Data Refresh Report — 21 July 2026

Data Refresh 3 min read Last reviewed

This report summarises the data refresh completed on 21 July 2026. We pulled 806,585 records from upstream sources (URA, HDB, data.gov.sg, ACRA) and ingested 774,385 new rows into the ShiokNest database.

774,385
Records added
806,585
Records fetched
431,474
Records replaced
88
New properties classified

What was synced

Per-source ingestion breakdown for this refresh
SourceDatasetFetchedAddedReplacedStatus
ACRAActive businesses000Completed
CommercialCommercial rental index12200Completed
HDBHDB blocks13,35713,3570Completed
HDBHDB median rent13,1491240Completed
HDBHDB resale price index14500Completed
HDBRental transactions183,837183,8370Completed
HDBHDB resale133,033133,0330Completed
URADeveloper sales3,9584780Completed
URALaunch pipeline801510Completed
URARental transactions443,333443,333431,474Completed
URAPrivate sale transactions000Failed
ClassifyGcb490280Completed
ClassifyLanded Types000Completed
OsmAmenity Pois15,081440Completed
OsmIntl Schools000Failed

Market snapshot: price indices

Where this refresh touched price-index data, here are the latest readings now live on the site.

ShiokNest Price Index (private residential, latest month)
SegmentIndexMoMYoY
Private (overall)122.6↓ 3.9%↑ 0.9%
Core Central (CCR)112.1↓ 6.6%↓ 2.2%
Rest of Central (RCR)124.9↓ 7.0%↓ 2.7%
Outside Central (OCR)124.4↓ 1.6%↑ 3.7%

The ShiokNest Price Index is computed in-house from the full URA private-transaction corpus. See the private price index for methodology and history.

HDB Resale Price Index (latest quarter)
IndexQuarterValueQoQ
HDB Resale Price Index2026-Q1203.4↓ 0.1%
Commercial Rental Index (latest quarter)
SegmentQuarterIndexQoQ
Office2026-Q1200.2↓ 0.2%
Retail2026-Q180.1↓ 0.6%

URA: Private sales & new launches

In this refresh we added 0 new private-market sale transactions from URA, refreshed 478 developer-sales records, and re-synced the URA pipeline (covering upcoming launches across Singapore).

HDB: Resale, rentals & median rent

On the HDB side we refreshed 133,033 resale transactions and 183,837 rental transactions from data.gov.sg, plus a fresh slice of median rents by town.

Busiest HDB towns by resale volume (last 12 months)
TownResale txns (12mo)Avg resale priceGross yield
TAMPINES1,840$715,276+3.8%
WOODLANDS1,761$610,078+3.9%
SENGKANG1,756$673,651+4.0%
PUNGGOL1,586$674,512+4.1%
YISHUN1,577$561,499+4.2%

Commercial & business data

Commercial rental index refreshed 0 quarterly rows. ACRA business map refreshed 0 active-business rows, powering the business heat map.

Data coverage

After this refresh, the ShiokNest database holds the following record counts and date coverage across its core datasets.

Database coverage after this refresh
DatasetRecordsCoverage
Private sale transactions149,722Feb 2021 – Jul 2026
Private rental transactions496,738Jan 2021 – Jun 2026
HDB resale transactions233,942Jan 2017 – Jun 2026
HDB rental transactions199,428Jan 2021 – Jun 2026
New-launch projects253
Active businesses (ACRA)2,095,252

What this refresh recomputed

After ingesting the new data above, ShiokNest automatically recomputed every property and district score (investment, en-bloc, walkability, profitability, the unified ShiokNest score, lifestyle and HDB), flagged 28 Good Class Bungalow candidates against the gazetted GCB areas and regenerated the data caches and 241 sitemap files — so every score, ranking and map on the site reflects the latest transactions.

Methodology & Sources

The dataset behind this report spans batch 21 July 2026 (completed 02:12); we refresh it on an ad-hoc basis.

Transaction data sourced from URA REALIS.

  • URA API (private sales, rentals, developer sales, pipeline)
  • data.gov.sg CKAN (HDB resale, rental, median rent, price index, blocks)
  • data.gov.sg CKAN (Commercial Rental Index — Office + Retail)
  • ACRA business register (data.gov.sg)

Price-per-square-foot (PSF) here means the median deal in the period; means are reserved for volume-weighted aggregates explicitly labelled as such.