Uptown Residences



Family Tower
The Homes at a Glance.


30-storey Family Tower.

202 apartments and 4 penthouses.

The homes are classified as serviced apartments with a commercial title.

5 home designs ranging from 1,687 sq.ft. to 2,516 sq.ft.

All homes in the Family Tower are either semi-detached or corner units, with just 8 units per floor.

A decentralised lift core design with 2 lifts servicing 2 units on each floor.

Each home has its own Private Lift Lobby for added privacy and security.

The homes are orientated to face outwards for maximum living space frontage with premium views available from the Living Room and Master Bedroom.

Living Rooms are extra spacious with widths of up to 21 feet.

The homes feature 2.4m high windows to maximise natural light and views.

Each home in the Family Tower is provided 3 parking bays, while the penthouses are provided 6 parking bays in a garage.



Lifestyle Tower
The Homes at a Glance.


32-storey Lifestyle Tower.

170 apartments and 4 penthouses.

4 home designs ranging from 734 sq.ft. to 1,040 sq.ft.

The homes are classified as serviced apartments with a commercial title.

The majority of these are designed as corner units for optimum views.

Only 6 units per floor, served by 4 lifts located in a central lift core.

The homes feature 2.4m high windows to maximise views and natural light.

Open plan interiors make great use of space.

The homes are orientated to face outwards for maximum living space frontage with premium views available from the Living Room and Master Bedroom.

If you choose a home in the Lifestyle Tower, you enjoy the added bonus option of purchasing your home with a fully furnished interior design package, specially created by our pre-selected interior design consultant.

The Optional Furnishing Package includes the smart, space-saving U-box or Utility Box. This ultra-organised, multi-purpose utility conceals laundry equipment, cleaning utensils and household storage behind sleek, custom-designed built-in cabinets.

Each home in the Lifestyle Tower is provided 2 parking bays, while the penthouses are provided 4 parking bays each.



Anyone knows the selling prices?

Where is the Sales Office..

So "Commercialized" - suitable for residential use or not?

more than one million. family tower almost all sold out. i went there last week for soft launch

lifestyle tower leh?

OMG...over 1 mil per unit?

I heard Lifestyle tower close to fully sold out but the family tower still got many available units, true?

lifestyle tower sold first

more like close to 2 million for those 2500sq ft.
the 2200 sqft units - the bedrooms quite tiny

my goodness, if my duplex 1900ft2 can boost like uptown status, now im millionaire, haih

The selling point for lifestyle tower is fully furnished unit. Once their completed, you jsut shift in your furnitures.

How much is the smallest unit?

for such price, is this good for own stay or investment?

It's smack-right- in the middle of a commercial zone.. heavy commercial zone.. my bet would be for investment,as in, renting out to expatriates working around Uptown.

1. I've been a DU boy nearly all my life.

2. SHC is a smart developer, not to mention a greedy developer. It will have its share of loaded fan-si's that will just whack without thinking

3. For people that buy for flipping, it'll be little dangerous IMHO. PS - i don't think there are many expats working around Uptown. Sure, there may be some at Deloitte and a few MNC's like P&G....but I don't think there r enuf to sustain the number of Uptown units.

4. For people that buy for own stay - well, that's a different issue lah. some may like it, and no harm there lor.

my2c

still a boy kah?
have to salute SHC a bit. their 3 blocks @ the club is still like a undercon project for someone who don't know. maybe because of this, they switched to STB rather than their conventional BTS model. bleeding mah.
for expat, even if you are indeed working in DU itself, wouldn't it make more sense for the guy to live in rather MK/TTDI/Bangsar which is just a very short drive away?
anyway, congrats for being a sellout. just didn't phantom that it could hit such prices.

