Manulife Centre
Manulife Centre is a commercial building in District 7 · Museum, on land zoned COMMERCIAL under the URA Master Plan with a gross plot ratio of 4.2. It is 999-year leasehold. 1 transaction is on record since 1995, most recently in Dec 2015. 16 units are currently listed for rent. ACRA records 111 live company registrations at this address.
What are the key facts about Manulife Centre?
- Asset class
- Commercial
- Land-use zone
- COMMERCIAL
- Gross plot ratio
- 4.2
- Tenure
- 999-year leasehold
- District / Area
- District 7 · Museum
- Address
- 51 Bras Basah Road
- Land area
- 4,973 sqm
- Completed
- Not on record
- Storeys
- 11 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
- Submarket
- City Hall / Bugis
- Listed as
- Office, Food & Beverage
- Transactions on record
- 1 (records start 1995)
- Live listings
- 16
- ACRA registrations
- 111
About Manulife Centre
Manulife Centre is a commercial building in Museum (District 07). It is located along Bras Basah Road, Singapore 189554.
Under the URA Master Plan it sits on land zoned commercial with a gross plot ratio of 4.2. It lies inside the Central Area.
The site is 999-year leasehold, with about 805 years remaining on the lease. It occupies roughly 4,973 sqm of land with about 29,051 sqm of gross floor area.
1 transaction has been recorded here, at a median of S$9,108 psf. The most recent was in December 2015.
112 businesses are currently registered at this address with ACRA.
The nearest MRT is Bencoolen MRT, 119 m away (about a 2-minute walk). The closest bus stop (Opp Bencoolen Stn Exit B) is 53 m away (about a 1-minute walk). The Cathay is 301 m away (about a 5-minute walk).
What is Manulife Centre zoned as?
- Land-use zone
- COMMERCIAL
- Gross plot ratio
- 4.2
- Urban design area
- Udga
- Central Area
- Yes
What has Manulife Centre sold for?
| Date | Use | Price | Area | PSF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2015 | Office | S$487.50M | 53,522 sqft | $9,108 |
URA/JTC records from 1995 — that is where the record starts, not when the building was built. Strata and land deals can mix in one building's history; compare like with like. sqm ↔ sq ft converter
What does space at Manulife Centre rent for?
Office space on Bras Basah Road
Street level · 2026Q1S$ per sq ft per month (median only published)
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 Bras Basah Road
Street level · 2026Q3S$ per sq ft per month (median only published)
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 7 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 7 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 Manulife Centre
- City Hall / Marina Centre: Rent S$11.36 psf/mth · Vacancy 3.2% · Planned / under construction 0.00m sq ft
- Bugis: Rent S$12.12 psf/mth · Vacancy 11.9% · Planned / under construction 0.56m sq ft
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.
How fast units move at Manulife Centre
Rent: between 6 Aug 2026 and 28 Aug 2026, 1 new listing appeared and 1 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 Manulife Centre?
- 6 Oct 2026ApprovedFloor 1Change of use
Proposed addition of live entertainment to the existing restaurant with outdoor refreshment area at unit #01-XX
- 29 Jul 2026RenewedFloor 1Continued use as restaurant and bar with live entertainment and outdoor refreshment area
Continued use of unit #01-XX as restaurant and bar with live entertainment and outdoor refreshment area and unit #01-XX as restaurant and bar with live entertainment
- 17 Jun 2026ApprovedFloor 2Change of use to commercial school
Proposed change of use of units #02-XX, #02-XX and #02-XX to commercial school
- 10 Jul 2024RenewedFloor 1Continued use as restaurant and bar with live entertainment
Continued use of restaurant with outdoor refreshment area unit #01-XX and shop unit #01-XX as restaurant and bar with live entertainment at lazada one
- 12 Jan 2024ApprovedFloor 4Change of use: office → medical clinic
Proposed change of use of unit #04-XX from office to medical clinic at lazada one
- 16 Jun 2023ApprovedFloor 1Change of use: takeaway foodshop → restaurant
Proposed change of use of units #01-XX, #01-XX and #01-XX from takeaway foodshop to restaurant at lazada one
- 15 Mar 2023ApprovedFloor 1Change of use to restaurant and bar with outdoor refreshment area
Proposed change of use of restaurant with outdoor refreshment area unit #01-XX to restaurant and bar with outdoor refreshment area at lazada one
- 14 Oct 2022ApprovedFloor 1Change of use to restaurant and bar with live entertainment
Proposed change of use of restaurant with outdoor refreshment area unit #01-XX and shop unit #01-XX to restaurant and bar with live entertainment at lazada one
- 7 Mar 2022ApprovedAdditions & alterations
Proposed amendment to approved additions and alterations (facade improvement) at existing 11 storey office building with shops at 1st storey on lot 00432l ts11 at 51 bras basah road (museum planning area)
- 28 Jun 2021ApprovedAdditions & alterations
Proposed amendment to approved additions and alterations for 1st to 4th storey (including facade) of existing 11-storey office building with shops at 1st storey and surplus carpark conversion at 2nd and 3rd storey to shops on lot 00432l ts11 at 51 bras basah road (museum planning area)
- 26 Aug 2020ApprovedAdditions & alterations
Proposed additions and alterations (facade improvement) at existing 11 storey office building with shops at 1st storey on lot 00432l ts11 at 51 bras basah road (miuseum planning area)
- 19 May 2020ApprovedAdditions & alterations
Proposed additions and alterations for 1st to 4th storey (including facade) of existing 11-storey office building with shops at 1st storey and surplus carpark conversion at 2nd and 3rd storey to shops on lot 00432l ts11 at 51 bras basah road (museum planning area)
7 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$54.50 per unit).
