Bloomsbury Residences @ Buona Vista

With the increase in the supply, it will allow additional to the existing supply pipeline to cater to the private housing demand from the population. This will increase the total supply pipeline of new private homes to approximately 65,000 dwelling units which consist of 9,500 dwelling units from land parcels and successful collective sale land parcels that have not gotten approved planning as well as 55,100 dwelling units that have gotten approved planning. 33,600 dwelling units of these total completion date will be over the coming 2 years which will be higher than the 11,500 dwelling units that attained completion since year 2021. These completed units will be able to east the demands of rental and owner-occupied in the coming term.

New Comdo belongs to the Queenstown Planning zone (which is neighbour to Redhill and Tiong Bahru), this satellite town is located on the city fringe southwestern tip. Towards Its south-west and south frontier will be Pandan Strait. Clementi will bound its west and northwest frontier. The Bukit Merah planning area will be at its southeast and east frontier with Tanglin at its northeast and Bukit Timah on its north. Queenstown was first established in the 1950s and is Singapore’s first satellite town. The Queenstown estate is a blend of new and old in an artful taste ever since it was established. There have been new housing projects, commercial spaces and community facilities that popped up in the recent years which inject new vibrant to the township.

The land parcel of Bloomsbury Residences is bounded by Portsdown Road and Media Circle. It is next to the Mediapolis which sits along Media Circle and also opposite of the Wessex Estate which is next to Portsdown Road. The site is also next Wessex Village Square. As Wessex Estate is comprises of low-rise residential buildings. Those units in Bloomsbury Residences that are facing towards that frontage should be able to enjoy a clearer unobstructed view as well as tranquliity that the estate has to offer.

It is no doubt that the sight of beautiful colonial black-and-white houses are rare in Singapore. Wessex Estate is home to these houses which preserve a piece of the nation’s history its elegant and expansive terraces as well as monochrome chick bamboo blinds. With only a few of these colonial houses remaining on this island, Wessex Estate is a gem in the Queenstown Planning Area enveloped in lush greens that will bring anyone back to historical time.

Wessex Estate was first established in 1930s to be a residential village for British non-commissioned officers. The estate has a network of roads that takes after the names of towns in England. The names of these roads are curiously starting with the letter “W”.

Back then, the more junior British officers were staying the estate’s walk-up apartments, while those senior officers were housed in semi-detached properties. Today, the estate which comprises of colonial era semi-detached houses and walk-up apartments are managed by the JTC Corporation and they are mostly rented out as residential properties with the working population in the Engineering, Physical Sciences, Media, Infocomm Technology and Biomedical Sciences have top priorities.

Visitors will be appealed to make a visit to this picturesque estate with the serenity and quaint houses here.  Other than being an beautiful residential area, Wessex Estate also houses many art studios with a handful of the occupied and owned by the artists. The studios here also offer workshops such as pottery and clay sculpting and linocut printmaking. Public can also  attend the open invitation free art walks hold by these studio every now and then where they could talk to the makers and shop for wares that are handmade.

The Wessex Village Square is home to the only F&B concept in the estate. The establishment will surprise visitors with its good selection of Asian and Western cuisines from sweet sour pork, sandwiches, cutlets, and steaks.

Bloomsbury Residences is a highly anticipated private residential developments for homebuyer and investors alike. For anybody that is seeking for sustainable upside when comes to getting a property, Bloomsbury Residences will be able to provide them with the first-mover advantage to the imminent next wave of the transformation of Buona Vista to become a Regional Business Centre or Regional CBD. The Regional CBD is a big plot that measures 2 kilometres from end-to-end. In Singapore there is only 1 centre which will be Buona Vista/one-North.

The entire area is approximately 200 hectares in size and is Singapore’s symbol of Knowledge economy. In 1991, the conceptualisation of one-north first came into place. It was then include in the Urban Redevelopment Master Plan in 2001. When JTC Corporation was appointed as the developer for this huge business parks, there were visions that this are will become a unique community.

This estate is a representation of business and research park where its working population learn-play-live-work and concentrates on major growth industries such as media, infocomm technology and biomedical sciences which is supported by its capacity in engineering and science. This area is bounded by buildings with futuristic facades that uniquely blends in against the backdrop of colonial era houses from the Wessex Estate and Nepal Hill. The area is divided into 8 zones which are Ayer Rajah, Wessex Estate, Nepal Hill, Launchpad, Vista, Mediapolis, Fusionopolis and Biopolis.

