61 Media Circle, Singapore 139815
Bloomsbury Residences is a 358-unit 99-year leasehold condominium at 61, 63 and 65 Media Circle, and it is the one launch in the one-north cluster drawn for families rather than tenants. Two facts carry it: 168 of its 358 homes hold three bedrooms or more, and it came to market as the value entry among the Media Circle launches. Qingjian Realty and Forsea Holdings opened sales on 11 April 2025, with TOP expected in the third quarter of 2028.
Transport needs stating plainly. Commonwealth (EW20) is the nearest station at about 960m from the door, and nothing sits at the lift lobby. One-north (CC23) on the Circle Line is the more useful platform for most trips even though it is not the closest. What the address gives back is spread, with Kent Ridge, Queenstown, Buona Vista, Holland Village and Haw Par Villa inside 2km as well, seven stations across two lines.
Families are buying the school bench. New Town Primary School sits inside the 1km radius that decides ballot priority under P1 registration, with Fairfield Methodist School (Primary) and Queenstown Primary School inside 2km. Our complete guide to the 2026 Primary One registration exercise maps each phase and what it takes. The bench above that is the stronger half of the story: Queensway Secondary School, Fairfield Methodist School and Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) inside 2km, plus the Tanglin Trust, ACS (International) and ISS International campuses.
Three towers of 14 to 23 storeys hold the 358 homes on a 10,632.1 sqm site at a plot ratio of 2.9, with retail and food shops at Shoppes Plaza on the first storey. The mix starts at two bedrooms and never goes smaller. There are no one-bedroom units in the building at all, and the ladder runs from 570 sqft to a single 2,131 sqft six-bedroom penthouse across fourteen formats.
Tenure runs 99 years from May 2024, so a buyer collecting keys in late 2028 starts with roughly 95 years on the lease, about as fresh as leasehold gets. The carpark holds 143 residential lots against 358 homes, the practical number a two-car household should settle early. Both sides of that ledger show up in the pricing, so start there.
| UNIT TYPE | TOTAL | SIZES | UNIT MIX | FLOORPLANS | MAINTENANCE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Bedroom | 190 | 570 - 689 | 53.07% | ||
| 3 Bedroom | 92 | 904 - 1,098 | 25.70% | ||
| 4 Bedroom | 70 | 1,173 - 1,421 | 19.55% | ||
| 5 Bedroom | 4 | 1,668 - 1,916 | 1.12% | ||
| 6 Bedroom | 2 | 2,131 | 0.56% | ||
| Overall | 358 | 570 - 2,131 |
Forsea Holdings, part of a global Fortune 500 construction group, delivers high-quality residential developments in Singapore with proven reliability and engineering depth. In Singapore, it has completed multiple residential and mixed-use projects on time and to specification, supporting both institutional and private clients. Notable works include large-scale condominium communities near transport hubs, waterfront residential clusters in the east, and urban renewal residences integrated with retail and amenities. Buyers value Forsea’s precise project execution, clear communication, and collaborative approach with stakeholders. Core strengths include robust engineering, rigorous safety and durability standards, and design that balances modern living with long-term maintenance, ensuring homes built to last.
Qingjian Realty is the Singapore arm of Qingjian Group, active locally since 2008 and incorporated here in 2011. Consistently ranked among Singapore’s Top Ten Developers, it focuses on residential projects with a track record for smart-living features and community-centric planning. Notable projects include Altura EC and The Arden (2023), Tenet EC (2022), Forett at Bukit Timah (2020), and JadeScape (2018). Beyond residential, selected mixed-use developments demonstrate competence in integrated planning. Buyers can expect efficient layouts, considered site planning, and reliable build quality aimed at long-term liveability.
Bloomsbury Residences sells family-sized floor area inside a precinct whose new supply is mostly built for tenants, and it sells it at the cluster entry price. The sections below cover what the market has paid so far, how the ladder prices out, and the supply picture standing behind it.
As of July 2026, the last sixty caveats cleared between $2,414 and $2,726 psf with a median around $2,573 psf. The twelve-month median sits at $2,558 psf across 166 caveats, so pricing has held rather than run, against a launch range quoted at $2,348 to $2,750 psf.
