Buyer guides
Before you commit
The questions worth settling before the booking fee, answered for the Malaysian market.
Area guides
All 280 projects →Johor Bahru
The thirty Johor Bahru projects tracked here hold about 29,500 homes between them. Eleven have over 1,000 units each. Supply is the thing to understand.
Kuantan
Fifteen Kuantan projects, twelve of them houses. Six sit on Malay Reserved land, which decides who can buy and who you can sell to later.
Gelugor
Five freehold projects in Gelugor, four of them on the reclaimed seafront. Entry rates run from about RM641 to RM1,694 a square foot on the same coast.
Bayan Lepas
Four freehold Bayan Lepas projects and three are already complete. Density runs from four homes a floor to twenty-eight, on the same stretch of island.
Tanjung Bungah
Three freehold projects on Penang's north coast, all at five to seven homes a floor. One has been standing since 2017, which makes the density claim checkable.
George Town
Six freehold projects in George Town, and the corridor runs from eight homes a floor to thirty-eight. That spread is the decision, not the postcode.
Butterworth
Six freehold Butterworth projects, most of them small and most of them close to finished. Three offer exactly one layout. Two are already complete.
Batu Kawan
Sixteen projects in a town still being built. Four are finished, four give no completion date at all, and six date the clock from your signature.
Mont Kiara
Three listings in Mont Kiara, and two are halves of the same 52-storey tower on different titles. What that changes, and the freehold four-bedroom alternative.
Segambut
Three projects in Segambut, and one of them is already built. What you can verify on a finished building, and what to ask on the two that are not.
Sri Petaling
All three Sri Petaling launches are freehold, and each is built for a different buyer: 1,150 three-bedrooms, 661 larger ones, 456 compact suites.
Bangsar
Three leasehold towers of 57 to 62 storeys in Bangsar, on sites from 1.18 to 5.87 acres. The density runs eight times apart, and that is the decision.
Cyberjaya
Both Cyberjaya launches start at three bedrooms on a residential title. What that says about who the town is built for, and what it does to the monthly bill.
Shah Alam
Shah Alam's three launches are not alternatives to each other. Two are leasehold towers on LRT3; the third is 360 freehold superlinks in Elmina. How to read each one.
Subang Jaya
The four Subang Jaya launches hand over between Q3 2027 and Q1 2031. What a three-year gap changes, which precinct each one is in, and what to ask before you wait.
Puchong
Puchong is four separate neighbourhoods and the five tracked launches sit in four of them. Where each one is, its tenure, and who quotes a real walking distance.
Bukit Jalil
The eight Bukit Jalil launches compared on density: homes per floor, tower count and tenure — and the one developer behind four of them.
Petaling Jaya
A buyer's guide to Petaling Jaya: 12 tracked projects, what tenure changes, which stations they are really near, and what infill supply means for buyers.
KLCC
A buyer's guide to KLCC: 14 tracked towers, why nearly all sit on a commercial title, what HDA protection covers, and what to check on a 60-storey tower.
Bukit Bintang
A buyer's guide to Bukit Bintang: seven tracked towers, the commercial-title question, and what the monorail and MRT interchange really add.
Taman Desa
A buyer's guide to Taman Desa: four tracked projects, why the residential title matters on your monthly bill, layouts to 3,800 sq ft, a highway-first spot.
Ipoh
A buyer's guide to Ipoh property: 37 tracked projects, why almost all are landed, and what the leasehold split means for financing and resale.
Kwasa Damansara
A buyer's guide to Kwasa Damansara: what is launching, why every project here is off-plan, and what the MRT interchange actually changes.
Old Klang Road
A buyer's guide to Old Klang Road: five high-rise projects, four of them freehold, built-ups from 556 sq ft, and what the highways mean day to day.
Bukit Mertajam
A buyer's guide to Bukit Mertajam: ten projects, every one freehold, high-rise and landed side by side, and what the bridge access really means.
