Where you sell used furniture in Singapore decides how much you actually pocket. List a good sofa yourself on Carousell or Facebook Marketplace and you keep close to 100% of the price, but you handle the buyers, the lowballers and the lift-down. Sell to a dealer like Hock Siong and you get paid on collection at a steep discount, if it wants the piece. Consignment shops display it for you and take a cut. And if the piece is too worn to sell, you do not pay a junk remover blindly: your Town Council clears two to three bulky items a month for free, and the Salvation Army's Re:Nue takes resaleable items, free if you drop them off or for an $80 to $100 charge if it collects. This guide compares the real fees, payouts and timelines for each route in 2026.
Every option trades money for convenience. Selling it yourself online keeps the most cash but costs you time and effort. Selling to a dealer is fast but the price is wholesale. Consignment sits in between. Donation and Town Council removal keep nothing, but they cost nothing either and solve the problem of a piece nobody will pay for.
Before you decide, be honest about the item. A two-year-old branded sofa, a solid-wood dining table or ergonomic office chairs hold resale value and are worth listing yourself. A flat-pack bookshelf, a sagging mattress or a chipboard wardrobe will not clear for enough to justify the hassle, so the goal there is free, lawful disposal rather than profit.
If this is part of a move or a renovation, time the sale around your handover so you are not paying to store or transport furniture you have already sold. Our HDB renovation cost guide covers how clearing out before reno day saves on hacking and disposal charges.
| Route | What you keep | Speed | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sell yourself (Carousell, FB Marketplace) | Near 100% of price, no fee on personal sales | Days to weeks | Items with real resale value |
| Sell to a dealer (e.g. Hock Siong) | Wholesale offer, usually well below retail, paid on collection | Reply within about 7 working days | Bulk clear-outs, office moves |
| Consignment (e.g. specialist vintage stores) | Sale price minus a commission cut | Weeks to months | Designer or vintage pieces |
| Donate (Salvation Army Re:Nue, charities) | Nothing; free drop-off or an $80-$100 pickup | By appointment | Good-condition items you cannot sell |
| Town Council bulky-item removal | Nothing, free for 2 to 3 items a month | At least 3 working days' notice (Tampines) | Worn-out, unsellable furniture |
Listing furniture yourself on a peer-to-peer marketplace is how most people get the highest price. You set the figure, you negotiate, and on a personal account you generally pay no selling fee.
On Carousell, personal accounts pay no selling fee, and Furniture & Home Living gives you 10 free listings a month under Carousell's category quota. The 2.5% service fee that gets talked about applies to Professional accounts that cross certain revenue and chat thresholds, not to an individual clearing out a flat. Facebook Marketplace is free for local peer-to-peer listings; you arrange collection or delivery directly with the buyer. Both put the logistics on you.
The catch with self-selling is the lift-down. A buyer paying $250 for a sofa will not also pay a mover, so factor in that you may need to help carry it or split a small moving fee. Carousell's official bulky-item delivery with GoGoX, for furniture sold through the Buy button, shows its fee on each listing and has added a $2 fuel surcharge since April 2026, with extras such as $10 a floor for stairs and $30 for each extra mover (as of October 2026). It can close a sale that would otherwise fall through over delivery.
If you want the furniture gone without managing buyers, a second-hand dealer buys it outright and pays you when it collects. The trade-off is the price: the dealer has to resell at a margin, so expect an offer well below what you could get selling direct.
Hock Siong and Co. in Kampong Ampat is the best-known name. You send photos on WhatsApp, it aims to reply within seven working days, and it pays by cash or bank transfer when it collects. It does not buy everything: home appliances, beds, some sofas and bulky built-ins are generally out, it does no formal valuations, and it clears old furniture case by case, only on the trip when it delivers a piece you bought from it. For offices clearing out workstations and chairs, Best Business Furniture in Tampines has dealt in new and pre-owned office furniture since 1988. One quote for the whole lot beats selling forty office chairs one at a time on Carousell.
