IndustrialBUSINESS 2LeaseholdDistrict 19 · Hougang

Geo-Tele Centre

Reviewed by Nathan TangUpdated 8 November 2026Data through Sept 2018
Quick Summary

Geo-Tele Centre is a industrial building in District 19 · Hougang, on land zoned BUSINESS 2 under the URA Master Plan with a gross plot ratio of 2.5. It is leasehold. 2 transactions are on record since 1995, most recently in Sept 2018. ACRA records 0 live company registrations at this address.

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What are the key facts about Geo-Tele Centre?

Key takeawayGeo-Tele Centre is a industrial building in District 19 · Hougang, zoned BUSINESS 2, held leasehold.
Asset class
Industrial
Land-use zone
BUSINESS 2
Gross plot ratio
2.5
Tenure
Leasehold
District / Area
District 19 · Hougang
Address
9 Tai Seng Drive
Land area
8,129 sqm
Completed
Not on record
Storeys
6 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Owner
CapitaLand Ascendas REIT (SGX filings)
Land lease expires
2055 (the owner's SGX filings)
Estate (JTC)
Tai Seng Industrial Estate
Transactions on record
2 (records start 1995)
Live listings
None
ACRA registrations
0
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Who owns Geo-Tele Centre, and what is it valued at?

Key takeawayGeo-Tele Centre is owned by CapitaLand Ascendas REIT, a REIT listed on SGX. The figures below come from its own SGX filings, each with its date. A valuation is an independent valuer's opinion for the owner's accounts, not a sale price.
9 Tai Seng Drive
Valued at S$472 million as at 31 Dec 2025, by Savills.
9 Tai Seng Drive: CapitaLand Ascendas REIT's annual report (2025)
Occupancy
100% (as of 31 Dec 2025)
Whole-building deals
  1. Announced 28 May 2025
    HSBC Institutional Trust Services (Singapore) Limited, in its capacity as trustee of CLAR bought 9 Tai Seng Drive from Perpetual (Asia) Limited (in its capacity as trustee of CapitaLand Data Centre Trust (CDCT)).
    At the time: NLA 75,003 sq ft · occupancy 100% · WALE 4.4 years
  2. Announced 28 May 2025
    HSBC Institutional Trust Services (Singapore) Limited, in its capacity as trustee of CLAR bought 9 Tai Seng Drive for S$455.2 million (agreed property value) from Perpetual (Asia) Limited (in its capacity as trustee of CapitaLand Data Centre Trust).
    At the time: WALE 4.4 years
  3. Announced 10 Jan 2019 · completed 10 Jan 2019
    Sold Geo‐Tele Centre.
  4. Announced 26 Sep 2018
    HSBC Institutional Trust Services (Singapore) Limited in its capacity as trustee of Sabana REIT sold 9 Tai Seng Drive, Geo‐Tele Centre for S$99.6 million (sale consideration) to Perpetual (Asia) Limited in its capacity as trustee of ADC Singapore Trust.

Source: the owners' own filings on SGX — notices of valuation of real assets, acquisition and divestment announcements, and annual reports. Facts only, each with its date; a valuation is not a sale price, and occupancy and WALE are as of the date shown. Only REITs and SGX-listed companies file these: a building with a private owner shows no owner here.

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About Geo-Tele Centre

Geo-Tele Centre is an industrial building in Hougang (District 19). It is located along Tai Seng Drive, Singapore 535227.

Under the URA Master Plan the site is zoned Business 2 with a gross plot ratio of 2.5. Business 2 zoning covers general industry with a nuisance buffer of 100 m, including heavier trades.

The site is leasehold, with about 0 years left to run. A tail that short materially narrows the pool of banks willing to finance a purchase. It sits on about 8,129 sqm of land with roughly 20,145 sqm of gross floor area.

2 transactions have been recorded here, at a median of S$834 psf. The most recent was in September 2018.

Across JTC's rental returns for Tai Seng Drive, the median rent for industrial space on this street works out to about S$1.50 psf per month over 38 observations. Observed medians on the street span S$0.46 to S$3.00 psf per month. These are street-level figures from undated JTC snapshots, not a rent quoted for this property.

