Welcome to Storey Range

Why we exist

Buying, selling or renting a home is the biggest money decision most of us make. The best evidence for it, what homes actually sold and rented for, is public. But it is spread across HDB, URA, the Council for Estate Agencies and MAS, in datasets few people have time to read. Listing sites show asking prices. Headlines quote one median for the whole island.

Storey Range reads all of it, every week: 25,483 HDB resales and 25,573 private home sales in the past year, plus 124,615 rental records. Then we tell you, in plain words, what it means for you.

What you get every week

One email, about three minutes to read, with the detail on our website for when you want more.

• The one thing to know: the week's most important point, in a sentence, at the top of every issue
• Market pulse: HDB and condo prices by segment, plainly called up, down or steady
• PSF Weekly: new price records and the most traded blocks and projects, named down to the block
• Priced below similar homes: sales well under comparable flats nearby, with the caveats spelt out
• A weekly spotlight: one HDB town or condo project, block by block and floor by floor, on a page refreshed every week
• Rents and rates: what homes rent for, rough yields, and the loan-rate number that matters

How we add value

Plenty of sites list transactions. We explain them, carefully.

• Like with like: A simple median moves when a different mix of homes sells. We compare the same flat type, lease band and floor band, so a price change is a real change. Example: Queenstown 3-room medians look up 12.6% on a year ago; compared like with like, they are down 6.2%.
• Every number shows its working: Each figure states its period and how many sales it rests on. Thin data is called thin.
• Address-level detail: HDB block and storey band, condo project and floor band, as far as the public records go.
• Checked before it reaches you: Every figure in every issue is matched against the source data automatically before we publish, and again after any edit.
• Independent: No listings to sell, no developer sponsors. Sources are credited on every page.

Who it is for

• Owners: what your home is worth now, and whether your area is rising
• Buyers: where your budget goes furthest, and what lease and height really cost
• Agents: recent sales by block and project, records worth quoting, and who is active where

Coming up in our launch series

• Tue 17 Nov: PSF Weekly: 238 million-dollar flats in October, and a look at Tampines
• Thu 19 Nov: Spotlight: Queenstown
• Sat 21 Nov: Million-dollar HDB flats: where they are and what they have in common
• Tue 24 Nov: What lease and height really do to HDB prices
• Thu 26 Nov: Spotlight: Treasure at Tampines
• Tue 01 Dec: Why the headline median can mislead you
• Thu 03 Dec: The MOP wave: where flats become free to sell
• Tue 08 Dec: Where HDB landlords earn the most
• Thu 10 Dec: How much more you pay for a new launch

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Our promise

Figures are medians of recorded sales; they are general information, not advice. If we get something wrong, we correct it in the next issue and on the website.