The land bid sets the floor under all of that. The site came out of the Government Land Sales programme on 8 February 2024 at $395,288,889, or $1,191 psf per plot ratio. A launch priced in the $2,500s on that cost base was never going to discount its way through a slow year, and it has not had to: 316 caveats against 358 units by July 2026, 246 of them in the launch year.
Read the position before the numbers. Hudson Place Residences sits 140m away with 327 units from the same developer team and TOP in 2030, the closest read on where this pocket prices next, and our Hudson Place Residences review runs that spread in detail. The Hill @ One-North builds out the same pocket at 142 units, Blossoms by the Park sits closer to Buona Vista with 275 units for 2027, and Lyndenwoods adds 343 CapitaLand units at 830m. Bloomsbury Residences launched under that group, and the gap is the number to interrogate stack for stack.
The remaining price list shows where the balance stock sits. The three-bedroom row is marked sold out, and so is the six-bedroom penthouse that traded at $5,753,700. What is left opens at $1,762,000 for the two-bedroom premium at $2,599 psf, then $3,597,000 for the four-bedroom suite with flexi at $2,531 psf, the cheapest square foot on the list, with penthouse formats from $3,605,000 to $4,654,000.
Weighing an entry at these levels? Stack, floor and facing move these numbers more than the headline does, and the remaining stock changes weekly. Speak to us before you commit and we will run it with you, honest advice, no pressure. WhatsApp us.
The Bloomsbury Residences floor plan set runs fourteen formats and skips the shoebox entirely. The two-bedroom band carries the volume at 190 units: 38 at 570 sqft, 76 premium formats from 635 to 678 sqft and 76 premium-with-study at 689 sqft. The three-bedroom tier splits four ways between 904 sqft and 1,098 sqft, the family top holds 30 four-bedroom premium with study at 1,173 to 1,206 sqft and 38 four-bedroom suites with flexi at 1,420 sqft, and five penthouses close the ladder up to 2,131 sqft.
Price that ladder at the July 2026 median of about $2,573 psf and it reads cleanly: the 570 sqft two-bedder lands near $1.47m, the 689 sqft premium with study about $1.77m, the 904 sqft three-bed-plus-study around $2.33m, the 980 sqft premium about $2.52m, the 1,173 to 1,206 sqft four-bedders between $3.02m and $3.10m, the 1,420 sqft suite near $3.65m and the 2,131 sqft penthouse around $5.48m. Treat those as arithmetic on the caveat record rather than quotes.
The live prints track it. In July 2026 a 1,421 sqft four-bedroom suite with flexi cleared $2,612 psf for $3,712,000, a 904 sqft three-bedder went at $2,582 psf for $2,334,000 and a 689 sqft two-bedroom premium at $2,644 psf for $1,822,000. The compact end pays the higher rate per square foot here, worth knowing before you assume the small unit is the safer buy.
Inside the gate the provisioning suits people who work from home as much as those who commute: two clubhouses, a 50m lap pool, a tennis court, co-working terraces and private work pods, then a rooftop layer of Sky Lounge, Sky Bar, Sky Dining and Sky Yoga Lawn, with Shoppes Plaza covering convenience at ground level. For a landlord the mix cuts both ways: no studio floor of identical stock to compete against at renewal, but a higher capital at risk per unit because the entry ticket is a two-bedder. Our rental yields guide shows what this belt actually sustains.
Zoom in to the pocket that decides it. Bloomsbury Residences sits in the One North subzone, which holds seven private projects and about 2,038 units in total. Four of those seven are still building, and between them they carry 1,102 homes arriving between 2026 and 2030. Bloomsbury Residences is the largest single piece of that at 358 units.
Set that against the demand side, which is where Bloomsbury Residences is unusually well placed. Queenstown carries about 44,030 HDB flats across 253 blocks, and 21,821 of them are 4-room or larger, the flat types upgraders sell from. Dawson, Margaret Drive and Queenstown itself have been clearing the million-dollar resale mark, which puts a deep local pool within reach of a private step that does not need them to leave the neighbourhood.
