The crossing to Johor
HDB traces the name to how the area looked from Johor: heavily wooded. It was plantation country from the mid-19th century, with the earliest written record from 1854. A ferry ran to Johor from 1875, Woodlands railway station opened in April 1903, and the Causeway was completed in 1924; the present Woodlands Checkpoint opened to traffic in July 1999.
Woodlands New Town, the area’s first public housing estate, was built from the 1970s, and the MRT arrived with the Woodlands extension on 10 February 1996. In 1997 Woodlands was earmarked as the northern regional centre.
What the planning area covers
URA’s nine subzones are Greenwood Park, Midview, North Coast, Senoko West, Woodgrove, Woodlands East, Woodlands Regional Centre, Woodlands South and Woodlands West. HDB’s Woodlands town is larger and includes Admiralty and Marsiling; in URA’s map Admiralty station falls in the Woodlands East subzone. About half the developments in this list are industrial strata developments rather than homes.
New launches and land sales
- Norwood Grand — City Developments Limited, 348 units on a 99-year lease on Champions Way, launched in October 2024. URA awarded the site on 18 September 2023 to CDL Stellar Pte. Ltd.
- Woodlands Drive 17 — two executive condominium sites, awarded by HDB on 26 August 2025 to CDL Divine Pte. Ltd. (about 420 units) and on 20 January 2026 to Sim Lian Land Pte Ltd and Sim Lian Development Pte Ltd (about 560 units).
Getting around
Woodlands is an interchange of the North–South and Thomson–East Coast Lines, with Admiralty on the North–South Line and Woodlands North and Woodlands South on the Thomson–East Coast Line. The Johor Bahru–Singapore RTS Link will run from Woodlands North to Bukit Chagar in about five minutes; LTA targets passenger service at the end of 2026.
Schools with pages here include Woodlands Primary, Admiralty Primary, Greenwood Primary and Innova Primary.
Who manages the buildings here
Ray Property Management (4) manage the most developments inside the boundary. About one in five 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 25 page.
Sources: URA Master Plan 2019 planning area and subzone boundaries (data.gov.sg); NLB Infopedia (Woodlands); HDB (Woodlands); EdgeProp (Norwood Grand); URA (Champions Way award); HDB (Woodlands Drive 17 award, 2025); HDB (Woodlands Drive 17 award, 2026); LTA (Johor Bahru–Singapore RTS Link). Buildings are listed when their coordinate falls inside URA’s boundary for the planning area; prices are left out because they change.
