What Is the Difference Between Aurea and The Golden Mile?

Published 8 October 2026 · Figures as at October 2026

The Short Answer for Aurea

Golden Mile Singapore has two parts. Aurea is the new 45-storey residential tower of 188 homes at 802 Beach Road. The Golden Mile is the conserved former Golden Mile Complex at 800 Beach Road, restored and renewed as a mixed-use building. Both are developed by GMC Property Pte. Ltd., jointly developed by Perennial Holdings and Far East Organization, and they are joined by a link bridge at Level 2 of Aurea.

Buying at Aurea means buying a home in the tower; The Golden Mile is a separate development with its own sale, its own address and its own completion dates.

The Golden Mile Complex Story Behind Aurea

Golden Mile Complex was conceived in the 1960s and completed in 1973 as a linear city where people could live, work and play in one building; its 64 original apartments sold within a month of launch. In 2021 it was gazetted for conservation, the first large-scale strata-titled building in Singapore to be conserved. Perennial Holdings and Far East Organization acquired it in 2022.

The redevelopment keeps the conserved building, with its stepped form, atria, oculus-shaped elements and selected mosaic floors, and adds Aurea beside it. Aurea’s design, by DP Architects, carries the oculus windows and terraced lines into the new tower.

How Aurea and The Golden Mile Differ

Aurea is homes: 2- to 5-bedroom apartments and two penthouses, with residents’ facilities on Levels 3, 17 and 33. The Golden Mile is a strata commercial building of offices on its upper levels, medical suites on Level 3 and shops, dining and wellness on its two podium levels, set among a series of landscaped gardens.

Their dates differ too. The developer states an expected vacant possession date of 31 March 2030 for Aurea, with legal completion by 31 March 2033; it gives The Golden Mile its own, earlier timetable. Both share the same 99-year lease commencing 18 November 2024.

What Living Beside The Golden Mile Means at Aurea

For residents, the neighbour is part of daily life. The link bridge at Level 2 of Aurea connects to an elevated pedestrian link that the authorities require to stay open to the public at all times, and residents can also cross at ground level near the guard house. Aurea’s own sky terraces stay private to residents and their invited guests.

Because The Golden Mile is conserved, the building beside the tower is part of the city’s heritage for the long term, and the views from Aurea across it to Kallang Basin are framed by a landmark that stays part of the skyline.

Aurea, The Golden Mile and the Developers

For a buyer, the practical point is simple: the Aurea sale is for homes in the tower only, with its own sale and purchase agreement, its own unit numbers on Levels 4 to 44 and its own completion dates. Nothing in an Aurea purchase includes space in The Golden Mile, although residents will live next door to its shops and gardens.

Both parts of Golden Mile Singapore are developed by GMC Property Pte. Ltd., Housing Developer’s Licence C1497, for its partners Perennial Holdings and Far East Organization. Perennial brings a portfolio that includes Capitol Singapore, a restoration of three conservation buildings, and Far East Organization has built some 55,000 private homes in Singapore since 1960.

That shared ownership is why the two parts were planned together: the conserved building and the tower share a site and a lease, and the link bridge at Level 2 ties the residents’ arrival to the podium next door. The Aurea developer page describes both partners, and the location page shows the site.

Choosing at Aurea

For anyone looking for a home in the Golden Mile Singapore redevelopment, Aurea is the residential option. Its three collections, from the Prestige 2-bedroom homes to the Sky Villas, are set out on the floor plan page, and the particulars are on the project details page.

The Aurea e-brochure downloads in English and Chinese, and the Sales Concierge sends the current price list and arranges viewings of the show units through the showflat page.