CommercialRESIDENTIALDistrict 18 · Tampines

216 Tampines Street 23

Reviewed by Nathan TangUpdated 10 November 2026

Quick Summary

216 Tampines Street 23 is a commercial building in District 18 · Tampines, on land zoned RESIDENTIAL under the URA Master Plan with a gross plot ratio of 2.8. ACRA records 9 live company registrations at this address.

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What are the key facts about 216 Tampines Street 23?

Key takeaway216 Tampines Street 23 is a commercial building in District 18 · Tampines, zoned RESIDENTIAL.

Asset class: Commercial
Land-use zone: RESIDENTIAL
Gross plot ratio: 2.8
Tenure: Not on record
District / Area: District 18 · Tampines
Address: —
Land area: 5,018 sqm
Completed: 1984 (HDB Property Information)
Storeys: 12 (HDB Property Information)
Submarket: Suburban
Transactions on record: None recorded
Live listings: None
ACRA registrations: 9

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 216 Tampines Street 23

216 Tampines Street 23 is a mixed-use building in Tampines (District 18). It is located along Tampines Street 23, Singapore 520216.

Under the URA Master Plan it sits on land zoned residential with a gross plot ratio of 2.8.

It occupies roughly 5,018 sqm of land with about 257,136 sqm of gross floor area.

9 businesses are currently registered at this address with ACRA.

The nearest MRT is Tampines East MRT, 323 m away (about a 5-minute walk). The closest bus stop (Opp Blk 216) is 37 m away (about a 1-minute walk). Tampines 1 is 849 m away (about a 13-minute walk).

What is 216 Tampines Street 23 zoned as?

Key takeaway216 Tampines Street 23 sits on land zoned RESIDENTIAL with a gross plot ratio of 2.8.

Land-use zone: RESIDENTIAL
Gross plot ratio: 2.8

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What does space at 216 Tampines Street 23 rent for?

Key takeawayNo street- or building-level rent is published here. Across District 18 retail, retail space rented at a median of $18.35 psf a month in 2026Q3, with the middle half of leases between $15.60 and $25.03. That is not this building's own rent, and never a quote for a particular unit.

Retail space — District 18 retail

Region band · 2026Q3

25th pct

$15.60

$167.95 psm

Median

$18.35

$197.55 psm

75th pct

$25.03

$269.47 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 18 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 216 Tampines Street 23

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

CBRE, 2Q 2026

Suburban: Rent S$32.95 psf/mth

Singapore Figures Q2 2026

Cushman & Wakefield, 2Q 2026

Suburban: Rent S$33.36 psf/mth · Vacancy 5.7% (1Q 2026) · Planned / under construction 1.53m 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 216 Tampines Street 23?

Key takeawayURA's planning decisions at 216 Tampines Street 23 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.

29 Sept 2009Approved
Additions & alterations
Proposed addition/alteration to the existing public housing development, blocks 210, 216, 229 & 230 with new lifts/ lift lobbies
20 Oct 2008Approved
Additions & alterations
Proposed covered linkways between hdb estate blk 210 to blk 211 & blk 216 to blk 217
24 Aug 2007Approved
Additions & alterations
Addition/alteration to the existing public housing development, blocks 215, 217 to 224 & 228 with new lifts, drop-off porches & general landscaping works at tampines neighbourhood 2 contract 16, 17(pt), 19(pt) & 20(pt)
27 Mar 2006Approved
Additions & alterations
Proposed covered linkways
27 Mar 2006Approved
Additions & alterations
Proposed covered linkways
9 Jul 2002Approved
Additions & alterations
Proposed covered linkway between hdb estate blocks 210/211, 210/216bus stop & 216/217
9 Jul 2002Approved
Additions & alterations
Proposed covered linkway between hdb estate blocks 214/215, 215/216 & 222/223

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 216 Tampines Street 23?

