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D03 · sectors 14, 15, 16 · Rest of Central

District 3Queenstown, Tiong Bahru, Alexandra

The first HDB town, now the clearest example of what happens when an estate is close enough to town to be re-priced by it. Tiong Bahru walk-ups, Queenstown redevelopment and the Alexandra corridor sit inside three postal sectors.

Developments
2
Primary schools
5
MRT stations
6
Postal sectors
3

Developments in District 3

Compiled from published sources and dated on each project’s own page. Prices appear only where a developer or a launch report published one; everything else reads as price on application, which is the truth rather than a portal listing range.

Primary schools in District 3

Every MOE primary school whose postal code falls inside sectors 14, 15, 16 — 5 of them. Being in the district is not the same as being inside a registration band: MOE measures 1 km and 2 km as a straight line from the school to the home, so the school across the district boundary is often the closer one. Where a school has developments inside 2 km, its own page lists them with the distance.

School list from data.gov.sg — General information of schools; geocoded via OneMap (SLA), retrieved 2026-08-07. Coordinates resolved through SLA OneMap against each school’s own address record.

Stations serving District 3

A station is listed here when it is within 1000 m of a school or a development inside the district — a walking-radius claim, measured, rather than a boundary drawn to make the list longer. Stations carry no postal code, so no exact in-district assignment exists; this is the honest substitute. The distance shown is to the nearest of those points.

  • Commonwealth MRT

    EW20 — nearest point 380 m

  • Great World MRT

    TE15 — nearest point 270 m

  • Havelock MRT

    TE16 — nearest point 230 m

  • Queenstown MRT

    EW19 — nearest point 200 m

  • Redhill MRT

    EW18 — nearest point 470 m

  • Tiong Bahru MRT

    EW17 — nearest point 270 m

Station list from OneMap (Singapore Land Authority) station search, retrieved 2026-08-07.

Shopping serving District 3

Malls within 1000 m of a school or a development inside the district — the same walk-radius measure used for the stations above, and deliberately not a postal-sector assignment. A mall has a postal code and could be filed by district exactly; the mall a resident actually uses is the nearest one, not the one that happens to share their first two digits.

Mall coordinates from OneMap (Singapore Land Authority) search API; candidate list from Wikipedia, List of shopping malls in Singapore, retrieved 2026-08-08.

What actually decides a purchase in District 3

This is the district where the leasehold decay question is least theoretical. Several blocks here are past their halfway mark, and the gap between a 99-year new launch and a resale unit with 60 years left is the whole argument — CPF usage tightens once the remaining lease will not cover the youngest buyer to age 95.

A district page is a description of a place, and no description knows your quantum ceiling, whether ABSD is in play, or how long you intend to hold. Those three answers usually eliminate most of the list above before a single viewing is booked. Run the numbers first — the stress test and stamp duty calculators are on this site and nothing is sent anywhere — then send the constraints.

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