The Trevose
Overview & Key Facts
The Trevose is a 142-unit low-rise condominium at 56–60 Trevose Crescent in District 11, completed in 2001 on a 99-year leasehold from 1996. With approximately 69 years remaining on the lease (expiring 2095), the development occupies one of Singapore’s most coveted residential addresses — the Trevose–Stevens–Chancery Hill enclave, a quiet mid-peninsula precinct flanked by Good Class Bungalow (GCB) land on multiple sides.
Developed by Trevose Crescent Development Pte Ltd, the project spans three low-rise blocks of five storeys each — an architectural scale that is entirely out of step with the mass-market tower clusters that define much of Singapore’s 2000s-era condominium landscape, but entirely in keeping with the neighbourhood’s residential character. The result is a 142-unit community that feels genuinely suburban: low site coverage, mature landscaping, and a density profile closer to a private estate than a typical condominium development.
The unit mix skews large, with 2-, 3-, and 4-bedroom configurations averaging approximately 1,690 sqft across the development — a size standard that reflects the era and the neighbourhood. Penthouse variants extend to over 3,600 sqft, confirming that The Trevose was always positioned as a family-grade CCR address rather than an investment-oriented compact-unit product. With 31 recorded resale transactions averaging $2,699,016 (approximately $1,596 PSF) and 106 rental transactions averaging $6,330 per month, the development’s data profile confirms steady occupancy and genuine end-user demand.
At $1,596 PSF, The Trevose sits meaningfully below comparable District 11 freehold addresses — a gap that directly prices in the leasehold discount. The 69-year remaining lease is the development’s central financial consideration: it falls below the 75-year CPF usage threshold, meaning buyers cannot use CPF Ordinary Account funds to finance the purchase, and conventional bank financing also tightens. For cash buyers and HNW purchasers for whom CPF restrictions are irrelevant, however, the address premium of the Trevose Crescent enclave is very much intact — and $1,596 PSF for a quiet GCB-adjacent D11 CCR address is a genuine value proposition relative to what freehold D11 commands.
Location & Connectivity
The Trevose sits at 56–60 Trevose Crescent, a short private road that runs off Stevens Road in the heart of the Trevose–Chancery Hill–Tyersall enclave. The address is not a main-road condo. It is a genuinely quiet residential street, bounded by GCB-zoned land to the north and the low-density private housing of the Stevens corridor to the south — the kind of Singapore address that commands a premium in the land market regardless of what specific development sits on it.
MRT connectivity is provided primarily by Stevens MRT (DT10/TE11), a dual-line interchange station on both the Downtown Line (DTL) and Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL). Stevens MRT is approximately 500 metres from The Trevose — a comfortable 5–7 minute walk along Stevens Road. For a development at this address and price point, Stevens MRT is a strong connectivity asset: the Downtown Line provides a one-transfer path to the CBD, Marina Bay, and Changi Airport; the Thomson-East Coast Line offers direct services to Orchard, Stevens, Newton, and southward toward Marina Bay and the eastern districts. Newton MRT (NS21/DT20), the North South–Downtown Line interchange, is approximately 1.2 km south — walkable for residents who prefer the NSL corridor or who use Newton as a transfer hub.
The lifestyle geography is excellent. United Square on Thomson Road, anchored by a child-focused retail and enrichment hub, is a 10–12 minute walk or a short drive. The Novena medical precinct — Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Mount Elizabeth Novena, and the specialist clinic cluster at Connexion — is approximately 1.5 km north. Orchard Road, Singapore’s premier lifestyle corridor, is 10–15 minutes by MRT or 5 minutes by car via Stevens Road. The Singapore Botanic Gardens, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of D10’s anchor green assets, is a 5-minute drive south along Tyersall Avenue.
Schools in the immediate catchment are consistently cited as a key draw: Singapore Chinese Girls’ Primary School, St Joseph’s Institution Junior College, and the Singapore Chinese Girls’ School (secondary) are all within 1–2 km. The Chatsworth International and Overseas Family School campuses in the Orchard–Stevens belt are within easy reach for expatriate families. The day-to-day retail environment is more suburban than urban — there are no malls at the doorstep — but the compensation is genuine quiet, leafy streets, and the enclave privacy that Stevens Road’s zoning preserves.
