These Are Our Top 5 Condos in Clementi & West Coast

Clementi and West Coast are where buyers in the west go when they want a serious school catchment, a short hop to the National University of Singapore and one-north, and an MRT that runs straight into town. District 5 delivers all of it: the Nan Hua–Qifa primary-school belt, NUS High and NUS up the road, and Clementi on the East-West Line. We've already mapped the three projects here we won't recommend. This is the other end of the same table — so we did what the Resale Project Scorecard (RPS) is built for: ranked every resale condo in the district on the same evidence, and let the data pick the top five.

The RPS scores each project from 236,000-plus URA REALIS transactions across seven weighted factors — secondary-market strength, primary-school catchment, project size, MRT access, tenure, rental yield, and future-transformation upside — each marked out of 10, rolled into one score and a letter grade from S to D. Methodology published, no spin. District 5 grades well: of its 90 ranked projects, 13 earn the top S grade. The five that score highest are all S — and they share a clear signature.

1. Whistler Grand — 8.89, grade S

Whistler Grand tops not just the district but most of the west, and it does it on the rarest combination in the scorecard: top-decile capital growth and top-decile income. The RPS logs appreciation of +5.24% a year — the top 7% of its 2022 cohort — alongside an exceptional 5.13% rental yield, the best of the five and a number almost no central project can touch. At 716 units on a 99-year lease with roughly 91 years left, it sits in the liquidity sweet spot. The one real soft mark is transport: at 1.3 km from Clementi MRT (EW23 / CR17), it's a bus-or-car project rather than a walk-in one — though the future Pandan Reservoir interchange on the Jurong Region Line, 0.64km away, is one of the two closest forward catalysts on this list. For a buyer who can live with the walk, the returns profile is the strongest in the district.

2. Parc Clematis — 8.67, grade S

Parc Clematis is the all-rounder, and the scorecard struggles to find a weakness. It posts the best appreciation on the list — +5.67% a year, the top 6% of its 2023 cohort — pairs it with a strong 4.28% yield, and anchors the best school profile here: four primary schools within 1km, with Nan Hua Primary just 0.12km from the gate. Clementi MRT is a 480 m walk. The only thing the RPS marks down is scale, and only as a double-edge: at 1,468 units it's a large development with deep liquidity and full facilities, but also more intra-project resale competition than a boutique block. For a family buying the catchment, this is the most complete profile on the list.

3. The Parc Condo — 8.57, grade S

The Parc Condo is the freehold-and-scale pick. It's the only true freehold project in the top five, and at 659 units it sits in the same liquidity sweet spot as Whistler Grand, developed by Kheng Leong. The scorecard logs four primary schools within 1km (Clementi Primary at 0.46km), top-quartile appreciation for its vintage (+3.62% a year, 86th percentile of its 2010 cohort), and a 470 m walk to Clementi MRT — the shortest of the five. The honest weakness the RPS flags is total returns: at 2.94% the yield is below average, the softest income figure on the list. This is a buy for someone who wants freehold land and scale in the catchment, and isn't relying on the rent to carry it.

4. Hundred Trees — 8.51, grade S

Hundred Trees is the tenure play. It's effectively freehold — a 999-year lease the RPS treats as freehold from a valuation standpoint — which removes the lease-decay question entirely, and it still scores at the top on the things D5 buyers care about. The scorecard logs four primary schools within 1km (Qifa Primary at 0.28km) and exceptional appreciation of +3.21% a year, the top 9% of its 2013 cohort, on a 396-unit project with an active resale market and a 610 m walk to Clementi MRT. The trade-off is income: at 3.28% the yield is only above-average, not exceptional. For a buyer who wants near-freehold land in the school belt and is buying to hold, that's a fair price.

5. Twin Vew — 8.45, grade S

Twin Vew is the newer-build income pick, and in profile it is a smaller cousin of Whistler Grand. The scorecard logs a strong 4.46% yield — second only to Whistler Grand on this list — and top-quartile appreciation for its vintage (+4.30% a year, 83rd percentile of its 2021 cohort), on 520 units with a 99-year lease and about 90 years left, developed by UOL Group. Schools score at the top: two primaries within 1km, with Qifa Primary at 0.84km. The soft mark is the same as Whistler Grand's: at 1.4 km from Clementi MRT (EW23 / CR17) it's a bus-or-car project. In its favour, the future Pandan Reservoir interchange on the Jurong Region Line is 0.50km away, the closest forward catalyst on the list. For a buyer who wants a newer 99-year block with a strong yield and can live with the walk, it earns its place.

What they share — and what to watch

Run the five side by side and the district's signature comes through.

One thing binds the list above everything else: schools. Every project here scores 10 on the primary-school catchment, clustered around Nan Hua and Qifa, with NUS High and NUS framing the district. That is the engine of District 5, and it is what the resale market keeps paying for — the appreciation scores follow the catchment, with all five posting top-quartile-or-better capital growth for their vintage.

The trade-offs split rather than repeat, which is what makes this a genuine choice rather than a ranking. Tenure is mixed — unusually for a strong district, you can buy 99-year (Whistler Grand, Parc Clematis, Twin Vew), 999-year (Hundred Trees), or pure freehold (The Parc Condo) inside the same top five. Income and transport pull against each other: the high-yield projects sit further from the MRT (Whistler Grand at 5.13% and Twin Vew at 4.46%, both 1.3–1.4 km out), while the freehold and near-freehold blocks closer in trade income away (The Parc at 2.94%). And future-transformation upside is moderate across the board — the Jurong Region Line's Pandan Reservoir interchange is the nearest catalyst for several, but the district is already built out and well-served, so the RPS finds no large CRL-style uplift waiting.

For a buyer who wants the next tier, two more S-grades are worth a look: The Trilinq (8.43, S), just 0.02 behind Twin Vew, has a 450 m walk to Clementi MRT and Nan Hua Primary a remarkable 0.06km away, with a strong 3.77% yield across 755 units, though its appreciation is more modest (+2.80% a year, 71st percentile of its 2017 cohort); while Carabelle (8.31, S) posts the district's highest cohort ranking for long-run appreciation — +4.98% a year, the top 4% of its 2009 cohort — on a 999-year lease, at the cost of a 980 m walk to the MRT and a sub-3% yield.

The decision inside this list isn't "which is best" — all five are S-grade and separated by less than half a point — but which trade-off you're buying. Growth and income with a walk to the MRT (Whistler Grand), the complete all-rounder (Parc Clematis), pure freehold and scale with the shortest walk to the train (The Parc Condo), near-freehold land in the catchment (Hundred Trees), or a newer 99-year block with a strong yield (Twin Vew). Price the tenure, the specific school you need, and the yield you can live with against your own horizon — and let the scorecard, not the showflat, frame the shortlist.

See the full ranking and every project's scorecard at tribesg.com/rps.

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Sources: TRIBE Resale Project Scorecard (236,000+ URA REALIS transactions; scores and grades as at 16 October 2026). Scores and grades are model outputs, not investment advice.

Silas Tan is a District Director at Huttons Asia and co-founder of TRIBE. He built the Resale Project Scorecard (RPS) using 236,000+ URA REALIS transactions. This article is for informational purposes and does not constitute financial or investment advice. CEA Registration R000303I.