Agree with UFO Taikor.

However, I would comment that both takes time.

Rimbayu has added value of better location and township neighbours like matured Kota Kemuning, Bkt Rimau and Alam Impian while Eco Hills is surrounded by old Semenyih kampungs and much nearer to Bdr Baru Semenyih, Nilai and Bangi.

Meanwhile, in township development, SP Setia has an edge due to they had past experienced in Bdr Setia Alam and Eco Park, where it transformed very quickly compare to others while IJM, this is the biggest township they ever develop.

If Bdr Rimbayu is going to develop by SP Setia, I am sure I will personally go to the balloting day to try with min 5 tickets entry to aim for 1 unit, if failure, repeat it with 2nd phase and so on.

That's what I thought of the catalyst for Bdr Rimbayu.

Leasehold I no longer mind and now, don't mind. As long as property is decent, quality workmanship and good township.

Tentatively late June or early July.

Hahaha, true, but better than remain unsold for much longer. 50% quota is too high to hit. Anyhow, landed flipper is different from the highrise flipper who buy with discount or DIBS in much more units within the project.

Hehehe, only RM 8,000 discount for those sign S&P within 14 days from the ballot date / booking date, no furnished, no DIBS, free legal fee and stamp duty on S&P only .... errr, MOT I forgot ...

You must be very rich.

Bcz u only know this almost 2 weeks after you ballot a unit. Hehehe.

Phase 3 is good, but the plan is not confirm yet. It is either cluster homes or park homes with strata title. It is just sandwich btw Phase 1, 2 and Commercial Plot. Rightly at the middle of BR and not too far from commercial, hypermarket/wet market plot, BR main entrance from KK as well as accessibility main road lead to exit to Elite Highway or Bayu ( the highest end series ) which, also leads to BSP and linked with Plus.

I think IJM should reveal more info and do proper site master planning in the scale model. Verbally is not good enough. With the relevant few info, one may hard to pick the exactly best timing to enter the best phase and its size.

Why say so, bro?

Indah Residence is really not bad, though the plot is smaller at 22x70 but never the less, it was the last DSTH phase by Paramount as well as Freehold and G&G.

Hmm, I think the buyers who opt for subsales at IR/DR surely have their mind set of not buying Chimes and wait 2 years for completion of first year. While IR/DR already located at matured KK/KU with amenities ready.

To the entering cost, compare Chimes 24x75 RM 650k vs IR/DR 22x70 RM 650, the diff of subsale would be paying S&P and Valuation Fee. ( since Chimes require Loan Legal Fee and MOT by buyers ), I feel the cost is not huge for subsales buyer who can move in immediately in 3-5 months time while even after 2 years, the first batch of Chimes own stay buyers might be risky of being the first batch of having vacant neighbours and surrounded by workers and construction of later phases as well as, commercial in BR is not ready and got to travel to KK/KU for amenities.

IMHO, both has pro and con in short or long term.

Nilai 24x75 for RM 500k is absolutely not cheap idea.

IMHO, If I invest outside KV, I might prefer Seremban 2 much more than Nilai.

Honestly, it's quite depends for one individual if near KLCC is really that huge impact, but for me, surrounding township / amenities / quality of residents / prices of houses / future development are the main pullers.

Nilai, depends where, is actually a border of a top KV and has much more lands for future development stretch to Senawang and Seremban but Bdr Rimbayu neighbouring Kota Kemuning / Kemuning Utama / Bdr Botanic / Alam Impian has more exclusive address / neighbourhood compare to Nilai's surrounding or nieghbours township, barred the Bdr Saujana Putra and Bdr Puteri Klang.

Bandar Rimbayu is sole township, a huge township similar with Setia Alam but this is boasted with GBI with Greenery. Although it was untested, the main puller of the successful is the execution of the IJM itself and probably in very near way of a great hub of BR / KK / KU / Bkt Rimau compare to Kota / Mutiara / Perdana of Damansara. BR has much matured and proven townships to driven it up compare to Nilai, well, it is too subjective which part of Nilai, it could be Sime Darby or it could be Seri Pajam ...

Shoplot is part of the commercial phase, it is quite huge and big, which is next to Phase 3 and Phase 4 or between both phases and Bayu high end series.

It comprises service apartment, office towers, shop-office, mall, SOHO and mixed, but yet to confirm all these and not define yet which to launch first.

Yes, still leasehold, I think if they wanna bring up Bandar Rimbayu quickly, they must launch some commercial by 2013/14 though the early shop buyers must really need to hold long until Bandar Rimbayu Phase 1-4 high occupancy.

Heard Phase 2, the link houses of 22x80 and 24x80 are tentatively postpone and delay until late 2013 only to launch and ballot.

The week after the Phase 1 was successfully ballot, I was told by IJM that Phase 2 could be tentatively launch in July 2013.

For those registered and attend the ballot day but failed to get a unit, would be included among the pool for Phase 2 ballot.

No. Dont confuse of the area called Canal City ( which earmarked long time ago ) and a developer name of Canal City Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of IJM Group.

IJM bought a huge part of the Canal City land, which is 1900 acres and they won the bid due to the construction upgrading and works they had done in exchange for the state / government. Due to state and district issue, English name township cannot be use, so they rename their own township to Bdr Rimbayu.

Dijaya bought another parcel land of Canal City, next to Bdr Rimbayu, from PNSB and won the bid against SPS and Mah Sing. The name of the township is yet to be determine and confirm as the deal was just finalized recently.

I dont think it would be a joint development of both 2700+ acres of land since IJM Group has construction company itself while Dijaya had such a great deal and condition of the land purchased which the repayment will be made in 20 years time, if not mistaken.

Haha, I don't think so the name would be using Bandar Tropicana.

But definitely the selling price could be much higher than IJM, since IJM already set them a benchmark on how much the selling price as well as Dijaya prices are hard to swallow.

If I am not mistaken, currently only one access, later on another access from KK Toll and another thru Bdr Saujana Putra.

Once Dijaya's part of Canal City was up next few years, it might also linked together with BR and linked to Kesas thru Bkt Rimau.

I think most BR buyers adapt this into their buying decision and willing to hold further ( unsure whether they able to )

Its correct that even DPC or any new medium / big scale townships needs 4-5 years to pick up. But DPC is about 4-5 times smaller than BR hence it matured faster than a huge township and with the catalyst of surrounded projects. So, BR definitely needs time however with its infra and concept, I still believe this is great new township for years to come, esp Dijaya is going to develop the other part if the Canal City with premium homes.

It might be attracting ppl from much further down South like Banting, Hulu Langat or even Port Klang or Klang.

I dont rule out ppl from KK/KU/Bkt Rimau would move over to BR one day once the infra is ready n the catalyst of commercial n accessibility is up. In fact, KK now is almost fully developed and no more land for new DSTH as demanded by market.

Years ago, many of the Subang / USJ ppl tend to move further to KK/KU due to new township, cheaper, affordable pricing n more quiet. For most Chinese, most of these folks much prefer KK / KU locality rather than moving to Putra Heights.

I was told that Phase 1 would be able to rush off for completion much earlier and maybe they plan to VP earlier or only handover the key as per schedule since the accessibility is not ready yet.

I think it needs to hold minimum around 3-4 years after the completion of Phase 2-3 or maybe 4. The pioneer occupancy batches are very important to determine how many buying for own stay and what are the races going to dominate the occupancy here.

The land clearing and earth work has been done few days before the Chimes was ballot at Subang Jaya's Holiday Villa. Because I went to the site personally to decide whether to go in this project or no.