Arina East Residences

Arina East Residences is the first new freehold address to land on the Tanjong Rhu peninsula since the trains arrived, in a pocket where nearly everything else is 99-year stock from the 1990s. That scarcity is what the pricing asks you to pay for, and the sections below test the numbers, the formats and the supply picture behind it.

Arina East Residences Prices: What the Freehold Premium Costs

Price this against its neighbours before the market. Liv@MB is the closest read, 298 leasehold units completed in 2025 roughly 430m away at the same station, so the gap between the two is the clean freehold-against-leasehold spread in this pocket. Meyer Blue brings 226 freehold units on the Meyer stretch with TOP expected 2027, and Piccadilly Grand at 407 units from 2025 shows what an integrated leasehold product trades at nearby. Nearer the coast, Coastline Residences and Carpmael Thirty-Eight fill out the small freehold field.

Now the numbers. As of July 2026 the last sixty caveats cleared between $2,608 and $3,161 psf at a median near $2,774 psf. Over twelve months, 77 caveats run $2,562 to $3,203 psf at a $2,785 median, so the band held as absorption picked up rather than softening to move stock. These are new-sale prices, and the roughly 25 percent spread between the weakest and strongest stacks shows how differently the market reads this building floor by floor.

Developer stock has thinned. The one-bedroom type is sold out, and what remains opens at $1,830,000 for the two-bedroom deluxe at $2,699 psf and $2,280,000 for the two-bedroom premium at $2,861 psf. The four-bedroom tier runs $3,958,650 for the private-lift format at $2,850 psf and $4,449,000 for the premium-plus-study at $2,650 psf. Read that psf column against itself before the quantum, because the largest unit on the list carries the lowest rate. The project also predates GFA harmonisation, so its strata areas still include aircon ledges a post-harmonisation launch excludes. Our Q2 2026 property market review puts the city-fringe band in context and our piece on District 15 new launch versus resale covers the choice buyers here are actually making.

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Arina East Residences Floor Plans: Four Formats, 107 Homes

The Arina East Residences floor plan set is finer than a 107-unit project needed to be. The two-bedroom band splits into deluxe formats from 678 sqft and premium formats to 861 sqft, the three-bedroom band runs 969 to 1,238 sqft with a premium tier inside it, and the four-bedroom homes reach 1,679 sqft, including a private-lift format and a plus-study variant. Compare those two four-bedders carefully, because the developer prices them very differently per square foot.

Run the ladder at the July 2026 median of about $2,774 psf and it prices out cleanly. The 495 sqft one-bedder lands near $1.37m, the two-bedroom band between $1.88m and $2.39m, the three-bedroom band from $2.69m to $3.43m, and the four-bedroom formats between $3.67m and $4.66m. That is arithmetic on the caveat record rather than quotes, and in an estate this small one good stack can sit well above the median. The prints agree: a 495 sqft one-bedroom cleared at $1,318,000 in July 2026, an 861 sqft two-bedroom at $2,287,320 the same month, and a 1,195 sqft penthouse at $3,161 psf for $3,777,000, the highest rate on file.

Facilities at Arina East Residences read vertically rather than horizontally. At a plot ratio of 2.1 the blocks leave ground instead of covering it, and the drawings show a rooftop lap pool and sky terraces stacked up the towers rather than one deck at grade. Two checks at the viewing: track and road noise, since a station inside 250m puts rail or traffic within earshot of some stacks, and the afternoon sun on the unit itself.

Is Arina East Residences Worth Buying? The Peninsula Supply Count

The pocket, not the district, is the unit that matters. The Tanjong Rhu subzone holds 20 private developments and about 4,621 homes, a closed set built mostly through the 1990s and early 2000s. Two projects are under construction inside it: Arina East Residences itself, and the Tanjong Rhu Road government land sale site adding 525 units around 2030. That is the whole future supply on the peninsula.

The Kallang planning area around it carries 124 private developments and about 14,805 homes, of which only 19 projects and 4,504 units date from 2016 or later. The pipeline after 2026 sits mostly elsewhere: The Arcady at Boon Keng adds 172 units in 2027, and the Dorset Road and Kallang Close land sale sites bring 425 and 450 units around 2030 in the Bendemeer and Kallang Bahru pockets. District 15 as a whole holds 453 condominiums and about 34,126 private homes, yet only fifty of those projects are ten years old or newer, and our guide to why District 15 is 94 percent freehold explains how that tenure map formed.

Tenure and scale are the structural arguments, and they pull opposite ways. Freehold removes the lease arithmetic, the CPF tightening and the forced exit timing that shape every 99-year building on this road, and our guide to 99-year versus freehold sets out where that is worth paying for. Scale is the other half: 107 units keeps listings scarce, but 107 owners split fixed maintenance costs a 400-unit estate spreads much wider, so ask for the accounts and the sinking-fund balance. Our piece on the truth about boutique condos works through what a small unit count does and does not do for resale.

On absorption, 85 caveats had been lodged by July 2026 against 107 units, 22 in 2025 and 63 through July 2026. Selling faster in year two than at launch is the normal shape where buyers pick a specific stack rather than a ballot slot. For the letting side of the wait to 2028, our rental yields guide sets out how we underwrite the maths, and the URA Master Plan shows what is still planned for the basin.

Who Arina East Residences Suits

Arina East Residences suits investors and couples who want new freehold beside a new MRT line, professionals working the core who value a 250m station walk more than a school radius, and buyers who want a small address with one-to-one parking rather than a thousand-unit estate. The Kallang Basin does much of the daily work: the Sports Hub, the rowing water, Katong Park and the connector through to East Coast Park.

Whoever takes the keys after you writes the ending. At completion Arina East Residences is a new freehold address with a rooftop pool 250m from Katong Park MRT, set against a rental pocket mostly thirty years old, and landlords holding the compact stacks can price that gap while new supply stays thin. The exit audience is the one buying now: professionals, couples and investors who want the tenure and the station.

Fit runs the other way too. Ballot-planning families belong in the Katong cluster, where the primaries fall inside the circle. If entry price decides it, Liv@MB offers the same station on a 99-year title for less. And if you want a mall at the lift lobby, this pocket spreads its retail across Leisure Park Kallang, Kallang Wave Mall and City Plaza instead.

Thinking about Arina East Residences? The spread against Liv@MB, freehold against leasehold at the same station, is the comparison that decides this pocket. Before you commit, speak to us. We’ll run the numbers with you, honest advice, no pressure. WhatsApp us.