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Crazy Rich Singapore | Clementi: S$17.9M Sunset Way Houses, S$3.88M Condos, S$1.59M HDBs and 2032 CRL Luxury

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Clementi HDB point blocks with elevated MRT tracks in Singapore.

Crazy Rich Singapore | Clementi: S$17.9M Sunset Way Houses, S$3.88M Condos, S$1.59M HDBs and 2032 CRL Luxury explores luxury living in Clementi, one of Singapore’s most strategically placed western HDB towns. Search phrases such as “Clementi property”, “Sunset Way landed house”, “Clavon condo”, “Clementi Crest million-dollar HDB”, “Clementi Cross Island Line”, “Maju MRT”, “NUS Clementi”, “Clementi Woods Park” and “Clementi luxury living” reveal a deeply practical form of wealth: giant freehold landed homes, premium family condos, record-breaking public housing, university and research access, future two-line MRT connectivity and enough greenery to keep the west feeling spacious.

Did you know? HDB’s 2025 key statistics counted 70,670 residents living in HDB flats in Clementi as at 31 March 2025, making it the twentieth-largest HDB town by HDB-resident population in this biggest-to-smallest estate series. In September 2026, a detached home in the Sunset Way landed enclave with about 9,700 sq ft of land was marketed at S$17.9 million, while a five-room Clementi Crest HDB flat sold for a town-record S$1.59 million. For Chinese readers, Clementi — 金文泰 — is a useful place to learn 有地住宅 for landed property, 顶层豪宅 for penthouse, 科研大学城 for university-and-research district and 换乘站 for interchange station.

Crazy Rich Singapore — HDB Towns & Estates Series: 27-town ranking hub · Previous: Queenstown · Next: Jurong East · How Singapore Got So Rich · Crazy Rich World

Did You Know? Clementi Is Number Twenty in Our Biggest-to-Smallest HDB Town Journey

This series uses one consistent official measure: resident population living in HDB flats by HDB town or estate.

After Queenstown at 77,340 residents, HDB’s 2025 table places Clementi at 70,670, ahead of Jurong East at 66,290.

Previous stop: Crazy Rich Singapore | Queenstown.

Clementi is a wonderfully Singaporean luxury study because it combines:

  • old mature-town convenience;
  • freehold landed enclaves;
  • new premium condominiums;
  • record-setting HDB flats;
  • major universities and schools;
  • future Cross Island Line infrastructure; and
  • parks and green corridors woven through the western city.

Luxury here is less about spectacle and more about a highly useful life.

1. Ask S$17.9 Million for a 9,700-Square-Foot Sunset Way Plot

Start with Clementi’s most obvious Crazy Rich move.

Buy land.

In September 2026, a detached house in the Sunset Way landed enclave was marketed at S$17.9 million on approximately 9,700 sq ft of land.

Other Sunset Way listings in the same period ranged from about S$12 million to above S$16 million for detached and bungalow homes.

The affluent buyer is paying for a combination Singapore rarely offers:

  • freehold land;
  • large private plot;
  • quiet residential streets;
  • space for multigenerational rebuilding;
  • park-facing or greenery-facing possibilities; and
  • future access to Maju MRT and the Cross Island Line.

Did you know? The richest land is often not the most central land.

It is the land that gives privacy without cutting you off from the city.

中文提示：有地住宅 means landed property. 独立式洋房 means detached house.

2. Buy the S$16.5 Million Hilltop Bungalow Version

If the S$17.9 million plot is too much land to think about before coffee, there is the hilltop version.

A freehold bungalow around Sunset Heights was marketed in September 2026 at S$16.5 million, with roughly 7,700 sq ft of land and about 6,000 sq ft of built space.

The listing emphasised greenery and an elevated setting.

That creates a different luxury equation:

  • less urban noise;
  • more privacy;
  • garden and entertaining space;
  • room for a pool, lift or rebuild subject to approvals; and
  • enough elevation that trees, not towers, become the view.

Luxury can be square footage.

It can also be what the square footage looks at.

3. Spend S$3.88 Million on a Five-Bedroom Clavon Home

Not every wealthy household wants a garden.

Some want everything handled by the management office.

In September 2026, a high-floor five-bedroom home at Clavon was marketed at S$3.88 million for about 1,690 sq ft.

Four-bedroom units in the same development were marketed around S$2.86 million to S$3.19 million.

The rich-person appeal is straightforward:

  • newer private housing;
  • family-sized layout;
  • pool and clubhouse facilities;
  • tennis, sky terrace and social spaces;
  • Clementi MRT nearby; and
  • future Cross Island Line connectivity entering the same town.

The luxury is not owning the pool.

It is swimming in it without cleaning it.

中文提示：公寓会所设施 means condominium clubhouse facilities.

4. Pay S$1.59 Million for a Five-Room HDB at Clementi Crest

Then comes the public-housing plot twist.

On 9 September 2026, a five-room flat at 445A Clementi Avenue 3 sold for S$1.59 million.

