Are there high tension cables in front of Lumi? Haven't notice that. There is a high tension power cables about 500m2 away near the nurseries.

Product specification facts

Practical unit layout design

Unit layouts are mostly "squarish" or in standard rectangle forms. Floor efficiency is relatively high as every space is utilised wisely. There are three main types, whereby Type A refers to sizes below 1,000 sq ft; Type B refers to sizes below 1,500 sq ft; and Type C refers to sizes above 1,500 sq ft.

For Type A which are 2 bedrooms and below 1,000 sq ft, the variants are A: 862 sq ft (no balcony), A1: 920 sq ft (1 balcony for master bedroom) and A2: 979 sq ft (2 balconies for master bedroom and living area). Type A generally are compact in design and promotes an open-concept, compact kitchen without yard. The design optimum is focused in the master bedroom and master bathroom with sufficient closet area.

For Type B which are 2 bedrooms + 1 study room, the variants consist of intermediate types, which are B: 1,010 sq ft (no balcony), B1: 1,085 sq ft (1 balcony for 2nd bedroom) and B2: 1,159 sq ft (2 balconies for master bedroom and living area); and corner types, which are B3: 1,009 sq ft (no balcony), B4: 1,084 sq ft (1 balcony between master bedroom and dining area) and B5: 1,084 sq ft (1 balcony for living area).

The major differences between the intermediate and corner types are (1) the intermediate type has a total of 3 bathrooms including powder room compared to 2 bathrooms for the corner type, (2) this is because the intermediate type has ensuite bathroom for the 2nd bedroom, (3) the corner type has a double-sided glass wall master bathroom protruding the corner structural walls to give it a cool factor, (4) the intermediate type is an open-concept, compact kitchen with a look-through glass wall as opposed to a fully-enclosed kitchen with door for the corner type, and (5) the corner type has both living and dining areas parallel to each other plus a breakfast counter area hence making it a very spacious-looking layout with full double-width glass view to the outside.

We also noted that the 2nd bedroom for the intermediate type fits a single bed only whereas the corner type's 2nd bedroom is able to fit a queen size bed. Both types have equally compact study room which may fit a single bed if space are maximised to the wall, however, the main cover for the study room will be intended as open, partitionless area.

For Type C which are 3 bedrooms + 1 maid or utility room, the variants consist of C: 1,509 sq ft (full enclosed triple lanai areas) and C1: 2,218 sq ft (full enclosed triple lanai areas with a private garden and terrace). These types are generally catered to family living, with a grand master bathroom with sunken bathtub, a large kitchen area with a provision for maid or utility room and a washing toilet, and glass railing opening for all three lanai areas. Type C1 is unique on its own because one would enter the unit with a gate-door entering the unit private garden and terrace area, which has a double-floor ceiling clearance, before reaching the foyer-front of the unit.


Unit orientation

Generally, Lumi Tropicana's headline orientation is North and South, parallel with the alignment of the NKVE. However, since the shape of the land is a semi-sphere, the tower blocks are built around the curve with the Play Tower facing directly south and proportionately moving westwards as the sequence of the tower blocks follow as such: Action, Wellness and Business & Lifestyle.

Play Tower is the closest to the NKVE and the LRT station and track. Some owner concerns would be noise, air pollution and vibration, however, the developer will be taking steps to minimise its direct impact. Prasarana may also build a sound barrier system and installing track acoustic absorption along sensitive areas to mitigate these pollutions. We noted that Action Tower is built with a slight inward positioning over the Play Tower in order to minimise the direct impact of noise. The Business & Lifestyle Tower will be directly facing west with the most breathtaking view of the horizon above the golf course.


Fittings and furnishings

Lumi Tropicana is partially-furnished. The provided items are as follows:

Foyer: Solid timber fire-rated door.

Air-conditioning: Split units provided for living/dining, all bedrooms (except utility room) and study room.

Living: Full height display/book/shoe storage cabinetry.

Dining: Breakfast counter with sink and island bar (selected unit type).

Kitchen: All kitchen cabinetry top and bottom, hob and hood, microwave oven, refrigerator and washer-dryer combo.
Utility Room: Sliding door (selected unit type).

Bedroom: All bedrooms will have full height single or two wardrobes with corner book shelf.

