Singapore-specific data toolkit covering 7 actors across the most important Singapore data surfaces — ACRA company directory + per-entity lookup, HDB resale prices, URA private-property transactions, MAS-regulated financial institutions, SGX IPO calendar, and a configurable data.gov.sg multi-dataset puller. Built for Singapore-based corporate compliance and KYC teams, MAS-regulated entities running counterparty checks, Singapore family offices doing real-estate due diligence, and cross-border M&A teams operating in Southeast Asia.
Singapore is a uniquely data-dense jurisdiction — ACRA, HDB, URA, MAS, SGX, and data.gov.sg each maintain world-class open-data programs — but the consumption surfaces are fragmented and per-lookup-priced. ACRA Bizfile charges $5.50+ per Business Profile download. Tofler Singapore charges $199-999/month per seat for a polished aggregator UI. Refinitiv World-Check and Dow Jones Risk Center bundle Singapore coverage inside an enterprise contract at $10K-50K/year. PropertyGuru and EdgeProp deliver Singapore real-estate analytics inside a closed consumer-facing platform.
Singapore is also 26% of NexGenData fleet traffic — meaning the Apify actor users who actively consume this stack are disproportionately Singapore-domiciled or Singapore-focused buyers. The NexGenData Singapore data stack is a fourth model: 7 composable per-result actors that each pull cleanly from the underlying Singapore open-data surface, return English-tagged JSON/CSV, and plug into your KYC platform / family-office CRM / M&A deal-room workflow without an enterprise procurement cycle. Typical monthly cost for a Singapore-focused data pipeline: $30-150.
The 7-actor Singapore data stack
| Source | What it covers | Actor | Output fields |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACRA — company directory | Singapore corporate-registry company directory + filing index | singapore-acra-companies | UEN, entity name, type, status, incorporation date, address |
| ACRA — company lookup | Per-entity ACRA lookup — full record by UEN or company name | singapore-acra-company-lookup | UEN, name, type, status, officers, capital, filing history |
| HDB resale prices | Singapore HDB flat resale transaction prices (full national history) | sg-hdb-resale-prices | Town, block, street, flat type, floor area, lease date, price |
| URA property transactions | Singapore URA private-property transaction records (condo + landed) | sg-ura-property-transactions | Project, address, transacted price, $/sqft, sale date, district |
| MAS regulated institutions | Singapore MAS register of financial institutions (banks, FA, RFMC, etc.) | sg-mas-financial-institutions | Entity name, MAS regulatory status, license type, license date |
| SGX IPO calendar | Singapore Exchange IPO calendar + recent listings | sg-sgx-ipo-calendar | Issuer, board (Main/Catalist), IPO date, price, shares, sponsor |
| data.gov.sg multi-dataset | Multi-dataset puller across data.gov.sg open-data catalog | sg-datagov-multi-dataset | Dataset name, fields varies by dataset (configurable) |
Why this beats ACRA Bizfile direct, Tofler, World-Check, PropertyGuru, and EdgeProp
| Feature | NexGenData SG stack | ACRA Bizfile direct | Tofler Singapore | Refinitiv World-Check / Dow Jones | PropertyGuru / EdgeProp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost — 1 SG ops team | $30-150 (metered) | $1,100-3,300 in lookup fees | $199-999/seat | $10K-50K/yr enterprise | $50-500/seat (consumer-facing) |
| ACRA company directory | Yes — batch CSV | Yes — manual UI | Yes | Yes | No |
| ACRA per-entity lookup | Yes — by UEN or name | Yes — paid per lookup | Yes | Yes | No |
| HDB resale prices | Yes — full national history | No | No | No | Yes (UI) |
| URA private property transactions | Yes | No | No | No | Yes (UI) |
| MAS regulated FI register | Yes — full daily refresh | No | Partial | Yes — bundled | No |
| SGX IPO calendar (Main + Catalist) | Yes — both boards | No | No | Partial | No |
| data.gov.sg multi-dataset | Yes — configurable | No | No | No | No |
| JSON/CSV pipeline-ready output | Yes — Snowflake-friendly | PDF / paid CSV | UI-first, export tier | Enterprise API tier | UI-only |
| Pay-per-result billing | Yes | Per-lookup fees | Per-seat license | Per-seat / enterprise license | Per-seat license |
6 use cases for Singapore-domiciled ops, compliance, and family-office teams
1. KYC counterparty batch check for a Singapore-licensed CMSL. A Singapore-licensed capital-markets services firm onboarding 200 counterparties per month needs ACRA + MAS register checks on each. Workflow: ACRA Companies actor + Company Lookup actor + MAS Financial Institutions actor, scheduled batch run against the new-counterparty list, output joined in BigQuery, daily Slack alert on any counterparty whose ACRA status is not “Live” or whose MAS regulatory status has changed. Cost: ~$45/month. Compare to ACRA Bizfile direct fees ($1,100-3,300/month) plus 30-60 minutes of analyst time per lookup.
