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Use RentIntel to test whether a quoted rent looks fair and keep your work organized.

1 Search an area or property type

Try queries such as Chinatown shophouse, Orchard mall, or Tampines HDB retail.

2 Read the rent signal first

Start with the judgement: under, fair, elevated, or high versus benchmark.

3 Compare official and asking rent

Official transaction-backed rent and current asking rent are shown separately.

4 Open chart context for deeper review

Use historical psf trends, source notes, and context cards to understand why the current answer looks fair or stretched.

5 Open Workspace for deeper analysis

Use Workspace when you want the chart, rent brief, source context, evidence table, and offer-planning tools in one place.

6 Use Saved Tools to keep reports and watched areas

Saved Tools helps you return to saved checks, watched areas, alerts, exported notes, and future report interest without losing your place.

7 Request missing areas when needed

If RentIntel does not cover a retail area yet, add it to the coverage queue so it can be reviewed for a future public answer.

Workspace

How to use Workspace

Start with one area: Workspace works best when you open it from a public result or search one retail area directly.

Read the rent brief first: Use the summary, fair range, and confidence read before going into the chart.

Use chart context: Check whether the asking line is moving ahead of the official benchmark trend.

Open source context: Review how much of the answer comes from official benchmark data versus asking-rent evidence.

Use evidence and offer tools carefully: Treat them as decision support for negotiation prep, not as guaranteed lease pricing.

Evidence Status

How to read the source update status

Working normally: the latest asking-rent capture is no more than seven days old.

Recent asking comparison: verified asking-rent evidence is no more than fourteen days old.

Official benchmark available: the official area benchmark remains usable, but a recent asking-rent comparison is not available. Any older asking figure is labelled as an earlier comparison.

Latest verified capture: the date of the newest reviewed asking-rent evidence.

URA benchmark release: the latest official quarterly retail rental index imported from data.gov.sg. It shows the broad market direction, not S$/psf for a particular unit.

OneMap address check: confirms an address, postal code, and map position when live access is available. RentIntel keeps its saved location details as a fallback if OneMap cannot be reached.

What OneMap does not do: OneMap improves location accuracy. It does not supply asking prices or turn an earlier asking comparison into a recent one.

Separate update clocks: a fresh URA benchmark does not make an older asking-rent capture current. RentIntel displays and checks these two sources separately.

Important: RentIntel never changes an asking-rent date or value merely to make a result look current.

Verified Rent Updates

How new asking-rent information is accepted

Real evidence only: RentIntel does not move rent figures forward automatically or create replacement values.

Source permission: every incoming batch must identify its licensed or verified source and confirm that RentIntel may use it.

Evidence checks: every rent record needs a capture date, listing count, sensible psf values, and evidence references. Three or more current references are recommended for an area-level review.

Safe testing first: an admin prepares the batch in the Verified Asking Feed Capture screen. Validation never changes the active public feed.

Controlled release: a reviewed batch becomes current only after the generated feed is approved and published.

Workspace Queue

How to read the area review queue

Current: this is the area you have open right now.

Attention: this area still needs more review before you should rely on it.

Show best-looking: jumps to the area that currently looks most complete.

Show most urgent: jumps to the area that needs review most.

Save this view: keeps your current queue setup so you can reopen it later.

Open top priority: takes you to the area RentIntel thinks you should continue first.

Continue suggested area: follows the best next area when Workspace has learned a likely follow-up path.

Recent shortcuts: gives you quick ways to return to views you used a moment ago.

Plain English Labels

What the new queue wording means

Missing key checks: important parts of the review are still incomplete.

Follow-up needed: the area has already been reviewed once, but still needs another pass.

Nearly done: the area looks close to finished and may only need a final check.

Start here: this is the best place to continue in the current queue.

Recently checked / Recently improved: these tags show recent movement without using internal review jargon.

Saved Tools

How to use Saved Tools

Save useful checks: Keep area reviews you may want to revisit later.

Track watched areas: Use watched areas when you want to monitor the same retail cluster over time.

Keep exported notes together: Saved Tools is the place to return to exported report notes and future report interest.

Use it as a free layer: Saved Tools is part of the free-access model and is meant to help you organize public research, not gate it.

Reading Results

How to interpret a RentIntel answer

Official median: the transaction-backed benchmark layer.

Current asking: shown only when recent verified asking-rent evidence is available for that area.

Earlier asking comparison: a clearly dated pilot figure that may help with context but is not today's asking price.

Comparison gap: how far the asking layer sits above or below the official benchmark. It is current only when the asking evidence is recent.

Information status: Benchmark only, Asking checked, or Recent comparison tells you exactly which rent information is currently available.

Explore RentIntel

Go back to search, open Workspace, or continue into Saved Tools.