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

Retail rents — District 18 ($ psm/month, 2026Q3)

Floor level · size band	25th pct	Median	75th pct
Level 2 & 3 · 30 & Below	$288.17	$334.04	$372.08
B1 & Below · 30 & Below	$402.91	$419.52	$444.18
Level 1 · 30 & Below	$338.80	$476.56	$507.11
Level 2 & 3 · >30 - 100	$160.23	$185.71	$256.74
B1 & Below · >30 - 100	$242.12	$313.16	$407.37
Level 4 & Above · >30 - 100	$246.24	$280.87	$292.97
Level 1 · >30 - 100	$145.32	$182.85	$282.19
Level 1 · >100 - 300	$150.78	$175.58	$214.75

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 216 Tampines Street 23?

Key takeawayThe nearest MRT/LRT is Tampines East MRT, about 323 m away.

Getting around

Tampines East MRT323 m · ~5 min

Amenities nearby

Opp Blk 216 · 37 mYes Supermarket Pte Ltd · 71 mStreet 21 Clinic (Tampines) · 120 mTampines East Community Club · 225 mEducational Institution · 291 mTampines East MRT Exit B · 325 mPlace Of Worship · 352 mTampines Polyclinic · 845 mTampines 1 · 849 mSt. Andrew's Community Hospital · 1.4 km

Straight-line distances. Source: PropKaki amenities data.

Getting there and parking at 216 Tampines Street 23

Key takeawayThe nearest station is Tampines East (DT33), 323 m away — a moderately busy station, with about 39,000 taps in and out on an average weekday. 15 public car parks are within 500 m.

Foot traffic: busier than 92% of retail buildings

nearest MRT/LRT Tampines East (DT33) 323 m, about 39,000 taps a weekday; 1 more station within 1 km; bus stops within 400 m: 15, about 48,000 taps a weekday; Tampines: 84,200 resident workers (Census 2020, by workplace); about 85,000 residents within 1 km (June 2026); 2 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

Tampines East (DT33)323 m · about 39,000 weekday taps
Tampines (EW2 / DT32)323 m · about 114,000 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 216 Tampines Street 23. Transfers between lines don't tap, so interchanges read low.

Bus

15 bus stops within 400 m, with about 48,000 boardings and alightings on an average weekday.

Public car parks within 500 m

Blk 201A/201C Tampines Street 21 (HDB)72 m
S$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · 30 car lots
Blk 202A Tampines Street 21 (HDB)87 m
S$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 2.15 m · 247 car lots
Blk 210/230 Tampines Street 23 (HDB)91 m
S$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 4.5 m · 881 car lots
Blk 201E Tampines Street 21 (HDB)165 m
S$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · 81 car lots
Blk 202/205 Tampines Street 21 (HDB)179 m
S$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · 109 car lots

HDB season (car): Tier 1 $80/month (a resident's or registered HDB shop/industrial tenant's first car); Tier 2 (other cars, non-residents) $90 Rest of Island, $150 Designated Area, $165 Restricted Zone (surface). Which zone this car park is in is not published as data.

Nearest URA season parking: Changi North Area, 1.8 km away, S$90/month.

Public car parks only, by straight-line distance, with the operator's published rates. 216 Tampines Street 23's own car park, if it has one, and its charges are not in the open data.

How many companies are registered at 216 Tampines Street 23?

Key takeawayACRA records 9 live company registrations at this address, 4 of them in the last three years.

Live registrations: 9
Registered last 3 years: 4
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 216 Tampines Street 23

Where is 216 Tampines Street 23?⌄

216 Tampines Street 23 is at Tampines Street 23, Singapore 520216, in the Tampines planning area.

What is 216 Tampines Street 23 zoned as?⌄

216 Tampines Street 23 sits on land zoned residential under the URA Master Plan, with a gross plot ratio of 2.8.

Have there been any recorded transactions at 216 Tampines Street 23?⌄

No caveats have been lodged for 216 Tampines Street 23 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 216 Tampines Street 23?⌄

Tampines East MRT is the closest, 323 m away (about a 5-minute walk).

How many businesses are registered at 216 Tampines Street 23?⌄

9 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 10 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.