Vela Bay (Updated 2026)

Vela Bay is a private condominium of 515 homes in two 31-storey towers at 1 and 3 Bayshore Walk, in the Bayshore neighbourhood of District 16 on the East Coast. Its developer is Bayshore Walk Pte. Ltd., and it is a SingHaiyi Group development. In Chinese it is called 首航, the maiden voyage, and its English name comes from vela, Latin for “sails”.

Buyers searching for the Vela Bay condo, Vela Bay Residences or the Bayshore Road GLS condo are looking at the same address: the land parcel at Bayshore Road that URA released under the Government Land Sales programme and awarded in March 2025, the first private residential site of the new Bayshore precinct. The two towers stand on a landscaped deck with The Vela Pool, the Vela Bay Clubhouse and a recreational tennis court, above two basements of parking. The project details page has every particular.

The land is held on a 99-year lease from 25 June 2025, and the site sits in the Outside Central Region, between the East Coast Parkway and Upper East Coast Road, with Bayshore MRT station on the Thomson-East Coast Line at its gate.

The developer’s site plan numbers 31 spaces at Vela Bay, in two zones. The Bay Coast, on the first storey of the towers, centres on The Vela Pool, a free-form pool with an aqua bed and an aqua spa seat, and a kid’s pool watched over from the parent’s deck. Around the water sit the poolside coast cabana, three pavilions named after the parts of a yacht, and coral-themed terraces, pods and gardens.

The Vela Club, a level below, holds the gymnasium with its steam room, the wellness deck, an outdoor fitness corner, the kid’s playground, The Port Lounge, The Starboard Pavilion and the recreational tennis court, while the Vela Bay Clubhouse adds two function rooms. The landscape designers took their cue from yachting: sail-like shelters, wood and white finishes and coastal planting. The amenities page lists every numbered space.

Vela Bay and the New Bayshore Precinct

Vela Bay is the first private residential development of Bayshore, a new seafront neighbourhood planned between Upper East Coast Road and the East Coast Parkway. The developer’s brochure describes a future Bayshore Central precinct designed to be car-lite, with integrated green spaces and parks along the Thomson-East Coast Line and a lively central street with bus-priority lanes, shops and community facilities at its heart.

Close by, SAFRA Bayshore is targeted to open in 2030 next to Bedok South station and is set to be the largest SAFRA clubhouse. Further east, the Changi East development of about 1,080 hectares will be anchored by Terminal 5 of Changi Airport, and the brochure records that a reclamation of about 800 hectares off the East Coast, the Long Island vision, is under study for coastal protection, a new reservoir and seafront parks. The Bayshore precinct guide describes each plan.

Vela Bay sits where East Coast Park meets the Bayshore neighbourhood. Area F of the park is about 330 metres from the site and Bedok Jetty about 630 metres, with the beach, the cycling and running tracks and the barbecue pits of the park in between; the developer’s brochure shows a park connector to East Coast Park at the doorstep. East Coast Lagoon Food Village, the hawker centre by the sea, is about 885 metres away.

For shopping, the brochure gives Parkway Parade at about four minutes by car, Bedok Mall at about six minutes, Changi City Point at about eight and i12 Katong at about ten, and the Joo Chiat and Katong streets of shophouses and eateries lie a little further west. Laguna National Golf and Country Club, the Tanah Merah Country Club and the National Service Resort and Country Club are all within about four kilometres.