53 Telok Blangah Drive
53 Telok Blangah Drive is a commercial building in District 4 · Bukit Merah, 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.
What are the key facts about 53 Telok Blangah Drive?
- Asset class
- Commercial
- Land-use zone
- RESIDENTIAL
- Gross plot ratio
- 2.8
- Tenure
- Not on record
- District / Area
- District 4 · Bukit Merah
- Address
- —
- Land area
- 944 sqm
- Completed
- 1977 (HDB Property Information)
- Storeys
- 20 (HDB Property Information)
- Submarket
- City Fringe
- 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 53 Telok Blangah Drive
53 Telok Blangah Drive is a mixed-use building in Bukit Merah (District 04). It is located along Telok Blangah Drive, Singapore 100053.
Under the URA Master Plan it sits on land zoned residential with a gross plot ratio of 2.8.
It occupies roughly 944 sqm of land with about 2,642 sqm of gross floor area.
9 businesses are currently registered at this address with ACRA.
The nearest MRT is Telok Blangah MRT, 440 m away (about a 7-minute walk). The closest bus stop (Blk 54) is 162 m away (about a 2-minute walk). HarbourFront Centre is 1.5 km away.
What is 53 Telok Blangah Drive zoned as?
- Land-use zone
- RESIDENTIAL
- Gross plot ratio
- 2.8
What does space at 53 Telok Blangah Drive rent for?
Retail space — District 4 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 4 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 53 Telok Blangah Drive
- 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.
What's been approved at 53 Telok Blangah Drive?
- 2 Dec 2005ApprovedAdditions & alterations
Proposed main upgrading works to blangah view - batch 13 (neighbourhood 3 contracts 3, 4 & 6)
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$54.50 per unit).
What do commercial rents run near 53 Telok Blangah Drive?
Retail rents — District 4 ($ psm/month, 2026Q3)
| Floor level · size band | 25th pct | Median | 75th pct |
|---|---|---|---|
| B1 & Below · >30 - 100 | $327.15 | $377.29 | $413.21 |
| Level 2 & 3 · >30 - 100 | $438.57 | $460.53 | $532.53 |
| Level 1 · >30 - 100 | $210.99 | $452.85 | $613.41 |
| B1 & Below · >100 - 300 | $158.73 | $202.94 | $277.38 |
| Level 2 & 3 · >100 - 300 | $230.89 | $234.71 | $285.90 |
| Level 1 · >100 - 300 | $102.84 | $248.51 | $305.96 |
| Level 1 · >300 | $118.87 | $146.96 | $173.51 |
| Level 2 & 3 · >300 | $126.62 | $129.06 | $145.34 |
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 53 Telok Blangah Drive?
Getting around
- Telok Blangah MRT440 m · ~7 min
Amenities nearby
Straight-line distances. Source: PropKaki amenities data.
Getting there and parking at 53 Telok Blangah Drive
nearest MRT/LRT Telok Blangah (CC28) 433 m, about 9,733 taps a weekday; bus stops within 400 m: 9, about 8,752 taps a weekday; Bukit Merah: 103,575 resident workers (Census 2020, by workplace); about 27,000 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
- Telok Blangah (CC28)433 m · 9,733 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 53 Telok Blangah Drive. Transfers between lines don't tap, so interchanges read low.
Bus
9 bus stops within 400 m, with 8,752 boardings and alightings on an average weekday.
Public car parks within 500 m
- Blk 57A Telok Blangah Heights (HDB)85 mS$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 2.15 m · 423 car lots
- Blk 52A Telok Blangah Drive (HDB)113 mS$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 2.15 m · 400 car lots
- Blk 50/71 Telok Blangah Drive (HDB)185 mS$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 4.5 m · 366 car lots
- Blk 70 Telok Blangah Heights (HDB)228 mS$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 2.15 m · 529 car lots
- Blk 73A Telok Blangah Street 32 (HDB)270 mS$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 2.15 m · 243 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: Seah Im Rd Off St, 977 m away, S$125/month.
Public car parks only, by straight-line distance, with the operator's published rates. 53 Telok Blangah Drive's own car park, if it has one, and its charges are not in the open data.
How many companies are registered at 53 Telok Blangah Drive?
- Live registrations
- 9
- Registered last 3 years
- 2
- 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 53 Telok Blangah Drive
Where is 53 Telok Blangah Drive?⌄
53 Telok Blangah Drive is at Telok Blangah Drive, Singapore 100053, in the Bukit Merah planning area.
What is 53 Telok Blangah Drive zoned as?⌄
53 Telok Blangah Drive 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 53 Telok Blangah Drive?⌄
No caveats have been lodged for 53 Telok Blangah Drive 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 53 Telok Blangah Drive?⌄
Telok Blangah MRT is the closest, 440 m away (about a 7-minute walk).
How many businesses are registered at 53 Telok Blangah Drive?⌄
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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