Schools & Education
1 primary school within the 1 km Priority Phase balloting radius.
| School | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Nanyang Girls' High School | secondary | Within 1 km |
| Nanyang Primary School | primary | Within 1 km |
| Methodist Girls' School (Primary) | primary | ~1.4 km |
| ISS International School (Preston) | international | ~1.4 km |
| SJI International School | international | ~1.4 km |
| St. Joseph's Institution | secondary | ~1.5 km |
| ISS International School (Paterson) | international | ~1.5 km |
| German European School Singapore | international | ~1.5 km |
Facilities
As a 142-unit low-rise completed in 2001, The Trevose offers a modest but well-maintained facilities deck proportionate to its scale and era. The core offering comprises a swimming pool, gymnasium, sauna, tennis court, clubhouse with function room, BBQ pits, and a children’s play area. Twenty-four-hour guarded security is in place, consistent with the development’s positioning as a family-grade CCR address.
The facilities are not the development’s primary selling point — the address and unit scale are. But what exists is well-maintained, and the low resident density (142 units across a sizeable site) means the pool and tennis court are never crowded. Residents who prioritise peaceful, uncrowded facilities over show-stopping amenity decks will find the environment genuinely pleasant. The sauna is an unusual inclusion for a 142-unit development of this era, reflecting the original developer’s intent to deliver a lifestyle product above the standard 2001 condominium.
“The facilities are simple but never crowded. The pool is lovely and well-maintained. For the address and the size of units you get, this is hard to beat in D11.”
— Resident review via PropertyGuru
The development’s low-rise, three-block configuration gives it a landscaped, garden-estate feel that high-rise CCR towers cannot replicate. The site retains mature trees and generous soft landscaping — features of a 2001 development that were possible on land parcels before the density intensification of subsequent government land sales. This green character is a genuine amenity differentiator in a D11 market where most comparables are single-tower developments on tighter footprints.
Unit Sizes & Layout
The Trevose’s 142 units span a range of 2-, 3-, and 4-bedroom configurations, with the majority of the stock in the 3- and 4-bedroom range — a unit mix that firmly positions the development as a family-grade CCR address rather than an investor-driven compact-unit product. Average transacted size across the development is approximately 1,690 sqft, with individual configurations ranging from 2-bedroom units at approximately 958–1,195 sqft through 3-bedroom units at 1,270–1,938 sqft, 4-bedroom units at 1,733–2,099 sqft, and penthouse variants extending to 3,627 sqft at the upper end.
These are generous proportions by any contemporary standard. A 1,938 sqft three-bedder at The Trevose provides bedroom and living dimensions that a 2025 new launch three-bedder at similar PSF cannot approach — the space standard reflects a 2001 design philosophy where liveable area was measured in sqft rather than optimised through clever partition layouts. For owner-occupiers upgrading from a large HDB executive flat or a 1990s-era private condominium, the room proportions at The Trevose will feel immediately comfortable and genuinely spacious.
The five-storey low-rise format means there are no tower-floor views — upper floors reach floor 5 at most. This is not a development for buyers who want the Singapore skyline from their bedroom. Instead, the units look out over the development’s own landscaping, the leafy canopy of Trevose Crescent, and the private housing estates of the Stevens corridor. The aesthetic is entirely consistent with the quiet enclave character of the address.
The penthouse units at the development’s upper levels are particularly distinctive: at 2,314–3,627 sqft, they deliver a landed-equivalent space experience within a managed condominium. For buyers who want the practical security and facilities of a condo with the room proportions of a small terrace house, the penthouse tier at The Trevose is a genuinely differentiated product in the D11 market. At average transacted PSFs of approximately $1,596, even a 3,000 sqft penthouse falls below $5 million — a price point that in D11 freehold new launches would not secure a fraction of the space.
| Bedrooms | Transactions | Avg PSF | Avg Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 BR | 10 | $1,674 | $2,020,250 |
| 4 BR | 15 | $1,668 | $2,869,133 |
| 5 BR | 6 | $1,284 | $3,405,000 |
Pricing & Market Position
Based on 31 recorded transactions, sale prices range from $1,460,000 to $3,980,000, averaging $2,699,016 (~$1,894 psf).
Rents range from $3,000 to $11,000 per month across 107 rental transactions. Current rental yield sits at approximately 2.8%.
Price Appreciation
From 2021 to 2025, the average PSF has appreciated by 60.2% (from $1,161 to $1,860 psf).
Neighbourhood Comparison
The most structurally relevant comparison for The Trevose is Trevose Park, which sits on the same Trevose Crescent road and offers a direct apples-to-apples address comparison. Trevose Park is freehold, 98 units, D11. Its freehold title eliminates the CPF restriction and means no lease-decay trajectory to manage. Trevose Park transacts at a meaningful PSF premium over The Trevose — the price gap represents exactly what the market charges for freehold versus a 69-year remaining leasehold on the same street. For buyers who can access the premium, Trevose Park removes the structural constraints of The Trevose while delivering the same enclave address.
