
Lucerne Grand is City Developments’ mixed development on Lakeside Drive, four blocks of up to 17 storeys holding 570 homes above a retail podium, with previews opening 18 September 2026 and booking day on 3 October. Two facts carry the case: Lakeside MRT sits at the site boundary rather than a walk away, and four primary schools fall inside the 1km ballot radius. Land beside a station is finite and the state releases it on its own schedule, which is why that pairing is scarce.
The station is at the boundary of the site, not a walk from it. From that platform Jurong East and its four-line interchange is two stops away, Buona Vista is a straight run east, and the city needs no transfer. Corporation and Jurong West on the Jurong Region Line sit within 2km, as do Chinese Garden and Boon Lay on the East West Line, so the rail catchment around Lucerne Grand thickens further before the JRL even opens fully. For a household commuting daily, the difference between a station at the boundary and a station eight minutes away is measured in years of small mornings.
Four primary schools sit inside the 1km radius that decides a contested ballot: Rulang, Shuqun, Lakeside and Boon Lay Garden. Those were checked against OneMap rather than lifted from a database, which matters when a single ballot turns on the band. Rulang in particular is among the most balloted names in the west, and our review of Singapore’s most popular primary schools shows what a name like that does to a queue. Corporation, Jurong Primary and Pioneer Primary follow within 2km. Yuan Ching, Yuhua and Fuhua Secondary sit inside 1km, with River Valley High, Hua Yi, Jurongville, Jurong Secondary and Boon Lay Secondary in the 2km band, and Canadian International School and Yuvabharathi International School give relocating households an international pathway. Our complete guide to the 2026 Primary One registration exercise sets out how the phases actually work, and the official rules sit with MOE.
The scheme runs 570 homes and nine commercial units on a 13,485 sqm site at a plot ratio of 3.7. The mix is built for households rather than investors, and the clearest signal is what is missing: there are no one-bedroom units at all. Entry starts at the 620 sqft two-bedroom, and three and four-bedroom stock accounts for 61 percent of the project, an unusual weighting for a site with a train station at the boundary. The podium, Lucerne Galleria, runs to an estimated 935 sqm across those nine units, and a supermarket of at least 700 sqm is a condition of the government land sales tender rather than a marketing promise.
Tenure runs 99 years from 2025, so a buyer collecting keys around the 2030 completion still holds roughly 94 years, close to the maximum a leasehold buyer can practically own. Three things are genuinely still open: facilities, maintenance fees and the names of the architect and builder have not been published, and neither has a price list. Carpark provisioning on file stands at 131 lots plus three accessible and two exclusive, which reads low against 570 homes and deserves a direct question at preview rather than an assumption. The sections below work with what can be checked today.
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| UNIT TYPE | TOTAL | SIZES | UNIT MIX | FLOORPLANS | MAINTENANCE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Bedroom (2 Bath) | 96 | 624 | 17% | B1 | To be Confirmed |
| 2 Bedroom + Study | 126 | 667 - 710 | 22% | B2S, B3S | To be Confirmed |
| 3 Bedroom | 125 | 872 - 904 | 22% | C1, C2, C3, C3a | To be Confirmed |
| 3 Bedroom Premium + Study | 128 | 947 - 1,001 | 22% | CP1S, CP2S, CP3S, CP4S | To be Confirmed |
| 4 Bedroom Premium | 47 | 1,152 - 1,195 | 8% | DP1, DP2, DP2a | To be Confirmed |
| 4 Bedroom Premium + Study | 16 | 1,345 | 3% | DP1S | To be Confirmed |
| 4 Bedroom Premium + Entertainment | 32 | 1,432 | 6% | DP1E | To be Confirmed |
| Overall | 570 | 624 - 1,432 | 100% |
With no caveats, no price list and no floor plan drawings yet, Lucerne Grand has to be judged on land and location, and both are checkable now. CDL paid $608 million, about $1,132 psf per plot ratio, for a plot with a station on its boundary, a supermarket written into the tender and four primary schools in the ballot radius. The sections below take that in order: what the land bid implies about price, what the mix says about who the project is for, and whether the supply picture holds.
There is no caveat record at Lucerne Grand, because nothing has been sold. That is the honest state of the project as of August 2026, and it means the usual demand evidence simply does not exist yet. What can be checked is the land. The Lakeside Drive site was awarded at $608,000,000, or about $1,132 psf per plot ratio, and that is the floor CDL has to build from. Our review of the 2026 GLS land bids puts that figure next to the rest of the year’s sites.
The corridor gives the arithmetic somewhere to land. The LakeGarden Residences, about 1km away, was built off a site bought at $1,250 psf per plot ratio, and its caveats in the twelve months to June 2026 ran a median near $2,220 psf. Lucerne Grand entered roughly $118 psf ppr below that, on a plot with a platform at the boundary rather than a bus ride away. That does not set a launch price, and construction and financing costs have moved since 2023. It does tell you which direction the developer is arguing from, and it is the honest starting point until a price list exists.
