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Cairnhill Heights

📍 16 Cairnhill Rise Singapore
🗺️ D09 — Orchard, River Valley, Cairnhill
🚇 Newton MRT (DT11 / NS21)607 m, 8 min walk
🏢 MCST 1041Apartment🆔 UEN S85MC1041D✓ Management Directory

About Cairnhill Heights

Cairnhill Heights was a small freehold apartment block at 16 Cairnhill Rise in District 9 (Orchard, Cairnhill, River Valley). Property listings record it as a 20-unit development completed around 1990. It stood on a compact plot of about 15,408 sq ft on the quieter northern side of Cairnhill, closer to Newton than to Orchard Road.

The block has been demolished. In April 2018 the owners sold it collectively for $72.6 million to TSky Development, a joint venture owned 60 per cent by Tiong Seng Holdings and 40 per cent by Ocean Sky International. The site has since been rebuilt as Cairnhill 16, a freehold condominium of 39 units, and OneMap now shows that name at the address. Contact details on this page relate to the original building and may change.

Interesting facts

  • The estate was put on the market in December 2017 with an asking price of $80 million. It changed hands four months later at $72.6 million.

  • The land is zoned residential with a plot ratio of 2.8. At the time of the sale the buyer estimated it could hold about 42 homes averaging 95 sq m each. The final scheme has 39.

  • Cairnhill 16 was previewed in November 2021. The developer describes it as a 15-storey block of two- to four-bedroom units, and EdgeProp lists its completion year as 2024.

  • Cairnhill Rise is one of three streets, with Cairnhill Road and Cairnhill Circle, named after Carnie Hill, the 1840s estate of nutmeg planter Charles Carnie.

Nearby

Newton MRT interchange (North South and Downtown Lines) is about 6 to 8 minutes away on foot, next to Newton Food Centre. Orchard and Somerset stations are a longer walk downhill past Paragon. Immediate neighbours on Cairnhill Rise include Alba, Cairnhill Astoria and The Vermont on Cairnhill. Anglo-Chinese School (Junior) is at Winstedt Road, on the other side of Newton.

Key facts

  • Address: 16 Cairnhill Rise, Singapore 229744 (site now Cairnhill 16)

  • District: 9 (Orchard, Cairnhill, River Valley)

  • Property type: Apartment (demolished); site redeveloped as a condominium

  • Status: Sold collectively in April 2018 for $72.6 million

  • Completed: around 1990 (original block, per listings)

  • Tenure: Freehold

  • Units: 20 (original block, per listings)

  • Site area: about 15,408 sq ft

  • Nearest MRT: Newton (NS21/DT11)

  • MCST: 1041