Montebleu at Minbu Road is a freehold D11 development completed in 2010, 151 units, by Soilbuild Group. Recent transactions average approximately $1,962 PSF. Montebleu is closer to the Novena medical hub and further from the GCB-enclave quiet of Trevose Crescent, but its freehold title removes the financing constraint that The Trevose carries. The $366 PSF gap between Montebleu and The Trevose is broadly consistent with the combined leasehold discount plus CPF-restriction premium — buyers making this comparison should evaluate whether the extra PSF is worth paying for unrestricted CPF usage and permanent title.
Lincoln Suites on Khiang Guan Avenue represents the top of the D11 freehold stack in this comparison: 175 units, completed 2014, averaging approximately $2,208 PSF. Lincoln Suites offers a newer construction vintage (2014 versus 2001), higher-specification finishings, and freehold permanence — at a PSF premium of roughly $600 over The Trevose. For buyers whose priority is a fresh lease, contemporary interiors, and unrestricted CPF usage, Lincoln Suites is the premium option. The Trevose’s counter-argument is unit size: its 1,690 sqft average significantly exceeds what Lincoln Suites delivers at that PSF level, and the Trevose Crescent enclave quiet is structurally different from the Khiang Guan–Moulmein Road environment.
In the leasehold segment, developments along the Newton–Novena corridor with comparable remaining tenures offer similar or lower PSF levels, but generally at main-road addresses without the GCB-adjacent enclave character of Trevose Crescent. For buyers who specifically value the street address over the tenure profile, The Trevose at $1,596 PSF offers a point of access to one of D11’s quietest and most architecturally preserved residential streets that no freehold alternative can match at that PSF.
| Development | Tenure | TOP | Units | ~Avg PSF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE TREVOSE | 99 yrs lease commencing from 1996 | 2001 | 142 | $1,894 |
| PULLMAN RESIDENCES NEWTON | Freehold | 2021 | 340 | $3,074 |
| WATTEN HOUSE | Freehold | 2023 | 180 | $3,236 |
| SOLEIL @ SINARAN | 99 yrs lease commencing from 2006 | 2011 | 417 | $1,970 |
| PEAK RESIDENCE | Freehold | 2021 | 90 | $2,489 |
| AMARYLLIS VILLE | 99 yrs lease commencing from 1997 | 2004 | 311 | $1,903 |
Lease Decay Analysis
The 99-year lease runs from 1996, meaning approximately 30 years have already been consumed. Roughly 69 years remain — still comfortably within the range where most banks will offer full financing without restrictions.
| Year | Lease remaining | Implication |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (now) | ~69 years | Full bank financing available |
| 2035 | ~59 years | Approaching 60-year threshold — CPF limits begin for some |
| 2055 | ~39 years | Significant financing restrictions for next buyer |
| 2095 | Expiry | Lease reverts to state |
For a buyer purchasing today with a 10-year horizon (exit around 2036), the lease situation is essentially a non-issue — you’d be selling a property with ~59 years remaining, which is still very bankable. The risk profile changes for longer holds.
ShiokNest Scores
Our proprietary scoring system evaluates THE TREVOSE across multiple dimensions.
What Residents Say
“We chose The Trevose specifically for the quiet street and the size of the unit. There is nothing like this in D11 at this price point — the space, the greenery, the Stevens MRT five minutes away. We have no regrets.”
— Owner review via PropertyGuru
“The address sells itself — Trevose Crescent is a beautiful quiet enclave. The units are enormous by today’s standards. Just be aware of the lease and CPF restrictions before you buy; your banker needs to check this carefully.”
— Resident comment via EdgeProp
“Great for families with school-going children — SCGS and SJI are both nearby. Pool is never crowded, management is decent. The low-rise feel is very different from other D11 condos.”
— Resident review via 99.co
“We rent here and love it. The unit is very large — over 1,800 sqft for a 3-bedder. The building is well-maintained and quiet. Stevens MRT is an easy walk. For expat families this is one of the best value CCR options in D11.”
— Tenant review via SRX
The resident and tenant feedback pattern at The Trevose is consistent: strong satisfaction with unit size, enclave quiet, and Stevens MRT access; clear awareness of the lease and CPF constraints among buyers; and broad appreciation for the low-rise, low-density estate character that distinguishes the development from its D11 peers. Unlike some older developments where management quality deteriorates post-TOP, The Trevose’s common areas and landscaping are described as well-maintained — a function of the smaller unit count that keeps MCST management tractable and the community coherent. The tenant profile skews toward expatriate professionals and Singaporean families with school-going children, reflecting the development’s proximity to SCGS, SJI, and the Stevens-corridor international school cluster.
