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From RM650,000. That figure is from my own project record, not the brochure — the brochure prints no price at all. If the entry price buys one of the 450 sq ft N-types, which is the likeliest reading, it works out at about RM1,444 per square foot. That is a city-centre freehold number rather than a suburban one, and it is the figure to hold the rest of the market against when you compare. There is no published top of the range, and nothing at all published for the five penthouses, so I am not going to invent either. WhatsApp me and I will send the live price list for the exact type and level you want, with that week's rebate and package.

Only if you buy a 3-bedroom or a penthouse. The allocation confirmed to me is one bay per 3-bedroom unit and five bays per penthouse, and no dedicated bay at all for a studio, a 1-bedroom or a 2-bedroom. Seventeen of the twenty layouts the brochure draws therefore come with no parking. This is not in the brochure anywhere, and it is the single thing most likely to change your mind about this project. If you drive, your options are to buy up into a 3-bedroom, to rent a bay from another owner once the building is occupied — at a price nobody can quote you today — or to treat the MRT station 50 m away as your car. For an investor letting to a tenant who does not drive, this is survivable and the station makes it rentable. For an owner-occupier with a car, go in with your eyes open.

Freehold, and the brochure states it on its own feature panel rather than leaving it to be asked about. Freehold this close to KLCC is genuinely scarce — a great deal of the city centre is leasehold — and it removes both the lease-balance question and the state consent step when you eventually sell. What freehold does not tell you is the title category, which here is commercial rather than residential, so read the next answer before you treat this as equivalent to a freehold residential condominium.

The 780 serviced apartments are commercial title held under the Housing Development Act, and the 221 office suites are pure commercial title with no HDA protection. The practical difference for a serviced apartment buyer is in two places. First, protection: HDA means a statutory sale and purchase agreement, a fixed completion period, late delivery compensation and a defect liability period, which is real and worth having. Second, bills: commercial title means commercial-rate electricity, water and local assessment, which run higher than residential rates for the same consumption, month after month, for as long as you own it. Buyers of serviced apartments in KL routinely discover that second point after they move in. Ask me to show you what the difference looks like on an actual monthly bill before you decide.

RM0.66 per square foot, with the sinking fund already inside that figure rather than billed on top — which is the right way round and worth checking, because many developments quote a headline rate and then add the sinking fund separately. On a 450 sq ft studio that is about RM297 a month, on a 650 sq ft 2-bedroom about RM429, and on the 939 sq ft Type P about RM620. For a tower carrying roughly 40,000 sq ft of facilities across seven decks, a sky deck with a glass slide on it and 1,006 units to share the cost, RM0.66 is a fair rate. Treat it as the figure quoted today and ask for it in the sale documents, and ask separately how the charge is split between the serviced apartments and the office suites, because a mixed tower has to apportion shared plant somehow.

Twenty serviced apartment types from 450 to 939 sq ft, drawn in full in the brochure and published in full on this page. Ten face KLCC: A1 at 872 sq ft with 3 bedrooms, D1 and D2 at 720, C at 711, B1 and B2 at 650, E at 512, F at 477 and G1 and G2 at 470. Ten face the urban skyline: P at 939 sq ft and H at 920, both 3-bedroom dual-key plans with a study, K at 680, I at 670, L at 660, J1 and J2 at 460, M at 451 and N1 and N2 at 450. Types C, H, L and P are dual key. The five penthouses are not drawn in the brochure and no size is published for them.

Studios and 1-bedrooms from 450 to 512 sq ft, 2-bedrooms from 650 to 720, and 3-bedrooms at 872, 920 and 939 sq ft. There are no “+1” utility rooms in this book, so the developer's counts and mine are the same — I count true bedrooms only, here and everywhere on this site. One warning about Type J2: the brochure labels it 460 sq ft with 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, but the floor plan printed directly beside that label draws a single bedroom and a single bathroom, and its twin J1 at the same 460 sq ft is labelled 1 and 1. One of the two is a misprint. I have put both on the page rather than quietly pick the flattering one, and I will get it confirmed in writing before anyone books a J2.

A 20,000 sq ft deck at Level 58, on the roof of the tower, and the reason the building will be recognisable from the street. It carries a sky glass slide that the developer describes as Asia's first and the longest and highest of its kind, a sky glass walk with a glass floor around the crown, a 360-degree view deck, and sky dining that the brochure says will include Michelin-starred culinary experiences. Two things to hold lightly: a first-of-its-kind claim is marketing until the thing is built and certified, and a named restaurant operator is not committed anywhere in the brochure. Two things to take seriously: 20,000 sq ft at Level 58 is a real amount of space, and a feature like this is usually opened to paying visitors as well as residents — so ask now how access, booking and security are to be separated from the residential lifts, because that answer affects what living here is like far more than the slide does.