Bathroom (except maid toilet): Hot water system, rain shower, shower screen, vanity top, glass mirror and cabinetry: wall, top and bottom. Type C will have double-basin vanity and a soaking bathtub.

Ceiling: Plaster ceiling and low-energy or LED lightings installed for all areas.

Balcony: Planter box with ready-to-plant soil.

Lanai: Glass sliding door with security glass (selected unit type).

Services: Delivered with home broadband via Fibre-To-The-Home (FTTH) with 1st year free subscription.


Sufficiency of parking bay and carpark allocation

There will be over 2,000 carpark bays provided for residents of tower blocks. As a luxury development on a 6.42-acre land, Lumi Tropicana is designed with a purpose-built residents-only carpark block sitting away from the tower blocks. Residents will find themselves walking through either the ground drop-off level via nearest lift core, or towards the nearest lift core to the respective tower blocks at parking floor and then walking through sheltered walkways at Lumi Park.

The public visiting Lumi Marketplace and office users of Lumi SOHO will enter a sub-basement carpark area from the main entrance. The sub-basement area is segregated from the residents' carpark block hence providing privacy to residents.


Design of corridor, corridor spaces and ventilation

The corridors are naturally-ventilated and have sufficient natural sunlight. The central core contains the lift lobby. A typical floor in each tower block has a total of 3 lifts serving up to 6 units per floor. The three lifts included one service/stretcher lift. The lifts are high-speed operating at 3.0 mps to 3.5 mps, which is roughly 1 floor per second. Waiting time is expected to be under 30 seconds, which is in line with most luxury residences. There will be two emergency staircases at each floor. Its mini air-wells alongside the corridor of apartment units will provide ventilation to kitchen and bathrooms with operable windows.


Availability of proper refuse area

The refuse room is built within its service area, which is enclosed away from the centre core lift lobby. The service/stretcher lift will have a double-sided opening, with one opening to the enclosed service area. This enables refuse cleaning to be carried out away from the centre core lift lobby.


Variety of facilities, green and open spaces
- Example: For families, children-friendly facilities are to be considered

More than 30 facilities are offered to residents across a 3-acre recreational deck known as Lumi Park, the stunning curved-edge Lumi Pool and across each of the themed towers. Lumi Park spans across the rooftop of the residents' carpark block and offers outdoor facilities such as a full-sized futsal court, a full-sized tennis court, rock climbing walls, putting green with sand bunkers, jogging track, cycling path, family BBQ area, children excitement playground and others.

Each tower will have its own set of indoor facilities catering to different age groups, individual personalities and lifestyle needs. The residents are allowed to use these facilities across towers by keycard access to the Sky Terrace floors. A resident may host birthday parties with family and friends at Sky Dining with a full glass view of the adjacent golf course and an evening chillout at Sky Bar. Another resident may enjoy a warm Spa after working out at the well-equipped Gymnasium.

At 190 metres in length from end-to-end, Lumi Pool will be the longest infinity swimming pool in Asia. It will face Tropicana Golf & Country Resort and beat the 150 metres swimming pool at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. At Lumi Pool, there will be sheltered and non-sheltered areas for maximising pool fun at varying weather condition. There will also be sunken jacuzzi, sun deck, kids waterplay area and wading pool.


Reasonability of maintenance fees based on offered facilities over density

The fixed total maintenance charge is RM0.33 psf, inclusive of sinking fund and a 12-hour concierge service at reception. This is reasonably on the low side. We felt that the charge is very reasonable after considering similar properties in surrounding areas, the current density, the enormous area of facilities and future upkeep costs. Any furtherance of maintenance charge will be decided upon delivery. However, we noted that certain facilities such as Conference/Meeting Room will be separately charged on pay-per-use. In the later years, residents could be reaping the benefits of a better energy and water efficiency as Lumi Tropicana is designed to meet GBI Gold compliances.


Impressive and modern façade

A major selling point of Lumi Tropicana is its awe-inspiring, eye-catching outlook and façade. Among the major highlights are a series of vertical architectural fins (for units with no balconies) and checkered arrays of balconies with a potential wrapped-over by creeper plants.

The building structure consists of two layers, whereby two smaller-sized units facing the inner-side flanked by four larger-sized units facing the outer-side. Both layers are adjoined within a centre core. The excess outlook will be glass windows and walls. The walls are treated in "honeycomb" style with a raw finish. Interestingly, each tower's Sky Terrace levels will have a glass protrusion at the façade-edge of the tower block giving a "cool" effect at sky view.


