and it is not what a shop costs here

ura.pmi.street-median:carried · subzone grain · 2026-06-30 is the last day of the quarter URA's rental-contract table covers. The figure is the median of every contract signed across those three months, so this is the period the median describes and not a day any particular lease was signed

Held back (not shop space) · all strata pooled ask carried as of 2026-08-03

S$17.98–18.00–18.50 psf n=8

a census: all 1 sources known in this subzone answered

no class word rides this row's facet, so nothing says it is shop space. The shop-rent slot is led only by a row whose publisher's own facet SAYS shopfront. Written the other way round, a portal adding a new type word would leak straight into it, which is how an "Model: Food And Beverage" tag on a warehouse listing got there

listings.commercialguru.street-ask:carried · subzone grain

Held back (stood too long) · propertyType: shophouse ask carried lowest–highest ask as of 2026-08-03

S$8.00–10.30–18.00 psf n=6

a census: all 5 sources known in this subzone answered

listed 141 days before this snapshot (posted 2026-03-15), older than one URA quarter (91 days, the gap between URA's two most recent quarter-ends), and this corner holds a fresher shopfront row: an ask posted 2026-07-27, 135 days after this ask was posted. A landlord's asking price that has stood unmoved for longer than the market's own reporting cycle is not this quarter's market, and it does not lead over one that is

listings.srx.postal-ask:carried · subzone grain

Held back (not shop space) · propertyType: office ask carried lowest–highest ask as of 2026-08-03

S$6.29–8.90–14.90 psf n=74

a census: all 18 sources known in this subzone answered

listings.srx.postal-ask:carried · subzone grain

Held back (not shop space) · propertyType: grade-a ask carried one ask as of 2026-08-03

S$9.00 psf n=1

a census: all 1 sources known in this subzone answered

the publisher's own facet types this row "grade-a", which is not shop space. Measured over every per-sqm rent in this artifact, the median of the 804 shopfront rows sits at 2.2x the median of the 688 off-class rows. Two markets, and this one is not the shop market. The figure is real for what it measures and it is not what a shop costs here

listings.srx.postal-ask:carried · subzone grain

Residential (income proxy, never a shop rent) · non-landed-merged carried contracts to 2026-06-30, the oldest part contracts to 2026-04-30

S$3,400–4,450–6,000/mo n=72

a census: all 2 sources known in this subzone answered

ura.resi.street-median:carried · subzone grain · 2026-06-30 is the last day of the newest contract month among the 2 streets pooled here; the oldest part's newest contract month ends 2026-04-30. Each part's figure is the median of its own quarter's contracts in URA's private residential rental table, so this row spans more than one month and no single month describes it

Rent: the district’s stamped band, one row per size cell

District 02 · Level 1 (street level) · pooled across its size bands · ALL of this corner’s postals quarter to 2026-06-30

S$3.00–9.12–13.86 psf n=3

URA PMI district median at DISTRICT grain, not measured at this corner. ALL of this corner's geocoded postals sit in District 02. The stratum is Level 1 (street level), declared here because URA stamps no all-levels, all-bands district median: the 3 size bands pool UNWEIGHTED: lo the lowest of the bands' lows, hi the highest of their highs, mid the median of band medians, because URA publishes no contract counts to weight with; n=3 is its disclosure floor, not a sample size. Read the bands and match your own floor area.

ura.pmi.district-median · district grain · 2026-06-30 is the last day of the quarter URA's rental-contract table covers. The figure is the district median of every contract signed across those three months in the stratum, so this is the period the median describes and not a day any particular lease was signed

