CommercialRESIDENTIALDistrict 12 · Toa Payoh

161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh

Reviewed by Nathan TangUpdated 8 November 2026

Quick Summary

161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh is a commercial building in District 12 · Toa Payoh, on land zoned RESIDENTIAL under the URA Master Plan with a gross plot ratio of 3.0. ACRA records 12 live company registrations at this address.

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What are the key facts about 161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh?

Key takeaway161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh is a commercial building in District 12 · Toa Payoh, zoned RESIDENTIAL.

Asset class: Commercial
Land-use zone: RESIDENTIAL
Gross plot ratio: 3.0
Tenure: Not on record
District / Area: District 12 · Toa Payoh
Address: —
Land area: 1,616 sqm
Completed: 1971 (HDB Property Information)
Storeys: 12 (HDB Property Information)
Submarket: City Fringe
Transactions on record: None recorded
Live listings: None
ACRA registrations: 12

No recorded transactions — this building has never generated a strata caveat (typically single-owner or lease-only stock). That is not missing data, and it says nothing about the building's value, occupancy or availability.

About 161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh

161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh is a mixed-use building in Toa Payoh (District 12). It is located along Lorong 1 Toa Payoh, Singapore 310161.

Under the URA Master Plan it sits on land zoned residential with a gross plot ratio of 3.

It occupies roughly 1,616 sqm of land with about 4,848 sqm of gross floor area.

12 businesses are currently registered at this address with ACRA.

The nearest MRT is Toa Payoh MRT, 364 m away (about a 6-minute walk). The closest bus stop (Trellis Twrs) is 147 m away (about a 2-minute walk). Square 2 is 1.1 km away (about a 17-minute walk).

What is 161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh zoned as?

Key takeaway161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh sits on land zoned RESIDENTIAL with a gross plot ratio of 3.0.

Land-use zone: RESIDENTIAL
Gross plot ratio: 3.0

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What does space at 161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh rent for?

Key takeawayNo street- or building-level rent is published here. Across District 12 retail, retail space rented at a median of $6.71 psf a month in 2026Q3, with the middle half of leases between $5.52 and $8.97. That is not this building's own rent, and never a quote for a particular unit.

Retail space — District 12 retail

Region band · 2026Q3

25th pct

$5.52

$59.42 psm

Median

$6.71

$72.22 psm

75th pct

$8.97

$96.57 psm

S$ per sq ft per month

A REGION BAND — URA's grid for the whole district or location, not this street or building. Say "across <district/location>, …", never that this building rents for it. The middle of URA's retail grid for District 12 across every floor and size band — a ground-floor shop and an upper-floor unit sit at very different points in it.

Source: URA REALIS retail rental analysis (district × floor × size grid).

Market context around 161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh

Key takeawayBrokers' retail figures for this part of Singapore — a broker's market figure, not this building's rent.

CBRE, 2Q 2026 (island-wide)

Islandwide: Rent S$28.15 psf/mth

Singapore Figures Q2 2026

Cushman & Wakefield, 2Q 2026

Other City Areas: Rent S$21.21 psf/mth · Vacancy 7.4% (1Q 2026) · Planned / under construction 0.73m sq ft

Singapore Retail MarketBeat Q2 2026

Official series (URA, 2026Q3): Retail vacancy rate (Whole Island) 6.5 (-0.4 pp on the year) · Retail rental index (Central Region) 81.2 (+1.4% on the year).

Brokers draw submarkets and grades differently; each figure is the broker's own, for its own area, cited to its report. Rents are per square foot per month.

What's been approved at 161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh?

Key takeawayURA's planning decisions at 161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh since 2000 are below. This is the building's planning history, not today's approved use of any unit: confirm a unit's approved use with URA before signing.

9 Jan 2017Agency works
Additions & alterations
Proposed addition of coh day activity centre to existing 1st storey void deck of estate block no. 161 at toa payoh lorong 1 (social communal facilities batch 2)
22 Nov 2011RenewedFloor 1
Continued use as betting outlet
Continued use of the 1st storey shop (#01-XX) as betting outlet

Source: URA planning decisions (URA Data Service), matched to this building by address or land lot. A past approval can lapse (a temporary permission) and belongs to the unit it names. The authoritative approved use of a unit comes from URA's Enquiry on Approved Use of Premises (S$54.50 per unit).

