PSB Academy — housing guide for new students
October 2026 intake · Suggested move-in: mid-September to early October 2026
What this budget actually rents
- S$1,000–1,200: where to start looking — Sunshine Plaza Common room · shared bathroom S$1,150–1,800
- S$1,300–1,600: where to start looking — Burlington Square Common room · shared bathroom S$1,300–1,500; The Bencoolen Common room · shared bathroom S$1,300–1,900; The Plaza Common room · shared bathroom S$1,550–2,300
- S$1,700+: where to start looking — Sunshine Plaza Master room · en-suite S$2,200–2,600; Burlington Square Master room · en-suite S$2,350–2,600; The Plaza Master room · en-suite S$2,400–2,700; The Plaza Studio · en-suite + kitchen S$2,400–3,000
Some room types or individual listings may fall within the band; a building’s overall room range can be higher. Buildings within a 20-minute walk of this campus. Room rents come mainly from current public listings; official rental data is used to place the area's overall level · updated August 2026. Actual rent moves with the room type, the building, when you move in and how long you take it for.
Whole-unit rents near campus
Whole-unit rents from URA rental contracts (25q4–26q3), middle 50% of contracts. A guide to the building, not a quote — room rents are a separate question.
Where the campus is, and the commute
The nearest MRT station to campus is Promenade (CC Line), about a 4-minute walk. In Singapore what matters is the number of interchanges, not the distance on a map — the same 3 km is a very different journey direct versus with two changes. Every building page carries the actual public-transport route and time to campus.
Find housing near this school on the map →
Choosing the type of housing
- School / student accommodation: PSB lists its Students Apartment @ Bugis at 33 Liang Seah Street with five room types, alongside other accommodation providers. Its public pages do not currently show a single current price table or accommodation application deadline, so live rates and availability should be confirmed with the operator. The school’s own accommodation page (read 2026-08-22) →
- A private room: A room inside a private unit: you pick the area, the roommates and the move-in date, and it is usually bigger and quieter — but the lease is yours to handle, or ours on your behalf.
- A whole unit, shared: Take a whole unit with classmates: you get the whole place, and you pick who you live with.
Sharing a whole unit is not automatically cheaper than a single room, nor automatically dearer. What it buys is the whole place, roommates you chose, and more freedom in how you live. Whether it works out comes down to the headcount and the actual whole-unit rent at the time — your housing plan works that through for your case.
Areas worth looking at
- Nicoll Highway — The closest of these to campus, and walkable · nearest tracked home ≈ 12-min walk to campus
- Bencoolen — Easy interchanges, plenty of hawker food · nearest tracked home ≈ 16-min walk to campus
- Rochor — The cheaper end of the same stretch · nearest tracked home ≈ 17-min walk to campus
- Lavender — A little further out, and the rooms are usually bigger · nearest tracked home 2.0 km from campus — a ride, not a walk
Three traps to avoid first
- Read the lease before you pay anything. If someone wants a deposit before showing you the tenancy agreement, stop there.
- Getting your deposit back comes down to the move-in inventory — photograph every item on the day you move in.
- There is a legal cap on how many people may occupy a unit. Confirm it before sharing; do not just count bedrooms.
The full anti-scam checklist →
A housing plan for PSB Academy
What you get is not a pile of listings but a plan you can decide from: for your school, your intake, your move-in date and your budget, it puts student accommodation, a private room and a shared whole unit side by side — rent, commute, lease term, utilities, the total for the year, the risks and a recommendation.
I’m a PSB Academy student · get my housing plan · See a sample housing plan first →
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