Today, we’re heading back east, but to District 16 instead of Katong. We’re touring Lucky View, which is part of a network of streets all named Lucky (Lucky Heights, Lucky View, Lucky Crescent etc.)
As shown above, it’s in between Spring Park Estate and Parbury Avenue, two landed estates we toured a while back. One thing that stood out about both landed enclaves was their elevation: it was quite a trek walking up Parbury Avenue, and some of the houses on Spring Park Avenue had an amazing elevated view of the road below. With a name like Lucky View, I’m expecting more of the same today, but let’s see!
Before we start the walkabout, here’s the Master Plan of the area: as you can see the immediate area has mostly landed houses, save for a few low-rise apartments (zoned 1.4, which means a limit of five storeys.) There are also a few schools nearby: Temasek JC, Temasek Primary School, Temasek Secondary School, and Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan Culture.
As most of the streets are interlinked, there are several ways to get to Lucky View from Upper East Coast Road, but the most direct way would be to turn into Lucky Heights, and then take the third turn left. Walk along Lucky View and you’ll eventually exit into Lucky Rise, which can take you back to Lucky Heights or Sennett Avenue. Depending on which end of Lucky Rise you live on, it’ll take you around 10-15 minutes to reach Bayshore MRT, the closest station. Note that Lucky Heights is a rising road, so it’ll be a nice walk to the MRT but a bit of a hike back.
Here we’re standing at Lucky Rise, with the entrance to Lucky View on our left.The turn in is quite spacious at first glance: we don’t see any gates immediately after turning in. The houses are on relatively large plots of land.Beautiful landscaping: something I’ve noticed during other tours of D16, and again today, is that residents seem to love gardening which makes for more pleasant streets.It seems easy to find street parking here too, thanks to the large-sized houses. This is a lower-density estate and the residents have less need for street parking, thanks to bigger driveways.The pavement is also lovely and broad, making it easy to walk around. See what I mean about the gardening?I didn’t see any terrace houses, only semi-Ds and the odd detached unit.No parking cones or dust bins used to reserve street parking space here.Quite a few units were being renovated I think this is the largest vintage-style houses I’ve seen during my walkabouts, save for the detached ones in One Tree Hill.Some more contemporary houses.The trees on these streets look almost like large bonsais.Too cute! I love houses with personality.The street is starting to get a bit more crowded, but it’s still easy to drive through.Here’s an example of how much higher you can rebuild.Lucky View is one long street, with two very short cul-de-sacs on the side. Here’s the first one.
So far, I’ve not seen much evidence of why the street is named Lucky View: it’s pretty flat, especially compared to Lucky Heights; and there’s no view to speak of. It really could be any landed estate in Bukit Timah, which is a little disappointing.
Maybe it’ll look different when we turn right here.Hmm… not really!But let’s walk to the end to be sure. As mentioned before, the houses are large so you don’t find many gates on each street.Still looks quite nondescript.But when I walk right to the end, I catch sight of a Chinese Pavilion on the balcony of the house at the end. First time I’ve seen this- how cool! From the street level, there is no view, but I’m guessing the houses at the end have a great view of the surroundings. Otherwise, why put a viewing platform on the balcony?Looking at the house on the opposite side, you can see that its second and third floors tower above the homes behind, confirming my theory that these units have a great view.Indeed, there’s nothing blocking the upper floors of the house with the pavilion. From the map, it looks like the houses here look over Sennett Road and Sennett Drive.Heading back to the main street on Lucky View. If I lived here, I’d want to live in one or two of the units we saw before! From the map, they also look to be the two largest plots on Lucky View.This house looks quite “English” to me. Look at the semi-circular building next to it – there are quite a few unique buildings here.A closer look at the semi-circular house I mentioned previously.The main Lucky View ends with a short perpendicular street, which retains the same street name.To the left, you see some apartments. That’s The Summit.Let’s take a look and see what lies this way.The house at the end of this cul-de-sac towers over its neighbours. It looks like it has basement parking too; very rare and impressive even for a landed home. It could be an optical illusion though, since the land slopes a little but either way, it’s quite grand-looking. It doesn’t hurt that the house is so big.I zoomed in so you can get a better idea of the view from the upper levels.The neighbouring houses don’t have the same unblocked view from the front; but they may enjoy a partially unblocked view if you look from the sides.You may have noticed that the houses here are more contemporary than the ones in the other parts of Lucky View.We’ve now seen the whole of Lucky View. Walk straight and we’ll arrive out on Lucky Heights, which will take us back out to the main road, to Bayshore MRT.Here’s the street Lucky Heights, as you may have noticed it’s quite a winding road.Now that we’ve seen the entire area, how did you find it? One thing that I must highlight is the price: the last transacted prices were over $5 million for a semi-D which is a little more than we’ve seen on our last few tours of the East. Of course, the houses here are bigger. In fact, the ones listed at the time of writing were priced higher, going for over $8 million.
I did my usual Google search and only one article came up about the street: news about the sale of a semi-D and detached house in 2023. According to the article, the properties were purchased in 2018 for $8 million, and have an asking price of $20 million in 2023. There’s no $20 million transaction shown above, but the properties were also available for sale separately.
One thing to highlight about the area is that there aren’t many amenities nearby besides the MRT. For food, there’s pretty much only Hua Yu Wee Seafood Restaurant on East Coast Road. This area is close to East Coast Beach by the way; and just so you know how close, consider that before land reclamation the steps of Hua Yu Wee used to lead directly into the water. Today there’s easy beach access, if you head a little further down toward the Bayshore condo cluster.
Residents here also sometimes drive or use the bus to get to Bedok South Ave. 3, which has heartland amenities (or further down to Siglap). The surroundings will improve with the development of the Bayshore HDB town, which will also bring in further commercial elements. When that happens, the homes deeper in Lucky View could have the right balance: enough distance from Bayshore to maintain privacy, but still close enough to share the upcoming amenities.
Lucky View doesn’t have its own dedicated playground, but there is a huge one over at Lucky Gardens, which is just a stone’s throw away.
Lucky Gardens playground: It’s definitely one of the largest play areas I’ve seen in a landed estate!
This brings us to the end of today’s tour. How did you find Lucky View? Let me know in the comments!
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
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