2. Singapore family office real-estate due diligence sweep. A Singapore family office reviewing 3-5 potential investment properties per quarter needs comp-set analysis across both HDB (public housing) and URA (private property) markets. Workflow: HDB Resale Prices actor + URA Property Transactions actor scheduled quarterly with district filter, output exported to Excel for the property advisor, comp-set summary attached to each investment memo. Cost: ~$10/quarter. Compare to a PropertyGuru Pro subscription ($500-2,000/month) or a private real-estate-advisor engagement at $3K-10K per deal.
3. SGX IPO + secondary calendar tracking for a Singapore boutique brokerage. A Singapore boutique brokerage tracking IPO opportunities for HNW clients needs daily SGX IPO calendar updates (both Main Board and Catalist). Workflow: SGX IPO Calendar actor scheduled daily, new-listing alert via email to the desk, weekly client-facing IPO summary PDF generated from the CSV. Cost: ~$8/month. Compare to a manual SGX disclosure-page-watching workflow at ~10 hours/week of analyst time.
4. MAS license-status monitoring for a treasury counterparty list. A Singapore-domiciled treasury team running 50 financial-institution counterparty relationships needs to monitor MAS license-status changes (license additions, suspensions, revocations) on each. Workflow: MAS Financial Institutions actor scheduled daily, output diffed against prior day’s register, alert on any of the 50 tracked counterparties whose status has changed. Cost: ~$10/month. Compare to a manual MAS register-monitoring workflow at ~2 hours/week.
5. Cross-border M&A deal-team running Singapore target due diligence. A cross-border M&A team operating in SEA running diligence on a Singapore-domiciled target needs full ACRA filings, officer history, regulatory status, and corporate-network mapping. Workflow: ACRA Company Lookup actor for the target UEN, ACRA Companies actor for the target’s subsidiary entities, MAS Financial Institutions actor for any regulated entities in the corporate group, output rolled up into a single 5-page diligence appendix. Cost: ~$5 per target. Compare to a $5K-15K Singapore corporate-search engagement.
6. data.gov.sg-driven market intelligence for a Singapore consumer brand. A consumer brand entering Singapore needs market-sizing data from data.gov.sg: resident-population by planning area, household income distribution, transport-ridership for retail-location analysis. Workflow: data.gov.sg multi-dataset actor configured against the relevant dataset IDs, scheduled monthly, output rolled up into a market-sizing dashboard. Cost: ~$5/month. Compare to a Singapore market-research firm engagement at $10K-40K per market-sizing study.
Sister actors across the Singapore + Asia fleet
The Singapore data stack composes naturally with adjacent Asia coverage and the broader compliance + counterparty fleet:
- Singapore ACRA Companies — corporate-registry company directory, the core KYC starting point.
- Singapore ACRA Company Lookup — per-entity ACRA record by UEN or name.
- SG MAS Financial Institutions — full MAS register of regulated FIs.
- SG SGX IPO Calendar — Main Board + Catalist IPO calendar.
- SG HDB Resale Prices — Singapore public-housing resale transaction history.
- SG URA Property Transactions — Singapore private-property transaction records.
- SG data.gov.sg Multi-dataset — configurable puller across the full open-data catalog.
- Hong Kong Companies Registry — adjacent HK corporate-registry actor for cross-border SEA-HK diligence.
- India MCA Companies — adjacent India corporate-registry actor for cross-border SEA-India diligence.
- Company Email Finder — verified contact discovery layered on top of ACRA / MAS records.
Frequently asked questions
Why use this instead of ACRA Bizfile directly?
ACRA Bizfile (bizfile.gov.sg) is the official Singapore corporate registry and is free for basic lookups, but charges per Business Profile download ($5.50+) and per Company Search ($16.50+) — and the UI is built for one-at-a-time lookups, not batch workflows. For a KYC team running 200 counterparty checks per month, ACRA Bizfile direct costs $1,100-3,300/month in fees plus 30-60 minutes of analyst time per lookup. The NexGenData ACRA actors (Companies directory + Company lookup) pull from the same public-data surface, return structured JSON/CSV, and let you batch 200 entity checks in under 5 minutes for ~$15-30. The Bizfile UI is fine for one-off due diligence; the actors are built for the batch / pipeline workflow.
How does this compare to Tofler Singapore at $199-999/month?
Tofler Singapore is a polished SaaS aggregator built primarily for the India market that has extended to Singapore (and other ASEAN markets). At $199-999/month per seat it gives you a clean UI for Singapore company lookups, registry monitoring, and corporate-network analysis. The NexGenData Singapore data stack is built for a different buyer: an in-house KYC team or compliance ops team running batch counterparty checks at higher volume, or a Singapore family office or M&A team running entity-graph workflows in their own warehouse. For that buyer, the raw structured-data feed at $30-150/month total replaces a $199-999/month-per-seat Tofler subscription with the same underlying ACRA coverage.
