{"id":8681,"date":"2024-12-16T15:35:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T08:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiarealestatesummit.com\/?p=8681"},"modified":"2024-12-17T20:18:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T13:18:27","slug":"6-spots-to-check-out-in-singapores-bukit-list-neighbourhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiarealestatesummit.com\/6-spots-to-check-out-in-singapores-bukit-list-neighbourhood\/","title":{"rendered":"6 spots to check out in Singapore’s Bukit list neighbourhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of Singapore\u2019s most sought-after neighbourhoods, Bukit Timah offers lifestyle amenities, green space, and new residential projects<\/p>\n

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Bukit Timah offers a tranquil escape with city links, natural beauty, and new real estate developments, loved by locals and expatriates alike. Yoong Shun\/Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For years now, Bukit Timah has been a sought-after urban escape. Its over-riding tranquility and numerous city centre links ensure Bukit its enduring popularity with well-heeled locals and expatriates. The area\u2019s natural assets are enhanced by Bukit Batok, an old quarrying ground, encouraging vigorous hikes through this busy but beautiful neighbourhood that\u2019s augmented by new real-estate additions from big-name developers.<\/p>\n

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Greenwood Fish Market<\/strong><\/p>\n

This family-run enterprise on ultra-affluent Greenwood Avenue collects several market stalls, a store, the extravagant Clipper Bar, and a seafood restaurant under one roof. It brings the convenience of fresh catches\u2014 from the familiar halibut to the elusive monkfish\u2014to locals straight from the fishrich waters surrounding Singapore. The restaurant serves international cuisines with imagination and exquisite plating, varying in style from Japanese to West Asian\u2014even fish burgers and sandwiches \u2014complemented by choice wine lists. More rarefied items come from Russia (caviar), Japan, South Korea, Oceania, Mauritius, South Africa, France, the Netherlands, Canada, and Chile. There\u2019s also a bedazzling array of cheeses, truffles, oils, sauces, flavourings, tinned seafood, fine mushrooms, and breads. A second outlet sits by the scenic surroundings of Quayside Isle on Sentosa Island.<\/p>\n

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Watten House<\/strong><\/p>\n

A 180-unit high-rise on Shelford Road from UOL Group Ltd in collaboration with Architects 161 and Index Design, this project due for completion in Q4 2026 is conceived as a sequel of sorts to UOL\u2019s acclaimed MeyerHouse. With commanding views and proximity to prestigious schools, Watten House is inspired by traditional Asian courtyards, lying adjacent to each other and interspersed with pools, gardens, ponds, walking trails, and a jacuzzi from Danish landscapers Henning Larsen. Inside, the apartments of three bedrooms or more have private elevators and maximise space with balconies and marble flooring, with the overall look intended to blend with its environment.<\/p>\n

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Bar Bar Black Sheep<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fifteen years old and tucked away on Cherry Avenue next to a residential block, here\u2019s a real hidden treasure. It\u2019s an unconventional set-up\u2014not just a gastropub, but a one-stop shop: a mini-food court with TV, books, music, a water feature, a landscaped garden, and a car park. The busy bar serving \u201ccraft, draft, and unique wine\u201d is complemented by a Spanish food stall (La Mesa). The 50\/50 mix of locals and chilled-out foreigners sups European beers among the potted shrubbery and benches, and the whole enterprise exudes the genial informality of a Goan-style resort bar. There are also live music events and DJs, events such as International Curry Week, plus subsidiary outlets in Kent Ridge\u2019s University Cultural Centre, Robertson Quay, and nearby Cluny Court.<\/p>\n

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Bukit Batok Nature Park<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dubbed \u201cLittle Guilin\u201d by locals for its resemblance to the Chinese city\u2019s scenic Elephant Trunk Hill, the Poh Kim Quarry public park is the distinguishing beauty spot of Bukit Batok, a small town a short walk south of Bukit Timah. Winston Churchill described his army\u2019s 1942 surrender to the Japanese at what\u2019s now an exhibition space, Memories at Old Ford Factory, as the \u201clargest capitulation\u201d in British military history (the Nissan company took over the base after their conquest). Once dominated by rubber and pineapple plantations, the area became industrialised after World War II. Built from the igneous rock that\u2019s prevalent in the area, Poh Kim was heavily quarried for granite until the 1970s, when the government started to promote it as a beauty spot.<\/p>\n

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Perfect Ten<\/strong><\/p>\n

Its name proclaiming its greatness even before opening in July 2025, this luxury twin-tower development from DP Architects emphasises both grandeur and a sense of calm, looking over Bukit Timah Nature Reserve and holding over 200 spacious three-bedroom apartments. Landscaping group Salad Dressing Architects have gone to town with the exteriors, animating the chevron-shaped building with an \u201cenvironmental deck\u201d, waterfalls, planters, water features, roof gardens, jacuzzi, and a sky garden; a clubhouse laced with gold mesh has a kitchen island designed by Zaha Hadid. Inside it\u2019s all chandeliers, marble flooring, Miele appliances, Villeroy & Boch fittings, and double-door fridges; smart features run throughout.<\/p>\n

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Bukit Timah Nature Reserve<\/strong><\/p>\n

It can be surprising to find expansive green lungs in a tiny country with 6 million residents, and spaces like this see Lee Kuan Yew\u2019s vision of a \u201cgarden city\u201d come to its full fruition\u2014a diversity-rich rainforest around Singapore\u2019s highest point. The 1.7 square-kilometre reserve\u2019s other main features include the Eco-Link BKE, which allows pangolins, mousedeers, and macaques to traverse the Bukit Timah Expressway into Central Catchment Nature Reserve. The primary forest gathers plant, animal, and insect species such as giant trees, along with rare birds like the Asian fairy bluebird and the greater racket-tailed drongo, with its distinctive whistle and plumage. Interactivity is encouraged with an exhibition hall, nature walks, guided tours, and bird-watching huts, as well as opportunities to help with the reserve\u2019s conservation efforts.<\/p>\n

The original version of this article appeared in PropertyGuru Property Report Magazine Issue No. 187 on\u00a0issuu<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Magzter<\/a>. Write to our editors at\u00a0propertyreport@propertyguru.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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