Position is the other half of the pricing question. J’den prices the interchange at the district commercial core. The lakeside pair, The LakeGarden Residences and Sora, price the water. Lucerne Grand prices a station at the boundary plus a supermarket downstairs, at the western end of the same district, one rung further out from Jurong East than anything currently trading. Our full Lucerne Grand review runs that four-way comparison properly, and it is the place to start before any showflat visit.
Preview weekend is 18 September 2026 and booking day is 3 October. If you are working out where in that ladder your budget lands, speak to us before the queue forms and we will run the numbers with you, honest advice, no pressure. WhatsApp us.
The floor plan drawings for Lucerne Grand are not out. They arrive with the preview, so anyone shortlisting on layout today is shortlisting on a promise. What has been published is the mix, and the mix is specific enough to plan a budget around.
Read it from the bottom. The 620 sqft two-bedroom opens the project at 96 units, and the 670 to 710 sqft two-bedroom-plus-study adds 126, the format most upgraders coming out of a three-room or four-room flat will look at first. The centre of the project is the three-bedroom band: 125 standard three-bedders at 870 to 900 sqft alongside 128 three-bedroom premium plus study at 960 to 1,000 sqft, 253 homes and 44 percent of the project on their own. The four-bedroom tier splits three ways, 47 four-bedroom premium at 1,140 to 1,190 sqft, 16 four-bedroom premium plus study at 1,350 sqft and 32 four-bedroom premium with entertainment room at 1,450 sqft. That top band is deliberately thin at 95 units, which is how a developer keeps its largest formats scarce.
The absence of one-bedroom stock is the decision that shapes everything else. A project without shoebox units cannot be filled by short-hold investors, which tilts the eventual resident profile towards owner-occupiers and, in turn, towards a steadier estate and a more predictable service charge. It also narrows the buyer pool at launch, so CDL is trading speed of sell-out for the makeup of the community that ends up living there. Maintenance fees have not been published, so the running cost of that choice is still an open number.
For upgraders, the ladder maps onto the budgets Jurong West and Boon Lay actually generate. A five-room seller moving into the 870 sqft three-bedroom stays inside the estate they already know, which is how most western launches fill their family tier. Our HDB upgrading roadmap walks through the sequencing, and our guide to the real cost of holding your HDB covers the decision most upgraders get wrong.
The podium is the part of the product already fixed by the tender. Lucerne Galleria puts a supermarket, food and beverage outlets and shops directly beneath the homes, which removes the errand trip a purely residential block cannot. Around it the daily layer is mature: Jurong Point is the largest suburban mall in the country, Boon Lay Shopping Centre and Taman Jurong Shopping Centre handle the everyday runs, and FairPrice at Blk 498 Boon Lay and Blk 399 Yung Sheng Road plus Direct Supermarket and Seng Eng at Blk 442 cover groceries long before the podium supermarket opens. Jurong Lake, the Chinese Garden and the Japanese Garden all sit within 2km, which is the half of this address that needs no waiting.
Lucerne Grand competes in Taman Jurong, a fuller pocket than the lakeside subzones next door. Six private developments and about 3,130 units sit here: Lakepoint Condominium with 304 homes from 1983, Lakeholmz with 369 from 2005, Caspian with 712 from 2012, The Lakefront Residences with 629 from 2014, the Lake Life executive condominium with 546 from 2016, and this project with 570. The dates are the point. Nothing new has been added to this subzone in a decade, and Lucerne Grand is the only development under construction in it.
The Jurong West planning area tells the same story at scale. Fifteen private projects, about 8,308 units, of which five projects and 3,002 units date from 2016 or later. The pipeline after 2026 is one development: this one. A planning area that size with a single new private project coming is an unusual supply position, and it is the structural advantage behind the launch.
The demand side is where the numbers get striking. Jurong West town carries 78,803 HDB flats across 746 blocks, and 60,446 of them are four-room or larger, the flat types upgraders sell from. Against 8,308 private homes in the whole planning area that is roughly seven upgrader-sized flats for every private unit, one of the deepest upgrader pools anywhere on the island. The buyers for a family-weighted launch at Lakeside are already living within a few kilometres of the site, and they do not need to be persuaded about the neighbourhood.
The counterweight has to be named. Keys land around 2030, a four-year wait from booking day, and the URA Master Plan Jurong Lake District build-out runs over that same decade rather than arriving before it. A buyer here is taking a position on a district being built, not on a finished one, and Lakeside’s own precinct works will run alongside the construction. Anyone treating the second CBD as a date rather than a stated intention is mispricing the risk.