The wider planning area belongs in the calculation too. Queenstown holds 89 private projects and about 16,428 units, and the pipeline after 2026 adds Skye at Holland at 666 units in 2029, Penrith at 462 units in 2029 and the Dover Road site at 335 units in 2030. Owners selling into the early 2030s will also be selling against Hudson Place, Lyndenwoods and The Hill @ One-North. The counterweight is scale: 358 homes is a small denominator, so the number of units listed against yours at any moment stays structurally small.
The completed set frames the exit. Normanton Park brings 1,862 units from 2023, Stirling Residences 1,259 from 2022, Queens Peak 736 from 2020 and Margaret Ville 309 from 2021. All run the same 99-year tenure, so the comparison is position, product and lease age rather than lease maths. District 5 holds 101 condominiums and about 22,632 private homes, yet only 24 of those projects are ten years old or newer, and Bloomsbury Residences joins that short list. Our Q2 2026 property market review puts the Rest of Central Region launches in national context.
There is no resale history to lean on at a project this young, so the locational case carries the section, and it does. More than 50,000 professionals work inside one-north across Biopolis, Fusionopolis and Mediapolis, with Galaxis and Connexis a short walk from Media Circle and NUS, INSEAD and the Kent Ridge research institutes behind them. Housing inside the precinct has stayed thin against that workforce, and the URA Master Plan keeps adding laboratory and office space on a published schedule.
Bloomsbury Residences suits investors renting family-sized homes to the one-north workforce, owner-occupiers employed inside the district, and school-run families working the New Town Primary radius. The exit audience at TOP is those same groups plus relocating households with children, who ask for three and four-bedroom formats in this precinct and rarely find them. Renters get the strongest version: from late 2028 this is one of the newest full-facilities addresses inside one-north itself.
Fit matters in the other direction too. If a doorstep station is non-negotiable, Blossoms by the Park and The Hill @ One-North sit a few hundred metres from Buona Vista and answer that better. If you want an estate you can walk before you buy, Queenstown standing stock is the honest alternative, because Media Circle will be a working site while the rest of the cluster builds out. And 143 residential lots against 358 homes is a question a two-car household should settle first rather than last.
Thinking about Bloomsbury Residences? The spread against Hudson Place and Blossoms by the Park is what decides which one-north entry fits your budget and your holding period. Before you commit, speak to us. We will run the numbers with you, honest advice, no pressure. WhatsApp us.
Bloomsbury Residences has 3 blocks of 23 storeys.
Bloomsbury Residences has 358 residential units.
Bloomsbury Residences offers 2 Bedroom (570 to 689 sqft), 3 Bedroom (904 to 1,098 sqft), 4 Bedroom (1,173 to 1,421 sqft), 5 Bedroom (1,668 to 1,916 sqft), 6 Bedroom (2,131 sqft).
Bloomsbury Residences is 99-year leasehold (lease from May 2024).
No, Bloomsbury Residences is a 99-year leasehold development (lease from May 2024).
Bloomsbury Residences is developed by Qingjian Realty, Forsea Holdings.
Bloomsbury Residences’s Architects are: ADDP Architects LLP (Architect), Ecoplan Asia Pte Ltd (Landscape Consultant)
Bloomsbury Residences’s Builder is –
Shoppes Plaza, retail and F&B shops, communal seats, a children’s playground, Shoppes Boulevard, washrooms, pets’ paw wash, an arrival water court, residential drop-off, shoppes drop-off, bicycle parking, a bicycle service station, and side gates. Level 2 features the service desk, Bloomsbury lobby, rippling brook, sculpture, water terraces, two clubhouses, a function lawn, BBQ dining pavilions, reading lounge, reading veranda, co-working terrace, private work pods, social pool, sun deck, spa seat, and club lawn. Additional lifestyle facilities include a recreational tennis court, 50m lap pool, poolside loungers, poolside dining, aqua sunbeds, aqua aerobics, Bloomsbury gym, outdoor smart gym, drinking fountain and steam rooms. Family-friendly amenities include a bubbling water feature, family pool, family pool deck, children’s playground, family lounge, pets’ drinking fountain and pets’ parking. The rooftop gardens offer the Sky Lounge, Sky Bar, Sky Alcove, Sky Yoga Lawn, Sky Reflexology, Sky Garden, Sky Dining, Sky Grill, Sky Reading, Viewing Deck and Sky Lawn. Ancillary facilities include the guardhouse, management office, bin centre, substation, generator set, ventilation shaft and rooftop water tank.
