Honestly speaking, lower floor should be more expensive than higher floor especially those that starts at 10 floor with facility and parking just right below. Obviously those low class apartment start with 1st floor would suck but those high class condo normally have 10 floor of parking/retail before residential unit hence the "lower" units is high enough while at the same time have more practical benefits which I will discuss below.

Sure highest floor has benefit of having nice view but that's it.

Practically speaking 10-15 floor seems to be the most ideal floors :

1) Higher floor normally suffer heat from sunlight (>20 floor onwards, the higher you go the more you suffer on heat and direct sunlight)
2) Higher floor water pressure is weaker than lower floor. In the event of low water pressure, these units >15 floors will kena gao gao... in the event of water rationing, the top floor die first cause they will be the first to loose water and last to get water. On top of that they will take longer time for pressure to build up compared to lower floors
3) In the event of a fire, lower floor can just go down to parking lot or facility area relatively quick compared to higher floor.
4) Possibility of aircraft knocking your building, the top floor will perish first (obviously it's not something that always happen but hey, it's not something that will never happen either)
5) Air pressure and fresh air. Not very significantly felt but the pressure is there especially for floor >25. Lower units especially 10-15 would be just nice to receive fresh air from trees or from your facility area or if your area has a lot of plants & trees.
6) You get to your apartment faster. (sure they have high speed lifts for high class condo but if there are people leaving between floors, it does feel a little annoying overtime especially if your condo is very dense). I don't know about you guys but I envy people from lower floor in my work place cause they don't need to wait for people stopping at every floor till they reach the top.

Bottom line, living in lower floor especially those 10-15 floor seems much better and more practical than living in higher floor just for some view that you will get bored of after a few days.

1) We live in Malaysia not HK ... I understood why western countries cause for example in UK, sunlight is a privilege cause the country is generally cold and gloomy. But in Malaysia it is hot 365days. In new york for example, top floor is considered most desirable because they avoid all the noise and heavy foot traffic. In Malaysia, most serviced apartment starts at 10th floor so you are pretty much quite high up already staying at the lowest floor.

2) Own booster pump? Most serviced apartment I know has a pump on the ground floor which works to deliver the water up to the tank on the roof and the gravity will then act as pressure to deliver water to each unit. Mind sharing which project actually has pump on the top floor cause it doesn't sound logical since water comes from the ground up.... pump the water down from the top floor??

3) If 2nd floor on fire, everyone in the building will have to evacuate, that is standard fire procedure. I've actually experienced once in my office where our 6th floor caught minor fire, everyone still needs to follow the fire drill procedure and gather on ground floor. Had to walk 30 flight of stairs ...

4) Murphy law "whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.". Probability is low but if it is not a hazard, no one would buy aircraft damage peril on their insurance policy . The probability of aircraft hitting the top floor is higher, believe it or not, there are some crazy people actually insure certain floors for aircraft damage just to save premium. If they hit the top, building won't collapse they aren't made to collapse like how it looks on 9/11 (which is why there are a lot of conspiracy that it is a controlled demolition done via inside job). I know this is not really a factor on anyone's decision making when buying a property but it is a possibility and might as well throw it in for consideration.

5) Unless you live on ground or 1st floor though


A few solid points for top floor is definitely lesser noise and better view. Other than that, I sometimes wonder is it because of overseas influence cause if you live in a tropical country with 365 days being hot as hell, top floor is not practical.

Your point on the pricing part I believe could be due to foreign investor perhaps? or also because of the mind set that has already been influenced over the property market buyer.


Just to add, almost every article on the web says the higher the floor the higher the temperature so I'm not sure why people here say otherwise. Like I said, cold countries is super beneficial on this point but I don't think Malaysians would want anymore heat in their lives

http://thewgo.org/website/eng/news/rooftop-temperature/
https://www.warmup.co.uk/blog/guide-to-unde...ing-heat-output

This post has been edited by holypredator: Jul 27 2018, 08:41 PM

Just a discussion on this issue... nothing to do with my purchasing decision

No one wants to live on the highest floor... it is normally the last units to be sold