New launch properties less than 1km from Singapore’s Rail Corridor

Remember moments from your childhood where you can ride your bicycle over to your friends’ blocks or houses, invite them out and play outdoor games or sports?

Today, even as adults, most interactions among friends have shifted online or via mobile devices, so getting them to come over on a regular basis becomes less compelling.

With the 24km-long Rail Corridor set to fully open by 2024, bringing back that sense of adventure and camaraderie among friends on a weekly basis may seem like a good throwback.

Better yet, if your friends live near the corridor’s many access points, a weekly catch-up among families to work out and interact with nature together, may just be a great lifestyle to have.

Singapore’s Rail Corridor

A National Parks initiative, the Corridor connects the Kranji woodlands to Tanjong Pagar Railway Station.

It transforms the now unused Singapore-Malaysia railway line into a continuous green passage, allowing nature’s wildlife to move from one forest to another.

It’s also a recreational passageway for members of the public to jog, brisk walk, appreciate nature and feel nostalgic. They can walk the entire trail or choose sections between various access points.

rail corridor map
(Image credit: CSC.gov.sg)
rail corridor cycling
If you cycle with your mates, you have to keep your speed to no more than 10km/h. You may also need to dismount on some unpaved/uneven sections. (Image credit: URA)

While not exactly a cycling paradise like our Park Connector Network (PCN), you can cycle along the corridor with your mates.

However, you must keep to a 10km/h speed limit. Furthermore, while most sections are dirt paths, concrete or rubbered flooring, some parts are gravel, like the newly refurbished Truss Bridges at Upper Bukit Timah and Bukit Timah.

As the Corridor is meant more for nocturnal wildlife, it is open 24/7, but lights are switched off at night. Also, not every section is lit, so the advice is to plan ahead, exit by nightfall and take extra care if it gets too dark or late.

Rail Corridor North Map
(Image source: NParks)

Between now and 2026, NParks is enhancing different sections along the trail, so some sections may be diverted or rerouted. It’s recently opened the Bukit Timah Railway Station node, which includes two conserved buildings – the Station and Railway Staff Quarters, two gardens – Kampung Garden, and Herb and Spice Garden, yard shelter with a toilet block and an event lawn.

Some upcoming improvements (most should be ready by 2024) include:

  • A pedestrian steel bridge across Hillview Road by mid-2023.
  • Extended pedestrian overhead bridge along Upper Bukit Timah Road to provide seamless access between Rail Mall and the Corridor.
  • New ramps to the Corridor from Hillview MRT station and Hume Avenue.
  • A 6.3km Corridor section linking Hillview with Kranji by end-2022. By 2023, there will be new shelters and toilets.
  • A platform with public toilets next to the Upper Bukit Timah Truss Bridge by end-2022.
  • Observation deck that allows visitors to view the Bukit Timah Hill summit.
  • More landscaped paths and sheltered spaces.
  • Events nodes (eg. spaces for sports, community and cultural events) at access points near Kranji, Yew Tee, Buona Vista and Queensway. The first is planned for end-2023.
  • The last stretch linking the Corridor with the old Tanjong Pagar Railway Station will complete by 2026. Agencies are currently studying potential uses for it, considering that it is a nostalgic monument.
Rail Corridor South Map
(Image source: NParks)

New launch properties within 1km of the Rail Corridor

When we view the Rail Corridor as a point of recreation and a healthy lifestyle choice, it would make sense to identify properties near the Corridor as possible homes.

Besides living healthy and staying fit with families and friends, residents having easy, walking-distance access to the Corridor are building memories together if they visit it regularly.

Over time, their lifestyles and perspectives are formed and shaped around an appreciation for nature and nostalgia – which are great qualities to build within your family and household.

Railway bridge Upper Bukit Timah Road
(Image source: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported)

If you’re on the lookout for such a property, we’ve compiled a list of new launch private developments near the Rail Corridor.

Besides grouping them by District, we’ve plotted the approximate distance between the development and the nearest point of the Corridor using Google Maps.

You may want to cross-reference with NParks’ guide map (like this one for the 4km trail between Bukit Timah Railway Station and Hillview) on where the nearest access point to the Corridor would be.

New Launch Projects Developer District Neighbourhood Approximate distance to Rail Corridor (in metres). Results will vary depending on nearest access point. Estimated TOP Tenure Number of units Nearest MRT
Sky Everton SL Capital/ Ho Lee Group/ Kwong Lee Land/ Penjuru Capital 2 Chinatown / Tanjong Pagar 770 2023 Freehold 262 Cantonment
Avenue South Residence UOL Group 3 Bukit Merah 175 2023 99 years 1074 Keppel
Blossoms by the Park (former Slims Barracks Rise Parcel A) EL Development 5 Buona Vista 360 TBC (launching Q3/4 2022) 99 years 265 Buona Vista
One Holland Village Residences / One Holland Village Sekisui House/ Sino Group/ Far East Organization 10 Tanglin / Holland 240 2025 99 years 296 Holland Village
Parksuites Far East Organization 10 Tanglin / Holland 270 2023 110 years 119 Dover
Van Holland Koh Brothers 10 Tanglin / Holland 530 2023 Freehold 69 Holland Village
Mayfair Modern Oxley Holdings 21 Upper Bukit Timah 70 2024 99 years 171 King Albert Park
Mayfair Gardens Oxley Holdings 21 Upper Bukit Timah 90 2024 99 years 215 King Albert Park
Jalan Anak Bukit Far East Organization and Sino Group 21 Upper Bukit Timah 170 TBC 99 years 845 Beauty World
Former 870 Dunearn Road Tuan Sing Holdings 21 Upper Bukit Timah 330 TBC Freehold TBC King Albert Park
Pine Grove (Parcel A) UOL Group and Singapore Land Group 21 Upper Bukit Timah 800 TBC (launching soon) 99 years 520 Dover
Forrett @ Bukit Timah Qingjian/ Perennial 21 Upper Bukit Timah 887 2024 Freehold 633 Beauty World
Former 798 and 800 Bukit Timah Road CDL Aries 23 Choa Chu Kang / Bukit Batok 170 TBC (launching 2022) 99 years 408 Cashew
The Arden Qingjian Realty 23 Choa Chu Kang / Bukit Batok 440 2025 99 years 105 Phoenix LRT
Phoenix Residence OKP Holdings 23 Choa Chu Kang / Bukit Batok 470 2024 99 years 74 Phoenix LRT
Mont Botanik Residence Tuan Sing Holdings 23 Choa Chu Kang / Bukit Batok 690 2022 Freehold 108 Hillview
The Botany at Dairy Farm Sim Lian Land and Sim Lian Development 23 Choa Chu Kang / Bukit Batok 770 TBC (launching Q3/4 2022) 99 years 385 Hillview
Cashew Green (Landed) Lucky Realty 23 Choa Chu Kang / Bukit Batok 900 Q3 2022 999 years 19 Pending LRT
Dairy Farm Residences UE Dairy Farm 23 Choa Chu Kang / Bukit Batok 940 2024 99 years 460 Hillview

Are you looking for a property near the Rail Corridor? Let us know in the comments section below.

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