The Cheapest and Priciest Blocks in Toa Payoh

In Toa Payoh, 129 blocks cleared six resales over two years. Their average price per square metre starts at $5,104 and ends at $12,688 — a 149% gap between the cheapest and dearest parts of the same town.

Where the cheapest blocks sit

The priciest blocks in the town

The median block in Toa Payoh averages $7,311 per square metre. The five cheapest sit 30% below that line; the five dearest, 74% above it — a spread wide enough that quoting a single town average hides the decision a buyer actually faces.

Size is not the explanation: the five cheapest blocks average 67 square metres against 97 for the five dearest, so the two ends are selling similar flats. At $5,104 per square metre against $12,688, the same 90-square-metre unit costs about $682,620 more in the dearest block than in the cheapest — for the same town, the same MRT line and often the same walk to the shops.

The five cheapest blocks average 45 years of lease against 89 for the five dearest, so lease accounts for part of the gap rather than all of it. Lorong 3 Toa Payoh holds most of the low end in Toa Payoh.

How firm these numbers are

Only blocks with at least six resales are ranked here — 129 of them in Toa Payoh. Of those, 20 sit within 10% of the town median of $7,311 per square metre; the blocks at either end are, by definition, small samples, so a single row is a pointer to the block page rather than a valuation.