Bukit Merah · central

City Terminals

100,307 taps a working day at HARBOURFRONT (NE1 + CC29), 146m to Exit C

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

Rent: 2 rent readings were measured here and none may lead this card. Each is listed below with the reason it was held back
District 04’s stamped Level 1 (street level) band: S$7.20–39.59 psf. 67% of this corner’s postals sit in District 04; measured at district grain, not at this corner
That range pools 3 floor-area cells, and they do not overlap the same way: over 30 to 100 sqm S$10.45–39.59 psf from 3 contracts; over 100 to 300 sqm S$10.09–24.10 psf from 3 contracts; over 300 sqm S$7.20–16.79 psf from 3 contracts. Read the cell your own floor area falls in, not the pooled range above it
HDB shop awards across Bukit Merah: S$3.30 psf, the median of 4 awards from S$1.77–3.83 psf, newest 2026-08. Planning-area grain, HDB shop units at street level, winning bids; not this corner’s own and not private retail planning area
The plan zones 0.7% of this corner for uses that can hold a shopfront; its largest single use is reserve site at 41%, a plurality, not a majority tight
5,141 taps in and out on a working day · 5,142 on a weekend or public holiday (buses only, no rail in this number)
Served by HARBOURFRONT (NE1 + CC29), 100,307 taps a working day, 146m to Exit C; also TANJONG PAGAR (EW15) 331m to Exit H
20 residents · 105,400 work here daytime (planning area)
No HDB flats here. This corner is outside HDB's register, not empty of homes
Spend: withheld at source. The publisher printed a dash here, and a dash is not a zero
The middle earning household here takes home S$10,000–S$10,999 a month (planning area) · 26% earn over S$20,000
Homes here rent at S$2,096/mo, an income proxy, never a shop rent
Home sales: home sale is not published here yet. That is a gap on our side, not a zero
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 Telok Blangah Rise Blk 36 (Telok Blangah Rise Market), 399m away (24 stalls)
2 rent readings measured here do not lead this card: not shop space
Office space: S$3.40 psf, n=3, quarter to 2026-06 not shop space
Office space: S$7.00 psf, n=12, as of 2026-08, unchanged since Dec 2024 · 608 days, units of 575–7,600 sqft not shop space

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Every receipt for this corner ↓ What this is

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

City Terminals: 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
20 persons

singstat.ghs2025.C020123 · subzone grain

Resident households
withheld at source

suppressed_at_source: withheld or not published at source. GHS publishes no usable dwelling mix for this subzone — SingStat printed a dash, which its own footnotes define as nil OR negligible OR suppressed — three different worlds one glyph cannot distinguish, so this is recorded as the publisher withholding, never as zero. The household count here is the same divide as the spend weights, and with no residents-by-dwelling there is nothing to divide

Daytime workers by place of work (planning area) as of 2025-06-30
105,400 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 BUKIT MERAH with premises, taps or residents published at the corner shows this same figure.

singstat.ghs2025.C020148 · planningArea grain

Rent: every published stratum
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$3.17–3.40–6.10 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) · propertyType: office ask carried lowest–highest ask as of 2026-08-03
S$3.50–7.00–8.50 psf n=12

a census: all 6 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

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

Residential (income proxy, never a shop rent) · non-landed-merged carried contracts to 2026-06-30
S$2,096–2,096–2,190/mo n=5

a census: all 1 sources known in this subzone answered

ura.resi.street-median:carried · subzone grain · 2026-06-30 is the last day of the newest month in which a lease counted here was signed, in URA's private residential rental table. The figure is the median of the whole quarter's contracts on the street, so this is the newest month the median covers, not the quarter's end and not a day any particular lease was signed

Rent: the district’s stamped band, one row per size cell
District 04 · Level 1 (street level) · pooled across its size bands · 67% of this corner’s postals quarter to 2026-06-30
S$7.20–14.75–39.59 psf n=3

URA PMI district median at DISTRICT grain, not measured at this corner. 67% of this corner's geocoded postals sit in District 04. 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 04 · Level 1 (street level) · over 30 to 100 sqm quarter to 2026-06-30
S$10.45–35.45–39.59 psf n=3

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 04 · Level 1 (street level) · over 100 to 300 sqm quarter to 2026-06-30
S$10.09–14.70–24.10 psf n=3

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 04 · Level 1 (street level) · over 300 sqm quarter to 2026-06-30
S$7.20–14.75–16.79 psf n=3

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

HDB shop awards, planning area BUKIT MERAH lowest–highest award bids closed 2026-08-07, the oldest part bids closed 2025-11-14
S$1.77–3.30–3.83 psf n=4