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Added on March 29, 2012, 8:39 amstill a boy kah?
have to salute SHC a bit. their 3 blocks @ the club is still like a undercon project for someone who don't know. maybe because of this, they switched to STB rather than their conventional BTS model. bleeding mah.
for expat, even if you are indeed working in DU itself, wouldn't it make more sense for the guy to live in rather MK/TTDI/Bangsar which is just a very short drive away?
anyway, congrats for being a sellout. just didn't phantom that it reach such prices.

This post has been edited by kochin: Mar 29 2012, 08:39 AM

taikor .. just a bit of a correction ...
they are 2 different SHC entities (I believe 2 different parties of the same family) ..
BU development which develops BU and this SHC are different entities ...

for Uptown Residence, the developer is the same as that of Seringin's ... which is not the same as Bkt Utama .. hence the design/architecture are like moon and sun !

Bandar Utama township is under development of Bandar Utama City Centre which handled by Dato Teo Chiang Kok....

SHC is handled by others family members.....

Basically BU and SHC have different team management to handle the project

I'm also a DU man.

Uptown Residences is a low density project in relative to its entire development size.

I also worked at Deloitte before, and I can say that RENTAL is not dependent on expatriates... but rather Senior Audit friends from outstation/other states who badly needs a home nearby. Other companies operating in Uptown Office Towers and the spillover from nearby Offices in Bandar Utama are mainly Multinationals and established Local Companies.

You'll be surprised that Demand will exceed the supply here given that Damansara Uptown is established and that places in Bandar Utama-Mutiara Damansara-TTDI are much more expensive than DU. Uptown will target the higher-end of locals/young expats that most probably renting in Pelangi.

It is also interesting to note that Uptown will have its own Retail Mall (SHC is leasing anchor tenants) and an Ascott's Somerset-branded suites - the first of its kind in PJ - where quality hotel and serviced apartments are insufficient to cater to influx of New Offices. For that we can see that 5-star ONE World Hotel is doing quite well.

By 2015, Uptown Residences will have to compete with other similar projects nearby like The Greens TTDI, Glomac Residences, Reflection Residences, Glomac Centro Towers, Boulevard Damansara Residence, etc. (Note: Atria SOFO Suites is excluded as it comes under office play)

This post has been edited by accetera: Mar 29 2012, 11:27 AM

i think the lifestyle tower is OK, smaller units and rental/invetsment ratio i.e. yield is higher. but the family tower really makes no sense since this is commercial titled..the rates will be much much higher considering the size of the units. already maintenance fee is going to be at least RM600 per unit and expected to go up even higher when JMB takes over due to the low density and so many facilities to maintain.

Basically this is a mixed development, with 2 block of condominiums, one block of service apartment/ hotel ( managed by international company: Somerset http://www.somerset.com/), and also one high block of corporate tower, with one retail mall downstairs, and most importantly thousands of car parks available at the basement. For all the above projects, there are only two available for sale, i.e. 2 blocks of condominium, life style and family style.

Life Style selling price started from 850psf ( min size: 732sf, so min price is about 6 to 700k), and family style started by 750psf ( min siz 1600, so min about 1.3million): . Life style is about 80% taken before its prelaunch, and fully sold within few hours after it's softlaunch despite it was sold without DIBS. I witnessed it myself, and luckily i grabbed one unit for my self. Within 2 weeks from the softlaunch, the family style left 20% unsold only. Only those selling price above 1.6 million are available for sale now.

My office has been here for about 5 years, so I see the crowd and the demand in this area. This area is highly assessible, with future LRT coming within vicinity. There are plans to construct additional access from LDP, and exits to NVKE by the Developer. Most importanlty, the Developer is very reputable in this area. Until todate, the Developer still owns about 20-25% of the shop lot in this area ( this is the only Developer that I know so far in malaysia, that retain the shoplots they sell, and hold it for about 30-40 years until today), and all the office towers (except Tabung haji tower ). that's why this area is well maintained and managed with anchor tenants, and about almost all banks are here. Despite it's high selling price, this is the only property available for sale, the rest are meant for lease only by the Developer. So i hope mine will be a good buy.. haha