CommercialCOMMERCIALConservationLeaseholdDistrict 1 · Outram

Porcelain Hotel

Reviewed by Nathan TangUpdated 8 November 2026Data through Nov 2021
Quick Summary

Porcelain Hotel is a commercial building in District 1 · Outram, on land zoned COMMERCIAL under the URA Master Plan. It is leasehold with roughly 75 years remaining. 4 transactions are on record since 1995, most recently in Nov 2021. ACRA records 0 live company registrations at this address.

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What are the key facts about Porcelain Hotel?

Key takeawayPorcelain Hotel is a commercial building in District 1 · Outram, zoned COMMERCIAL, held leasehold.
Asset class
Commercial
Land-use zone
COMMERCIAL
Gross plot ratio
Subject to Evaluation
Tenure
Leasehold
District / Area
District 1 · Outram
Address
46,47 Mosque Street
Land area
560 sqm
Completed
Not on record
Storeys
4 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Submarket
City Fringe
Transactions on record
4 (records start 1995)
Live listings
None
ACRA registrations
0
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About Porcelain Hotel

Porcelain Hotel is a commercial building in Outram (District 01). It is located along Mosque Street, Singapore 059524.

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 leasehold, with about 75 years remaining on the lease. It occupies roughly 560 sqm of land.

4 transactions have been recorded here, at a median of S$2,198 psf. The most recent was in November 2021.

The nearest MRT is Chinatown MRT, 77 m away (about a 1-minute walk). The closest bus stop (Opp Chinatown Stn) is 98 m away (about a 2-minute walk).

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What is Porcelain Hotel zoned as?

Key takeawayPorcelain Hotel sits on land zoned COMMERCIAL, with conservation status, inside the Central Area.
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 Do not quote a plot ratio, and do not compute buildable GFA from it.

BCA-verified envelope: built 3,700 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.

Run the full zoning report for this building →

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What has Porcelain Hotel sold for?

Key takeaway4 transactions are on record since 1995, most recently in Nov 2021 — too few to support a median, so the deals themselves are listed instead.
DateUsePriceAreaPSF
Nov 2021Shop HouseS$36.47M4,111 sqft$8,872
Dec 2010Shop HouseS$12.37M4,111 sqft$3,008
Jun 2004Shop HouseS$5.70M4,111 sqft$1,387
May 2002Shop HouseS$2.87M4,111 sqft$698

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

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What does space at Porcelain Hotel rent for?

Key takeawayNo street- or building-level rent is published here. Across District 1 retail, retail space rented at a median of $10.02 psf a month in 2026Q3, with the middle half of leases between $8.23 and $15.92. That is not this building's own rent, and never a quote for a particular unit.

Retail space — District 1 retail

Region band · 2026Q3
25th pct
$8.23
$88.64 psm
Median
$10.02
$107.81 psm
75th pct
$15.92
$171.42 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 1 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 Porcelain Hotel

Key takeawayBrokers' retail figures for this part of Singapore — a broker's market figure, not this building's rent.
CBRE, 2Q 2026 (island-wide)
  • Islandwide: Rent S$28.15 psf/mth
Singapore Figures Q2 2026
Cushman & Wakefield, 2Q 2026
  • Other City Areas: Rent S$21.21 psf/mth · Vacancy 7.4% (1Q 2026) · Planned / under construction 0.73m sq ft
Singapore Retail MarketBeat Q2 2026

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.

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What's been approved at Porcelain Hotel?

Key takeawayURA has approved 1 change of use at Porcelain Hotel since 2000, most recently in 2020. 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.
F&B and nightlife here

No new bars, pubs, nightclubs or karaoke lounges (a Historic Conservation Area).

Per URA's Use of Buildings in Conservation Areas. A planning guideline for the area, not a decision on any unit; it applies to new eating houses and bars, not to one already approved.

  1. 20 Sept 2021Renewed
    Continued use as restaurant

    Continued use at the 1st, 2nd & 3rd storey units of the 4-storey buildings ts06 on lot 00491x at 46 & 47 mosque street as restaurant (chinatown (kreta ayer) planning area)

  2. 17 Sept 2020Approved
    Change of use: hotel → restaurant

    Proposed change of use from hotel to restaurant at the 1st, 2nd & 3rd storey units of 4-storey buildings ts06 on lot 00491x at 46 & 47 mosque street (chinatown (kreta ayer) planning area)

  3. 10 Oct 2011Approved
    Additions & alterations

    Proposed amendment to approved addition and alteration change of use to hotel to existing 4-storey conserved building with roof mezzanine on lot 00491x ts06 at 46 & 47 mosque street [(outram planning area - kreta ayer (chinatown))

  4. 18 May 2011Approved
    Additions & alterations

    Proposed additions and alterations and change of use from office to hotel to existing 4-storey conserved building with roof mezzanine on lot 00419x ts 06 at 46 & 47 mosque street (chinatown (kreta ayer) conservation area) (outram planning area)

  5. 5 Nov 2004Approved
    Additions & alterations

    Proposed additions & alteration to the extg 4-storey shop & change of use of 1st storey from eating house to travel agency and use of 2nd, 3rd and roof mezzaanine as office

  6. 17 Nov 2003Approved
    Additions & alterations

    Proposed amendments to additions/alterations to existing 4-storey buildings and use of 1st storey as eating house and change of use of 2nd to 4th storey from hotel to office and use of roof mezzanine as office

  7. 21 Feb 2003Approved
    Additions & alterations

    Proposed addition/alteration to existing 4-storey building and use of 1st storey as eating house and change of use of 2nd to 4th storey from residential to hotel and use of roof mezzanine as office

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 Porcelain Hotel?

