New home construction in Orchard
Orchard is Central Area — Orchard Planning Area's mixed-use orchard road retail + 1970s-2010s condo towers submarket. Orchard's MCST density is the highest in Singapore — even minor unit-level alterations frequently trigger MCT renovation lodgement + neighbour notification protocols, and approval timelines on contested by-laws can stretch 8-12 weeks.
What a new home construction project looks like here
Orchard's MCST density is the highest in Singapore — even minor unit-level alterations frequently trigger MCT renovation lodgement + neighbour notification protocols, and approval timelines on contested by-laws can stretch 8-12 weeks.
Most Orchard towers are > 13 m and fall under the BCA Periodic Façade Inspection regime — façade renovation requires concurring façade-engineer sign-off.
Empty plot to TOP — BCA + URA + SCDF + NEA + LTA permits, BCA Green Mark Gold minimum on > 2,000 m² GFA. In Orchard specifically, mixed-use orchard road retail + 1970s-2010s condo towers stock means new home construction scope is shaped by the neighborhood's dominant construction typology. Baily's Singapore scoping flow factors ura orchard master plan and mcst condo by-laws on virtually all stock into the estimate before a contractor is involved.
Start your Orchard scope — Baily asks the right questions.
Pre-seeded for new home construction in Orchard. Mention your mixed, your timeline, and any known constraints — Baily factors the bca + ura + mcst + scdf + hdb where applicable review queue into the scope.
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Who is Baily?
Baily is named after Francis Baily — an English stockbroker who retired at 51, became an astronomer, and in 1836 described something on the edge of a solar eclipse that nobody had properly articulated before: a string of bright beads of sunlight breaking through the valleys along the moon’s rim.
He wasn’t the first to see them. Edmond Halley saw them in 1715 and barely noticed. Baily’s contribution was clarity — describing exactly what was happening, in plain language, so vividly that the whole field of astronomy paid attention. The phenomenon is still called Baily’s beads.
That’s what we wanted our AI to do. Every inbound call and text has signal in it — a homeowner’s real question, a timeline, a budget, a hesitation that means “yes but.” Baily listens to every one, 24/7, and finds the beads of light.
Baily was a businessman before he was a scientist. That’s our vibe too.
Questions LA homeowners actually ask
Orchard new home construction projects typically run $345K–$1.9M. Orchard's mixed-use orchard road retail + 1970s-2010s condo towers stock, combined with ura orchard master plan — height + gfa control, puts most mid-complexity projects in the $1.1M range. Baily scopes the exact band once you describe the work.
Nearest neighborhoods
Same service, adjacent Singapore submarkets.