A Tour Of An Affordable Freehold Landed Estate Near Joo Chiat (From $3.8m)


TJ's interest in property was sparked after returning from the UK- where balconies are not counted in one's square footage!- and finding that the Singapore property had totally changed in the 7 years she was away. When not reading and watching articles & videos about property, she is busy cooking and baking for friends, family & her blog Greedygirlgourmet
A few weeks back, a reader requested tours of landed estates closer to i12 Katong Mall, so today, we’re headed to Duku Road. There are 3 reasons why I chose Duku Road:
- It’s a 9-minute walk from i12 Katong (as well as all the cool restaurants along East Coast Road) and about 6 minutes from the Joo Chiat Road shops (Duku Road actually forms a junction with Joo Chiat Road, so 6 minutes assumes you start from the other end of Duku Road—if you live closer to Joo Chiat Road, it will, of course, take even less time).
- All of the last 10 sales transactions (at the time of writing) were between $2 million and $4.3 million.
- The area has a plot ratio of 1.4: if you and your neighbours ever decide to form a group, you could (potentially) convert the units into a boutique condo. Moreover, it also means that your immediate neighbours will never tower over you, as they can only build low-rise buildings (and not skyscrapers, like you see along Marine Parade Road, for example.) We do see a couple of boutique condos as we wander around, but there are also a good number of single-storey homes still around.
Join me now as we take a walk around the area!
I walk into the area from East Coast Road, and along the way, we pass Duku Lane. (There are quite a few Duku Road cul-de-sacs (e.g. Duku Lane, Duku Place etc) that run perpendicular to the main Duku Road.












Oh, and note the difference in heights between Aura 83 and the next-door property (which is also a condo) so you can imagine what it would be like to live here if more boutique condos crop up.

















More rebuilding work.
















As always, I do a quick Google search to see if there’s anything newsworthy about the area. (Fun fact: did you know there’s also a Duku Road in Xinjiang?) Apart from being close to a “perfectly dreamy OOTD/ Tik Tok Spot), the Duku area was unfortunately linked to a dengue cluster in 2020. (When I searched for “duke road dengue”, no other years came up.)
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In the introduction, I mentioned the past transactions, so you can check them out yourself here:

This brings us to the end of today’s tour. How did you find the area? Let me know in the comments if there’s another estate you want me to tour!
TJ
TJ's interest in property was sparked after returning from the UK- where balconies are not counted in one's square footage!- and finding that the Singapore property had totally changed in the 7 years she was away. When not reading and watching articles & videos about property, she is busy cooking and baking for friends, family & her blog GreedygirlgourmetRead next from Editor's Pick

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