Dealers pay least per piece but save the most time, so they make sense for volume. Get two quotes if you can, and weigh the cash offer against the effort of self-selling. The same logic applies to other big-ticket disposals; if you are also clearing a vehicle, our guide to selling your car in Singapore runs through dealer-versus-direct the same way.
Consignment sits between selling yourself and selling to a dealer. The shop displays your piece, markets it to its own buyers, and takes a commission only when it sells. You keep the sale price minus that cut, which is typically a meaningful percentage of the final figure (confirm the exact rate and any minimum before you hand anything over).
This route works best for designer, solid-wood or vintage furniture that needs the right buyer rather than the fastest one. Specialist vintage stores and consignment dealers attract collectors who pay more than a general marketplace browser would, so for the right piece you can net more even after the commission.
The downside is speed and uncertainty. Your item may sit on the floor for weeks or months, and if it does not sell you collect it back. Read the consignment terms on storage duration, price-drop schedule and who pays for transport, then judge whether the higher potential price is worth the wait against a quick dealer sale.
Plenty of furniture is past resale but still usable, or simply not worth listing. You have two clean, low-cost exits before you ever pay a private junk remover.
Update, 13 October 2026: the Salvation Army's collection, now run by its social enterprise Re:Nue, charges an $80 to $100 transportation fee in place of the suggested $60 donation this guide gave, so pickup is no longer free. Donation gives the piece a second life. Re:Nue runs a 'View and Collect' service: book an appointment, and its staff check the items when they come. Its FAQ and booking form put the charge at $80 and the booking page's step guide at $100, paid in cash or PayNow on the day, and there is no disposal service for anything it turns down. Items must be clean, resaleable and free of damage, stains or faults, and it refuses furniture five feet and above such as chipboard, compressed-wood, plywood and custom-made pieces. Dropping items off yourself at Re:Nue @ Bukit Timah is free but by appointment only, and smaller items can go into its donation booths (as of October 2026).
For genuinely worn-out furniture, your HDB Town Council removes bulky household items for free, usually up to two or three items per month per household (limits vary by Town Council). Tampines Town Council, for example, takes the first three bulky items a month, once a month, with at least three working days' notice. Its conservancy workers collect from your doorstep, so do not leave items in the corridor or at the lift landing. Built-in items, renovation debris, fragile items, pianos and gym equipment are among its exclusions.
Selling your own used furniture is the disposal of personal possessions, not a trade, so the proceeds are not taxable income in Singapore. IRAS taxes income from a trade, business, profession or vocation; a one-off clear-out of your own belongings is none of those.
The picture changes if you are buying and reselling furniture regularly to make a profit, which can look like a trade and become taxable. If furniture selling is part of a wider side income, see how the thresholds work in our piece on side hustles you can run from home, and check whether your total income changes your bracket with the income tax calculator.
Keep it simple for a personal clear-out: take the cash, keep nothing for IRAS, and put the proceeds toward your next goal. Our GST glossary entry explains why second-hand peer-to-peer sales between individuals do not attract GST either.
Listing it yourself on Carousell or Facebook Marketplace nets the most, because personal-account sales carry no selling fee and you set the price. Dealers pay less but are faster, and consignment can beat both for designer or vintage pieces despite the commission cut.
No. Personal accounts pay no selling fee, and you get 10 free furniture listings a month as of October 2026. The 2.5% service fee that gets mentioned applies only to Professional accounts that hit certain revenue and chat thresholds, not to an individual clearing out their home.
Use free routes before paying anyone. Donate resaleable items to the Salvation Army's Re:Nue, free if you drop them off or $80 to $100 for its View and Collect pickup, or book your HDB Town Council's bulky-item removal, which is free for two to three items a month per household. Only pay a private junk remover for anything beyond those caps.
Not for free any more. Re:Nue, the Salvation Army's social enterprise, collects by appointment through its View and Collect service for an $80 to $100 transportation charge as of October 2026, while dropping items off yourself at Re:Nue @ Bukit Timah, also by appointment, costs nothing. Items must be clean and resaleable, and it refuses furniture five feet and above such as chipboard, compressed-wood, plywood and custom-made pieces.
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