Pinnacle@Duxton broke its own resale record three times since May. Clementi, Queenstown, Sengkang and Kallang-Whampoa each set their own town highs in the same three weeks. This isn't one lucky sale — it's a pattern.
Between 9 and 25 September 2026, five different HDB estates each set a new resale record: Pinnacle@Duxton (twice — $1.701 million then $1.72 million), Clementi Crest, SkyParc @ Dawson in Queenstown, Compassvale Ancilla in Sengkang, and Kallang Trivista. None of these has overtaken the overall national record of $1.728 million set at City Vue @ Henderson in April 2026, but together they show sustained buyer appetite for large, well-located flats right across the price spectrum — from $1.18 million in Sengkang to $1.72 million in the Central Area.
In the week of 26 May 2026, a five-room unit at 1B Cantonment Road — the Pinnacle@Duxton — sold for $1.63 million. At $1,442 per square foot, it broke the development's previous high of $1.6 million from August 2025 and sat comfortably below the all-time HDB resale record of $1.728 million set two months earlier at City Vue @ Henderson.
It didn't stay the Pinnacle's record for long. On 9 September, a different unit in the same block — 28th to 30th storey, 1,151 sq ft — changed hands for $1.701 million, or $1,477 psf. That's $71,000 more than the May sale, on a lower floor. Then on 25 September, a unit in the neighbouring stack at 1C Cantonment Road sold for $1.72 million at $1,494 psf — EdgeProp reported this as ranking among the five highest price-per-square-foot resale transactions ever recorded for an HDB flat nationally.
| Date | Block / Stack | Floor | Price | PSF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | 1B Cantonment Rd | 43–45 | $1.63m | $1,442 |
| 9 Sep 2026 | 1B Cantonment Rd | 28–30 | $1.701m | $1,477 |
| 25 Sep 2026 | 1C Cantonment Rd | 19–21 | $1.72m | $1,494 |
What stands out is the direction. The May record went to a high-floor unit — 43rd to 45th storey, the kind of unit that usually commands the premium. The two September sales that overtook it were both on considerably lower floors, yet fetched higher prices and higher psf. Floor height alone isn't driving these numbers; something else is.
That $1.701 million transaction has a background worth knowing. The unit was first bought by its original owners — a young couple in their 20s — for somewhere between $350,000 and $400,000 back in 2009. They held it for roughly 17 years before selling this September to a Singaporean couple in their 30s and 40s, first-time homebuyers who reportedly paid $51,000 above the $1.65 million asking price.
ERA agent Ink Chua, who was involved in the transaction, made an observation worth passing on: buyers increasingly care less about a unit's existing renovation, because they know they can redo the interior themselves. Chua also pointed to a pattern of private property owners moving into premium HDB flats like the Pinnacle as a long-term home — trading condo facilities and maintenance fees for space, location, and a lower total cost of ownership.
That original couple bought at $350,000–$400,000 and sold at $1.701 million. Even accounting for 17 years of CPF and cash outlay, that's a life-changing gain on a flat purchase — and it's the kind of story that tends to get people asking whether they should be holding or selling. My honest answer is that this doesn't generalise. Pinnacle@Duxton is an exceptional development in an exceptional location, and it has been for its entire history. A three-room flat in a non-mature estate isn't riding the same curve. If you're sitting on a flat that's cleared its Minimum Occupation Period and you're wondering what it's actually worth today — not what a headline number two MRT stops away suggests it's worth — that's a conversation I'd rather have with your actual address and actual numbers than with a general answer.
The same three-week window produced new records in four other towns entirely unrelated to Tanjong Pagar:
| Date | Location | Flat Type | Price | PSF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Sep | Clementi Crest, Clementi | 5-room | $1.59m | $1,307 |
| 19 Sep | SkyParc @ Dawson, Queenstown | 4-room | $1.388m | $1,417 |
| 19 Sep | Compassvale Ancilla, Sengkang | 5-room | $1.18m | $979 |
| 25 Sep | Kallang Trivista, Kallang-Whampoa | 5-room | $1.59m | $1,273 |
The spread matters more than any single number. Clementi and Kallang-Whampoa are mature, central-ish estates; Sengkang is a younger, non-mature town on the other side of the island; Queenstown's Dawson precinct sits somewhere in between. A four-room flat in Queenstown broke its town record at $1.388 million — itself only $8,000 above the previous high from August 2024, but on a smaller, lower unit, which points to genuine price growth rather than a bigger flat simply fetching more. Sengkang's $1.18 million sale broke a record set as recently as March 2026, in a town where seven-figure resale prices were unusual just a few years ago.
A record transaction is, definitionally, the single highest price one buyer has ever paid for one specific flat type in one specific location. It's a real data point, but it's a data point about the extreme, not the average. Five records in three weeks is a notable cluster — but it sits alongside a piece of context worth holding in your head at the same time: the NUS Ireus survey released in late September showed suburban resale sentiment turning negative in Q2 2026 for the first time in over a year, while sentiment in prime areas rose (see our earlier coverage).
Those two things are not actually in conflict. A softening average and a strengthening top end can happen at the same time in the same market — it's the same bifurcation we've seen play out in private property this year, just showing up now in HDB resale too. If you own a well-located, well-maintained, larger flat, September's records are a reasonable signal that demand for exactly that profile hasn't gone anywhere. If you own something more typical — a smaller flat in a less central location — the survey data is probably the more relevant number for you, not the headline.
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