Bloomsbur Residences is in Media Circle, which is an extension of One-North and Buona Vista
Bloomsbury Residences is in District 5 – Buona Vista, One-North. The Street Address is Media Circle
The Nearest MRT to Bloomsbury Residences is Commonwealth MRT (EW20) at 960m, although the most accesible one is One-North MRT (CC23)
Primary Schools within 1km of Bloomsbury Residences:
1km Primary Schools:
New Town Primary School
Bloomsbury Residences’ Site “Media Circle” was aquired via Government Land Sale on 8 February 2024 at a price of $395,288,889. Translating to a land cost of $1,191 psf ppr (Per Square Foot Per Plot Ratio)
Bloomsbury Residences PSF starts from $2,348 to $2,750
Bloomsbury Residences’s Prices start from: $1.339m for a 2 Bedroom, $2.136m for a 3 Bedroom, $2.848m for a 4 Bedroom with Private Lift, ad $5.763m for a 5 Bedroom Penthouse
Yes, Bloomsbury Residences presents a strong investment opportunity, especially for buyers who recognise the growth potential of the One-North and Mediapolis precinct. This area is undergoing significant transformation, driven by government master planning, new GLS plots, upcoming residential supply, and the continued expansion of the tech, media, biomedical and R&D sectors. With more than 50,000 workers within One-North and a consistent rental demand from global companies, international schools and tertiary institutions, the project stands to benefit from sustained rental appeal and future capital appreciation.
Its Rest of Central Region (RCR) location also offers a strategic advantage, close to Holland Village, Buona Vista, the CBD, Orchard, and major transport lines. Coupled with its 400sqm of retail space, strong developer track record, premium facilities, and unique positioning between Wessex Estate and Mediapolis, Bloomsbury Residences is well-placed to deliver long-term value for both investors and homeowners.
Yes, Bloomsbury Residences is suitable for families who value convenience, education proximity, and a balanced lifestyle. The development is surrounded by prestigious schools such as Fairfield Methodist, Anglo-Chinese School (Independent & Junior College), Tanglin Trust School, UWC Dover, NUS and INSEAD, making it a strong choice for families planning ahead for their children’s education.
Within the development, families enjoy an abundance of thoughtfully planned facilities, including a family pool, children’s playground, family lounge, reading lounges, co-working terraces, BBQ pavilions, and a wide array of lush landscaped spaces. The presence of pet-friendly areas, retail shops, and direct access to nature corridors such as the Rail Corridor creates a wholesome, community-centred living environment. From young parents to multi-generational households, Bloomsbury Residences is designed to support comfort, convenience and everyday family life.
Bloomsbury Residences is a 99-year leasehold new launch condo in District 5, located along North Buona Vista Road within the rapidly transforming One-North and Mediapolis innovation district. Developed by Qingjian Realty & Forsea Holdings, two reputable developers known for quality craftsmanship and forward-thinking design, this luxurious project features 358 units with a strong emphasis on modern living, lush landscaping, and community-driven spaces. With direct proximity to one-north MRT, the Rail Corridor, major business parks, and global tech and media companies, Bloomsbury Residences offers a rare blend of convenience, lifestyle and long-term value. The project is expected to be completed in 2029.
Bloomsbury Residences is expected to obtain TOP in 2028.
Bloomsbury Residences is Launching on 11 April 2025
Yes. Foreigners can buy Bloomsbury Residences because it is a private residential development. Foreigners pay 60% Additional Buyer’s Stamp Duty (ABSD) on top of the purchase price.
Bloomsbury Residences showflat is near the Actual Site at 1 Media Circle
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