Private home supply: what URA's pipeline shows before 23 Oct

Private housing supply in Singapore, on the latest official count, stood at 42,472 homes including executive condominiums (ECs) in the pipeline with planning approval at the end of June 2026, of which 15,810 were unsold. Another 18,153 unsold units sat on sites without planning approval yet. The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has scheduled its next update for 23 October 2026, so this page sets out the June numbers, what they do and do not say about homes you can buy, and the lines to compare when the new release appears.

These are counts of supply in the system, not a list of homes on sale, and none of them is a forecast of prices.

All figures are from URA's second-quarter 2026 statistics, released on 24 July 2026, unless stated.

• Pipeline with planning approval: 42,472 units including ECs at the end of June 2026; 15,810 unsold.
• Without planning approval yet: 18,153 unsold units including ECs, among them 4,745 units on the second half 2026 Confirmed List of government land sales.
• Expected completions: about 60,600 private homes and ECs in the coming years: about 25,900 by 2028 and about 34,700 from 2029.
• Completed in the first half of 2026: 1,611 private homes and 872 ECs obtained their Temporary Occupation Permit (TOP).
• Vacancy: 6.4% of completed private homes (excluding ECs) at the end of June, up from 6.2%.
• Next update: 23 October 2026, when URA's data release calendar lists the quarterly market update and the pipeline data for the third quarter.

How much private housing is in the pipeline?

URA's July release separates supply into stages. Homes with planning approval, 42,472 of them including ECs, are projects that can be built; 15,810 of those had not been sold by the end of June. A further 18,153 unsold units were on sites that have not yet received planning approval, including the 4,745 units on government land listed for sale in the second half of 2026.

URA's 3 June 2026 programme release framed the same supply in rounder numbers: around 61,000 units in the overall pipeline once the second half 2026 Confirmed List is counted, including around 32,000 unsold units "that could be released by developers for sale in the next two years or so". Our reading: "could be released" describes possible launches, not homes in a show flat today.

How quickly are new homes selling?

URA's July release says developers sold 2,141 private homes excluding ECs in the second quarter of 2026, against 2,013 in the first. They sold 175 EC units in the second quarter, after 1,168 in the first. The quarterly series URA publishes on data.gov.sg (private residential transactions, last updated 27 July 2026) gives the earlier quarters for new sales excluding ECs: 3,288 in the third quarter of 2025 and 2,940 in the fourth, by our reading of the table.

A rough way to read the unsold figure, our arithmetic and not a URA measure:

• At the second-quarter pace: 15,810 unsold ÷ 2,316 sold (2,141 private plus 175 EC units) ≈ 6.8 quarters of sales.
• At the first-quarter pace: 15,810 ÷ 3,181 (2,013 plus 1,168) ≈ 5.0 quarters.

That is only a scale check. Sales vary with launches, and the unsold count includes projects that have not been released for sale at all.

What does the vacancy rate say if you plan to rent out?

URA put the vacancy rate of completed private homes, excluding ECs, at 6.4% at the end of June 2026, up from 6.2% at the end of March. By region it was 8.3% in the Core Central Region, 6.1% in the Rest of Central Region and 5.6% in the Outside Central Region. In the second quarter the stock of completed homes rose by 416 units, while occupied homes fell by 387.

Our reading: a buyer who plans to let a unit after completion should treat these figures as background and test rental demand for the specific location and unit size, as our rental yield guide shows. A higher completion count in a given year means more homes competing for tenants and buyers in that year.

What will URA publish on 23 October?

URA's data release calendar (last updated 4 September 2026) lists for 23 October the quarterly property market updates, the private residential projects in the pipeline and the median rentals by street, all for the third quarter. URA's flash estimate on 1 October already put the third-quarter rise in the overall price index at 1.4%, a preliminary figure based on data up to mid-September.

When the full release appears, compare these lines with the June figures:

1. Pipeline with planning approval, against 42,472, and the unsold portion, against 15,810.
2. Unsold units without planning approval, against 18,153.
3. Expected completions by year, against about 25,900 by 2028 and about 34,700 from 2029.
4. Developers' sales for the quarter, against 2,141 private homes and 175 ECs.
5. The vacancy rate, against 6.4%, and its three regional figures.

How should a buyer use these numbers?

As context, written down with their dates. A line for your research file: "End-June 2026 (URA, 24 July): 15,810 unsold units with planning approval incl. ECs; vacancy 6.4%; about 25,900 completions due by 2028. Replace after 23 October." Then return to what matters for one purchase: the project's own price list, completion date and location, compared side by side in our project comparison method. For land that has not reached the pipeline yet, our Marina Gardens Lane tender note explains how a government site becomes supply. More dated notes sit under research.

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