Monterra

Monterra is a dynamic mixed-use leasehold development by TH Tebrau Land, nestled in the vibrant Tebrau township of Johor Bahru. Spanning 8 acres, this ambitious development comprises 5 residential towers of up to 57 storeys, creating a self-sustaining community with residential, commercial, and lifestyle components integrated within a single master-planned site. Monterra represents a new vision for urban living in JB, offering residents the convenience of city amenities, excellent connectivity, and the growth potential of Johor Bahru’s rapidly evolving property landscape.

**Quick answer:** Monterra is a leasehold serviced residence by TH Tebrau Land in Johor Bahru, Johor. It offers 489 units with 1+1 to 3 bedrooms, from 579 – 903 sq ft, with completion targeted for Q4 2029.

| Component | Details | |---|---| | Residential Towers | 5 towers, up to 57 storeys | | Land Area | 8 acres | | Tenure | Leasehold | | Township | Tebrau, Johor Bahru |

### Unit Types & Floor Plans

| Type | Size | Bedrooms | Bathrooms | |---|---|---|---| | Type A | 579 sq ft | 1+1 Bedrooms | 1 Bathroom | | Type B | 649 sq ft | 2 Bedrooms | 2 Bathrooms | | Type C | 792 sq ft | 2 Bedrooms | 2 Bathrooms | | Type D | 903 sq ft | 3 Bedrooms | 2 Bathrooms |

Tebrau is one of Johor Bahru’s most established and rapidly growing townships, strategically located in the eastern part of JB. Monterra benefits from exceptional connectivity:

- **AEON Tebrau City** — walking distance or a short drive, JB’s largest retail hub- **Eastern Dispersal Link (EDL)** — connects to JB CIQ and Singapore causeway- **North-South Expressway** — northbound to KL, southbound to Johor Bahru- **Permas Jaya** — approximately 10 minutes, established residential area- **Johor Bahru City Centre** — approximately 15 minutes via EDL

- **Shopping:** AEON Tebrau City, Toppen Shopping Centre, Paradigm Mall JB- **Healthcare:** KPJ Johor Specialist Hospital, Regency Specialist Hospital- **Education:** Raffles American School Johor, Marlborough College Malaysia- **Recreation:** Danga Bay, Legoland Malaysia (15 min), Eco Botanic Park- **F&B:** Tebrau hawker food, AEON Tebrau City dining, Permas Jaya restaurants

TH Tebrau Land is a subsidiary of Lembaga Tabung Haji (TH Properties), one of Malaysia’s most trusted institutional property developers. Backed by TH’s financial strength and development expertise, TH Tebrau Land focuses on creating well-planned townships and communities in Johor Bahru. Monterra is their flagship mixed-use development in the Tebrau corridor, designed to create a vibrant, self-sustaining community for JB residents.

Monterra is a serviced residence by TH Tebrau Land, spread across five towers of up to 57 storeys on an 8-acre site in Tebrau, Johor Bahru. The larger land parcel is what allows a genuine township feel here rather than a single packed tower — more space between blocks, a larger facilities deck, and lower effective density than the compact city-centre projects closer to CIQ.

Four layouts run from a 579 sq.ft one-plus-one up to a 903 sq.ft three-bedroom, with two of them — the 792 sq.ft Type C and the 903 sq.ft Type D — configured as dual key. A dual key unit holds a single title but two self-contained, separately accessed sections, letting an owner live in one and rent or house family in the other. It is a format that suits Tebrau’s mix of local upgraders and cross-border tenants.

Tebrau is one of Johor Bahru’s established growth corridors, anchored by AEON Tebrau City, Sunway Big Box, IKEA Tebrau and a dense cluster of schools and medical facilities. The Tebrau Highway and Senai–Desaru Expressway connect to the city centre, the CIQ complex and Senai Airport. Monterra is leasehold with completion targeted for the fourth quarter of 2029.

