Thomson Reserve: prices, preview and the 31 October launch

Thomson Reserve is the 1,268-home development at Bright Hill Drive that CapitaLand Development, UOL Group and Singapore Land Group are developing through a joint venture company, Tamarind Development Pte. Ltd. Their release of 15 October 2026, which we reread at about 3.35pm on 17 October, says the public preview begins at 10am on Saturday 17 October 2026 and the sales launch is scheduled for Saturday 31 October 2026. A preview is for viewing; the release names 31 October as the date sales are scheduled to start.

The release also gives the first prices: from S$1.544 million for a two-bedroom unit of 592 sq ft, S$2.503 million for a three-bedroom unit of 947 sq ft and S$3.388 million for a four-bedroom unit of 1,238 sq ft. These are the lowest figures the developers announced for those three unit types on 15 October 2026. They are not the price of a particular home, and the release does not say how many homes, or which ones, will be offered on 31 October.

The sales gallery is not at the site. The release places it at Upper Serangoon Crescent, opposite Riversails, open daily from 10am to 7pm from 17 October. Our guide to the sales galleries open in October 2026 suggests two visits per project: one to the gallery and one to the land. The two weeks between the preview and the sales launch are the time to test the journeys, decide which home sizes you need and get answers to the questions a brochure will not settle.

What the developers have confirmed so far

The release and its factsheet now fill most of the gaps this guide listed before 15 October: the dates, starting prices, lease start, expected completion and gallery. The release divides the homes into two collections: a Classic Collection of 740 two- to four-bedroom homes in the four 21-storey towers and a Luxury Collection of 528 two- to five-bedroom homes in the two 30-storey towers, with different appliances and finishes. The factsheet lists ten unit types, from a 592 sq ft two-bedroom to a 1,808 sq ft five-bedroom suite. CapitaLand’s project page, read on 17 October 2026, still gave the status “Under Development” and no preview date or prices, so take the dates from the release.

Our inference, not a developer statement, is that Thomson Reserve stands on the former Thomson View Condominium site. On 1 July 2025 CapitaLand announced that the High Court had granted the sale order for CapitaLand Development and UOL’s collective acquisition of Thomson View Condominium, a 50:50 joint venture, and described an approximately 5-hectare site along Upper Thomson Road at the doorstep of Upper Thomson MRT station. The 15 October release describes a five-hectare site by the same station and quotes Ronald Tay, CapitaLand Development’s chief executive for Singapore and international, on “redeveloping this site”, but neither it nor CapitaLand’s project page names Thomson View, so ask the developers to confirm the site history if it matters to you.

Thomson Reserve’s 1,268 homes are more than twice the 570 at CDL’s Lucerne Grand, where CDL said on 4 October 2026 that it had commenced sales on 3 October.

Scale is worth using in your research. In a development this size, the tower, stack and floor you are offered can matter as much as the project name. A two-bedroom home low in a 21-storey tower and a five-bedroom home high in a 30-storey tower are different propositions, even at the same address. The release says more than 80% of stacks have greenery or landscape views, and that ground-floor units in the two 30-storey towers sit about three storeys above Upper Thomson Road. A view, or a height above the road, belongs to a particular unit, not to the whole project.

What is the difference between the preview and the sales launch?

The release uses two stage words, and they are not the same thing. The public preview begins at 10am on Saturday 17 October 2026, when the sales gallery starts opening daily. The sales launch “is scheduled for Saturday, 31 October 2026”. The release does not describe how sales will be arranged on that day, so ask the gallery what the process is, what the booking fee is and what you need to bring, and keep the answers in writing.

A date in a release is the developers’ plan at the time of writing, and we have not confirmed that the preview opened as planned. Agency and marketing websites may show registration forms and dates of their own; the dates in this guide are the developers’, from their release. If another site gives a different date, check it with the sales hotline in the release, +65 9733 8007, or through CapitaLand’s enquiry page.

A registration form on a marketing site may connect you with a sales agent. That is not confirmation from the developers. Before planning a visit, ask whoever arranges your appointment which company they represent.

Keep one line in your notes for the launch schedule, with its source and the date you saw it. If the only source is an agency, write “unconfirmed” beside it.

How does the station link fit an ordinary week?

The release says Thomson Reserve is linked by a sheltered walkway to Upper Thomson MRT station on the Thomson-East Coast Line, and its factsheet counts one stop to Caldecott (Circle Line), two to Stevens (Downtown Line) and five to Orchard. CapitaLand’s project page, read on 17 October 2026, describes the station as a 2-minute walk away. We could not open the Land Transport Authority’s pages, so these are the developers’ descriptions, not our check.

The release also points to future links: Bright Hill station, one stop away, “will serve as an interchange” with the Cross Island Line, and the North-South Corridor “will open progressively from 2029”. Keep those plans in a separate column from the journeys you can test today.

Try two journeys at the times you would actually travel: the one you make most often and the one that usually causes friction. For one household that might be an office in the city and a grandparent’s flat; for another, a school run and an evening class. Note the full door-to-door time, including the final walk.

At the preview, ask to see the walkway from the tower you are considering to the station on the site plan, how long that walk is, and when the walkway is expected to open: TOP is expected in the second half of 2030. Until then, a link described in a brochure is a plan.

Questions to settle before the sales launch

The release answers several questions this guide used to list. These still need answers for the exact home you are considering:

1. The lease runs for 99 years from 14 July 2026, and vacant possession is estimated for 28 February 2031. By our arithmetic, that leaves just over 94 years and four months of lease when you get the keys, if that date holds. How does that fit your plans and your financing?
2. Which towers, stacks and unit types will be released on 31 October, and at what prices? The release gives prices for three of the ten unit types.
3. What is the floor area of the exact unit, and how much of it can be furnished?
4. Which way does the unit face, and what could be built in front of it?
5. If a Primary 1 place is part of your plans, how do MOE’s current rules on addresses and home–school distance apply to the exact block?
6. What is the estimated maintenance charge, and how will the more than 80 facilities across three clubhouses that the release describes be managed for 1,268 households?
7. How will sales work on 31 October, what is the booking fee, and what documents do you need to bring?

Put the answers beside your household brief. Our guide to writing a research brief before a launch separates essentials from preferences, and our viewing checklist covers what a showflat can and cannot show. If Lucerne Grand is also on your list, our Lucerne Grand and Thomson Reserve comparison looks at weighing a project already on sale against one whose sales launch is still ahead.

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