Thirty-six facilities in fifteen named themes across about 40,000 sq ft and seven decks, at Levels 8, 23, 26, 37, 40, 52 and 56. The largest is the 12,000 sq ft Social Boulevard — a food garden, four party rooms and a multipurpose room at Level 8, and a multipurpose hall at Level 23. Then the 5,000 sq ft Olympic +20 Cliff Pool with a wading pool and jacuzzi at Level 56; a 4,000 sq ft Sporting Pavilion with a basketball court, two pickleball-cum-futsal courts, an amphitheatre and an outdoor gym; the 3,700 sq ft Aqua Terra Theme Park with a kids' splash haven and a sky net; a 3,000 sq ft Wellness Sanctuary spread over five levels from a reflexology path to a sauna room with a skyline window; a 2,900 sq ft Courtyard with BBQ and hotpot areas; a 2,600 sq ft Sky Gym; 2,400 sq ft of putting greens; a 2,200 sq ft skating rink; a 2,200 sq ft boxing arena; a 1,700 sq ft bouldering atelier; a 1,600 sq ft cross-fit arena; a 1,600 sq ft mind lab with life-sized chess; a 750 sq ft game room; and a 650 sq ft dance studio. The Sky Deck at Level 58 is counted separately.

Fifty metres to Raja Uda station on the MRT Putrajaya Line — the brochure measures it, and at that distance it is a genuine walk rather than a marketing one. Raja Uda sits between Hospital Kuala Lumpur and Ampang Park, which puts Persiaran KLCC two stops away, Tun Razak Exchange four, Bukit Bintang five, and Putrajaya Sentral and the KLIA transfer on the same line without a change. Titiwangsa, Ampang Park and TRX are all interchanges, so the rest of the network opens up with one change. On a project where most units come with no car park, the station is not a convenience — it is the whole transport plan, and you should test the walk and the station's opening hours against your own routine before you buy.

2.4 km to Suria KLCC by the brochure's own measure, which also puts Intermark Mall at 1.2 km, Avenue K at 1.5 km and Pavilion Kuala Lumpur at 4.2 km. Kuala Lumpur Hospital is 1.0 km and the National Heart Institute 1.2 km, and six embassies sit between 1.7 and 3.9 km. That is a properly central address — close enough to the KLCC core to let to people who work in it, far enough out that you are not paying a KLCC postcode premium. The brochure notes its distances are approximate and for reference only, and so do I.

I am not going to give you a yes or a no, but I will give you the four things that will decide it. The station at 50 m is the strongest card: a tenant who does not drive can live here without a car, which matters because most units have no parking. Freehold and HDA protection on the serviced apartments are the second. Against that, commercial title raises the running costs that come out of your rent every month, and 780 serviced apartments completing at once in one tower means you will be letting against hundreds of near-identical units in the same lobby — that is what compresses rents in year one. Work the numbers on the actual unit, with the real maintenance charge, the commercial-rate bills and a vacancy assumption, before the rental yield in anyone's slide deck. Ask me and I will build that out with you on a specific unit and level.

Kuala Lumpur sets a minimum purchase price for foreign buyers, and the brochure makes a point of saying the project is tailored for international buyers and MM2H holders. The entry price here is above the usual Kuala Lumpur threshold, but a commercial-title serviced apartment is treated differently from residential stock in several respects, including financing, and the rules change from time to time. Tell me which passport you hold, whether you are buying through MM2H and which unit type you are after, and I will get the current position confirmed in writing before you pay anything.

GD Properties, which the brochure prints on every page beneath the wordmark. What the brochure does not carry anywhere in its 22 pages is a statutory block: no developer's licence number and no advertising and sales permit number. Both must exist for the development to be sold legally, so ask for them, check them against the Ministry of Housing and Local Government's register, and read them on the sale documents rather than taking them off a flyer. Ask me and I will put that request to the developer in writing for you. On a 58-storey mixed tower it is also worth asking who the main contractor is and what else they have topped out in the city.

2030, from my own project record — the brochure gives no completion date. On the 780 serviced apartments, which are sold under the HDA, the completion period and the compensation payable if the developer is late are written into the statutory sale and purchase agreement, so the date that actually binds anyone is the one in your contract rather than the one in a brochure or on this page. The 221 office suites are pure commercial title and do not get that protection, which is one more reason the two halves of this tower are not the same purchase. Ask me to walk you through the completion clause and the defect liability period when you read the documents.

They are in the same tower and they are not the same thing to buy. The 780 serviced apartments are commercial title under the Housing Development Act, which brings the statutory sale and purchase agreement, the fixed completion period, late delivery compensation and the defect liability period with it. The 221 office suites are pure commercial title with none of that: the contract is whatever is negotiated, and the protections you would expect from a housing purchase do not apply. They also sit at different levels in the stack — the office suites occupy roughly Levels 23 to 37 on the brochure's diagram, with the apartments above them — and they will bring daytime visitor traffic through a building you live in. If you are comparing a suite against an apartment on price per square foot alone, you are comparing two different legal products.