Entrance statement, guardhouse, drop-off area and lift lobby

A majestic dual-carriageway entrance greets you alongside the development's grand signage and water feature at the shoulder of Persiaran Tropicana. As you come to a roundabout, going rightwards will bring you to a sub-basement carpark meant for visitors and occupants of Lumi Marketplace or Lumi SOHO.

To enter the elevated carpark block, residents of tower blocks will drive leftwards towards Lumi Security's entrance checkpoint and guardhouse. Upon arrival, residents have the option of drop-off at its signature "Vortex" shared among the pairs of blocks. Pebble stones inserted with spot-lightings illuminating upon tall trees will light up the "Vortex" during the evenings. Residents will instantly be reminded of the lobby themes present in each tower and a tap of your keycard opens up the lift lobby to your homecoming.

Cars are parked at designated parking bays at the designated floor. Residents will walk towards the closest lift lobby and take a ride up to the rooftop of the residents' carpark block, which is the Lumi Park, for a short walk along sheltered walkways to enter tower block's lift lobby. Walk-in-style over "mini-skybridges" connecting the tower block's lift lobby and Lumi Park. The residents may also access the lift lobby from ground floor.


Security features and privacy design

Standard 3-tier security provided with keycard access system: (1) At ground level entrance checkpoint for vehicles; and (2) Keycard access to entrance of lift lobby; and (3) Lift requiring keycard access to resident's unit floor. Security features include: (1) 24/7 guarding and patrol; (2) Keycard access system to lift lobby and to your unit floor and keyless home access enabled; (3) Intercom connectivity; and (4) CCTV and HD Digital Video remote surveillance.


Other unique features

Lumi Tropicana is a unique development in the vicinity of Tropicana comprising of Residences, SOHOs (Office) and Marketplace (Retail) integrated within a single development. It is the only transport/transit-oriented development (TOD) in this area.


Green rating or greening features

Roughly 32% of development land is reserved to plant greeneries. Lumi Tropicana aims to achieve GBI Gold rating, a key sustainable feature in future developments.

Quite reasonable price 

Went to sales gallery. Sales chart quite pathetic.

Went to sales gallery. Sales chart quite pathetic.

This piece of land is perhaps the worst location within Tropicana with access limited and stands next to office blocks, where haphazard parkings are common.

Went to sales gallery. Sales chart quite pathetic.

price high high, say bye bye lor

If this project was sold in 2011/2 from RM800psf, i think many will bite due to hot property market and much easier financing without ltv restriction.

Even now, Fennels at Sentul East cannot fully sold and YTL needs to offer easy entry which unheard off from YTL.

with the very average performance of capers...who dares to buy fennel for investment???????

as usual lah.....only handful of YTL strong supporters and directors will win......the rest of investors (those bought later stages) can only dream........

Sentul is upcoming area however definitely not the same class as the Mont Kiara/ Hartamas/ Bangsar/ KLCC that can attract high pay expats.

Most of the expats who rent here are those middle class with restricted budget.

Many buyers caught with the hype during the launch and queue and die die want to get piece of action.

When Fennels coming online with another 1000units of average RM700-800psf, it will be interesting to see rental demand absorb. However i think the situation here is not as bad as those in Jalan Ampang and Old Klang Road.

sentul also got plenty of supplies.....maxim, UOA also got thousand units.......

BUT as compared to Jln Ampang and OKR, Sentul is not as established as mid class residential areas as the formers as yet, although we have seen saturation in the formers.

sometimes its not about the number games........its also the address. Sentul vs JlnAmpang.......I think people will gravitate towards JlnAmpang.

LUMI. They need to fix the road once and for all, and that flooded tunnel. Road here is worst than the worst part of roads in Cheras or KL. incoming jam level should be about Jakarta level once all VP. If not jam, hailat.

LUMI. They need to fix the road once and for all, and that flooded tunnel. Road here is worst than the worst part of roads in Cheras or KL. incoming jam level should be about Jakarta level once all VP. If not jam, hailat.

LUMI. They need to fix the road once and for all, and that flooded tunnel. Road here is worst than the worst part of roads in Cheras or KL. incoming jam level should be about Jakarta level once all VP. If not jam, hailat.