The 1,216 sq ft flat sat on the 37th to 39th storeys and achieved about S$1,307 psf.

It set a new Clementi record for five-room HDB flats.

The buyer is paying for:

  • high-floor views;
  • newer lease;
  • large five-room floor area;
  • Clementi MRT nearby;
  • Clementi Mall and market access; and
  • a town with schools, universities and employment nodes already built around it.

At that point, “public housing” and “premium housing” are no longer opposites.

They are simply different legal and planning categories inside the same scarce city.

5. Pay S$1.356 Million for a Four-Room HDB

Clementi Crest is not only setting five-room records.

In August 2026, a four-room flat in the same development sold for S$1.355888 million.

The unit measured around 1,001 sq ft and sat on the 37th to 39th storeys.

That is a remarkable price for a four-room HDB flat.

But it demonstrates something important.

Buyers do not price only by flat label.

They price the whole bundle:

  • 1,001 sq ft;
  • newer age;
  • high floor;
  • remaining lease;
  • view;
  • MRT; and
  • scarcity.

Luxury begins when the combination becomes difficult to substitute.

6. Live Beside a 150-Hectare Global University Campus

Clementi’s richest invisible asset may be education.

The National University of Singapore’s Kent Ridge campus spans more than 150 hectares and concentrates academic, research, residential, cultural and sporting infrastructure immediately beside the Clementi–Kent Ridge area.

For a wealthy academic, founder, doctor, scientist, investor or family, proximity can become a serious lifestyle advantage.

  • shorter journey to campus;
  • access to research and university networks;
  • nearby hospitals and biomedical institutions;
  • strong school ecosystem;
  • sports and cultural facilities; and
  • the ability to keep knowledge work geographically close to home.

This is knowledge-economy luxury.

The value is not only what you own.

It is who and what you can reach quickly.

Read What is so Awesome About National University of Singapore.

7. Plan the Household Around a Future Two-Line Clementi Interchange

Clementi is already on the East–West Line.

By 2032, LTA plans for it to become a Cross Island Line interchange.

CRL Phase 2 will add six underground stations: Turf City, King Albert Park, Maju, Clementi, West Coast and Jurong Lake District.

Clementi and King Albert Park will be the two interchange stations.

LTA says construction of CRL2 is progressing and the line is targeted to open by 2032.

The wealthy-person question is not merely:

When does the train open?

It is:

  • Which workplaces become easier?
  • Which schools become easier?
  • How many car journeys disappear?
  • How much easier is Jurong Lake District?
  • How much easier is Ang Mo Kio?
  • What happens when Sunset Way and West Coast gain stations of their own?

This is not property investment advice.

It is optionality.

And optionality is one of the most useful forms of urban wealth.

Read Crazy Rich Singapore | Cross Island Line, Interchanges and the East West Connectivity Economy.

8. Turn Maju MRT into a Landed-Home Time Machine

The future Maju station is especially important for Sunset Way and Clementi’s landed belt.

LTA says CRL2 will improve public transport accessibility for areas such as Sunset Way and West Coast that currently do not have direct MRT access.

Construction for Maju station began in 2024, with passenger service targeted for 2032.

This creates one of the rarest Singapore combinations:

  • landed home;
  • garden;
  • quiet streets;
  • private parking; and
  • future walkable or short-hop access to a major orbital MRT line.

Privacy plus rail connectivity is expensive because Singapore has relatively few places where both can coexist.

中文提示：未来地铁站 means future MRT station.

9. Turn Clementi Woods into a Private Wellness Circuit

Clementi Woods Park covers 12 hectares beside West Coast Road.

NParks describes it as a tranquil wooded park with cycling, inline skating, photography, family recreation and lush tree cover.

The public version is free.

The affluent version adds the human layer.

  • private running coach;
  • personal trainer;
  • children’s nature guide;
  • professional photographer;
  • physiotherapy afterwards; and
  • breakfast waiting before anybody starts complaining about humidity.

Did you know? One of Singapore’s recurring luxury advantages is that the city builds excellent shared infrastructure first.

Private wealth then personalises the experience.

Read Things to do in Singapore | Clementi Woods Park.

10. Build a Family Education Operating System Around Clementi

Clementi contains one of Singapore’s densest learning ecosystems.

It sits near NUS, Singapore Polytechnic, the School of Science and Technology, NUS High School, multiple primary and secondary schools and several international-school campuses.

The wealthy-person version is not simply to add more tuition.

It is to make expertise easy to access.

  • specialist tutors at home;
  • music teachers;
  • sports coaches;
  • research internships when age-appropriate;
  • library and campus resources nearby; and
  • less family time wasted crossing Singapore.

The objective is not a child with no free time.

The objective is a family with better access to high-quality learning.

Read Awesome Schools in Clementi and Tutors and Tuition in Clementi.

The Clementi Luxury Formula: Land + Knowledge + Connectivity + Green Space

  • Land — Sunset Way freehold homes with large plots and eight-figure asking prices.
  • Knowledge — NUS, schools, research and education clustered nearby.
  • Connectivity — East–West Line today, Cross Island Line and Maju station by 2032.
  • Green space — Clementi Woods, West Coast parks and western green corridors.

