Balestier Regency: 72 Homes to 161

Published 15 October 2026 · Figures as at October 2026

Seventy-two apartments on the ground and room for as many as 161 in a rebuild: that gap sits at the centre of the Balestier Regency relaunch reported by EdgeProp on 13 October 2026. The freehold block at 4 Jalan Ampas is again offered for collective sale by public tender, and the figures attached to it tell most of the story. Read in sequence, they move from what stands on the land, to what the rules allow, to the date by which a buyer has to commit.

Balestier Regency in six figures, for One Leonie Residences readers

1. 72 apartments, 10 storeys, 1990. The existing building was completed in 1990 and holds 72 homes across 10 storeys, all on freehold land. By the tender close, it will have stood for more than three decades.
2. 61,931 sq ft of land. EdgeProp puts the site area at 61,931 sq ft, a generous footprint for a single-block estate and the base on which every other figure in this list is calculated.
3. A 2.8 gross plot ratio. Applied to that land area, the ratio caps gross floor area at about 173,407 sq ft, the envelope any new scheme would have to fit within.
4. Up to 161 apartments. This is the redevelopment yield reported by EdgeProp, roughly 89 homes more than the block contains, or about 2.2 times its count. The final number would depend on the unit mix a buyer settles on.
5. A 2.793 baseline. With the baseline plot ratio just 0.007 under the permitted 2.8, the marketing agent told EdgeProp that only a nominal land betterment charge is payable. The charge applies to uplift above a site's baseline, and here that uplift is marginal.
6. 3 pm on 12 November 2026. The public tender closes at that hour, on the same terms as the owners' previous tender launch in May 2026, roughly five months earlier.

Behind the numbers sits a judgment about supply. The marketing agent pointed EdgeProp to how few sizeable freehold redevelopment sites the city-fringe market offers, and pitched the Jalan Ampas parcel to developers with a medium- to long-term horizon. Freehold tenure is central to that pitch, since time spent on approvals and construction does not reduce a remaining lease. EdgeProp's account carries no forecast of the outcome, so the tender result is the next figure to watch.

In District 9, One Leonie Residences has its own short list of figures: 25 freehold residences at 1 Leonie Hill in the Core Central Region, in four-, five- and six-bedroom layouts plus a duplex penthouse facing the Orchard skyline. Far East Organization is the developer, and the enclave lies between Grange Road and River Valley Road, about 410 m in a straight line from Orchard MRT (TE14). Private preview registration is open; the location page lists the distances measured on OneMap.

Registrants receive the e-brochure and floor plans from the Sales Concierge as the developer releases them.

Source: EdgeProp, 13 October 2026.

General information only, not financial or legal advice.

Source: EdgeProp. This article is independent commentary; One Leonie Residences is not affiliated with the parties mentioned.