Key takeawayURA publishes contracted-rent percentile grids quarterly (latest: 2026Q3) — the benchmark evidence an asking rent should be weighed against.

Indicative area yield — District 1 retail

Gross yield (area)
3.4%
3.0% net of property tax
Rent side (median of bands)
$107.81 psm/mo
2026Q3
Price side (strata, 5y)
$3,561 psf
90 sales

An INDICATIVE AREA yield for District 1 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 1 ($ psm/month, 2026Q3)

Floor level · size band25th pctMedian75th pct
Level 2 & 3 · 30 & Below$82.69$99.35$120.39
Level 1 · 30 & Below$172.73$245.52$332.57
B1 & Below · 30 & Below$87.33$172.91$321.72
Level 2 & 3 · >30 - 100$77.43$95.09$183.52
Level 1 · >30 - 100$106.77$168.33$217.05
B1 & Below · >30 - 100$117.40$198.29$365.38
Level 1 · >100 - 300$115.69$148.57$187.43
B1 & Below · >100 - 300$148.73$233.33$396.56

Office rents — Central Area ($ psm/month, 2026Q3)

Building class · size band25th pctMedian75th 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.

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What is near Porcelain Hotel?

Key takeawayThe nearest MRT/LRT is Chinatown MRT, about 77 m away — and 3 competing retail premisess operate nearby.

Getting around

Amenities nearby

Chinatown MRT Exit G · 67 mPlace Of Worship · 97 mOpp Chinatown Stn · 99 mMinmed Clinic (River Valley) · 100 mHotel · 219 mKreta Ayer Community Club · 362 mHong Lim Pk · 378 mEducational Institution · 766 mOutram Polyclinic · 845 mSingapore General Hospital · 959 m

Competing premises nearby

Retail and F&B premises competing for the same footfall — context for an occupier, not a selling point.

Chinatown Point · 100 mNTUC Fairprice Co-operative Ltd · 100 mHong Lim Market & Food Centre · 200 m

Straight-line distances. Source: PropKaki amenities data.

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Getting there and parking at Porcelain Hotel

Key takeawayThe nearest station is Chinatown (NE4 / DT19), 66 m away — one of the busiest stations, with about 97,000 taps in and out on an average weekday. 34 public car parks are within 500 m.
Foot traffic: busier than 98% of retail buildings

nearest MRT/LRT Chinatown (NE4/DT19) 66 m, about 97,000 taps a weekday; 8 more stations within 1 km; bus stops within 400 m: 12, about 44,000 taps a weekday; Outram: 38,402 resident workers (Census 2020, by workplace); about 21,000 residents within 1 km (June 2026); 9 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)66 m · about 97,000 weekday taps
  • Maxwell (TE18)346 m · about 23,000 weekday taps
  • Clarke Quay (NE5)356 m · about 31,000 weekday taps
  • Telok Ayer (DT18)374 m · about 37,000 weekday taps
  • Outram Park (EW16 / NE3 / TE17)626 m · about 78,000 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 Porcelain Hotel. Transfers between lines don't tap, so interchanges read low.

Bus

12 bus stops within 400 m, with about 44,000 boardings and alightings on an average weekday.

Public car parks within 500 m

  • Mosque St (URA)46 m
    S$1.20 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · 55 car lots
  • Backlane (Upp Cross St - Mosque St) (URA)47 m
  • Backlane (Temple St - Pagoda St) (URA)123 m
  • Blk 533A Hong Lim Mscp (HDB)134 m
    S$1.20 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · gantry 1.9 m · 583 car lots
  • Temple St (URA)144 m
    S$1.20 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · 61 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: Mohd Sultan-River Vall Ey Road Area, 966 m away, S$80/month.

Public car parks only, by straight-line distance, with the operator's published rates. Porcelain Hotel'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 Porcelain Hotel?

Key takeawayACRA records 0 live company registrations at this address.
Live registrations
0
Registered last 3 years
0

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 Porcelain Hotel's BCA building profile?

BCA building type
Hotel
Green Mark
NA (NA)
Energy use intensity
205 kWh/m²·yr
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Frequently asked questions about Porcelain Hotel

Where is Porcelain Hotel?⌄

Porcelain Hotel is at 46,47 Mosque Street, Singapore 059524, in the Outram planning area.

What is Porcelain Hotel zoned as?⌄

Porcelain Hotel sits on land zoned commercial under the URA Master Plan.

What is the tenure of Porcelain Hotel?⌄

Porcelain Hotel is leasehold. About 75 years remain on the lease.

Is Porcelain Hotel a conserved property?⌄

Yes. Porcelain Hotel falls within a URA conservation area, so external works are subject to conservation guidelines.

What have units at Porcelain Hotel sold for?⌄

Across 4 recorded transactions, the median price is S$2,198 psf. The latest was in November 2021.

What is the nearest MRT station to Porcelain Hotel?⌄

Chinatown MRT is the closest, 77 m away (about a 1-minute walk).

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