Daintree Residence

Daintree Residence sits on land bought in 2017, with four years of growth in a landscape that was drawn rather than promised, a combination this slope cannot reproduce. Buyers have been working that out in public, because turnover has risen every year since completion. What follows is the price record, the ladder, the supply picture and the honest fit.

Daintree Residence Prices: What a 2017 Land Cost Still Buys

Start with the land. The site came through a Government Land Sales tender in April 2017 at S$265 million, a Land Bid of about S$939 psf per plot ratio, and that figure is where every pricing conversation here lands. A pre-2020 land price under a completed estate is not something the current tender market produces.

As of July 2026, the last sixty caveats at Daintree Residence cleared between $1,900 and $2,242 psf with the median around $2,062 psf. The twelve months to July sit at $2,025 psf across 38 caveats, steady rather than spiking, which is what a mature owner-occupier estate looks like. Recent prints map the ladder: a 743 sqft two-bedder at $1.56m in July 2026, a 1,055 sqft three-bedder at $2.30m in June 2026 and a 1,485 sqft four-bedder at $3.33m in July 2026, that last one at $2,242 psf.

Position matters more than the number. Forett at Bukit Timah sits 280 metres away with 633 freehold units from 2024 and The Sen brings 347 units for 2028 less than a kilometre out, both pricing the belt above Daintree Residence’s 99-year resale. That gap is the enclave’s entry point rather than a verdict on quality. The Reserve Residences adds 732 units for 2027 as the precinct’s integrated tier, Verdale holds 258 units from 2023 on the same footing, the freehold Creek @ Bukit sits 100 metres away, and The Hillford 550 metres out runs a 60-year lease. Tenure in this pocket is not one question with one answer, and our guide to 99-year versus freehold sets out what the difference is genuinely worth.

One technical note when you compare. Daintree Residence predates GFA harmonisation, so its strata areas were measured under the old rules and still include aircon ledges. Set the psf against a post-harmonisation launch and the square feet are not the same square feet.

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Daintree Residence Floor Plans: The Enclave’s Family Stock

Run the arithmetic at the July 2026 median of about $2,062 psf and the Daintree Residence floor plan ladder prices out cleanly. The 452 to 484 sqft one-bedders land between $930,000 and $1.0m, the 667 to 786 sqft two-bedders between $1.38m and $1.62m, the 1,001 to 1,152 sqft three-bedders between $2.05m and $2.38m, and the four-bedroom formats from $3.05m at 1,485 sqft to $3.3m at 1,593 sqft. Treat those as arithmetic on the caveat record rather than quotes, because stacks, floors and the loft units move around them.

The lofts are the detail worth chasing. Selected first-floor and fifth-floor homes carry 4.3-metre ceilings against 2.9 metres elsewhere, floor area a volume builder would have sold as extra units. Carpark provisioning tells the same story: 327 lots against 327 homes, one per unit, which is rare in this district.

The facilities list is long for a low-rise estate because the density leaves room for it. A 50m lap pool with family, children’s and spa pools, an aqua gym, a tennis court, a gymnasium with steam room and a clubhouse cover the built layer, then the 330-metre TreeTop Walk, jogging trail, yoga lawn, reflexology path, meditation garden and sky garden thread the grounds. Four years on, that landscape has grown in rather than been laid, and our guide to nature-hugging condominiums catalogues the same setting across the island. Buyers looking at launches in this corridor are looking at drawings; here you can walk it. Maintenance is not published as a fixed schedule, so ask the MCST for the figure on your shortlisted layout.

Is Daintree Residence Worth Buying? The Supply Picture

Narrow the view to the pocket that competes. Anak Bukit counts 42 private developments and about 6,731 homes, but only five have completed since 2020: Daintree Residence in 2022, Verdale in 2023, then Forett at Bukit Timah, The Linq @ Beauty World and View at Kismis in 2024. Everything else is older, much of it considerably so.

The next wave is visible and it is all leasehold. Three subzone sites are under construction: The Reserve Residences and 8@BT hand over in 2027, The Sen a year later. Daintree Residence does not compete with those on newness, it competes on keys today, grown planting and a price set by the caveat record rather than a price list.

The demand side does not run on upgraders here, and it would be misleading to pretend otherwise. The whole Bukit Timah HDB town is 27 blocks and 2,554 flats, 1,983 of them 4-room or larger. What feeds this address is the school geography, the landed belt around it and the international-school tenancy, a narrower engine but a steadier one. The URA Master Plan adds the rail piece on top, and our study of how the Cross Island Line moves property prices tracks what a second line has been worth elsewhere.

Liquidity is the number that separates this estate from its low-rise neighbours. 87 caveats have been lodged from September 2021 to July 2026 and the curve thickens rather than fades: 1 in 2021, 2 in 2022, 14 in 2023, 23 in 2024, 27 in 2025 and 20 more by July 2026. Turnover has grown every year since completion, the pattern of an estate people are buying into rather than quietly leaving. Our Q2 2026 property market review puts that pace in national context, and exit liquidity reads through a district of 18,145 private homes where only twelve projects are ten years old or newer.

Who Daintree Residence Suits

Daintree Residence suits school-radius families who want the enclave at its gentlest pricing, buyers who want a completed estate rather than a construction timeline, and multi-generational households needing the 1,485 to 1,593 sqft formats with a guaranteed lot each. Our guide to the top primary schools in Bukit Timah shows how the radii overlap, and two 1km names on one address is a stronger hand than most Bukit Timah addresses hold. The green layer does the rest: Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Rifle Range, Hindhede and Dairy Farm Nature Park sit in the wider vicinity, with the Rail Corridor adding a car-free line through it, and our guide to Rail Corridor condominiums covers why that spine has held its value.

Think about who buys or rents it after you. Low-rise, quiet, four years old and inside two ballot radii is a specific rental product, aimed at families and international-school households rather than the professional pool that fills the towers near the station. The 175 homes in the one and two-bedroom band cover the smaller tenancies, and our rental yields guide puts numbers on what this corridor actually returns after fees and vacancy.

The fit breaks in a few places, and they are worth naming. Tenure purists have Forett answering that brief next door on freehold title. Buyers who want a mall downstairs and a platform at the gate should look at the Beauty World core, because Toh Tuck Road is deliberately none of that, and its single-lane rhythm is part of daily life here. Drive the approach at eight in the morning before you shortlist.

Thinking about Daintree Residence? Its discount to the freehold next door, adjusted for tenure, is the belt’s honest arithmetic and the first number to test. Before you commit, speak to us. We’ll run it with you, honest advice, no pressure. WhatsApp us.