What do commercial rents run near 161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh?

Key takeawayURA publishes contracted-rent percentile grids quarterly (latest: 2026Q3) — the benchmark evidence an asking rent should be weighed against.

Indicative area yield — District 12 retail

Gross yield (area)

2.9%

2.6% net of property tax

Rent side (median of bands)

$72.22 psm/mo

2026Q3

Price side (strata, 5y)

$2,767 psf

54 sales

An INDICATIVE AREA yield for District 12 retail — NOT this building's yield, and not any unit's. Commercial rents are published as a district percentile grid, so both halves describe the district.

Priced on STRATA sales only: rent is quoted per unit of lettable area, and commercial land PSF runs far above strata — mixing them would shift the ratio sharply.

Net deducts the 10% non-residential property tax ONLY — not vacancy, maintenance, agent fees, financing, or the 9% GST on purchase.

Retail rents — District 12 ($ psm/month, 2026Q3)

Floor level · size band	25th pct	Median	75th pct
Level 1 · 30 & Below	$52.08	$72.22	$91.29
Level 2 & 3 · 30 & Below	$101.58	$129.23	$143.22
Level 2 & 3 · >30 - 100	$59.42	$63.94	$96.57
Level 1 · >30 - 100	$74.07	$96.87	$116.31
Level 1 · >100 - 300	$48.14	$55.10	$60.66

URA REALIS rental-contract percentiles for the district/location — an area benchmark, not this building's own rents. Office and retail are dimensioned differently and are never mixed.

What is near 161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh?

Key takeawayThe nearest MRT/LRT is Toa Payoh MRT, about 364 m away.

Getting around

Toa Payoh MRT364 m · ~6 min

Amenities nearby

Trellis Twrs · 147 mPicton Medical Centre · 204 mEducational Institution · 241 mPlace Of Worship · 290 mToa Payoh Town Pk · 328 mHotel · 348 mNTUC Fairprice Co-operative Ltd · 349 mToa Payoh MRT Exit B · 350 mToa Payoh West Community Club · 524 mThomson Medical Centre · 695 m

Straight-line distances. Source: PropKaki amenities data.

Getting there and parking at 161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh

Key takeawayThe nearest station is Toa Payoh (NS19), 349 m away — a busy station, with about 76,000 taps in and out on an average weekday. 12 public car parks are within 500 m.

Foot traffic: busier than 80% of retail buildings

nearest MRT/LRT Toa Payoh (NS19) 349 m, about 76,000 taps a weekday; 1 more station within 1 km; bus stops within 400 m: 8, about 85,000 taps a weekday; Toa Payoh: 53,749 resident workers (Census 2020, by workplace); about 56,000 residents within 1 km (June 2026); 0 other malls within 1 km. Ranked against 12,856 retail buildings by PropKaki's model: a relative score, not a footfall count.

A relative score from PropKaki's model (station and bus taps nearby, workers and residents around, and competing malls), not a count of people.

Stations within 1 km

Toa Payoh (NS19)349 m · about 76,000 weekday taps
Caldecott (CC17 / TE9)898 m · about 20,000 weekday taps

Taps are fare-card taps in and out at the station's gates on an average weekday (Jul 2026 to Sep 2026) — people passing through, not visitors to 161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh. Transfers between lines don't tap, so interchanges read low.

Bus

8 bus stops within 400 m, with about 85,000 boardings and alightings on an average weekday.

Public car parks within 500 m

Blk 161A Lorong 1 Toa Payoh (HDB)35 m
S$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 2.15 m · 143 car lots
Blk 158-161/163/168-174 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh (HDB)80 m
S$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 4.5 m · 90 car lots
Blk 101 Jalan Dusun (HDB)251 m
S$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · 261 car lots
Blk 156A Lorong 1 Toa Payoh (HDB)284 m
S$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 2.15 m · 601 car lots
Blk 171A Lorong 1 Toa Payoh (HDB)309 m
S$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 1.95 m · 370 car lots

HDB season (car): Tier 1 $110/month (a resident's or registered HDB shop/industrial tenant's first car); Tier 2 (other cars, non-residents) $120 Rest of Island, $170 Designated Area, $190 Restricted Zone (sheltered: multi-storey, basement, deck). Industrial-park multi-storey car parks: $110 / $120. Which zone this car park is in is not published as data.

