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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 55 second-hand shops
Best second-hand shops in Singapore
The 10 most notable second-hand shops in Singapore, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Hock Siong and Co.
153 Kampong Ampat, #01-02/#01-03 Junjie Industrial Building
626 m from Tai Seng MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.245, percentile 100 of 55
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2
The Heritage Shop
93 Jln Sultan
472 m from Nicoll Highway MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.209, percentile 98.15 of 55
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3
New2U Thrift Shop
96 Waterloo St
154 m from Bencoolen MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.206, percentile 96.3 of 55
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4
ValueMax Pawnshop & Jewellery Shop (Toa Payoh Central Branch)
184 Toa Payoh Central, #01-360
244 m from Toa Payoh MRT station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.181, percentile 94.44 of 55
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5
East Inspirations
256 S Bridge Rd
238 m from Maxwell MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.154, percentile 92.59 of 55
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6
Katong Antique House
208 E Coast Rd
539 m from Marine Parade MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.137, percentile 90.74 of 55
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7
MoneyMax Pawnshop - Bedok
Blk 208 New Upper Changi Road #01-693, Singapore
186 m from Bedok MRT station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.134, percentile 88.89 of 55
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8
Aphorism Antiques
Tiong Bahru Estate, 72 Seng Poh Rd
485 m from Havelock MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.118, percentile 87.04 of 55
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9
MoneyMax Pawnshop - NEX
23 Serangoon Central, #B1-54/55 NEX
70 m from Serangoon MRT station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.116, percentile 85.19 of 55
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10
MoneyMax Leasing
Suite 1, 7 Changi Business Park Vista SOOKEE HQ Singapore
549 m from Expo station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.113, percentile 83.33 of 55
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).