The nearest port or airport land is about 8.1 km away. The closest business-park zone is about 456 m away. The nearest MRT is Tai Seng MRT, 723 m away (about a 11-minute walk). The closest bus stop (Bef Airport Rd) is 140 m away (about a 2-minute walk).

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What is Geo-Tele Centre zoned as?

Key takeawayGeo-Tele Centre sits on land zoned BUSINESS 2 with a gross plot ratio of 2.5.
Land-use zone
BUSINESS 2
Gross plot ratio
2.5

Run the full zoning report for this building →

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What has Geo-Tele Centre sold for?

Key takeaway2 transactions are on record since 1995, most recently in Sept 2018 — too few to support a median, so the deals themselves are listed instead.
DateUsePriceAreaPSF
Sept 2018Single-user FactoryS$99.60M87,498 sqft$1,138
May 2010Single-user FactoryS$46.30M87,498 sqft$529

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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Market context around Geo-Tele Centre

Key takeawayBrokers' industrial figures for Singapore as a whole — a broker's market figure, not this building's rent.
CBRE, 2Q 2026 (island-wide)
  • Factory (ground floor): Rent S$1.81 psf/mth
  • Factory (upper floor): Rent S$1.41 psf/mth
  • Prime logistics: Rent S$1.87 psf/mth · Capital value S$245 psf · Net yield 6.5%
  • Warehouse (ground floor): Rent S$1.91 psf/mth
  • Warehouse (upper floor): Rent S$1.39 psf/mth
Singapore Figures Q2 2026
Cushman & Wakefield, 2Q 2026 (island-wide)
  • Factory - Ground Floor: Rent S$1.79 psf/mth
  • Factory - Upper Floor: Rent S$1.57 psf/mth
  • High-Tech: Rent S$3.56 psf/mth
  • Prime Logistics - Ground Floor: Rent S$1.92 psf/mth
  • Prime Logistics - Upper Floor: Rent S$1.74 psf/mth
  • Warehouse - Ground Floor: Rent S$1.81 psf/mth
  • Warehouse - Upper Floor: Rent S$1.49 psf/mth
Singapore Industrial MarketBeat Q2 2026

Official series (JTC, 2026Q3): Multiple-User Factory occupancy (island-wide) 90.3% (-0.7 pp on the year) · Single-User Factory occupancy (island-wide) 89.1% (0 pp on the year) · Warehouse occupancy (island-wide) 89.7% (+0.1 pp 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 Geo-Tele Centre?

Key takeawayURA's planning decisions at Geo-Tele Centre since 2000 are below. 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.
  1. 6 Feb 2025Agency works
    Additions & alterations

    Proposed additions and alterations to existing level 5 and roof level of an existing 6-storey industrial building (data centre)

  2. 4 Nov 2022Agency works
    Additions & alterations

    Proposed fitted out works of an existing 6-storey industrial building (data centre) with additional cooling tower at roof on lot 04979l mk23 at 9 tai seng drive singapore 535227

  3. 25 Mar 2021Agency works
    Additions & alterations

    Proposed data centre fitted out works to level 6 of the existing 6-storey industrial building with basement (data centre) on lot 04979l mk23 at 9 tai seng drive singapore 535227

  4. 26 Jul 2020Agency works
    Additions & alterations

    Proposed additions & alterations to existing 6-storey data centre building with basement carpark

  5. 27 Sept 2019Approved
    Additions & alterations

    Proposed regularisation of gfa and amendment to approved additions and alterations of an existing 6-storey industrial building with basement (data centre) on lot 04979l mk 23 at 9 tai seng drive

  6. 2 May 2019Approved
    Additions & alterations

    Proposed additions and alterations of an existing 6-storey industrial building with basement (data centre)

  7. 2 Apr 2002Approved
    Additions & alterations

    Regularization of gross floor area and amendment to approved alterations/additions to the existing 6-storey single user single occupier warehouse block with a basement carpark for type 1-e business

  8. 26 Oct 2001Approved
    Additions & alterations

    Proposed alterations/additions to the existing 6-storey single-user single-occupier warehouse block with a basement carpark for type 1-e business

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 is near Geo-Tele Centre?

