Homes behind the shopping belt
Orchard Road took its name from the nutmeg and pepper plantations that lined it in the nineteenth century. Today the road is Singapore's main shopping street, but most of the developments within a kilometre of it are homes: of the buildings listed below, well over a hundred are condominiums and apartment blocks, most of them in District 9. They sit on the quieter roads that run off the malls — Cairnhill Road and Cairnhill Rise, Emerald Hill, Mount Elizabeth, Hullet Road, Claymore Hill and Scotts Road.
The mix is wide. At one end are the tower condominiums built with the malls, such as The Orchard Residences above ION Orchard and Scotts Square; at the other are small walk-up and low-rise blocks on Emerald Hill, where the terrace houses have been a conservation area since 1989 and new building is tightly limited. Between them are the mid-sized condominiums of Cairnhill — Cairnhill Crest, The Light at Cairnhill, The Edge on Cairnhill — each with its own management corporation.
New condos and new launches near Orchard Road
The most recently completed developments in the list above carry the newest MCST numbers: Klimt Cairnhill (MCST 4929) and Cairnhill 16 (MCST 4921) on the Cairnhill side, 8 Hullet (MCST 4800) off Mount Elizabeth, and Boulevard 88 (MCST 4898) and One Draycott (MCST 4857) towards Cuscaden and Draycott.
New launches around Orchard have been small and mostly freehold:
- UpperHouse at Orchard Boulevard — UOL Group and Singapore Land Group, 301 units on a 99-year lease at the corner of Orchard Boulevard and Grange Road, beside Orchard Boulevard MRT station. Launched in July 2025.
- 21 Anderson — Kheng Leong, 18 freehold units on Anderson Road off Ardmore Park, launched in April 2025.
- Orchard Sophia — DB2, 78 freehold units on Sophia Road towards Mount Sophia, previewed in July 2023.
- Orchard Boulevard land sale site — a residential site at the corner of Tomlinson Road is on URA's Confirmed List for the second half of 2026. No developer or project name yet.
A new launch appears in this directory once its management corporation is registered, which is usually after the building is completed — so these projects are not in the list above yet.
Getting around
Orchard MRT station (North–South and Thomson–East Coast Lines) is at the centre of the ring, with Somerset to the east and Newton at the top of Scotts Road. Each station's page lists every development within a ten-minute walk. For families, Anglo-Chinese School (Junior) on Winstedt Road is just inside a kilometre.
Who manages the buildings here
The larger condominiums are split between the big firms — Savills Property Management, Knight Frank, Smart Property Management and JLL among them. Many of the small Emerald Hill and Cairnhill blocks have no appointed agent, and there the management council is the contact. The wider area is on the District 9 page; parking near each building is on the carparks page.
New-launch details as reported by EdgeProp (UpperHouse); EdgeProp (21 Anderson); EdgeProp (Orchard Sophia); EdgeProp (2H2026 land sales). Unit counts and launch dates are the developers' own; prices are left out because they change.
