5 townships in Greater KL & Seremban worth considering for families eyeing a landed home
[This is a sponsored article with Sime Darby Property.]
Choosing where to live is a deeply personal decision for Malaysians.
While individuals and young adults may prioritise accessibility, convenience, and public transport as they kick-start their careers, those with families may look for well-equipped townships.
Whether you’re a first-time home buyer, seasoned investor, or merely surveying, here are upcoming freehold townships from Sime Darby Property in Greater KL and Seremban that are worth considering.
Did you know: This Chinese New Year, Sime Darby Property is hosting a promotion called Dragon DEALS – GO LANDED for the homes sold under the listed townships if you purchase them by February 29, 2024 (more on this below).
1. Bandar Bukit Raja, Klang
- Suitable for: Families with growing school kids.
Bandar Bukit Raja is a good choice if you’re looking to settle down in Klang and Setia Alam.
Lush green scapes for the community
The township boasts a 180-acre Bandar Bukit Raja Townpark, which is recognised as the largest recreational park with renewable energy in the Malaysia Book of Records. It’s an eco-friendly initiative meant to reduce carbon footprint and help combat climate change.
Bandar Bukit Raja Townpark also offers diverse recreational facilities for families to enjoy outdoor activities and connect with nature.
They include a 75km jogging and cycling track, along with a Community Pavilion and Lawn for families to host events such as birthday parties and social gatherings.
Easily accessible amenities nearby
Living in Bandar Bukit Raja keeps you connected to life’s daily essentials.
Whether it’s school, work, or play, you’ll have easy access to a growing township of amenities conveniently located close to you, including NSK, AEON Mall, Central I-City, Bandar Bukit Raja Masjid, Columbia Asia Hospital, and more.
Multiple highway access points
The township is also connected to four major expressways, including the West Coast Expressway (WCE), New Klang Valley Expressway (NKVE), Shapadu Highway, and Federal Highway.
Wheelchair-friendly
Bandar Bukit Raja’s residential homes, Casira 3, are wheelchair-accessible on the ground floor, ideal for families living with those in their sunset years.
2. Serenia City, Sepang
- Suitable for: Families with businesspeople, researchers, and frequent travellers.
Serenia City aims to be a self-sustaining township in Sepang that can fulfil all its residents’ needs, as well as cater to those in Klang Valley and Seremban.
Amenities for an active lifestyle
Serenia City is a sustainability-driven township that even has 100-year-old trees standing to preserve and honour its tea plantation roots.
Living here will give you access to a 32-acre Central Park that has amenities such as a 360 Lookout Tower with an overview of Serenia City and a Fifa-certified football field.
Those wanting to foster an active lifestyle will also enjoy the township’s 50km jogging and cycling track. It interlinks neighbourhoods, town and lake parks, along with other holistic facilities throughout the township, offering a healthy way to move around and explore.
Nearby tertiary education institutions
Serenia City neighbours higher-education facilities like Xiamen University, UiTM Dengkil, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Multimedia University Cyberjaya (MMU), and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), which are within a 15km radius.
Direct highway access points
The township has direct access to the ELITE Highway, which connects Shah Alam to Nilai and offers a toll-free drive to KLIA via the FT29 route.
The Puchong South Toll is also a 20km drive away, while Putrajaya can in 15km via the FT29 route as well.
For commuters, the Salak Tinggi ERL Station is within the vicinity and provides direct connectivity to KL City Centre or KLIA.
Commercial convenience
Serenia City is also developing its upcoming commercial hub, which will be located near its 32-acre central park for residential convenience. These two-storey shop offices can make it conducive for local businesses and residents to provide and access day-to-day needs.
Parkview homes
The township has two upcoming properties that are suitable for multigenerational homes located near Serenia City’s 8.4-acre Serenity Park and 32-acre Central Park.
To get a glimpse of the Parkview homes, visit the Serenia Aqila show unit at its sales gallery located in Bandar Serenia, Sepang.
3. Nilai Impian
- Suitable for: Multigenerational households.
Nilai Impian is a mature township with ready amenities and infrastructure that’s ideal for those living with families who want easily accessible conveniences close by.
