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A five-room flat in Bishan's Natura Loft changed hands for $1,711,000, and the figure has been circulating since Stacked Homes reported it on 4 October 2026. The unit sits at Block 273A, Bishan Street 24, on the 37th to 39th storey, with 120 sq m of floor area (about 1,292 sq ft). That works out to roughly $1,324 per sq ft, and the sale appears in HDB's resale data for October 2026.
Some context keeps the number in proportion. The previous Bishan five-room high was $1,632,000, set in November 2025 by a unit at Block 275A, so this sale clears it by $79,000. Natura Loft is Bishan's only DBSS development, completed in 2011, and Stacked Homes notes that the five highest five-room sales in the town all come from it. Over the preceding twelve months, the median five-room resale price for Bishan as a whole was $979,000, again according to Stacked Homes. One high-floor unit in a rare development is a single data point, not a trend, and it should not be read as a verdict on the wider market.
For an investor, the more useful question is what a record like this can and cannot teach. It shows that a buyer was willing to pay a great deal for one particular combination of height, scarcity and address. It says very little about how a differently built, differently held asset will behave. A public-housing resale flat and a private leasehold condominium sit under different ownership rules, appeal to different buyer pools and carry different running costs, so lining one up against the other on price alone tends to mislead more than it informs.
A fairer comparison starts with attributes you can actually weigh: how the tenure is structured, where the building sits, what surrounds it, how you would eventually exit, and what it costs to carry the asset in the meantime. Run that list over any two homes and the headline price often turns out to be the least interesting line.
That list gives Impressions @ Dairy Farm something concrete to be measured against. It is a 99-year leasehold condominium of approximately 480 homes on Dairy Farm Walk, developed by a consortium of ABR Holdings, LWH Holdings, Macly Capital and RP Ventures, with Roxy-Pacific as project manager. The site lies at the edge of Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, and Hillview MRT on the Downtown Line is about 800 m away. The project is still pre-launch, so unit mix and pricing are yet to be confirmed. The location page sets out access and surroundings in full.
If you are weighing resale public housing against leasehold private options, draw up your own comparison table first and let the figures fill it in later. When the launch details are issued, ask the team to send you the preview notes and test them against your table.
General information only, not financial or legal advice.
Source: Stacked Homes; HDB resale data. This article is independent commentary; Impressions @ Dairy Farm is not affiliated with the parties mentioned.