Comparisons and timing
Six states, thirteen projects, and one developer behind four of them
Thirteen projects across Sabah, Sarawak, Kelantan, Terengganu, Melaka and Negeri Sembilan. Six are finished, ten are leasehold, and one developer built four.
Outside Johor Bahru, the same state sells space instead of volume
Five Johor projects outside the city. Built-ups run to 8,870 sq ft, against a 366 sq ft entry unit in Johor Bahru itself. The trade is distance.
Outside Ipoh, Perak builds houses — and builds them in very small numbers
Fourteen Perak projects outside Ipoh, every one of them landed, with a median scheme size of 64 homes. What buying from a small local developer changes.
Eleven Penang projects in districts with nothing to compare them against
Eleven Penang projects in six districts with no cluster. Between them sits the cheapest published start in the state, and the one title note worth copying.
Penang island or mainland: the same budget, four times the floor area
23 island projects against 38 on the mainland. One side has one landed scheme, the other thirteen. Where the same budget lands on each, with the figures.
Sixteen KL launches with no neighbours, and the whole range of the city between them
Sixteen Kuala Lumpur launches sit in districts with no cluster to compare against. Together they show the city's full range, from a row of 23 houses to a tower of 1,838 homes.
The Selangor launches with no neighbours to compare against
Eight Selangor launches sit alone in their district, so the usual compare-three-towers method fails. What to compare instead, and which is already built.
Batu Kawan or Bukit Mertajam: the mainland's two answers
Penang mainland compared on the numbers: 16 projects in Batu Kawan against 10 in Bukit Mertajam, what each is built around, and which suits an island commute.
In Ipoh, the question is not which condo — it is whether a condo at all
Ipoh's new stock is 33 landed schemes against four high-rise projects. What that ratio means for price, monthly cost, resale and how you compare them.
What completes in 2029, 2030 and 2031
Sixty-six tracked projects complete in 2029, 2030 or 2031. Where they are, why the date moves, and what to read in the SPA before you buy that far out.
Buyer guides
Freehold vs leasehold, and what it changes for you
What freehold and leasehold titles mean for a Malaysian property buyer: resale, financing, state consent and the questions worth asking before signing.
Buying in Malaysia as a foreigner
Minimum price thresholds by state, state consent, financing limits and the property types foreigners cannot buy in Malaysia.
What a purchase costs beyond the price
Stamp duty on the transfer and the loan, legal fees, valuation and disbursements: the cash a Malaysian property purchase needs on top of the down payment.
How much can you actually borrow?
Margin of finance, debt service ratio, CCRIS and tenure: what a Malaysian bank looks at when it sizes your home loan, and how to improve the answer.
New launch or subsale?
Timing, cash needed, financing and risk compared for buying a Malaysian new launch against buying a completed subsale unit.
What to ask before you pay the booking fee
A checklist for Malaysian new launch buyers: title, licence, delivery record, maintenance charges, unit facing and what the price actually includes.
Common questions
What should I check before booking a new launch in Malaysia?
The tenure and remaining lease term, the completion date in the sale and purchase agreement rather than the brochure, the monthly maintenance charge, the unit's facing and floor band, and the developer's last completed project in the same area.
Is freehold always better than leasehold in Malaysia?
Not always, but freehold avoids state consent on a future sale and has no remaining term for a bank to price against. A leasehold unit with a long remaining term in a better location can still be the better buy.
Which areas does MyPropertyHub write area guides for?
Area guides cover Johor Bahru, Kuantan, Gelugor, Bayan Lepas, Tanjung Bungah, George Town, Butterworth, Batu Kawan, Mont Kiara, Segambut, Sri Petaling, Bangsar, Cyberjaya, Shah Alam, Subang Jaya, Puchong, Bukit Jalil, Petaling Jaya, KLCC, Bukit Bintang, Taman Desa, Ipoh, Kwasa Damansara, Old Klang Road, Bukit Mertajam, written from the projects tracked on this site rather than general description.
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