Nearby schools, petrol stations, and grocery stores
With schools like SJK (C) Kuo Min, SMK Nilai Impian, Nilai International School, and INTI International University all within a 10km radius, the township caters to families with students of all ages.
Retail shops, petrol stations, and grocery stores like AEON are less than 5km away as well, making it convenient for you to easily access daily necessities.
Large recreational spaces
Being a Nilai Impian resident also gives you access to the 19-acre Tasik Ujana Park for morning or evening recreational activities, or you can play golf at Nilai Springs Golf & Country Club.
Easy entry points from highways
Nilai Impian is easily accessible via the KL-Seremban highway where the township entrance is located immediately after the Nilai exit, making for a swift journey home.
Flexible home layout designs
The double-storey homes in Nilai Impian are made to provide spacious and versatile living, offering open-plan rooms that are interchangeable from a study room to a nursery depending on your family’s needs.
The ground floors are stroller and wheelchair-friendly, making them suitable for multigenerational households.
4. City of Elmina, Shah Alam
- Suitable for: Nature-loving families.
Located next to a 2,700-acre forest reserve, living here means that you get to wake up to the refreshing air of nature.
Refreshing landscape
At The City of Elmina, you’ll be surrounded by luscious greenery from the 300-acre Central Park and pocket parks within the township. These parks are all connected by a 90km jogging and cycling track for your training needs.
Easy access to highways
The township is directly connected to the Guthrie Corridor Expressway that links to NKVE, LDP, LATAR, GCE, and DASH Expressway which leads to the PJ/Damansara area.
Retail accessibility
Within the township, you’ll get to make TEMU your third space. TEMU is the township’s new commercial space where you can do your groceries, have meals with loved ones, and get easy access to amenities like laundry bars and clinics.
The Elmina Lakeside Mall is slated to open its doors this year as well. There, you can shop for groceries and household items at Jaya Grocer and Harvey Norman, and get your morning pastries from Kenny Hills Bakers.
Configurable rooms
The homes in City of Elmina are built to fit families with elders and young children with their open-plan home layouts and wheelchair-friendly access.
5. Bandar Ainsdale, Seremban
- Suitable for: Young families with parents working in cities.
Direct highway access points
With connectivity to the ELITE Highway, this township is connected to the Bandar Ainsdale Interchange which offers direct access to the PLUS Highway connecting Seremban and KL.
Recreational spaces for family time
The township is just a stroll away from the 11-acre Ainsdale Lake Park, so you and your family can foster a healthy lifestyle together using its 1.2km jogging and bicycle track, children’s park, multipurpose court, and picturesque Amphitheatre Garden Area.
Nearby conveniences
Living in Bandar Ainsdale means that you’ll be a short drive away from primary schools, medical centres like KPJ Specialist Seremban Hospital and Columbia Asia Medical Centre, as well as shopping centres for your retail and leisure needs.
CNY deals for your new home
Under Sime Darby Property’s DRAGON DEALS – GO LANDED promotion, the developer is offering an Easy Ownership Package, along with other prizes to be won.
These offers are available for those who purchase the properties featured above from now to February 29, 2024. The first 10% (downpayment) of the property’s cost should also be paid when signing the agreement to be eligible for the promotions.
1. Easy Ownership Package
The legal fees on the Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA), as well as stamp duty and Memorandum of Transfer (MOT) on the loan will be borne by Sime Darby Property during this campaign period.
2. Receive an ang pow packet worth up to RM23,888
Sime Darby Property is giving away ang pow worth up to RM23,888 when you purchase and make a downpayment on any of the named properties above.
If you get lucky, you may even be selected to win rewards worth up to RM39,888 during the campaign period.
3. Special weekend offers
If you’ve purchased the featured homes, you’ll also be eligible for special weekend offers.
It’s where you can win gift cards and prizes from Signature Kitchen, AEON, and Harvey Norman at the sales gallery of your respective township.
If you’re keen to speak to Sime Darby Property’s sales executives to find out more about these landed homes, get in touch with them here.
- Learn more about Sime Darby Property’s DRAGON DEALS – GO LANDED campaign here.
- Read other property-related articles we’ve written here.
