Touring Rare Freehold Conservation Shophouses In Cairnhill (From $7 Million)

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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
We’ve run a few articles on conversation houses in Singapore, from Blair Road to Balestier and Mount Emily, so by now you may be thinking they’re not that rare. They really are though: there are only around 7,200 conserved shophouses in Singapore. In the course of writing the articles, I spoke to several people who lived in shophouses about their challenges and they all mentioned similar issues: pests, termites, and often a lack of parking. Hence when I saw some Cairnhill shophouses had sheltered garage parking (as opposed to an open-air car porch), I thought they would be an interesting feature for today’s walkabout.



FYI: For those who appreciate conservation properties, but don’t want to deal with the hassles of home ownership, the Klimt condo on Cairnhill Road has a conserved 1920 Anglo-Malay bungalow as its clubhouse. It’s the 2.8 site located across the conservation shophouses on Cairnhill Road marked with a “C” on the plot.

It’s about a 10 to 15 minutes walk from the shophouses to Newton, which is the closest MRT station, depending on which end we start at. There’s also a NTUC at Balmoral Plaza and a Cold Storage at Chancery (which are both a short walk from Newton.) However, the shophouses are really close to Orchard- and the walk is more pleasant- so that’s probably where you’ll go for your weekly shopping instead. It’s a Five to 10 minute walk from the shophouses to Paragon, which is the closest shopping centre to the shophouses.

One thing to note is that due to the garages, these shophouses don’t have the exact classic look that we associate with conservation shophouses.





























Now that you’ve seen the area, let me know what you think in the comments!
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Less well-known point: behind the row of diagonal public parking between the 1st & 2nd row of shophouses, there is a short driveway which leads to the back of the 4/5 houses in the 2nd row, giving these units both an additional parking lot and back door access. Part of this road can be seen on Google Maps.