52 Chin Swee Road
52 Chin Swee Road is a commercial building in District 3 · Outram, on land zoned COMMERCIAL & RESIDENTIAL under the URA Master Plan with a gross plot ratio of 3.5. 1 unit is currently listed for rent. ACRA records 3 live company registrations at this address.
What are the key facts about 52 Chin Swee Road?
- Asset class
- Commercial
- Land-use zone
- COMMERCIAL & RESIDENTIAL
- Gross plot ratio
- 3.5
- Tenure
- Not on record
- District / Area
- District 3 · Outram
- Address
- —
- Land area
- 11,998 sqm
- Completed
- 1973 (HDB Property Information)
- Storeys
- 20 (HDB Property Information)
- Submarket
- City Fringe
- Listed as
- Office, Shop / Shophouse
- Transactions on record
- None recorded
- Live listings
- 1
- ACRA registrations
- 3
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 52 Chin Swee Road
52 Chin Swee Road is a commercial building in Outram (District 03). It is located along Chin Swee Road, Singapore 160052.
Under the URA Master Plan it sits on land zoned commercial & residential with a gross plot ratio of 3.5. It lies inside the Central Area.
It occupies roughly 11,998 sqm of land with about 35,784 sqm of gross floor area.
70 businesses are currently registered at this address with ACRA.
The nearest MRT is Chinatown MRT, 508 m away (about a 8-minute walk). The closest bus stop (Opp State Ct) is 152 m away (about a 2-minute walk). Chinatown Point is 417 m away (about a 6-minute walk).
What is 52 Chin Swee Road zoned as?
- Land-use zone
- COMMERCIAL & RESIDENTIAL
- Gross plot ratio
- 3.5
- Urban design area
- Udga
- Central Area
- Yes
What does space at 52 Chin Swee Road rent for?
Office space on Chin Swee Road
Street level · 2026Q3S$ per sq ft per month · median +5.4% on a year earlier
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 on Chin Swee Road
Street level · 2025Q3S$ per sq ft per month (median only published) · median -33.4% on a year earlier
URA's percentiles of RETAIL rents (shop, F&B, entertainment, health & fitness) 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. Retail rent swings with floor and frontage, so the spread matters as much as the median. A median needs at least 2 buildings and 3 contracts (percentiles need 4); a blank means below that threshold, not zero.
Source: URA rental statistics by street (IRAS-stamped contracts).
Retail space — District 3 retail
Region band · 2026Q3S$ 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 3 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 52 Chin Swee Road
- Other City Areas: Rent S$21.21 psf/mth · Vacancy 7.4% (1Q 2026) · Planned / under construction 0.73m sq ft
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.
How fast units move at 52 Chin Swee Road
Rent: between 6 Aug 2026 and 28 Aug 2026, 0 new listings appeared and 0 came off (sold, let or withdrawn). Days on market: not enough history yet — we began tracking on 6 Aug 2026.
One count per unit, however many agents list it. Asking prices are not tracked over time, so price cuts are not shown.
What's been approved at 52 Chin Swee Road?
- 18 Oct 2024ApprovedAdditions & alterations
Proposed upgrading of community hall and awning at blk 52 on lot 00484k ts 08 chin swee road
- 4 Oct 2024RenewedContinued use as hotel bar
Continued use of 16th storey hotel rooms and gym as hotel bar at seacare hotel
- 4 Jul 2022ApprovedChange of use to shop
Proposed change of use of existing store and part of lobby on 2nd storey to shop
- 24 Mar 2022ApprovedAdditions & alterations
Retention and a/a works involving internal partitioning works, removal of shop and retention of works to the open terrace on the 2nd storey of the existing 9-storey office block and reinstatement of sunshade on the 15th storey of the existing 16th storey hotel block (103 rooms) on ts22-00570p at 52 chin swee road
- 25 Oct 2021RenewedContinued use as hotel bar
Continued use of 16th storey hotel rooms and gym as hotel bar at seacare hotel
- 4 Nov 2019RenewedContinued use as hotel bar
Continued use of 16th storey hotel rooms and gym as hotel bar at seacare hotel
- 20 Nov 2018RenewedFloor 2Continued use as backpackers hostel
Continued use of shop unit #02-XX as backpackers hostel
- 4 Dec 2017ApprovedChange of use to hotel bar
Proposed change of use of 16th storey hotel rooms and gym to hotel bar at seacare hotel on lot 00570p ts22 at 52 chin swee road (outram planning area)
- 7 Feb 2017RefusedChange of use to wine bar/lounge
Proposed change of use of 16th storey roof terrace and gym to wine bar/lounge at seacare hotel
- 21 Jan 2016ApprovedFloor 2Change of use to backpackers' hostel, business administration offices, training classroom and tou
Proposed change of use of unit #02-XX to backpackers' hostel, business administration offices, training classroom and tour agency office
- 11 Dec 2015RenewedFloor 2Continued use as backpackers hostel
Continued use of shop unit #02-XX as backpackers hostel at hdb block 52 chin swee road
- 5 Nov 2015RenewedFloor 2Continued use as backpackers hostel
Continued use of shop unit #02-XX as backpackers hostel at hdb block 52 chin swee road
28 earlier change-of-use and A&A decisions are on record since 2000.
