Estimates published by property websites 99.co and SRX show that private apartment rents rose by 1% month-on-month in April, and by about 30% year-on-year.

Apartment rents fell 0.2% in the core Central District, while rising 1.7% and 1.6% in the other Central District and outside the Central District, respectively.

An estimated 5,598 apartment units were rented last month, up 13.8% month-over-month and down 5.2% year-over-year.

In the HDB market, overall rents rose 0.8% month-over-month last month and climbed about 26% year-over-year.

All types of HDB rents rose, by between 0.1% and 1%.

An estimated 3,183 HDB flats were rented last month, 5.8% more than the previous month and 4% more year-on-year.