Nearest URA season parking: Toa Payoh West, 630 m away, S$90/month.

Public car parks only, by straight-line distance, with the operator's published rates. 161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh's own car park, if it has one, and its charges are not in the open data.

How many companies are registered at 161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh?

Key takeawayACRA records 12 live company registrations at this address, 8 of them in the last three years.

Live registrations: 12
Registered last 3 years: 8
Most common type: Sole Proprietorship/ Partnership

Company REGISTRATIONS at this address (ACRA), not a tenancy schedule. Registration does not mean the company physically occupies space here, and a low count does not mean the building is empty. Do not describe this as occupancy or vacancy.

Frequently asked questions about 161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh

Where is 161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh?⌄

161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh is at Lorong 1 Toa Payoh, Singapore 310161, in the Toa Payoh planning area.

What is 161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh zoned as?⌄

161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh sits on land zoned residential under the URA Master Plan, with a gross plot ratio of 3.

Have there been any recorded transactions at 161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh?⌄

No caveats have been lodged for 161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh in the URA records we track. That is common for buildings held by a single owner, which never generate strata transactions.

What is the nearest MRT station to 161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh?⌄

Toa Payoh MRT is the closest, 364 m away (about a 6-minute walk).

How many businesses are registered at 161 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh?⌄

12 businesses are currently registered at this address with ACRA. That is a measure of registered addresses, not of how many businesses physically occupy the building.

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Completion year: the year HDB records the block as completed (HDB Property Information).

Storeys: the block's highest floor level as HDB records it.

Submarket: PropKaki's own map from URA's planning subzones (CBD core, City Hall / Bugis, Orchard, city fringe, regional centres, suburban). Brokers draw these lines differently.

Station taps: average weekday fare-card taps in and out at the nearest MRT/LRT station (LTA DataMall). People passing the station's gates, not people visiting this building.

Foot-traffic score: PropKaki's relative score from nearby MRT and bus taps, workers and residents around (and, for retail, competing malls), ranked against buildings of the same kind. A percentile, not a count of people.

Unbuilt GFA cannot be computed here — it needs BCA built-GFA, which covers about 5% of commercial buildings and no industrial ones. Zoning and plot ratio are on record; headroom is not.

Tenure is not recorded for this building. Commercial tenure coverage is roughly 40% (industrial is far better at ~90%).

Reviewed by Nathan Tang

Nathan Tang has over 10 years of property experience across condominiums, HDB flats and commercial property, specialising in property research and finance.

Figures draw on URA and JTC records, URA Master Plan zoning, ACRA registrations and live commercial-portal listings; building facts from HDB Property Information, PropKaki's submarket map, HDB car park information (data.gov.sg), LTA DataMall passenger volumes, PropKaki's foot-traffic model — see our methodology. Last updated 8 November 2026. For general information, not financial advice.

Getting there and parking: LTA DataMall passenger volumes and car parks, URA Data Service car park rates, HDB and JTC car park information (data.gov.sg) and HDB's published parking charges, Census of Population 2020 and the Singapore Department of Statistics' June 2026 resident population (Singapore Open Data Licence). The foot-traffic score is PropKaki's own relative model, not a count.

Market context: figures cited from CBRE Research (Singapore Figures) and Cushman & Wakefield (Singapore MarketBeat), each with its quarter and report; flexible-workspace centres from the operators' public location lists; collective sales from marketing agents' announcements and news reports, each linked.

Rents: URA rental statistics for office and retail space by street (IRAS-stamped contracts), JTC J-SPACE rentals by building and by street, JTC price tenders, and URA REALIS rental grids. SLA tender results and JTC posted land rents are held for state and JTC land.