Singapore’s first satellite town
Queenstown was the first satellite town in Singapore, begun by the Singapore Improvement Trust in 1952 and named after Queen Elizabeth II to mark her coronation. The land was a swampy valley between two hills — one a cemetery, the other orchards and rubber — beside the British Buller Camp. The first low-cost flats on the camp site were completed in May 1953, and 19,372 units had been built by 1968, most of them in HDB’s first Five-Year Building Programme.
The Trust built Princess and Duchess Estates, Tanglin Halt, Commonwealth and Queen’s Close; Forfar House was the first public-housing high-rise. Queenstown also had Singapore’s first polyclinic (1963) and first branch library (1970). URA’s 1994 plan proposed a new centre at Buona Vista, which became one-north.
What the planning area covers
Its subzones run from Commonwealth, Tanglin Halt, Margaret Drive and Queensway to Dover, Ghim Moh, Holland Drive, One North, Kent Ridge, NUS and Pasir Panjang. The Holland Road side of the village has its own Holland Village page.
New launches and land sales
- Terra Hill — Hoi Hup and Sunway, 270 freehold units on Yew Siang Road, previewed in February 2023.
- Blossoms By The Park — EL Development, 275 units on Slim Barracks Rise, launched in April 2023.
- The Hillshore — FRX Capital, 59 freehold units on Pasir Panjang Road, launched in January 2024.
- The Hill @ One-North — Kingsford, 142 units, launched in April 2024.
- Bloomsbury Residences — Qingjian Realty and Forsea Holdings, 358 units at Media Circle, launched in April 2025.
- LyndenWoods — CapitaLand Development, 343 units at Science Park Drive, launched in July 2025.
- Penrith — Hong Leong Holdings, Hong Realty and GuocoLand, 462 units on Margaret Drive, launched in October 2025.
- Skye at Holland — UOL, Singapore Land Group, CapitaLand Development and Kheng Leong, 666 units, launched in October 2025.
- Hudson Place Residences — Qingjian Realty and Forsea Holdings with partners, 327 units at Media Circle, launched in May 2026.
- Dover Drive site — awarded by URA on 31 March 2026 to CNQC Realty (Prime), Forsea Residence and Jianan Realty Investments (1), 99-year lease.
Getting around
Eight stations sit inside the boundary: Queenstown, Commonwealth, Buona Vista and Dover on the East–West Line, and one-north, Kent Ridge, Haw Par Villa and Pasir Panjang on the Circle Line.
Schools with pages here include Queenstown Primary, New Town Primary and Fairfield Methodist (Primary), along with several international schools.
Who manages the buildings here
Chambers Property Management Services (10), Savills Property Management (8) manage the most developments inside the boundary. More than a third of the developments here have no managing agent on record — many are small blocks run by their own council. Each building page lists its own office contact.
What to have ready
The management office will ask for the MCST number and your unit. Public carparks with live lot counts are on the carparks page; see also the District 5 page.
Sources: URA Master Plan 2019 planning area and subzone boundaries (data.gov.sg); NLB Infopedia (Queenstown); NLB Infopedia (Queenstown housing); Roots.sg (Queenstown); EdgeProp (Terra Hill); EdgeProp (Blossoms By The Park); EdgeProp (The Hillshore); EdgeProp (The Hill @ One-North); EdgeProp (Bloomsbury Residences); CapitaLand (LyndenWoods); EdgeProp (Penrith); CapitaLand (Skye at Holland); EdgeProp (Hudson Place Residences); URA (Dover Drive award). Buildings are listed when their coordinate falls inside URA’s boundary for the planning area; prices are left out because they change.