District 02 · Level 1 (street level) · 30 sqm and below quarter to 2026-06-30

S$10.89–12.61–13.53 psf n=3

District 02 · Level 1 (street level) · over 30 to 100 sqm quarter to 2026-06-30

S$8.56–9.12–13.86 psf n=3

District 02 · Level 1 (street level) · over 100 to 300 sqm quarter to 2026-06-30

S$3.00–6.44–10.24 psf n=3

Footfall: every measured window

day	window	mode	dir	taps/day	n
weekday	am-peak	bus	in	447	115
weekday	am-peak	bus	out	1,024	115
weekend-holiday	am-peak	bus	in	158	40
weekend-holiday	am-peak	bus	out	197	40
weekday	pm-peak	bus	in	895	115
weekday	pm-peak	bus	out	394	115
weekend-holiday	pm-peak	bus	in	358	40
weekend-holiday	pm-peak	bus	out	302	40
weekday	all-day	bus	in	2,493	115
weekday	all-day	bus	out	2,426	115
weekend-holiday	all-day	bus	in	1,568	40
weekend-holiday	all-day	bus	out	1,502	40

this subzone, all trades: BUS taps only per gazetted day (no rail is counted in this number) a census: all 5 sources known in this subzone answered

lta.pv.per-day:carried · subzone grain · month to 2026-07-31 · 2026-07-31 is the last day of the month LTA's passenger-volume table covers. The figure is a per-day rate over that whole month's taps, so it names the month, not a day anything was counted

Stations: every one within 400m, or the nearest beyond it

station	taps/day	from the corner’s edge	exits known
TANJONG PAGAR (EW15)	85,906	132m to Exit A	9

ENTRIES AND EXITS SUMMED on an average weekday, all day. Not boardings: a reader who takes it for boardings is out by roughly half. Each station carries ITS OWN measured weekday taps and its own measured distance to this corner. Nothing is re-allocated and no share is invented, so a station that serves several corners appears on several cards. Distance is straight-line from this corner to the station's NEAREST PUBLISHED EXIT (LTA, 613 exit points), not to a representative address, and not a walking route: the real walk is longer wherever a road, canal or rail line stands in the way, and an underground link reads as its street doorway. Every station within 400m is listed, busiest first. The radius is the only cut. Where an interchange spans two codes the taps are summed and every code is named.

lta.pv.per-day · station grain · month to 2026-07-31 · 2026-07-31 is the last day of the month LTA's passenger-volume table covers. The figure is a per-day rate over that whole month's taps, so it names the month, not a day anything was counted

Hawker centres: NEA’s registry, placed in this corner

Centres in this corner

0 a measured zero, not an absence

nearest, outside this corner	stalls	status	distance
Tanjong Pagar Plaza Blk 6 (Blk 6 Tanjong Pagar Plaza Market and Food Centre)	52	Existing	103m

NEA lists NO hawker centre in this corner. Its registry is a census of 129 centres, each carrying its own point, and every one of them was placed (none fell outside a subzone), so this is a measured zero rather than a corner nobody looked at. The nearest is Tanjong Pagar Plaza Blk 6 (Blk 6 Tanjong Pagar Plaza Market and Food Centre), 103m from this corner's edge, and it is named for the same reason the nearest station is: a centre just over the boundary is not a centre that does not exist, and a straight "none here" would be a binary answer to a continuous question. Straight-line to its published point, not a walking route, and no claim is made that it sits in this corner.

nea.ssot.hawker-centres · subzone grain · as of 2026-03-13 · 2026-03-13 is NEA's own last-refresh stamp (FMEL_UPD_D) on the freshest row in this registry extract, not a survey date. A measured zero is only as current as the census behind it, and this is that census's date

Household spend: the bridge

All categories, total survey year 2023

S$9,567/household/mo n=1

NOT A MEASUREMENT: national HES 2023 per-household spend by dwelling type, weighted by this place's own household mix. The only local input is the mix. lo/hi are the lowest and highest per-dwelling-type spends present here — the spread across kinds of household, not an error bar.

hes2023.dwelling-bridge · subzone grain · 2023-12-31 is the last day of 2023, the year SingStat's Household Expenditure Survey 2023 reports its dollars for: a survey year wearing a day so it can be ordered, printed at year grain, and not a day anything was measured at this corner; the dwelling mix that weights it here carries its own vintage in provenance

national HES 2023 per-household spend by dwelling type, weighted by this subzone's own 2025 household mix. The only local input is the mix; lo/hi are the spread across the kinds of household living here, not an error bar

