Cashew MRT: A Quiet Private Pocket on the Downtown Line
Updated 2026-09-30
Cashew station sits where Upper Bukit Timah Road meets Cashew Road, serving a low-rise corridor of condominiums, a handful of landed homes, two schools and the new Central Manpower Base. Hombble currently lists 110 properties here at an average asking price of S$3,684,259, or S$2,144 per square foot. This guide covers what living there is actually like, what flats at 135 Cashew Road sell for, and how prices compare with nearby benchmarks.
What is it like to live near Cashew MRT?
Cashew is a quiet, mostly private residential pocket on the Downtown Line, sitting on the boundary of the Bukit Panjang and Bukit Batok planning areas at the junction of Upper Bukit Timah Road and Cashew Road. The station is underground with a single ground-level exit, and it serves low-rise condominiums, a small number of landed homes, schools and the military installations around Gombak Hill.
That mix keeps street activity low compared with the Bukit Panjang town centre one stop away. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve and the Dairy Farm nature areas are close by, and the neighbouring Dairy Farm subzone contains only private housing with no HDB flats at all, which is part of why the corridor reads as suburban and green rather than built up.
What is 135 Cashew Road?
135 Cashew Road is an HDB block of 90 executive flats completed in 1988 on a 99-year lease, and it is the closest public housing to the station itself. Units there transacted between S$932,000 and S$1,040,000 over the past 12 months according to PropertyGuru transaction data.
The block draws searches because it is unusual. Most of the walking radius around Cashew station is private condominium or landed stock, so a large executive layout within a short walk of an MRT platform is a narrow and well-defined market. Buyers looking at it are generally comparing floor area and lease remaining against smaller private units at a higher price per square foot.
Getting around: the Downtown Line and what is coming
Cashew opened on 27 December 2015 as DT2 on the Downtown Line. It is one stop from Bukit Panjang interchange, which connects to the Bukit Panjang LRT and Hillion Mall, and the line runs through to Newton, Bugis and Expo without a change of train. Bus services 67, 75, 170, 176, 178, 184, 961, 963 and 970 call at stops nearby.
The station gained a second purpose in October 2025, when the new Central Manpower Base, also called the NS Hub, opened opposite it on a nine-hectare site linked by a dedicated bridge from Exit A. Alongside enlistment and medical facilities, it added a food court, cafe, convenience store, childcare centre and outdoor exercise facilities open to the public. Further down the Bukit Timah corridor, Cross Island Line stations at Turf City, King Albert Park and Maju are slated for 2032.
Housing stock and prices
Hombble currently shows 110 live listings around Cashew, split 90 condominium and 20 landed. The average asking price is S$3,684,259 across an average size of 1,760 sq ft, which works out to S$2,144 per square foot.
Two reference points help read that number. Cashew Heights Condominium, a 596-unit project completed in 1992 on a 999-year lease, has seen resale transactions in a band of roughly S$1,538 to S$1,769 psf over the last 12 months. At the other end, Narra Residences at Dairy Farm Walk launched at an average of S$2,180 psf, with completion expected in 2030. The headline asking average therefore sits between older resale stock and new launch pricing, lifted further by the landed listings in the mix.
The wider market has cooled slightly. URA data showed non-landed prices in the Outside Central Region easing 0.1 per cent in the second quarter of 2026, after a 2.2 per cent rise in the first quarter. Sellers pricing off a single new launch benchmark are likely to sit on the market longer than those pricing off recent transactions in their own development.
Schools, shops and green space
Assumption English School, a co-educational government-aided Catholic secondary school, is about 210 metres from the station. Bukit Panjang Primary School and Fajar Secondary School are also in the immediate area, which makes the pocket practical for families whose children are already in the Bukit Panjang cluster.
Senja-Cashew Community Club is roughly a ten-minute walk and includes an eight-lane pool, a children's water playground and an infinity pool. Daily shopping is covered by Bukit Panjang Plaza and Hillion at the interchange, with HillV2 and The Rail Mall further along Upper Bukit Timah Road. The Rail Corridor (Central), a four-kilometre stretch running from Hillview to the conserved Bukit Timah Railway Station, gives the area a continuous green route that few MRT catchments can match.
Outlook
The case for Cashew rests on scarcity rather than momentum. Much of the surrounding condominium stock carries 999-year or long-lease tenure, supply additions are infrequent, and the nature reserve and military land to the west cap how much can ever be built. The Dairy Farm launch has established a higher price reference nearby, and a further government land sale site on Dairy Farm Walk drew a top bid below that level, which suggests developers are pricing the area carefully rather than aggressively.
For buyers, the trade-off is journey time against space and greenery: a longer commute to the central business district in return for larger floor areas at psf levels below comparable stock closer to town. For sellers, the practical advice is to price against transactions in your own development and tenure band, not against the area average, because the gap between older 999-year resale and new launch pricing here is wide.