Clementi is not a traditional luxury district.

That is what makes it interesting.

It offers the wealthy household a very practical question:

What if the richest life is the one where home, school, university, nature and transport are all already close?

English–中文 Touring Vocabulary for Clementi

1. Landed property — 有地住宅

A residence that comes with private land around or beneath the house.

2. Detached house — 独立式洋房

A house that does not share a wall with another house.

3. Freehold — 永久地契

A property tenure without a fixed lease expiry, subject to applicable laws and title conditions.

4. Penthouse — 顶层豪宅 / 顶层公寓

A premium residence at or near the top of a building.

5. Interchange station — 换乘站

A station where passengers can transfer between different rail lines.

6. Research university — 研究型大学

A university with major teaching and research activity across many academic fields.

7. Knowledge economy — 知识经济

An economy in which skills, research, technology and expertise create a large share of value.

8. Nature park — 自然公园

A green area managed for recreation, landscape and ecological value.

9. High-floor flat — 高层组屋

A public-housing unit located high in a residential tower, often valued for privacy and views.

10. Scarcity — 稀缺性

The condition in which something desirable is limited relative to demand.

11. Connectivity — 交通连通性

The ease with which a place connects to other destinations and transport networks.

12. Optionality — 选择余地 / 选择权

The value of having several useful choices available before a decision must be made.

A Crazy-Rich Clementi Saturday

  1. Wake up in a S$17.9 million Sunset Way house with enough land to require a gardening strategy.
  2. Meet a private coach for a morning session at Clementi Woods.
  3. Have lunch near NUS with somebody who is turning a research idea into a company.
  4. Tour a S$1.59 million Clementi Crest HDB and discuss how public housing became a scarcity market.
  5. Inspect a S$3.88 million five-bedroom Clavon home and enjoy not owning a lawn mower.
  6. Take the MRT because driving to town would be slower.
  7. Finish dinner looking at the 2032 Cross Island Line map and calculating how many future journeys disappear.

Ridiculous?

A little.

But the exaggeration reveals the real system.

Clementi wealth is about land, learning, transport, green space and time.

What Students Can Learn from Crazy Rich Clementi

Mathematics

Compare land area, floor area, price per square foot, HDB and private-property prices, lease tenure and travel-time savings from new MRT infrastructure.

Geography

Clementi shows how HDB housing, landed enclaves, university campuses, parks, MRT lines and future orbital rail can fit together inside one western urban system.

Economics

S$17.9 million landed listings and S$1.59 million HDB flats demonstrate scarcity, land value, tenure and willingness to pay for rare combinations.

Science

NUS and the surrounding research ecosystem connect daily urban life to medicine, engineering, computing, sustainability and biotechnology.

English

Words such as “interchange”, “scarcity”, “research”, “freehold”, “connectivity” and “optionality” help students describe modern cities precisely.

History

Clementi’s transformation from plantations, military landscapes and rural roads into a mature university-linked HDB town shows how Singapore’s western region urbanised. Read History of Singapore | Clementi.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Clementi Singapore’s twentieth-largest HDB town?

Yes, using HDB’s 2025 measure of resident population living in HDB flats. Clementi had 70,670 HDB residents as at 31 March 2025.

Are there S$1.5 million HDB flats in Clementi?

Yes. A five-room flat at Clementi Crest sold for S$1.59 million on 9 September 2026, setting a new record for five-room HDB flats in the town.

Can four-room HDB flats in Clementi cost more than S$1.3 million?

Yes. A four-room Clementi Crest flat sold for S$1.355888 million in August 2026.

Can landed homes at Sunset Way cost more than S$15 million?

Yes. Current 2026 listings include detached and bungalow properties above S$15 million, including a S$17.9 million 9,700 sq ft detached plot. Asking prices are not completed transaction prices.

When will Clementi become a Cross Island Line interchange?

LTA targets Cross Island Line Phase 2, including the Clementi interchange, for opening by 2032.

How large is Clementi Woods Park?

NParks lists Clementi Woods Park at 12 hectares.

Is this property investment advice?

No. Property examples are used for education, urban analysis and lifestyle writing. Readers should independently verify transaction data, asking prices, financing, eligibility, tenure and legal conditions.

Helpful Reading Across the Clementi and Singapore Graph

References and Current Sources

Crazy Rich Singapore | Clementi Is Luxury Built Around Useful Proximity

Clementi does not need a marina or private island to feel rich.

A S$17.9 million landed plot can sit near a future MRT station.

A S$3.88 million condo can sit near NUS.

A S$1.59 million HDB can sit above a mature town centre.

A 12-hectare wooded park can remain free to everyone.

And a second MRT line can arrive without the family needing to move.

Did you know? Clementi’s richest idea may be that convenience compounds.

The more useful things a family can reach quickly, the less of life gets wasted between them.