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$54.50 per unit).
How does Chin Swee Road price?
Street figures cover strata deals only — land and strata PSF are not comparable.
What do commercial rents run near 52 Chin Swee Road?
Indicative area yield — District 3 retail
An INDICATIVE AREA yield for District 3 retail — NOT this building's yield, and not any unit's. Commercial rents are published as a district percentile grid, so both halves describe the district.
Priced on STRATA sales only: rent is quoted per unit of lettable area, and commercial land PSF runs far above strata — mixing them would shift the ratio sharply.
Net deducts the 10% non-residential property tax ONLY — not vacancy, maintenance, agent fees, financing, or the 9% GST on purchase.
Retail rents — District 3 ($ psm/month, 2026Q3)
| Floor level · size band | 25th pct | Median | 75th pct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Level 2 & 3 · 30 & Below | $78.10 | $94.74 | $116.67 |
| Level 1 · 30 & Below | $73.20 | $92.12 | $107.33 |
| Level 1 · >30 - 100 | $83.20 | $164.15 | $200.48 |
| Level 2 & 3 · >30 - 100 | $58.43 | $67.44 | $75.00 |
| Level 1 · >100 - 300 | $226.54 | $240.67 | $264.22 |
| Level 2 & 3 · >100 - 300 | $83.56 | $131.15 | $186.77 |
Office rents — Central Area ($ psm/month, 2026Q3)
| Building class · size band | 25th pct | Median | 75th pct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Category 2 · 100 & Below | $54.65 | $69.39 | $88.80 |
| Category 1 · 100 & Below | $103.62 | $122.24 | $132.43 |
| Category 1 · >100 - 200 | $116.28 | $126.99 | $148.35 |
| Category 2 · >100 - 200 | $65.57 | $82.87 | $97.63 |
| Category 1 · >200 - 500 | $114.67 | $128.09 | $145.77 |
| Category 2 · >200 - 500 | $64.83 | $82.57 | $94.73 |
| Category 1 · >500 - 1000 | $106.56 | $137.78 | $148.23 |
| Category 2 · >500 - 1000 | $85.04 | $89.34 | $109.80 |
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 available at 52 Chin Swee Road right now?
For rent (1)
- 52 Chin Swee Road2 agentsS$4k/mo · 600 sqft
What is near 52 Chin Swee Road?
Getting around
- Chinatown MRT508 m · ~8 min
Amenities nearby
Straight-line distances. Source: PropKaki amenities data.
Getting there and parking at 52 Chin Swee Road
nearest MRT/LRT Chinatown (NE4/DT19) 281 m, about 97,000 taps a weekday; 6 more stations within 1 km; bus stops within 400 m: 9, about 30,000 taps a weekday; Outram: 38,402 resident workers (Census 2020, by workplace); about 27,000 residents within 1 km (June 2026); 6 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
- Chinatown (NE4 / DT19)281 m · about 97,000 weekday taps
- Clarke Quay (NE5)487 m · about 31,000 weekday taps
- Outram Park (EW16 / NE3 / TE17)655 m · about 78,000 weekday taps
- Fort Canning (DT20)658 m · about 14,000 weekday taps
- Maxwell (TE18)732 m · about 23,000 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 52 Chin Swee Road. Transfers between lines don't tap, so interchanges read low.
Bus
9 bus stops within 400 m, with about 30,000 boardings and alightings on an average weekday.
Public car parks within 500 m
- Blk 34 Upper Cross Street Car Park (HDB)56 mS$1.20 per half-hour at midday on a weekday
- Blk 54 Chin Swee Road Mscp (HDB)60 mS$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 1.9 m · 260 car lots
- Blk 33 Park Crescent Mscp (HDB)197 mS$1.20 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 2.15 m · 576 car lots
- Blk 1 Jalan Kukoh Car Park (HDB)247 mS$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · 42 car lots
- Blk 8A Jalan Kukoh Mscp (HDB)290 mS$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 1.98 m · 360 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: Mohd Sultan-River Vall Ey Road Area, 536 m away, S$80/month.
Public car parks only, by straight-line distance, with the operator's published rates. 52 Chin Swee Road's own car park, if it has one, and its charges are not in the open data.
Who's registered at 52 Chin Swee Road?
- Other services2
- Wholesale and retail trade1
Registered businesses, not who occupies the space: companies, LLPs and branches whose REGISTERED address is this building (ACRA), by industry. Sole proprietors are not counted; no business is named. HDB block: only the shop floor (level 1 and basements) is counted; the flats above are homes. ACRA, as of 2026-09-16.
Frequently asked questions about 52 Chin Swee Road
Where is 52 Chin Swee Road?⌄
52 Chin Swee Road is at Chin Swee Road, Singapore 160052, in the Outram planning area.
What is 52 Chin Swee Road zoned as?⌄
52 Chin Swee Road sits on land zoned commercial & residential under the URA Master Plan, with a gross plot ratio of 3.5.
Have there been any recorded transactions at 52 Chin Swee Road?⌄
No caveats have been lodged for 52 Chin Swee Road 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 52 Chin Swee Road?⌄
Chinatown MRT is the closest, 508 m away (about a 8-minute walk).
How many businesses are registered at 52 Chin Swee Road?⌄
70 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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