Hair salon · Hairdressing salons survey year 2023

S$37/household/mo n=1

Childcare / preschool (single centre) · Child care centres survey year 2023

S$113/household/mo n=1

Tuition centre · Centre-Based Tuition survey year 2023

S$128/household/mo n=1

Student care centre · Student care survey year 2023

S$11/household/mo n=1

Independent cafe · Cafes survey year 2023

S$94/household/mo n=1

Bar / pub · Pubs survey year 2023

S$15/household/mo n=1

Hawker stall (cooked food) · Hawker Centres survey year 2023

S$96/household/mo n=1

Laundry / dry cleaning · Cleaning of clothing survey year 2023

S$2/household/mo n=1

Tailor / alterations · Repair and tailoring of clothing survey year 2023

S$5/household/mo n=1

Veterinary clinic · Veterinary And Other Services For Pets survey year 2023

S$25/household/mo n=1

Jewellery / gold shop · Jewellery And Watches survey year 2023

S$17/household/mo n=1

Casual dining restaurant · Restaurants survey year 2023

S$623/household/mo n=1

Fine dining restaurant · Restaurants survey year 2023

S$623/household/mo n=1

What households earn: SingStat’s bands, at planning-area grain

Household income (planning area)

not published here

not_published: withheld or not published at source. SingStat publishes the GHS 2025 household income distribution by PLANNING AREA and names 29 of them; DOWNTOWN CORE is not one, so the households here sit inside the table's "Others" row together with 25 other planning areas. That row is an aggregate, not a place, and splitting it would mean inventing a share nobody published. This is the publisher pooling a small resident population, never a statement that households here earn little or that nobody counted them.

Homes: every published sale price

Sold · Apartment carried contracts to 2026-04-30

S$1,772,750–1,992,590–2,162,250 n=278

a census: all 1 sources known in this subzone answered

ura.caveat.resi-transaction:carried · subzone grain · 2026-04-30 is the end of the newest contract month among the caveats pooled here, or the day the caveats were read where that month had not yet closed. A contract month, never a completion or a listing date

What stands here: every counted stock row

premises.withinContainer carried as of 2026-08-17, the oldest part as of 2026-08-13

3 premises n=3

a census: all 15 sources known in this subzone answered

sfa.trackrecord.by-postal:carried · subzone grain · 2026-08-17 is the newest night SFA's register was read among the 15 postals pooled here; the oldest postal's night is 2026-08-13. Each postal's count is the register as it stood on its own night, so this total spans more than one reading and no single night describes it

premises.withinContainer · halal-eating-establishment carried as of 2026-08-03

1 premises n=1

a census: all 1 sources known in this subzone answered

muis.halal:carried · subzone grain

stock.rooms carried updated 2025-07-11

795 rooms n=2

a census: all 2 sources known in this subzone answered

stb.hotels.rooms:carried · subzone grain · 2025-07-11 is STB's FMEL_UPD_D stamp on the newest register feature counted here: the day a hotel's record was last updated on the register, not a licence date and not an opening day

What the plan permits: the zoning, by use class

Zoned land whose use class can hold a shopfront Master Plan 2025 with amendments, published 2026-09-21

55% 56,599 of 103,670 zoned sqm, 52 parcels, mean plot ratio 5.72

largest use classes	share of zoned land
road	45%
commercial	27%
hotel	14%

Counted as shopfront-capable: commercial, commercial & residential, residential with commercial at 1st storey, white, business park - white, hotel.

ZONING IS PERMISSION, NOT SUPPLY. This is the share of this corner's zoned land whose use class can hold a shopfront (COMMERCIAL, COMMERCIAL & RESIDENTIAL, RESIDENTIAL WITH COMMERCIAL AT 1ST STOREY, WHITE, BUSINESS PARK - WHITE, HOTEL) under the Master Plan 2025 with amendments. Not floor space that exists, not units for rent, and not a promise any particular unit is licensed for your trade. A low share means the plan gives a shopfront little room here; a high share does not mean anything is built. Each parcel is counted whole in the subzone holding its centroid.