On exit, District 22 holds 18 condominiums and about 10,138 private homes, only four of them ten years old or newer. When a Lucerne Grand owner sells in 2035 or 2040, the competing stock will be the ageing majority plus that same small group of young projects, and family-sized units on a fresh lease with a station at the boundary are a defensible thing to be holding in a pool that thin. For landlords the case matures with the district rather than at handover: our rental yields guide sets out how the arithmetic works on a leasehold family unit, and the two-bedroom-plus-study band is the format to run it on first. Our Q2 2026 property market review tracks how comparable launches have been absorbed in the meantime.
Lucerne Grand suits school-driven west-side families who want four primaries in the radius and a platform at the boundary, upgraders already in Jurong West or Boon Lay who want to move up without moving away, and buyers who can wait four years for keys in exchange for a lease that starts in 2025. For that group the missing shoebox tier is a feature rather than a gap, because the estate they move into will be full of households like theirs.
The exit audience for a project that has not launched is whoever buys and rents at completion, and here that pool is unusually easy to describe. It is those same 60,446 four-room-and-larger flats in Jurong West, five years further along, plus the workforce the Jurong Lake District offices bring in. Renters will see a doorstep-rail address with a supermarket downstairs and no shoebox competition inside the gate, set against a Jurong West rental market that is mostly older stock.
Fit matters in the other direction too. If you need keys sooner, The LakeGarden Residences and Sora complete in 2027 at the lakeside end. If you want the interchange itself rather than two stops from it, J’den is the address that prices it. If you are buying a one-bedroom, there is none here at any price. And run the carpark question before you commit, because 131 lots on file against 570 homes is the single item on this page most worth a direct answer from the sales team.
Thinking about Lucerne Grand? Start with our full review, which prices the launch against the corridor, then speak to us before preview weekend on 18 September. We will run the numbers with you, honest advice, no pressure. WhatsApp us.
Lucerne Grand has 5 blocks of 17 storeys.
Lucerne Grand has 570 residential units.
Lucerne Grand offers 2 Bedroom (624 sqft), 2 Bedroom + Study (667 to 710 sqft), 3 Bedroom (872 to 904 sqft), 3 Bedroom Premium + Study (947 to 1,001 sqft), 4 Bedroom Premium (1,152 to 1,195 sqft), 4 Bedroom Premium + Study (1,345 sqft), 4 Bedroom Premium + Entertainment (1,432 sqft).
Lucerne Grand is 99-year leasehold (lease from 2025).
No, Lucerne Grand is a 99-year leasehold development (lease from 2025).
Lucerne Grand is developed by City Developments (CDL).
Lucerne Grand is at 30 to 38 Lakeside Drive in Jurong West, District 22, directly beside Lakeside MRT (EW26) and a short walk from Jurong Lake Gardens.
Lucerne Grand is in District 22 (Jurong West), within the Jurong Lake District planning area, in the Outside Central Region (OCR).
Lakeside MRT (EW26) on the East-West Line is directly beside Lucerne Grand. Jurong East interchange is 3 stops away, and the upcoming Corporation (JS5) and Jurong West (JS6) stations on the Jurong Region Line are within 2km.
Primary Schools within 1km of Lucerne Grand:
Rulang Primary School
Shuqun Primary School
Lakeside Primary School
Boon Lay Garden Primary School
The Lucerne Grand site (Lakeside Drive GLS) was sold to CDL for $608,000,000, or about $1,132 psf ppr.
That depends on your entry price and holding period. Lucerne Grand sits directly beside Lakeside MRT with a supermarket and shops downstairs, and District 22 has had very little new MRT-adjacent condo supply. Speak to us and we will run the numbers with you before you commit.
Yes. 61% of Lucerne Grand’s units are 3 or 4 Bedroom layouts and there is no 1 Bedroom stock, so the project is weighted towards owner-occupiers. Four primary schools sit within 1km, including Rulang Primary School.
Lucerne Grand is a 99-year leasehold mixed development by CDL beside Lakeside MRT, with 570 residential units across 5 blocks of 17 storeys and a retail podium, Lucerne Galleria, with a supermarket, shops and restaurants.
Lucerne Grand is expected to obtain TOP in 2030.
Lucerne Grand previews on 18 September 2026, with booking day on 3 October 2026.
Yes. Foreigners can buy Lucerne Grand because it is a private residential development. Foreigners pay 60% Additional Buyer’s Stamp Duty (ABSD) on top of the purchase price.
The Lucerne Grand showflat opens for preview from 18 September 2026. Contact us to arrange an appointment and we will share the showflat location and directions.
You can book a viewing with our appointed sales team:
Kelvin Sin 9722 2222
Chew Peixuan 9101 5301
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