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Housing

Median Rentals and Vacancy of Retail Space by Locality, Quarterly

Data from Apr 2012 to Jun 2025

Last updated: 25 Jul 2025, 15:44 SGT

URA (Urban Redevelopment Authority)

Orchard: Refers to the Orchard Planning Area

The Map of Central Region showing Orchard and Rest of City Area (RCA) is available at: https://spring.ura.gov.sg/lad/ore/login/map_city_area.pdf.

Data explorer

MedianRentalsandVacancyofRetailSpacebyLocalityQuarterly.csv (159 rows, 6.8 KB)

Quarter Quarter (Q)	Locality Text	Ret Med Rent Lease Cm Numeric	Ret Med Rent Cont Date Numeric	Ret Vacancy Rate Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% Orchard33.3% Outside Central Area33.3% Central Area - Outside Orchard33.3%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2012-Q2	Central Area - Outside Orchard	6.49	6.69	5.9
2012-Q2	Orchard	10.67	10.63	5.3
2012-Q2	Outside Central Area	6.65	5.89	4.9
2012-Q3	Central Area - Outside Orchard	6.43	6.63	7.6
2012-Q3	Orchard	10.66	10.62	6.3
2012-Q3	Outside Central Area	6.59	5.88	4.8
2012-Q4	Central Area - Outside Orchard	6.44	6.65	6.4
2012-Q4	Orchard	10.67	10.62	5.2
2012-Q4	Outside Central Area	6.6	5.9	4.3
2013-Q1	Central Area - Outside Orchard	6.37	6.57	5.8

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Quarter	quarter	Quarter (Q)	-	-
Locality	locality	Text	-	-
Ret Med Rent Lease Cm	ret_med_rent_lease_cm	Numeric	-	-
Ret Med Rent Cont Date	ret_med_rent_cont_date	Numeric	-	-
Ret Vacancy Rate	ret_vacancy_rate	Numeric	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_49962204d37550d54175c2e5f0e78025"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Urban Redevelopment Authority. (2016). Median Rentals and Vacancy of Retail Space by Locality, Quarterly (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 5, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_49962204d37550d54175c2e5f0e78025/view

About this dataset

Contact

chee_tuck_chuen@ura.gov.sg

Created on

15 Sep 2016

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

URA (Urban Redevelopment Authority)