ura.masterplan2025.landuse · subzone grain · published 2026-09-21 · 2026-09-21 is the day URA published this layer on data.gov.sg (Amendment to Master Plan 2025 Land Use Layer, d_7a03324bed531cdff76a16239b0e84e1, URA's stamp 2026-09-21T13:51:24+08:00): the Master Plan 2025, gazetted on 2025-12-01, with URA's amendments in it. A zone URA changes after this date is not in this figure until URA publishes the layer again and this figure is rebuilt

Competitors: every register that reaches here

Hawker stall (cooked food) carried as of 2026-08-17, the oldest part as of 2026-08-13

0 premises n=15

a census: all 15 sources known in this subzone answered

Childcare / preschool (single centre) carried updated 2024-09-01

1 premises n=1

a census: all 1 sources known in this subzone answered

ecda.centres.licensed:carried · subzone grain · 2024-09-01 is ECDA's own last_updated stamp on the newest register row counted here: the day a row of the register was last touched, not a licence date and not an opening day

Remittance (cross-border) carried as of 2026-08-17

1 premises n=1

a census: all 1 sources known in this subzone answered

mas.fid.payments:carried · subzone grain

Dental clinic carried as of 2026-08-19

5 premises n=5

a census: all 2 sources known in this subzone answered

moh.hcsa.dental:carried · subzone grain

All licensed food premises (container) carried as of 2026-08-30, the oldest part as of 2026-08-13

82 premises n=82

a census: all 28 sources known in this subzone answered

sfa.trackrecord.by-postal:carried · subzone grain · 2026-08-30 is the newest night SFA's register was read among the 28 postals pooled here; the oldest postal's night is 2026-08-13. Each postal's count is the register as it stood on its own night, so this total spans more than one reading and no single night describes it

Tobacco retail licences (HSA) carried as of 2026-08-07

3 premises n=3

a census: all 3 sources known in this subzone answered

a licence overlay, not a trade: a minimart and a petrol station both hold one

hsa.tobacco.retail-licence:carried · subzone grain · 2026-08-07 is HSA's refresh stamp on the register file (data.gov.sg lastUpdatedAt), not a licence date: every row on the register is a licence window, and _meta.build.tobacco counts how many had lapsed or not yet begun at that stamp

CHAS dental clinics (subsidised patients) carried as of 2026-08-03

1 premises n=1

a census: all 1 sources known in this subzone answered

CHAS dental. NOT a second opinion about how many dental clinics stand here: it counts the ones that take subsidised patients, a subset of the HCSA licensing frame that now publishes `dental-clinic`. Mapping both to the trade would count 140 of the same doors twice; leaving them pooled made them rivals and produced 259 subzones of false disagreement. Ships as its own stratum, which is what it is

moh.chas.clinic:carried · subzone grain

Halal-certified eating establishments (MUIS) carried as of 2026-08-03

4 premises n=4

a census: all 2 sources known in this subzone answered

a certification overlay across many trades

muis.halal:carried · subzone grain

Halal-certified food preparation areas (MUIS) carried as of 2026-08-03

2 premises n=2

a census: all 2 sources known in this subzone answered

a certification overlay

muis.halal:carried · subzone grain

Licensed hotels (Hotels Licensing Board) carried updated 2025-07-11

2 premises n=2

a census: all 2 sources known in this subzone answered

the trade list has hostel; a LICENSED hotel (Hotels Licensing Board register - 468 licensed against the 285 STB gazetted, a wider frame, measured 2026-08-17) is a different licence class and calling it a hostel would invent a competitor count

stb.hotels.licensed:carried · subzone grain · 2025-07-11 is STB's FMEL_UPD_D stamp on the newest register feature counted here: the day a hotel's record was last updated on the register, not a licence date and not an opening day

What was withheld or unreachable here: the ledger

quantity	code	side	rows
people.count	suppressed_at_source	theirs	42
householdSpend.monthly	suppressed_at_source	theirs	31
commercialRent.psm	suppressed_at_source	theirs	1

Every absent fact carries a reason and a side. "Ours" is our pipeline's backlog; "theirs" is the publisher withholding. Only one of them is fixable by us.