Two things are reshaping demand across Johor Bahru at the same time, and neither of them is on Tebrau’s doorstep. Understanding what they actually do is more useful than being told the address is “strategic”.

**The RTS Link, from January 2027.** It is a 4 km cross-border rail line between Bukit Chagar in Johor Bahru city centre and Woodlands North on the Singapore MRT. The ride is five minutes. The part that matters more than the distance is that immigration for both countries is cleared at the departure station, so a passenger clears once and steps off on the other side already admitted — instead of queueing at two separate complexes and sitting in causeway traffic. Capacity is 10,000 passengers per hour per direction, with about 40,000 riders a day expected at opening and roughly 140,000 planned for over the longer term.

**Who actually uses it.** Not tourists, mostly. The core users are the Malaysians who already cross every working day — today that means leaving home before dawn and losing one to two hours each way to the causeway. The RTS converts that into a scheduled five-minute ride. That is the single biggest change to Johor Bahru’s daily economics in decades, and it is why a Bukit Chagar address now prices differently from one that is ten minutes further out.

**Tebrau is not that address, and it should not be sold as one.** Bukit Chagar is roughly ten kilometres from here — a drive, not a walk. What Tebrau gets is the second-order effect: as the immediate RTS catchment tightens and prices there, the households that are priced out do not leave Johor Bahru. They look for somewhere that already has the schools, the hospitals and the malls, and is still on the highway network. Tebrau, with AEON Tebrau City, Sunway Big Box, IKEA and an established school cluster, is one of the obvious places that demand lands.

**The other engine is the JS-SEZ, and it points away from the city centre.** The Johor–Singapore Special Economic Zone was signed in January 2025. Johor now holds more than 50 data centres — the largest such cluster in Malaysia — and in the first nine months of 2025 it drew RM91.1 billion of approved capital, more than any other Malaysian state, with the JS-SEZ accounting for around RM68 billion of it. At Sedenak Tech Park West, Microsoft has acquired land and Bridge Data Centres has contracted for 400MW of power. Qualifying foreign companies inside the zone are taxed at 5% corporate rate.

**What that means for tenants here.** Those facilities are not in Johor Bahru city centre — they sit out toward Sedenak and Kulai. The people they bring are engineers, operations and facilities staff, construction and fit-out contractors, and the seconded staff of foreign firms taking up the zone’s tax position. Those households need to live somewhere with amenities and highway access rather than somewhere within walking distance of a border crossing. Tebrau connects to that corridor through the Senai–Desaru Expressway and Tebrau Highway, which is a more honest description of Monterra’s position than proximity to a station it is nowhere near.

**Where is Monterra located?** Monterra is located in the Tebrau township of Johor Bahru, with AEON Tebrau City and excellent highway connectivity via the Eastern Dispersal Link and North-South Expressway.

**Who is the developer of Monterra?** Monterra is developed by TH Tebrau Land, a subsidiary of TH Properties (Lembaga Tabung Haji), one of Malaysia’s most trusted institutional property developers.

**What is the tenure of Monterra?** Monterra is a leasehold development.

**How many towers does Monterra have?** Monterra comprises 5 residential towers of up to 57 storeys on an 8-acre mixed-use site in Tebrau, Johor Bahru.

**Is Monterra well-connected to Singapore?** Yes. Monterra in Tebrau JB is well-connected to the Singapore causeway via the Eastern Dispersal Link (EDL), making it suitable for cross-border residents and those with business interests in Singapore.

Floor plans, unit availability and the latest package details for Monterra are available on request. Message us on WhatsApp and we will send the current floor plan set across all five towers, confirm which layouts and dual key options remain open, and walk through the booking process step by step. Because Monterra spreads across a larger 8-acre site than most JB serviced residences, block and floor selection makes a real difference to view and orientation — we can advise on which stacks suit your priorities.

We also wrote a full piece on this project: Monterra Tebrau Johor Bahru: a dual-key in 792 sq ft.