What do commercial rents run near Manulife Centre?
Indicative area yield — District 7 retail
An INDICATIVE AREA yield for District 7 retail — NOT this building's yield, and not any unit's. Commercial rents are published as a district percentile grid, so both halves describe the district.
Priced on STRATA sales only: rent is quoted per unit of lettable area, and commercial land PSF runs far above strata — mixing them would shift the ratio sharply.
Net deducts the 10% non-residential property tax ONLY — not vacancy, maintenance, agent fees, financing, or the 9% GST on purchase.
Retail rents — District 7 ($ psm/month, 2026Q3)
| Floor level · size band | 25th pct | Median | 75th pct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Level 1 · 30 & Below | $93.33 | $113.33 | $165.94 |
| Level 4 & Above · 30 & Below | $69.42 | $79.17 | $140.05 |
| B1 & Below · 30 & Below | $94.66 | $392.16 | $721.70 |
| Level 2 & 3 · 30 & Below | $71.79 | $88.95 | $100.36 |
| Level 1 · >30 - 100 | $84.41 | $129.03 | $192.55 |
| Level 2 & 3 · >30 - 100 | $53.85 | $86.57 | $113.16 |
| B1 & Below · >30 - 100 | $71.03 | $80.88 | $146.17 |
| Level 4 & Above · >30 - 100 | $47.06 | $59.43 | $68.42 |
Office rents — Central Area ($ 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 Manulife Centre right now?
For rent (16)
- Lazada OneS$49k/mo · 4,413 sqft
- Lazada OneS$65k/mo · 7,233 sqft
- Lazada OneS$55k/mo · 5,027 sqft
- Lazada OneS$20k/mo · 1,830 sqft
What is near Manulife Centre?
Getting around
- Bencoolen MRT119 m · ~2 min
Amenities nearby
Straight-line distances. Source: PropKaki amenities data.
Getting there and parking at Manulife Centre
nearest MRT/LRT Bras Basah (CC2) 34 m, about 10,000 taps a weekday; 9 more stations within 1 km; bus stops within 400 m: 16, about 32,000 taps a weekday; Museum: 12,672 resident workers (Census 2020, by workplace); about 11,000 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
- Bras Basah (CC2)34 m · about 10,000 weekday taps
- Bencoolen (DT21)78 m · about 20,000 weekday taps
- Dhoby Ghaut (NS24 / NE6 / CC1)383 m · about 64,000 weekday taps
- City Hall (NS25 / EW13)522 m · about 91,000 weekday taps
- Bugis (EW12 / DT14)657 m · about 109,000 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 Manulife Centre. Transfers between lines don't tap, so interchanges read low.
Bus
16 bus stops within 400 m, with about 32,000 boardings and alightings on an average weekday.
Public car parks within 500 m
- Waterloo St (URA)198 mS$1.20 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · 14 car lots
- Blk 261/262/264 Waterloo Basement Car Park (HDB)221 mS$1.20 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 1.9 m · 143 car lots
- Service Rd (Queen - Wa Terloo St) (URA)289 mS$1.20 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · 3 car lots
- Prinsep St (Middle - R Ochor Canal) (URA)328 mS$1.20 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · 50 car lots
- Fort Canning Park A Of F St (URA)337 mS$1.20 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · 46 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: Mackenzie Road Area, 913 m away, S$100/month.
Public car parks only, by straight-line distance, with the operator's published rates. Manulife Centre's own car park, if it has one, and its charges are not in the open data.
Who's registered at Manulife Centre?
- Information and communications35
- Financial and insurance33
- Professional, scientific and technical services15
- Wholesale and retail trade10
- Transportation and storage9
- Administrative and support services7
- Accommodation and food services2
- Real estate0
- Other services0
- Health and social services0
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.
What is Manulife Centre's BCA building profile?
- BCA building type
- Office
- Green Mark
- Platinum (2017)
- Energy use intensity
- 224 kWh/m²·yr
Frequently asked questions about Manulife Centre
Where is Manulife Centre?⌄
Manulife Centre is at 51 Bras Basah Road, Singapore 189554, in the Museum planning area.
What is Manulife Centre zoned as?⌄
Manulife Centre sits on land zoned commercial under the URA Master Plan, with a gross plot ratio of 4.2.
What is the tenure of Manulife Centre?⌄
Manulife Centre is 999-year leasehold. About 805 years remain on the lease.
What have units at Manulife Centre sold for?⌄
Across 1 recorded transaction, the median price is S$9,108 psf. The latest was in December 2015.
What is the nearest MRT station to Manulife Centre?⌄
Bencoolen MRT is the closest, 119 m away (about a 2-minute walk).
How many businesses are registered at Manulife Centre?⌄
112 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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