Reinstatement Statistics Singapore 2026

Short answer: We could not find a Singapore government body that publishes a direct count of commercial reinstatement projects. The closest genuinely fetchable government data is market-condition context: island-wide office vacancy rose to 11.0% (up from 10.8%) and retail vacancy rose to 6.5% (up from 6.3%) as at end Q2 2026 (URA), total Built Environment construction demand is forecast at S$47 to 53 billion for 2026 (BCA), and JTC's own industrial tenancies follow a published reinstatement timeline of a 1-year notice and a joint inspection roughly 6 months before lease expiry. Full detail, sources and scope below.

Office and retail market conditions, Singapore (URA, Q2 2026)

The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) released real estate statistics for 2nd Quarter 2026 on 24 July 2026. These figures describe the office and retail leasing market island-wide, which is the closest public signal for how much commercial lease turnover, and therefore reinstatement activity, is moving through the market. They are not a reinstatement-specific count.

Metric (Singapore, island-wide)	Office space	Retail space
Vacancy rate, end Q2 2026	11.0% (up from 10.8% the prior quarter)	6.5% (up from 6.3% the prior quarter)
Rental index change, Q2 2026	Up 0.8% quarter on quarter	Up 0.6% quarter on quarter
Occupied stock change, Q2 2026 (nett)	Up 8,000 sq m	Down 37,000 sq m

One thing worth noting directly from URA's own release: office vacancy (11.0%) is markedly higher than retail vacancy (6.5%) in the same quarter, from the same source, and both vacancy rates rose this quarter alongside rising rents for both asset classes. That gap does not, by itself, tell you how much reinstatement work is happening. A vacant unit may be sitting empty before its own reinstatement starts, or it may already be reinstated and simply unlet. Read the wider gap as a sign that office space is standing empty, or turning over, more than retail space, not as a reinstatement-volume figure.

Construction demand and output, Singapore (BCA, 2025 to 2030)

The Building and Construction Authority (BCA) announced its 2026 construction forecast on 22 January 2026, at the BCA/REDAS Built Environment and Real Estate Prospects Seminar. These figures cover the entire Singapore Built Environment sector, including institutional, housing and infrastructure projects, not commercial fit-out or reinstatement specifically, and we say so because the distinction matters for how you read the numbers below.

Year	Construction demand (nominal S$ billion)	Construction output (nominal S$ billion)
2025 (preliminary actual)	50.5	41.7
2026 (forecast)	47 to 53	43 to 46
2027 to 2030 (forecast average per year)	39 to 46	Not stated at this breakdown

Construction demand is BCA's term for the value of contracts awarded; construction output is the value of certified progress payments. Neither figure separates new-build work from addition-and-alteration (A&A) or reinstatement-type work, so treat this table as whole-of-sector context for how busy the construction industry is, not as a reinstatement-specific budget signal.

JTC's own reinstatement timeline (for JTC-managed industrial tenancies)

JTC is a landlord for Singapore's industrial and business-park space, and it publishes its own reinstatement process for its tenancies. This is a different scope to a private commercial lease, where the reinstatement clause is set by that landlord specifically. See our reinstatement clause guide for how a typical private lease sets that obligation.

When	What JTC does
1 year before lease expiry	Email reminder sent to the tenant.
Approximately 6 months before lease expiry	JTC arranges a joint site inspection, then advises the tenant of the specific reinstatement requirements for their lease.
Lease expiry date	Reinstatement work must be complete. Incomplete reinstatement, or staying on beyond expiry, triggers double rent from the expiry date.

That double-rent consequence is specific to JTC's published tenancy terms. It illustrates why planning reinstatement well ahead of a lease's end date matters, at least as early as, and in JTC's case earlier than, the 2 to 6 months this site's own cost and timeline data cites for private office, retail and F&B leases, even though the two are different landlord relationships.

What this data does, and doesn't, tell you

We could not find a government body that publishes a direct statistic on reinstatement project volume, spend or duration for Singapore. Every figure above is a genuine, live-fetched government release, but each one is market-condition or whole-of-sector context, not a reinstatement-specific count. The closest we found is SingStat's Table Builder table M400001, "Contracts Awarded By Sector and Development Type, Monthly" (sourced from BCA). Its own development-type categories are Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Institutional & Others and Civil Engineering, crossed with public or private sector: addition-and-alteration is not a category it tracks, so it cannot answer the reinstatement question directly either.

Its Private Sector Commercial series is the closest available proxy, and it shows how lumpy whole-project contract value is month to month: S$28 million in January 2026, S$3,836.6 million the following month, S$217.9 million by June. That is the value of entire private commercial construction contracts awarded across Singapore, not reinstatement or fit-out spend specifically, so we cite it here as scale context only, and we will add a direct reinstatement number if a source ever publishes one.

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Compiled and checked August 2026. Figures re-verified before publication; this page will be refreshed as URA and BCA release newer quarters.

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