Redhill (EW18): prices, transport and what is being built
Updated 2026-10-02
Redhill is a mature Bukit Merah estate built around an elevated East West Line station, eight minutes by train from Raffles Place. Hombble currently tracks 515 live listings here, averaging S$2,810 psf across a mix dominated by condominiums and a sizeable landed pocket. Two large BTO projects, Alexandra Peaks and Redhill Peaks, are reshaping the public housing side of the estate towards the end of this decade.
What is it like to live in Redhill?
Redhill is a city-fringe neighbourhood in Bukit Merah, organised around Redhill MRT station on Tiong Bahru Road and a dense cluster of HDB blocks, private condominiums and a pocket of landed housing. It sits one stop from Tiong Bahru and roughly an eight-minute train ride from Raffles Place, which is the single biggest reason the area holds its price.
The character changes within a few hundred metres. North and east of the station you get older HDB blocks, hawker centres and the Leng Kee Road motor and industrial corridor. South and west, towards Alexandra Road and the Southern Ridges, the stock turns private and greener. Buyers who shortlist Redhill usually want central access without paying a prime district premium, and sellers here compete mainly on walking time to the station.
How far is Alexandra Peaks from Redhill MRT?
The Alexandra Peaks BTO site off Alexandra Road has been listed at about 620m from Redhill MRT, which works out to roughly a seven-minute walk. Listings for the later July 2025 blocks on the same site have been measured closer, in the range of 356m to 370m, because the towers sit at different points along Prince Charles Crescent and Prince Philip Avenue.
Alexandra Peaks has been launched more than once. The December 2023 exercise offered 904 two-room Flexi, three-room and four-room flats. July 2025 added 498 three-room and four-room flats across two blocks of 38 and 46 storeys. These are not resale options yet. They are prime-location flats carrying a ten-year minimum occupation period, so they will not reach the open market for well over a decade.
What does property cost around Redhill MRT?
Hombble is tracking 515 live listings in the Redhill catchment, with an average asking price of S$6,585,594, an average size of 2,525 sqft and an average of S$2,810 psf. Read the headline price with care. The mix is 300 condominiums, 127 landed homes, 85 HDB flats and three executive condominiums, and the landed component pulls the average sharply upwards.
For context on the private side, recent caveat data reported ARTRA at around S$1,860 psf and The Crest at around S$1,880 psf in April 2026, against a District 3 average cited at about S$2,388 psf for 2026. In other words, individual apartment projects next to the station have been transacting below both the district average and the blended figure above. If you are comparing listings, compare like for like on tenure, age and floor before judging whether an asking price is fair.
Transport and connectivity
Redhill is station EW18 on the East West Line, an elevated station that opened in 1988 between Tiong Bahru and Queenstown. It is the last above-ground stop before the line runs underground towards the city, and it is known locally as the pink station for its pastel interior. Four bus stops sit close by, and the concourse carries retail units, ATMs, top-up kiosks and bicycle racks.
There is no new rail line committed to Redhill itself, so the honest reading is that the connectivity here is already built rather than pending. That cuts both ways. There is no infrastructure catalyst to wait for, but equally there is no construction disruption or speculative premium priced into the area.
Amenities and schools
Everyday needs are covered by Redhill Food Centre at 85 Redhill Lane, a short walk from the station and known for heritage hawker stalls at low prices, with ABC Brickworks Food Centre and Bukit Merah Town Centre nearby. Retail is spread across Anchorpoint, Alexandra Retail Centre and Alexandra Central rather than concentrated in one mall, which suits residents more than visitors.
On schools, Gan Eng Seng Primary School sits on Redhill Close, roughly 150m from addresses on that street. Alexandra Primary School is about 1.01km away and Zhangde Primary School about 1.17km, measured from the same reference point. Bukit Merah Secondary School and Gan Eng Seng School are also in the area. Registration priority depends on your exact home address rather than the estate, so verify distances against the MOE school finder for the specific unit you are considering.
Outlook for buyers and sellers
The near-term change in Redhill is public housing supply. Redhill Peaks, launched in October 2025 on Redhill Close, comprises three 49-storey blocks with an estimated waiting time of about 53 months and completion estimated in December 2030. Together with Alexandra Peaks, that means a meaningful number of new flats arriving in a mature estate around the start of the next decade, followed by a long MOP lock-in before any of them become resale competition.
Further out, the URA Draft Master Plan 2025 points to transformation nearby rather than in Redhill itself. The Depot Lane and Gillman Barracks cluster is slated to become a city-fringe neighbourhood mixing housing, heritage and green space, and the former Keppel Club site is to be redeveloped into a waterfront residential district connected to the Rail Corridor and the Southern Ridges, of which 21km of Rail Corridor is already open. For sellers, the practical takeaway is that Redhill's case rests on proven access and walking distance to EW18. For buyers, the value sits in the gap between project-level psf near the station and the wider district average.