Lulu Hotel

Asset class

Commercial

Land-use zone

COMMERCIAL

Gross plot ratio

Subject to Evaluation

Tenure

Freehold

District / Area

District 1 · Outram

Address

76,78 Smith Street

Land area

251 sqm

Completed

Not on record

Storeys

3 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)

Submarket

City Fringe

Transactions on record

3 (records start 1995)

Live listings

None

ACRA registrations

1

Lulu Hotel is a commercial building in Outram (District 01). It is located along Smith Street, Singapore 058971.

Under the URA Master Plan it sits on land zoned commercial. The site falls within a conservation area, so external alterations are subject to URA conservation guidelines. It lies inside the Central Area.

The site is freehold. It occupies roughly 251 sqm of land.

3 transactions have been recorded here, at a median of S$2,589 psf. The most recent was in April 2010.

1 business is currently registered at this address with ACRA.

The nearest MRT is Chinatown MRT, 265 m away (about a 4-minute walk). The closest bus stop (New Bridge Ctr) is 57 m away (about a 1-minute walk).

Land-use zone

COMMERCIAL

Gross plot ratio

Subject to Evaluation

Conservation area

Chinatown (Kreta Ayer)

Conserved building

Yes

Urban design area

Udga

Central Area

Yes

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 Do not quote a plot ratio, and do not compute buildable GFA from it.

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URA/JTC records from 1995 — that is where the record starts, not when the building was built. Strata and land deals can mix in one building's history; compare like with like. sqm ↔ sq ft converter

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.

1. 10 Jun 2026Renewed
   Continued use as backpackers' hostel

   Continued use at the 2nd & 3rd storey units of the 3-storey buildings ts06 on lot 99346n at 76 & 78 smith street as backpackers' hostel (6 rooms and 58 beds) (chinatown (kreta ayer) conservation area)

2. 23 Mar 2023Renewed
   Continued use as backpackers' hostel

   Continued use at the 2nd & 3rd storey units of the 3-storey buildings ts06 on lot 99346n at 76 & 78 smith street as backpackers' hostel (6 rooms and 58 beds) (chinatown (kreta ayer) conservation area)

3. 8 Mar 2022Renewed
   Continued use as backpackers' hostel

   Continued use at the 2nd & 3rd storey units of the 3-storey buildings ts06 on lot 99346n at 76 & 78 smith street as backpackers' hostel (6 rooms and 58 beds) (chinatown (kreta ayer) conservation area)

4. 8 Apr 2021Renewed
   Continued use as backpackers' hostel

   Continued use at the 2nd & 3rd storey units of the 3-storey buildings ts06 on lot 99346n at 76 & 78 smith street as backpackers' hostel (6 rooms and 58 beds) (chinatown (kreta ayer) conservation area)

5. 9 Mar 2020Renewed
   Continued use as backpackers' hostel

   Continued use at the 2nd & 3rd storey units of the 3-storey buildings ts06 on lot 99346n at 76 & 78 smith street as backpackers' hostel (6 rooms and 58 beds) (chinatown (kreta ayer) conservation area)

6. 4 Mar 2019Renewed
   Continued use as backpackers' hostel

   Continued use at the 2nd & 3rd storey units of the 3-storey buildings ts06 on lot 99346n at 76 & 78 smith street as backpackers' hostel (6 rooms and 58 beds) (chinatown (kreta ayer) conservation area)

7. 5 Mar 2018Renewed
   Continued use as backpackers' hostel

   Continued use at the 2nd & 3rd storey units of the 3-storey buildings ts06 on lot 99346n at 76 & 78 smith street as backpackers' hostel (6 rooms and 58 beds) (chinatown (kreta ayer) conservation area)

8. 4 Sept 2017Renewed
   Continued use as backpackers' hostel

   Continued use at the 2nd & 3rd storey units of the 3-storey buildings ts06 on lot 99346n at 76 & 78 smith street as backpackers' hostel (6 rooms and 58 beds) (chinatown (kreta ayer) conservation area)

9. 29 Jul 2016Approved
   Additions & alterations

   Proposed amendment to approved additions & alterations to the 3-storey building including change of use from existing hotel to backpackers' hostel (6 rooms and 59 beds) at the 2nd & 3rd storey ts06 on lot 99346n at 76 & 78 smith street (chinatown (kreta ayer) conservation area)

10. 22 Apr 2016Approved
    Additions & alterations

    Proposed additions & alterations to the 3-storey building including change of use from existing hotel to backpackers' hostel (07 rooms and 71 beds) at the 2nd & 3rd storey ts06 on lot 99346n at 76 & 78 smith street (chinatown (kreta ayer) conservation area)

11. 10 Dec 2007Renewed
    Continued use as backpacker's hostel ts06

    Continued use of the 2nd & 3rd storey as backpacker's hostel ts06 on lot 99346n 78 , smith street,76 , smith street (chinatown (kreta ayer))

12. 6 Dec 2006Renewed
    Continued use as boarding house

    Continued use of 2nd & 3rd storey as boarding house on lot 99346 ts 6 at 76 & 78 smith street (chinatown (kreta ayer))

2 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).

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.

Straight-line distances. Source: PropKaki amenities data.

• Accommodation and food services
  1

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. ACRA, as of 2026-09-16.