What’s the use case for HDB resale prices + URA private property data?
Singapore real estate due diligence is unique: HDB (Housing Development Board) flats house ~80% of Singapore residents and have a 99-year leasehold + government-managed resale market, while URA (Urban Redevelopment Authority) covers the private condo + landed property market. A Singapore family office running real-estate due diligence on a specific neighborhood (or a foreign HNW client buying their first Singapore property) needs both: HDB resale prices for the public-housing comp set and URA private transactions for the private-market comp set. The NexGenData actors deliver both as clean CSV — HDB Resale Prices and URA Property Transactions, each pulled from official open-data sources, joinable by district and lease date. Total cost for a quarterly due-diligence sweep across 5 districts: ~$5-15.
Is the MAS Financial Institutions data useful for compliance / counterparty checks?
Yes — this is one of the more high-impact use cases. The MAS (Monetary Authority of Singapore) maintains the official register of regulated financial institutions in Singapore: banks, finance companies, capital-markets-services license holders (CMSL), financial advisers (FA), registered fund management companies (RFMC), payment-services license holders, and so on. For a counterparty-onboarding team at any MAS-regulated entity, the first check on any Singapore-domiciled counterparty is “are they actually MAS-regulated and what license type do they hold.” The NexGenData MAS Financial Institutions actor returns the full register as structured CSV, refreshable on a daily schedule, joinable to your CRM’s counterparty record by entity name. Replaces a manual MAS register lookup workflow that typically takes 5-10 minutes per counterparty.
Does the SGX IPO calendar cover both Main board and Catalist?
Yes. The SGX IPO Calendar actor returns both Main Board listings (typically the larger Singapore-domiciled and regional issuers) and Catalist listings (the SGX growth-board for smaller and mid-cap issuers). Output includes issuer name, board, IPO date, price, shares offered, and sponsor (sponsor matters specifically for Catalist, where the named sponsor maintains ongoing listing-compliance responsibility). For Singapore family offices or boutique brokerages tracking IPO opportunities, this replaces a manual SGX disclosure-page-watching workflow.
What does the data.gov.sg multi-dataset actor cover?
data.gov.sg is the Singapore government’s open-data portal, hosting hundreds of datasets across transport, housing, environment, economy, and population. The NexGenData data.gov.sg multi-dataset actor is a configurable puller that hits any dataset in the catalog by ID and returns the data as CSV/JSON. Common use cases: pulling COE (Certificate of Entitlement) bidding-result data for an auto-finance product, pulling MRT ridership data for a real-estate location analysis, pulling air-quality PSI data for an ESG-disclosure pipeline, pulling resident-population data for a Singapore market-sizing model. One actor, configurable across the full catalog.
Is the data legal to use for KYC / compliance / commercial purposes?
All actors in this stack pull from publicly accessible Singapore government data surfaces (ACRA public registry, HDB open data, URA open data, MAS public register, SGX disclosure pages, data.gov.sg) and respect each surface’s published rate limits. The output is appropriate for internal KYC, compliance, due diligence, market intelligence, and analytics use cases — exactly how the official sources are intended to be used. If you intend to redistribute the data as a commercial dataset to third-party customers, the underlying source-of-truth license terms apply (most Singapore government datasets use the Singapore Open Data Licence which permits commercial use with attribution).
How fast can I get started?
Sign up for a free Apify account, get $5/month in free credits, and queue the ACRA Companies + MAS Financial Institutions + SGX IPO Calendar actors as your first 3 — together they cover the core Singapore counterparty + listed-market workflow. You will have three CSVs in under 5 minutes. Layer in HDB Resale Prices, URA Property Transactions, and the data.gov.sg multi-dataset actor as your scope grows beyond pure counterparty checks. Typical monthly cost for a Singapore data pipeline: $30-150, billed pay-per-result.
Get started
Sign up for a free Apify account at apify.com/nexgendata — $5/month in free credits lets you queue the ACRA Companies + MAS Financial Institutions + SGX IPO Calendar actors as your first 3 (the core Singapore counterparty + listed-market workflow). You will have three CSVs in under 5 minutes. Layer in HDB Resale Prices, URA Property Transactions, and the data.gov.sg multi-dataset actor as your scope expands. Pay-per-result means no commitment beyond what you actually use.
Singapore tool pages
Dedicated guides for each Singapore data source:
- SGX Stock Screener — STI quotes, fundamentals & REIT yields
- Singapore ACRA Company Search — UEN, SSIC & status
- Singapore GeBIZ Government Tenders — 18,000+ awards
- Singapore HDB Resale Price Tracker — 229K+ transactions
- Singapore MAS Enforcement Tracker
- Singapore MyCareersFuture Jobs Scraper — salary bands & UEN