PLANNING-AREA grain, not this corner: 4 HDB shop tenders awarded across 4 corners of BUKIT MERAH (ALEXANDRA HILL, TELOK BLANGAH DRIVE, TELOK BLANGAH RISE, TIONG BAHRU STATION), each a winning bid for one HDB shop unit at street level, not private retail and not this corner's own. lo and hi are the cheapest and dearest award, mid their median. Kept BESIDE the district band and never in its place: it does not lead this card, shade the map or enter any ranking.

hdb.tender.awarded-psm:pooled-by-planning-area · planningArea grain · 2026-08-07 is the day bids closed on the newest of the 4 tenders pooled here; the oldest of them closed 2025-11-14. Each part wears its own tender's closing day, the one date both HDB tender files give, so this row spans more than one tender round and no single day describes it

Footfall: every measured window
daywindowmodedirtaps/dayn
weekdayam-peakbusin499230
weekdayam-peakbusout930230
weekend-holidayam-peakbusin22480
weekend-holidayam-peakbusout34280
weekdaypm-peakbusin674230
weekdaypm-peakbusout541230
weekend-holidaypm-peakbusin65480
weekend-holidaypm-peakbusout52780
weekdayall-daybusin2,359230
weekdayall-daybusout2,782230
weekend-holidayall-daybusin2,38080
weekend-holidayall-daybusout2,76280

this subzone, all trades: BUS taps only per gazetted day (no rail is counted in this number) a census: all 10 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
stationtaps/dayfrom the corner’s edgeexits known
HARBOURFRONT (NE1 + CC29)100,307146m to Exit C6
TANJONG PAGAR (EW15)85,906331m to Exit H9

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 cornerstallsstatusdistance
Telok Blangah Rise Blk 36 (Telok Blangah Rise Market)24Existing399m

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 Telok Blangah Rise Blk 36 (Telok Blangah Rise Market), 399m 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
Household spend
withheld at source

suppressed_at_source: withheld or not published at source. GHS publishes no usable dwelling mix for this subzone, so the bridge has no weights: a dash that means nil OR suppressed, and a bridge without weights would be the national number wearing a subzone's name. What is withheld is the dwelling MIX: a resident population may still publish above

What households earn: SingStat’s bands, at planning-area grain
Median earning household, monthly income from work as of 2025-06-30
S$10,000–S$10,999 a band, not a mean
share of households
with no employed person, outside the figure above21.6%
earning over S$10,00050.8%
earning over S$20,00026%

41,500 earning households of 52,700 in this planning area. PLANNING-AREA grain, not this corner, and EMPLOYMENT income only. The middle figure is the BAND the median earning household falls in. No average is computed, because the top band is "$35,000 & Over" and has no upper value to average. Households with no employed person are outside the denominator, which is SingStat's own convention for income from work; their share is published beside it, because a retiree household is not a poor household, it is one this instrument does not see.

singstat.ghs2025.household-income-bands · planningArea grain · as of 2025-06-30

Homes: every published sale price
Home sale price (URA caveats)
not yet published: our gap

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

What stands here: every counted stock row
premises.withinContainer carried as of 2026-08-13
0 premises n=8

a census: all 8 sources known in this subzone answered

sfa.trackrecord.by-postal:carried · subzone grain · 2026-08-13 is the night SFA's register was read: the crawl receipt where one was written, else the observation stamp a snapshot froze from the file's write time. Not a date SFA gives; a carried total wears the newest night among its postals

premises.withinContainer · halal-eating-establishment carried as of 2026-08-03
2 premises n=2

a census: all 1 sources known in this subzone answered

muis.halal:carried · subzone grain

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
0.7% 21,842 of 3,348,299 zoned sqm, 26 parcels, mean plot ratio 1.6
largest use classesshare of zoned land
reserve site41%
sports & recreation33%
residential17%

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 2026-08-13
0 premises n=8

a census: all 8 sources known in this subzone answered

sfa.trackrecord.by-postal:carried · subzone grain · 2026-08-13 is the night SFA's register was read: the crawl receipt where one was written, else the observation stamp a snapshot froze from the file's write time. Not a date SFA gives; a carried total wears the newest night among its postals

All licensed food premises (container) carried as of 2026-08-30, the oldest part as of 2026-08-13
41 premises n=41

a census: all 16 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 16 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 1 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

Halal-certified eating establishments (MUIS) carried as of 2026-08-03
2 premises n=2

a census: all 1 sources known in this subzone answered

a certification overlay across many trades

muis.halal:carried · subzone grain

What was withheld or unreachable here: the ledger
quantitycodesiderows
people.countsuppressed_at_sourcetheirs59
householdSpend.monthlysuppressed_at_sourcetheirs513
commercialRent.psmsuppressed_at_sourcetheirs1
commercialRent.psmno_instrument_heretheirs1

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.