A road of small apartment blocks
Balestier Road is named after Joseph Balestier, the first American consul to Singapore, who ran a sugar plantation here in the 1830s and 1840s. Its pre-war shophouses still line the road, and behind them is one of the densest clusters of small private apartment blocks in Singapore: of the developments listed below, more than a hundred are apartment buildings, against a couple of dozen condominiums. Most are in District 12, with the Moulmein and Novena side in District 11 and a few towards Farrer Park in District 8.
Many are a single block of a few dozen units — The Axis, Nova 88, De Paradiso, Mandalay Towers — which matters when contacting one: a building that size often has no full-time office on site, and the managing agent or the management council is the contact.
New condos and new launches near Balestier
The newest completed developments in the ring carry the latest MCST numbers: Neu at Novena (MCST 4979), Ikigai on Shrewsbury Road (MCST 4944), 8 Kim Keat (MCST 4909) and Neem Tree on Jalan Kemaman (MCST 4702).
No new condominium has launched inside the ring since 2022. The nearest launches sit just beyond it:
- The Arcady at Boon Keng — KSH Holdings, SLB Development and Ho Lee Group, 172 freehold units, launched in January 2024, about 1.4 km south-east.
- Dorset Road land sale site — awarded to UOL Group, Singapore Land Group and Kheng Leong in October 2025 for about 428 homes, about 1.5 km south towards Farrer Park.
New developments are added to the directory once their management corporation is registered, usually after completion.
Getting around and schools
Balestier has no MRT station of its own. Novena and Toa Payoh on the North–South Line are each around 850 metres from the middle of the road. Hong Wen School and St. Joseph's Institution Junior are both within a kilometre.
Who manages the buildings here
Smart Property Management and Chambers Property Management Services manage the most buildings in the ring. Around thirty blocks have no managing agent on record. See also the District 12 page and the carparks page.
New-launch details as reported by EdgeProp (The Arcady at Boon Keng); EdgeProp (Dorset Road). Unit counts and launch dates are the developers' own; prices are left out because they change.
