HarbourFront: the Circle Line loop closes, the waterfront shifts
Updated 2026-10-03
HarbourFront stopped being the end of the Circle Line in July 2026, and the mall that defined the district for two decades has shut for a decade-long rebuild. Hombble tracks 383 live listings around the station, averaging S$6,977,900 and S$1,957 psf across a mix of Sentosa Cove houses, Keppel Bay condominiums and Telok Blangah flats.
What is HarbourFront like to live in?
HarbourFront is a working waterfront that doubles as a residential pocket, wedged between Mount Faber, Keppel Bay and the Sentosa crossing. You live above a transport hub and a regional mall rather than inside a quiet estate, which suits buyers who want to walk to a train, a ferry and a cinema, and suits others far less.
The district is unusually mixed for Singapore. Within a short radius you have Sentosa Cove waterfront houses, the Keppel Bay and HarbourFront Avenue condominiums, and the older HDB blocks climbing Telok Blangah Heights and Bukit Purmei. Mount Faber Park and the Southern Ridges give the area green cover that most city-fringe districts do not have.
Transport after the Circle Line was completed
HarbourFront (NE1, CC29) is an interchange on the North East Line and the Circle Line, and since 12 July 2026 it is no longer the Circle Line terminus. Stage 6 added Keppel (CC30), Cantonment (CC31) and Prince Edward Road (CC32), closing the loop between HarbourFront and Marina Bay.
The practical effect is that trips into the Tanjong Pagar and Marina Bay office belt no longer need a change at Chinatown or Dhoby Ghaut. LTA put the saving for a comparable journey, Telok Blangah to Marina Bay, at roughly ten minutes, and the finished line now runs 39 kilometres across 33 stations with 12 interchanges. The station also sits on top of HarbourFront Bus Interchange, with the Sentosa Express monorail terminus on level 3 of VivoCity.
What is 12 HarbourFront Avenue?
12 HarbourFront Avenue is one of the residential blocks of The Reef at King's Dock, a 99-year leasehold condominium of 429 units developed by Keppel Land and Mapletree on the Keppel Bay waterfront. It is the project best known for Singapore's first floating deck, built over the historic King's Dock basin.
Searches for the address usually mean one of two things: someone checking which development a listing belongs to, or an owner gauging what their stack is worth. Because the project is recent and leasehold, its asking prices behave differently from the older freehold and 999-year stock further inland, and it should be compared against Keppel Bay and HarbourFront Avenue neighbours rather than against the district average.
Housing stock and prices
Hombble currently lists 383 homes around the station: 272 condominiums, 67 landed and 44 HDB flats. The average asking price is S$6,977,900 at an average size of 3,396 sqft, or about S$1,957 psf.
Read that average with care. The landed component is dominated by large waterfront houses, which pulls the headline price far above what a typical condominium here costs, while the psf figure sits closer to the genuine middle of the market. At the other end, the HDB stock belongs to Bukit Merah, the town that produced the national resale record of S$1.728 million for a five-room flat at Block 96A Henderson Road in April 2026, and that recorded 64 million-dollar deals in the first half of 2026. A Telok Blangah jumbo flat was listed at S$2.18 million in September 2026, drawing an HDB review of the listing.
Amenities and schools
VivoCity at 1 HarbourFront Walk carries the daily load: supermarket, cinema, food court and library@harbourfront on level 3, the largest public library inside a Singapore shopping mall since it opened there in January 2019. Linkways at basement 2 and level 1 connect the mall directly to the MRT station and the bus interchange.
HarbourFront Centre, which opened as the World Trade Centre in 1978 and was renamed in 2003, closed in the second half of 2026. Mapletree is replacing it with a 33-storey mixed-use tower of about 123,000 sqm, offices on levels 8 to 33, retail from basement 2 to level 3 and a 13,000 sqm elevated park, due to complete in the first half of 2031. Cruise and ferry services moved to a temporary terminal beside the site from mid-2026. For families, Blangah Rise Primary at 91 Telok Blangah Heights and Radin Mas Primary at 1 Bukit Purmei Avenue are the nearest primary schools.
Outlook for buyers and sellers
HarbourFront is the eastern anchor of the Greater Southern Waterfront, the roughly 2,000-hectare redevelopment running from Pasir Panjang to Marina East that is freed up as PSA consolidates port operations at Tuas. The first public housing has already arrived: HDB launched Berlayar on the former Keppel Club site, about 1,960 flats, in the June 2026 exercise.
That gives sellers a genuine story to tell and buyers a reason to check timelines before committing. The upside is rail connectivity that is now complete rather than promised, plus a new commercial anchor in 2031. The cost is living beside a construction site for several years, with the mall gone and the cruise terminal in temporary quarters. Buyers who want finished infrastructure should look at the Keppel Bay and HarbourFront Avenue stock; those buying the 2031 picture have more room to negotiate now.