Whilst the downtown financial centre is home to more knowledge sectors such as banking and legal, the Buona Vista is focuses a lot on engineering and science segments. There are approximately 400 leading firms with approximately 50,000 knowledge-based employees working in Buona Vista.  Some of these companies include Grab, P&G, Seagate, SEA and A*Star. This makes Buona Vista having the second biggest employment centre for high-skilled workers in Singapore after its downtown financial centre. Other corporations such as Razer and GSK have also set to have their headquarters in this area. The sheer number of local and foreign talent skilled workers will continue to draw more leading corporates to set up their offices here. This area is also home to 6 higher learning institutions which INSEAD and ESSEC that further pushes the demand for housings here. If huge demand from rental indeed is rhere, then Bloomsbury Residences will certainly be one of the good choices to look into as its is strategically located within proximity to these developments.

Bloomsbury Residences is also near to the Rochester Commons. This Is mixed-use large-scale developments that is developed by Capitaland. With the additional of the Rochester Commons, it will add another 19,000 square metres Grade A Offices spaces to the area of Buona Vista. The development also has 135 hotel toom and also dining and shopping amenities. One of the tenants will be Catapult which operates the first share leaning centre for executive in Southeast Asia. The expansive public areas of this campus-style development will increase in this area’s vibrancy as well as housing demand.

Bloomsbury Residences’s neighbourhood is also famous for its number of educational facilities, particularly from secondary school levels and higher. In this neigbhourhood. The vicinity is also close to Clementi which is well-known for housing several tertiary educational institutions which include Singapore Polytechnic, National University of Singapore, Ngee Ann Polytechnic and Singapore University of Social Science. There are also several big international schools located in this area which is appealing to huge expatriate families to the Buona Vista area.

Another significant development in this area will be the Dover Knowledge District which is developed to create synergies between the research and academic institutions and business parks in the vicinity. The Dover Knowledge District will provide vivid combined spaces to offer new exciting learning and job opportunities to the residents living in Bloomsbury Residences’s neighbourhood. This will support the country’s economic growth in long term. With this transformation taking placed in the next 5-10 years, it will have spill over effect on Bloomsbury Residences’s growth in demand considering the development is very close to the Dover Knowledge District.

With these transformations, it will give Bloomsbury Residences a high potential for growth and the timeline for these transformations’ effects on its surrounding property pricings. In short term wise, it will be one-north developments and the development of Dover Knowledge District will be more of mid-term. Also, when all those nearby government land plots currently under planning comes into the market, it will inject more vibrant and value to Bloomsbury Residences in long term. For any further details and information Contact Us or Send Email To Us.

From the Commonwealth MRT Station, future residents just need to travel 1 MRT station in the direction of Jurong East MRT Interchange Station to arrive at the Buona Vista MRT Interchange Station where they could transit to the MRT Circle Line. The Clementi MRT Station just 3 MRT Station while the Jurong East MRT Interchange Station is 4 MRT stations away in the same direction.

The Clementi MRT Station will be a future MRT Interchange Station when it adds on the upcoming MRT Cross Island Line. The Jurong East MRT Interchange Station is already operating the MRT East West Line and the MRT North South Line. A third MRT service line, the MRT Jurong Region Line, will be adding to this MRT Interchange Station in the future making it an important transport hub in the West.

For future residents of Bloomsbury Residences who driving, it will take them approximately 15 minutes of driving to arrive at the Central Business District. To get to the Orchard Shopping Belt, it will be around 14 minutes’ driving. Bloomsbury Residences is also well-serve by its nearby main arterial roads particularly the Ayer Rajah Expressway.

Amenities
There is no difficult for future residents of Bloomsbury Residences to access to their shopping, dining and leisure needs as the development is close to various major shopping malls that are well-loved and frequently patronized by residents staying in Queenstown and Buona Vista. Some of the nearby malls include Queensway Shopping Centre, Anchorpoint Shopping Centre, Rochester Mall and The Star Vista.

Schools
Local education facilities that are within 2km from Bloomsbury Residences include New Town Primary School, Queenstown Primary School, Fairfield Methodist Primary School, Queensway Secondary School, Fairfield Methodist Secondary School, Queenstown Secondary School, and Anglo-Chinese Junior College. Bloomsbury Residences is also close to Tanglin Trust School.