Strengths & Weaknesses
- Trevose Crescent enclave address — GCB-adjacent quiet street with no through traffic, permanently protected by surrounding zoning
- Stevens MRT dual-line access (DT10/TE11) approximately 500 m away — Downtown Line and Thomson-East Coast Line in one station
- Large unit sizes averaging ~1,690 sqft — 3BR from 1,270 sqft, 4BR from 1,733 sqft, penthouses to 3,627 sqft
- Low-rise three-block layout with mature landscaping — garden-estate feel rare among D11 condos
- Boutique scale (142 units) means pool, tennis court, and gym are genuinely uncrowded
- $1,596 PSF for D11 CCR enclave — 20–30% below freehold D11 peers; the lease discount is real but so is the address value
- Average rent $6,330/month — ~2.8% gross yield with strong expatriate and family tenant demand
- School catchment strength: SCGS, SJI Junior College, SJI International all within 1–2 km
- Singapore Botanic Gardens (UNESCO) a 5-minute drive south via Tyersall Avenue
- Orchard Road approximately 10 minutes by MRT or 5 minutes by car — CCR convenience at suburban quiet
- 69-year remaining lease falls below 75-year CPF usage threshold — CPF Ordinary Account cannot be used to service the mortgage
- Bank financing may be tightened: LTV ratios and loan tenure caps apply under MAS rules for sub-75-year leasehold
- Lease decay trajectory: each year reduces remaining term, progressively constraining future resale pool to cash buyers
- No tower views — five-storey low-rise means no elevated sightlines; units look out over landscaping and neighbouring estates
- Facilities deck is modest relative to newer CCR condos — no infinity pool, sky terrace, or lifestyle-grade amenity hub
- 2001 vintage: kitchens, bathrooms, and fittings in original condition will require renovation budget
- Limited retail immediately at the doorstep — nearest malls (United Square, Novena Square) require a 10-minute drive or MRT
- Resale liquidity limited by CPF restriction — sub-75-year leasehold properties attract a narrower buyer pool at resale
Verdict
The Trevose’s investment case is defined by a single central tension: an outstanding address with a lease that creates real structural constraints. At 69 years remaining, the development has crossed below the 75-year CPF threshold — which removes CPF-assisted buyers from the eligible purchasing pool and tightens bank financing terms. This is not a nuance or an edge case; it is a binary structural filter that the market has already priced in, which is precisely why $1,596 PSF is achievable for a Trevose Crescent D11 CCR address where comparable freehold condos trade at $1,900–$2,200 PSF or above.
For buyers who are unaffected by the CPF restriction — cash buyers, HNW purchasers, and foreign buyers for whom CPF is irrelevant — The Trevose represents genuine value. The Trevose Crescent enclave has GCB land on multiple sides, preserving the low-density residential character permanently regardless of what happens to surrounding districts. The Stevens MRT dual-line access is a genuine infrastructure asset. The unit sizes are generously proportioned at an era-standard that new launches cannot replicate. And the implied gross yield — $6,330 monthly rent against a $2,699,016 average sale price — is approximately 2.8%, entirely characteristic of CCR family condos at this address level.
Against direct comparables, the lease discount is clearly visible and clearly priced. Montebleu on Minbu Road (D11 freehold, Soilbuild, 151 units) transacts at approximately $1,962 PSF. Lincoln Suites on Khiang Guan Avenue (D11 freehold, 2014, 175 units) averages approximately $2,208 PSF. Trevose Park on the same Trevose Crescent street (D11 freehold, 98 units) commands a similar premium for its freehold title. At $1,596 PSF, The Trevose is priced at roughly a 20–30% discount to freehold D11 peers — a gap that is wider than the historical 15–25% leasehold discount premium, reflecting the additional CPF-constraint discount layered on top. For buyers who are comfortable with and legally able to manage these constraints, that extra discount is the value proposition.
The Trevose is the right answer for cash buyers and HNW purchasers who want a genuinely quiet D11 CCR enclave at a meaningful discount to freehold, with large units and a Stevens MRT dual-line doorstep — and who have no CPF dependency that makes the 69-year lease a structural obstacle.
The walkability and neighbourhood scores are strong. Trevose Crescent itself is a private road with no through traffic, the GCB-adjacent zoning preserves the street’s character permanently, and the Stevens corridor’s combination of school catchments, MRT access, and Orchard Road proximity is difficult to improve upon at any D11 address. The development’s investment thesis is most compelling for long-hold cash buyers and high-net-worth families who value the address over the tenure — and least compelling for buyers who planned to leverage CPF or who have a short hold horizon where the lease discount will have minimal time to narrow.