Lentor at TE5: new launches, freehold resale and what they cost
Updated 2026-09-30
Lentor has gone from a quiet landed fringe to one of the densest new-launch clusters in the north, with more than 3,400 homes planned around a single Thomson-East Coast Line station. Hombble is tracking 205 live listings here at an average asking price of S$3,489,229. The spread between S$2,000-plus psf new launches and 1990s freehold resale is the story buyers need to understand.
What is it like to live in Lentor?
Lentor is a residential pocket in District 26, off Yio Chu Kang Road, built around one MRT station and bordered by the Teachers' Estate landed enclave. It was quiet and car-dependent for decades, and it has only had a town centre since January 2026, when the mall above the station opened.
The appeal is green and low-key rather than urban. Lower Peirce Reservoir Park, Thomson Nature Park and Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park are all within the wider catchment, and Yio Chu Kang Stadium and Sports Complex sits on the other side of Yio Chu Kang Road. There is no nightlife and no office cluster. People move here for space, trees and a direct train.
What is at 162 and 168 Lentor Loop?
Both addresses are blocks within Bullion Park, a freehold condominium running from 160 to 172 Lentor Loop. It was completed in 1993 by Far East Organization and holds 472 units, with layouts from two-bedroom apartments of around 807 sqft up to penthouses near 1,873 sqft.
The reason these two blocks get searched is price. Transactions over the twelve months to July 2026 sat at a median of roughly S$1,522 psf, against new-launch pricing in the same station catchment of about S$2,000 to S$2,400 psf. Buyers comparing the two are effectively weighing a 30-year-old freehold title with full facilities against a new 99-year lease with a sheltered walk to the platform.
How good is the transport from Lentor MRT?
Lentor station (TE5) opened on 28 August 2021 as part of Stage 2 of the Thomson-East Coast Line, and the ride to Orchard takes around 13 minutes with no change of train. The same line continues through Great World, Outram Park, Shenton Way and Marina Bay, so most of the central business district is a single-seat journey.
Two further changes matter. The line completes in 2026 when Stage 5 adds Bedok South and Sungei Bedok, taking it to 43 km and 32 stations. Bright Hill, two stops south of Lentor, becomes an interchange with the Cross Island Line in 2030, which will open up east-west travel without going through town.
Housing stock and asking prices
Hombble currently lists 205 properties around Lentor: 130 condominium units, 57 landed homes and 18 HDB flats. The average asking price is S$3,489,229 across an average 2,234 sqft, working out at S$1,715 psf.
That blended figure needs unpacking. The 57 landed listings pull the average size and the average price up while pulling the psf down, because landed homes price per square foot lower than apartments. Read the three segments separately: new leasehold launches at the top of the psf range, 1990s freehold resale such as Bullion Park in the S$1,500s, and a thin HDB supply drawn from the Yio Chu Kang and Ang Mo Kio edges of the catchment.
Sellers should price against the segment, not the area average. A landed owner and a new-launch owner in Lentor are in effectively separate markets.
Amenities and schools
Daily shopping is now handled at the station itself. The Lentor Modern mall opened in January 2026 with a 96,000 sqft retail podium, more than 40 tenants, a Cold Storage Fresh supermarket and a preschool, connected directly to the MRT concourse. For larger trips, Thomson Plaza and AMK Hub are roughly a nine-minute drive.
On schools, measured from the Lentor Hills side of the estate, Anderson Primary School is about 0.9 km away, CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School primary and secondary sections about 1.0 km, and Presbyterian High School about 1.1 km. Distances vary by block, so confirm against the exact address before relying on a 1 km priority band.
What is the outlook for Lentor?
Seven to eight projects sit within this one station catchment, including Lentor Modern with 605 units, Lentor Hills Residences with 598, Lentor Mansion with 533, Lentor Central Residences with 477, Hillock Green with 474 and Lentoria with 267. Together they exceed 3,400 homes, with completions staggered through 2028.
That volume cuts both ways. Buyers get unusual choice and genuine comparability between projects, which keeps pricing honest. Owners letting or reselling into the same window will face more competition than a typical suburban estate, particularly around each wave of completions. The scarce asset in Lentor is freehold, and almost all of it is in the older Lentor Loop and Teachers' Estate stock rather than the new build.