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Vote For What You Want In Your Future Home And Sime Darby Property Might Just Build It
One of the major decisions we all eventually have to go through is buying a house.
While you could have a family home you grew up in, it is still a dream for many to have a place to call your own, be it a swanky uptown apartment or a quaint double-storey terrace.
The decision on where you want to stay will usually boil down to a few factors—pricing, location, amenities, and if you’re planning to start a family, a proper neighbourhood.
But, most, if not all of the time, these buildings are already prebuilt and what you see is what you get. Any additional changes you want will be between you and your hired contractor.
I’ve come to realise that as a millennial, I value the ability to make choices that affect me, and this also applies for my future property purchase. And I’m sure I’m not alone.
Listening To The Voice Of A Generation
dto is a platform that gives consumers the chance to voice out what they really want in a neighbourhood, ranging from the design of the guardhouse to the facilities that they wish to have near the housing area.
Pronounced as ditto, dto is one of Sime Darby Property’s innovations and is headed by two female founders, Ee Lynn and Marie.
The idea came about when they were house-hunting but were unable to find one that fits their needs.
They noticed that there was a roadblock between the customers that want to buy a house and the developer.
Their rallying call: “Who were property developers to dictate how your dream home should be built?”
Future customers usually have no say in what they want the place to look like, and this creates a huge problem within the housing ecosystem and it could lead to issues such as property overhang.
An Overload Of Unoccupied Buildings
The National Property Information Centre (NAPIC) previously published a report detailing that a whopping 45.2% of condos, apartments and flats are currently filed as overhang properties.
They defined overhang properties as buildings that are completed and fit for occupation and were on the market for the past 9 months, yet were not bought due to a variety of reasons.
When combined, residential and commercial properties amount to a total of RM40 billion in unused properties.
But, the number increases when we consider planned apartments and condos that are being built or yet to even start construction.
Back in September, Deputy Finance Minister, Amiruddin Hamzah said the government’s main concern is to address the need for affordable housing and finding the right solutions to tackle property overhang.
Have Your Say
With the technology of dto, Sime Darby Property aims to tackle the issue through crowdsourcing and asking what people really want even before they build the property, allowing the people to co-create on their properties.
Even if crowdsourcing isn’t a new idea, the idea to implement it for housing is very appealing to me.
This also allows Sime Darby Property to position themselves as an innovative developer, and build properties that people would actually want to live in.
I wanted in on the action, so I created my own dto account.
Registering was swift and hassle-free, and was completed in a matter of minutes. After a few questions to gauge my property preferences, I was ready to vote.
Under the co-creation tab, dto has a list of active projects that they’re working on, but not all projects are open to voting; some have passed the voting stage.
There are two types of stages: Co-Creation and Preference Gathering.
At the moment of writing, I could only vote on dto’s 3rd project, the City of Elmina and the subjects are the Entrance Design and Perimeter Fencing Design.
Not one for traditional or block-like designs, I opted for the entrance with the arched design, and that is currently leading by a hair.
Once a project has passed a certain stage, it would then prompt the next stage of voting and then we’ll be able to vote again on different aspects of the building.
If you wish, you can also check out their very first project, Aurora Subang Jaya that has completed its voting stage. The voters chose between configurations ranging from building colours to door handles.
Sime Darby Property will build based on the vote of the majority. However, do note that not all designs will end up on the property when it is completed as it is subject to approval and regulations.
But, being able to choose even the minute details such as a door handle makes me feel like I potentially have a say in what I want in my future home.
Voting on the platform will also grant you points that can be used on a variety of rewards such as a free roll of wallpaper, priority unit selections, kitchen cabinets and even wardrobe vouchers.
Speaking of voting, you can also have a taste by voting for Sime Darby Property’s CNY 2020 ang pow packet designs. They currently have 3 that you can choose from.
These ang pows are also designed to be sustainable and reusable—they can be folded to seal and require no glue.
Once Chinese New Year comes along, Sime Darby Property will give out these ang pows and you’ll then be able to see the fruits of your labour. And to keep things easy, you don’t even have to register to vote for the designs.
So go and have your say, and if you find you enjoy being a co-creator, you might just want to be part of the process again when it comes to your future property too.
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Featured Image Credit: dto