Key takeawayThe nearest MRT/LRT is Tai Seng MRT, about 723 m away.

Getting around

Amenities nearby

Bef Airport Rd · 140 mBusiness Park · 456 mThe Clinic @ Tai Seng · 612 mTai Seng MRT Exit A · 757 mEducational Institution · 903 m

Straight-line distances. Source: PropKaki amenities data.

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Getting there and parking at Geo-Tele Centre

Key takeawayThe nearest station is Tai Seng (CC11), 701 m away — a busy station, with about 45,000 taps in and out on an average weekday. 7 public car parks are within 500 m; the cheapest URA season parking nearby is S$90 a month.
Foot traffic: busier than 75% of industrial buildings

nearest MRT/LRT Tai Seng (CC11) 701 m, about 45,000 taps a weekday; bus stops within 400 m: 7, about 4,447 taps a weekday; Hougang: 43,772 resident workers (Census 2020, by workplace); about 19,000 residents within 1 km (June 2026). Ranked against 8,225 industrial 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

  • Tai Seng (CC11)701 m · about 45,000 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 Geo-Tele Centre. Transfers between lines don't tap, so interchanges read low.

Bus

7 bus stops within 400 m, with 4,447 boardings and alightings on an average weekday.

Public car parks within 500 m

  • Tai Seng Drive (URA)115 m
    S$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · 8 car lots
  • Defu Lane 12 (JTC)278 m
  • Ubi Avenue 4 (JTC)408 m
  • Tai Seng Ave (URA)423 m
    S$0.60 per half-hour at midday on a weekday · 47 car lots
  • Defu Lane 11 (JTC)424 m

Public car parks only, by straight-line distance, with the operator's published rates. Geo-Tele Centre's own car park, if it has one, and its charges are not in the open data.

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Who's registered at Geo-Tele Centre?

Key takeaway0 live companies (and LLPs and branches; sole proprietors are not counted) list Geo-Tele Centre as their registered address. These are registered businesses, not who occupies the space.
  • Financial and insurance
    0
  • Wholesale and retail trade
    0
  • Accommodation and food services
    0
  • Information and communications
    0
  • Construction
    0
  • Professional, scientific and technical services
    0
  • Administrative and support services
    0
  • Education
    0

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.

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What does industrial space rent for on this street?

Key takeawayJTC's street-level record shows a median of S$16.15 psm/month — an all-time median from 2000 onwards, not a current rent.
Street rent, median
S$16.15 psm/mo
Observed range
S$4.91 – S$32.25

JTC street medians span 2000 to today and are an all-time level, not today's asking rent; the forward pipeline is a forecast, not committed completions.

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Frequently asked questions about Geo-Tele Centre

Where is Geo-Tele Centre?⌄

Geo-Tele Centre is at 9 Tai Seng Drive, Singapore 535227, in the Hougang planning area.

What is Geo-Tele Centre zoned as?⌄

Geo-Tele Centre is zoned Business 2 under the URA Master Plan, with a gross plot ratio of 2.5. Business 2 zoning covers general industry with a nuisance buffer of 100 m, including heavier trades.

What kind of business can operate at Geo-Tele Centre?⌄

Business 2 zoning covers general industry with a nuisance buffer of 100 m, including heavier trades. The specific trade still has to be approved, so check the permissible-use list for your activity.

What is the tenure of Geo-Tele Centre?⌄

Geo-Tele Centre is leasehold. About 0 years remain on the lease. Financing gets harder below roughly 30 years, so factor that into any purchase.

What have units at Geo-Tele Centre sold for?⌄

Across 2 recorded transactions, the median is S$834 psf. The latest was in September 2018.

What does industrial space near Geo-Tele Centre rent for?⌄

JTC's rental returns for Tai Seng Drive put the median at about S$1.50 psf per month. That is a street-level figure from undated snapshots covering all industrial space on Tai Seng Drive, not a rent quoted for Geo-Tele Centre itself.

What is the nearest MRT station to Geo-Tele Centre?⌄

Tai Seng MRT is the closest, 723 m away (about a 11-minute walk).

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