I'm interested in Gemala. Dropped by show unit but was informed fully booked now on waiting list only

I believe that's Rimbayu's commercial area. Uptown Rimbayu

I managed to tentatively "book" a nice and cosy intermediate lake / river facing unit facing North East. But actually I wanna go for Direct North facing river, can even be corner / endlot, personal fengshui concerns hehe. Anyone wanna swap or let go please message me ya

In that case Uptown will be very very small? I'm not sure if it would be so small as it has 68 shops as mentioned in the website. Blossom shops is 88 units and look at the space it takes up. Anyway, anyone with concrete info welcome to enlighten us

What is the land size for this end lot?

Probably it’s true, 20/22x80 with 8 feet extra land, good price

Good info. I thought that was ridiculously cheap at 850k.
Even if wisteria is 950k end lot, that’s cheap too, wisteria is 23x80, end lot easily 33x80 land size

I made a quick check at iprop, intermediate arahsia is 780-800k median pricing, endlot CaNNOT be 850k my friend. At least 150k to 200k premium, if got 850k endlot pls pm me I want lol

What can be so bad other than overly loose security checks? Or poor landscape maintenance.

Other than that nothing I can think of

Sensitive much? You’re the home buyer you have to dig deeper to verify, since you already know the common tactics of agents I am pointing out a fact that endlots come with a healthy premium over intermediate, capisce?

So, simple question, does this endlot exist at this price or not?

Also you need to reread this whole thing again. If your conclusion from this is “not a good buy”, that’s definitely not what the author was saying

I think you could secure better pricing now for intermediate…
For Arahsia I feel the guardhouse looks good and from entrance everything looks grand.

But once you get inside you will immediately feel the landscaping is really quite so so. Even the house facade do not give you a wow factor, is really quite a normal looking taman in my own opinion. Mind you this is strata so no modifications allowed to facade. In terms of end lot I was told by the office 500+ less than 600, I was really surprised coz this is borderline Terraza maintenance fees and Terraza landscaping is superb. I won’t fancy paying that monthly for Arahsia, again totally my personal opinion also.

Then also got the HTC to lookout for, HTC is probably 200m away from the last row of Arahsia so if someone is particular about that, that’s eye distance for sure.

And yes what some people mention is true, the tenant mix here initially was pretty rojak probably due to first phase lots of investors, everyone was keen to get any sort of roi and just rent it out. But now more units changed hands and quite a number of young families are staying, can see children’s’ bike outside.

Good luck for your home search, I am looking for mine too, currently booked Gemala but I’m still unsure about it.

Ok I went freesia show room, I probably shouldn’t but both my wife and I did. Now we fell in love with this “bungalow” style semid coz both sides of the lighting is so pleasant not to mention the internal layout especially kitchen area is designed with space unlike Gemala.

Putting myself in waiting list for my over budget purchase, finger crossed if I secure a loan. Anyone with freesia here?

Nah I'm perfectly fine by that, strata should mean uniformity and good maintenance, if someone does this and someone does that, the taman would look like a taman from the 70s. And why buy end lot just to extend to the max? In that case this taman isn't for you, find a larger home lol. End lot would look nice with plants bbq station and outdoor seats even.

My pet peeve is the high maintenance over so so landscaping. Agents told me Tropicana learnt from Arahsia as subsequent phases do look better, why is that I don't know, as Tropicana isn't a first time developer, they have so many previous projects to "learn from". My take, Tropicana cut cost and give cheaper price in first phase la .....

Btw, one interesting thing I forgot to ask the office, what does the sinking fund cover? Like high rise living, the facade painting in 5 - 10 years will be covered by the sinking fund, what about strata landed? Do all the houses be repainted by the maintenance team? Anyone can answer this?

Yup exactly. And inside is basically free to renovate, except no hacking for load bearing wall. This is entirely for your own safety too.

This post has been edited by 1ullaby: Feb 6 2022, 04:44 PM

I know, very small chance, but certain units still yet to have their loan approved.

If I were to ask my sales person about freesia exactly 2 days ago, he said there’s one unit but now booked again by another lucky family. So I’ll let fate decide, Freesia or Gemala for me…

Let’s see, fingers crossed!

If I end up with Gemala I would be happy too I guess, just a sense of missed opportunity coz next phase of Tropicana semid won’t have this style dy, more to conventional semid.

Sure, I’m very mindful of that because right now I’m staying literally beside Kesas, and balcony facing kesas, no more close to road properties for me