Does anyone remember where the hackable walls are? I remember seeing some YouTube presentations where there were floor plans with marked hackable walls.

Anyone planning to combine rooms? I’m completely going against the current partitioning meta. Lol.

PS - anyone got notice that building duration is delayed by 150 days? I personally don’t mind. Block B.

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Bit of a buzz machine starting about 118. The biggest ad they can do is fireworks there on Hari Merdeka with a Stadium Merdeka backdrop. I predict that will be the backdrop they’ll use going forward for tourism. Tug on the heart strings a bit with jazz (lies) about unity, diversity and equality.

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The secondary rooms are roughly around 3.3m by 3m. This is me extrapolating by scale from the floor plan. A bit bigger for master of course. They all seem to be fairly consistent in the sense that all of the secondary bedrooms will fit queens and are at least 90 sqft.

They’re gonna take what they can get and use their clout to get tenants. It’s the old money churning old money. This is the way … in Malaysia. TRX seems to be languishing in this regard to lock in tenants.

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Aye. Whatever competitive advantage Malaysia had in the 90s has eroded year on year as the rest of the region caught up. You now have neither the skilled manpower nor cost advantages on top of having a small population to be truly attractive. It’s the typical middle income trap exacerbated by dysfunctional politicking.

You’re right. Prospects for SB are quite bright with such a big name local employer on top of all the opportunities for tourism and commercial activity. And there’s a dedicated own stay cohort motivated by the school catchment or who are just attracted to this old KL downtown address.

It’s got pretty broad appeal and seems to work for both purposes. I wouldn’t rule out the Airbnb factor. It will just depend how much lower you price it against Opus.

My understanding is that if it’s Commercial title or commercial under HDA then Airbnb can’t be banned outright. It has to be voted down by owners to stop it. Whereas if it’s residential title, then Airbnb is generally disallowed from the start unless it’s voted in. Am I right in my conclusion?

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The JMB of a new development pretty much is a standardised template set by the developer isn’t it? They pretty much decide the shape of things initially?

My point is that sometimes it takes more effort to change something that was already present at the start if they can’t get a quorum on a decision. It would take some time.

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Tower C over 70% taken with their quite high prices. It’ll all be gone with the new few waves of 118 hype.

Someone shared the price. Around 1k psf for the highest floors.

This post has been edited by Cavatzu: Aug 20 2022, 07:51 AM

Makes sense if KL Sentral was meant to be designated as the main central station of KL.

There will come a time in the future when redeveloping a cemetery becomes commonplace.

9 times out of 10 when a SA tells you prices are going up, it’s most likely a lie to trigger you into a sale.

Although yes in a way those factors are true and this has been a fairly hot selling project. The price increases have already been set with each subsequent phase launch. This is better than some projects out there where the earliest buyers got screwed *cough Lavile.

Pretty sure Opus sold out. Their main problem is that 118 is not completed and they VP just before Covid started as well as being very pricey when launched. They will pick up but like most property launched in 2014/15 they were terribly overpriced at the peak of the market.

The Kampung Attap area is very interesting as it’s actually a very old precinct of KL and was never developed because it was just opposite the Istana. Now it will fly with both new and old elements supporting it.

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Anyone know what’s going on with the Mirama and Mandarin Court hotels? They were closed since I went to the showroom last year and still seem to be shut down. Are they going to be redeveloped?

Quite interesting. I’d love to go but I’m not in the country. It’s part of PNB’s efforts to rejuvenate the area with this arts/music festival. Hopefully this becomes a hub for creatives.

There’s another overhead bridge before heading to the monorail which exits at the temple which gets you closer to the Chinatown area. It’s in a bit of disrepair but it would be easy to fix it up.

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1st phase started from 700+ psf so yea it was generally agreed as cheap particularly as it’s Sunway. Subsequent phases perhaps not so much. But in comparison to the neighbouring units like Opus this was still quite a bit cheaper.

I think it’s quite generally agreed this area should be closer to 1k psf given it’s still the city and the booster effect of 118.

Not that I’m trying to convince you or anything. Somehow that part of the Eastern side of town bordering Cheras just isn’t as attractive to me (PJ person pov).

The fact that they keep on building stretching into Cheras is dangerous to me from an investment pov as the supply will be so high. The Kampung Attap piece of land is finite and we know who the developers are already.

Would I have bought this at 1k psf? Probably not. But in the 700-900 psf range I felt this was compelling value compared to my alternatives in PJ or MK (I may be wrong in this but too late).

The shop lots on Maharajalela aren’t great I admit. But the arts precinct on the other side of Jalan Belfield is. The gentrification effect of Petaling St has already started there. You got this cruisy, artsy vibe that nods to the heritage of the place. I’m a big fan of that.

It is definitely walkable to 118, less than 1 km. I can walk to Petaling St from the start of the showroom in 15 mins. As you can see, even before I mention 118 I’m actually a fan of the micro location of the site and being close enough to famous food institutions.

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