URA Heritage Award74 Emerald Hill
Library House
A near-lost 1916 shophouse → a restored home, tile and timber intact.
Conserved and brought back to life — a winner of the URA Architectural Heritage Award.
URA Heritage Award
A direct buyer of conserved shophouses · Singapore
The Straits Conservancy buys conserved shophouses directly from the families who hold them — at a fair market price, in complete confidence, with a clean and certain close. No agents. No listings. No fees.
Independently benchmarked against recent conserved-shophouse sales. We pay for what your building is truly worth — no heritage discount.
We buy with our own committed capital — not a fund chasing a mandate. We'll show proof of funds at the first meeting.
A clear written offer in weeks — not the many months an open-market sale drags on. We complete on your timeline.
No agent's commission. We cover standard legal and conveyancing, and we buy as-is — no repairs, no staging, no viewings.
Held a conserved shophouse for years? The open market means agents, public listings, strangers walking through your home, and your business becoming everyone's. We offer the opposite — a quiet, direct sale to a real buyer.
Sell to most buyers and your shophouse becomes a line item — gutted, flipped, forgotten. Sell to us and it becomes a story we keep. We are stewards, not traders — we hold, restore, and honour the families who built these shophouses before us.
The families who lived and traded within these walls are part of the building's story. We keep that story — your name, your history — rather than erase it.
We conserve the original fabric and hold for the long term — your building brought back to life, not broken up for parts or flipped.
Through our sibling The Straits Museum, the heritage of these shophouses is shared with the public and carried to future generations.
Led by founder Fang Low — who treats every shophouse as a chapter of Singapore worth keeping.
We sign an NDA before you share a single detail. Your name and your building never become public.
We see the building and value it against recent conserved-shophouse transactions and independent valuation.
You receive a clear, written offer — promptly, and with no obligation. Not an endless conversation.
Your lawyer and ours close the sale when it suits you. We pay from our own committed capital.
On Serangoon Road, Tan Hiap Hong was the last traditional charcoal shop in Singapore — in the same shophouse for the better part of a century. We acquired the building to conserve it and keep its story alive. The Straits Times told the tale.
Featured & exhibited
Also exhibited at the Red Dot Design Museum
A real buyer with a real record — not a broker fishing for a listing. We've conserved Singapore shophouses for three decades, won the country's top heritage award, and we close.
Watch our heritage & placemaking film →
We restore with conservation-grade craft — original tile, timber and frontage kept. Sell to us and your shophouse is looked after, not broken up for parts.
URA Heritage Award74 Emerald Hill
A near-lost 1916 shophouse → a restored home, tile and timber intact.
Conserved and brought back to life — a winner of the URA Architectural Heritage Award.
URA Award · WSJLorong 24A · Geylang
Eight 1920s shophouses → eight architects, one conserved Geylang street.
A URA Architectural Heritage Award (2013) — and a Wall Street Journal feature.
Red Dot MuseumAcross Singapore
Forgotten shophouses → conserved, original craft carried forward, never stripped.
Part of one of Singapore's largest conserved-shophouse portfolios — exhibited at the Red Dot Design Museum.
The Straits Conservancy is a heritage conservation social enterprise. We rescue Singapore's dilapidated and at-risk shophouses and heritage buildings, restore them with conservation-grade craft, and safeguard our tangible built heritage — stewarding it for the benefit of future generations of Singaporeans.
Our vision: to become the leading social enterprise creating new futures for historic buildings across the Straits.
"I pledge that half the proceeds from the eventual sale of The Straits Conservancy will go to The Straits Museum — to keep the living culture of the Straits open to all, in perpetuity."
Fang LowFounder, The Straits Conservancy
We selectively partner with families, foundations and aligned capital who want their investment in scarce, conserved real assets to do something lasting. A long-term, stewardship-first approach.
Tell us about your shophouse in confidence. You'll deal directly with our founder — not a salesperson — and nothing you share becomes public.
contact@straitsconservancy.org
Private and confidential. We sign an NDA before you share any details.