CommercialCOMMERCIALDistrict 12 · Toa Payoh

490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh

Reviewed by Nathan TangUpdated 8 November 2026
Quick Summary

490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh is a commercial building in District 12 · Toa Payoh, on land zoned COMMERCIAL under the URA Master Plan. ACRA records 10 live company registrations at this address.

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What are the key facts about 490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh?

Key takeaway490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh is a commercial building in District 12 · Toa Payoh, zoned COMMERCIAL.
Asset class
Commercial
Land-use zone
COMMERCIAL
Gross plot ratio
Subject to Evaluation
Tenure
Not on record
District / Area
District 12 · Toa Payoh
Address
—
Land area
53,782 sqm
Completed
2002 (HDB Property Information)
Storeys
9 (HDB Property Information)
Submarket
City Fringe
Transactions on record
None recorded
Live listings
None
ACRA registrations
10

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.

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About 490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh

490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh is a commercial building in Toa Payoh (District 12). It is located along Lorong 6 Toa Payoh, Singapore 310490.

Under the URA Master Plan it sits on land zoned commercial.

It occupies roughly 53,782 sqm of land with about 187,529 sqm of gross floor area.

10 businesses are currently registered at this address with ACRA.

The nearest MRT is Toa Payoh MRT, 116 m away (about a 2-minute walk). The closest bus stop (Blk 177) is 178 m away (about a 3-minute walk). Square 2 is 1.4 km away.

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What is 490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh zoned as?

Key takeaway490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh sits on land zoned COMMERCIAL.
Land-use zone
COMMERCIAL
Gross plot ratio
Subject to Evaluation

URA has not published a fixed plot ratio for this site — the Master Plan records "EVA" (Subject to Evaluation), meaning intensity is decided case by case on application. Do not quote a plot ratio, and do not compute buildable GFA from it.

BCA-verified envelope: built 187,345 sqm. This block appears only where BCA has published the actual built floor area — everywhere else, buildable headroom cannot be verified and is deliberately not estimated.

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What does space at 490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh rent for?

Key takeawayNo rent is published for 490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh itself. On its street, Lorong 6 Toa Payoh, office space rented at a median of $6.51 psf a month in 2026Q3, with the middle half of leases between $5.82 and $6.68. That is not this building's own rent, and never a quote for a particular unit.

Office space on Lorong 6 Toa Payoh

Street level · 2026Q3
25th pct
$5.82
$62.69 psm
Median
$6.51
$70.07 psm
75th pct
$6.68
$71.92 psm

S$ per sq ft per month

URA's percentiles of OFFICE rents across every lease stamped with IRAS on this STREET in the quarter — the street's figure, not this building's rent and never a unit's. URA publishes a median only where the street has at least 2 office buildings and 3 contracts that quarter (percentiles need 4); a blank means below that threshold, not zero.

Source: URA rental statistics by street (IRAS-stamped contracts).

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).

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Market context around 490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh

Key takeawayBrokers' office figures for this part of Singapore — a broker's market figure, not this building's rent.
CBRE, 2Q 2026
  • Decentralised: Vacancy 3.6%
Singapore Figures Q2 2026
Cushman & Wakefield, 2Q 2026
  • City Fringe (all grades): Rent S$7.83 psf/mth · Vacancy 2.5% · Planned / under construction 1.35m sq ft
Singapore Office MarketBeat Q2 2026

Official series (URA, 2026Q3): Office vacancy rate (Whole Island) 10 (-1.2 pp on the year) · Office rental index (Central Region) 203.4 (+1.8% 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.

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What's been approved at 490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh?

Key takeawayURA's planning decisions at 490 Lorong 6 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.
  1. 19 Sept 2008Approved
    Additions & alterations

    Proposed additions and alterations involving conversion of the open planting area at 1st storey to covered retail shop at the existing hdb centre with bus interchange

  2. 7 Mar 2007Approved
    Additions & alterations

    Proposed additions and alterations involving conversion of the open planting area at 1st storey to covered retail shop, at the existing hdb centre with bus interchange

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).

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What do commercial rents run near 490 Lorong 6 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 band25th pctMedian75th 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.

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What is near 490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh?

Key takeawayThe nearest MRT/LRT is Toa Payoh MRT, about 116 m away.

Getting around

Amenities nearby

Doctors Inc Medical Group · 45 mToa Payoh MRT Exit A · 94 mNTUC Fairprice Co-operative Ltd · 165 mBlk 177 · 178 mToa Payoh Town Pk · 232 mPlace Of Worship · 238 mToa Payoh Central Community Club · 308 mEducational Institution · 440 mBlk 74 Toa Payoh Lorong 4 · 443 mHotel · 571 m

Straight-line distances. Source: PropKaki amenities data.

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Getting there and parking at 490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh

Key takeawayThe nearest station is Toa Payoh (NS19), 94 m away — a busy station, with about 76,000 taps in and out on an average weekday. 17 public car parks are within 500 m.
Foot traffic: busier than 42% of office buildings

nearest MRT/LRT Toa Payoh (NS19) 94 m, about 76,000 taps a weekday; 1 more station within 1 km; bus stops within 400 m: 12, about 78,000 taps a weekday; Toa Payoh: 53,749 resident workers (Census 2020, by workplace); about 71,000 residents within 1 km (June 2026). Ranked against 485 office 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), not a count of people.

Stations within 1 km

  • Toa Payoh (NS19)94 m · about 76,000 weekday taps
  • Braddell (NS18)900 m · about 31,000 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 490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh. Transfers between lines don't tap, so interchanges read low.

Bus

12 bus stops within 400 m, with about 78,000 boardings and alightings on an average weekday.

Public car parks within 500 m

  • Blk 480 480 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh (HDB)48 m
    S$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 2.1 m
  • Blk 190 Toa Payoh Central Mscp (HDB)50 m
    S$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 1.9 m
  • Blk 175/183 To 185 Toa Payoh Town Centre (HDB)79 m
    S$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 9.99 m · 667 car lots
  • Blk 177 To 179 Toa Payoh Town Centre (HDB)133 m
    S$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 4.4 m · 119 car lots
  • Blk 186/191 To 193 Toa Payoh Town Centre (HDB)244 m
    S$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 4.5 m · 266 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, 793 m away, S$90/month.

Public car parks only, by straight-line distance, with the operator's published rates. 490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh's own car park, if it has one, and its charges are not in the open data.

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How many companies are registered at 490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh?

Key takeawayACRA records 10 live company registrations at this address.
Live registrations
10
Registered last 3 years
0
Most common type
Local Company

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.

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What is 490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh's BCA building profile?

BCA building type
Office
Green Mark
Platinum (2014)
Energy use intensity
216 kWh/m²·yr
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Frequently asked questions about 490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh

Where is 490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh?⌄

490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh is at Lorong 6 Toa Payoh, Singapore 310490, in the Toa Payoh planning area.

What is 490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh zoned as?⌄

490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh sits on land zoned commercial under the URA Master Plan.

Have there been any recorded transactions at 490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh?⌄

No caveats have been lodged for 490 Lorong 6 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 490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh?⌄

Toa Payoh MRT is the closest, 116 m away (about a 2-minute walk).

How many businesses are registered at 490 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh?⌄

10 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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