Renovate [ren–uh-veyt] /ˈrɛn əˌveɪt/ verb (used with object), renovated, renovating. to restore to good condition; make new or as if new again; repair. to reinvigorate; refresh; revive. The word renovation or short for “reno” is largely used in local lingual for up fitting a place of stay or work before we start to utilise the […]
PROPCAFE™ Review : EkoCheras @ Cheras – The Overall Development

As our last entry – An introduction to live◦learn◦love at Cheras where we covered the location, accessibility and the surrounding amenities, this write up will focus more on the development itself providing you some info and numbers. You can read this part without referring to the previous entry but we recommend you to get some hindsight […]
PROPCAFE™ Review : Hana Gardens By Gamuda Land

A DAY IN LIFE FOR JADE HILLS HANA GARDENS This article is best to be read with our Jade Hills Township Review here. Mrs Tan is a working mother, a resident of Hana Gardens Homes 6.30am: The alarm clock of the kids don’t seem to work again, time to wake up the kids and get […]
PROPCAFE™ Guest Review : The Bright Side of Graham Garden @ Eco Grandeur by EcoWorld

After our review on Eco Grandeur , this time we would like to share what others think. PROPCAFE™ has a strong believe in the spirit of sharing by providing an open digital platform for the independent 3rd party to share their view, experience and knowledge in real estate to enriching the local property community to […]
PROPCAFE™ Review : Jade Hills By Gamuda Land

Jade Hills by Gamuda Land Good things takes time. A good cuppa coffee takes time to brew. A good PROPCAFE article takes more than 200 man hours to compose. A good township takes years, more than a decade to be developed. A good movie with a good story line can take years to be made […]
PROPCAFE™ News : First Jaya Grocer Johor Outlet in Sunway Citrine at Sunway Iskandar

Sunway Iskandar, 19 January 2018 – Sunway Iskandar announced a new hotspot for fresh food purveyors – the 20,000 sq ft Jaya Grocer in Sunway Citrine Hub today, the grocer’s maiden entry into Johor, and its 22nd outlet in Malaysia. “We are delighted to join the first community that is being created here in Sunway […]
PROPCAFE™ Review : EkoCheras @ Cheras – An Introduction to Live◦Learn◦Love

Hi all and Happy New Year! Hope everyone is fine and thank you very much for your support to PROPCAFE™. Year 2017 had been a tough year for most us especially the property market in Malaysia but the good thing is you are not alone out there. We do feel what you felt as we […]
PROPCAFE Guest Review: Eco Forest @ Broga by EcoWorld Part 2

Here’s the part 2 of the Eco Forest at Broga by EcoWorld you guys have been waiting for. Trust you all are ready with your cuppa. Now sit back and enjoy the rest of the review shared by the PROPCAFE guest reviewer Mr Tengster. If you have not read part 1 and would like to do […]
PROPCAFE Guest Review: Eco Forest @ Broga by EcoWorld Part 1

We are pleased to present you PROPCAFE guest review by our good friend Tengster. It has been 3 long years since Tengster penned his review here. We are glad to have him back! Mr Tengster is contactable via tengster@yahoo.com for any queries. Now enjoy sit back his sharing! The Eco Forest After all the loud noise or […]
PROPCAFE™ Review: Atwater @ Petaling Jaya Section 13 by Paramount Property

As mentioned earlier in PROPCAFETM post : PROPCAFE™ Review: Petaling Jaya Section 13 @ Selangor the city of Petaling Jaya was developed during British Malaya due to overpopulation in Kuala Lumpur in 1950s and since then Petaling Jaya didn’t looking back. Due to the long history, the township is pretty much developed and mature with […]
PROPCAFE™ Review: Petaling Jaya Section 13 @ Selangor

When it comes to property location, everyone has his/her own favourite community and Petaling Jaya (Petaling Jaya) is no doubt one of the favourite choices among Klang Valley folks. PROPCAFETM dares you to challenge it with a survey on the most preferred “District” in Klang Valley, Petaling Jaya will surely be one of the tops […]
PROPCAFE™ Review: SouthLink @ Bangsar South by UOA

Prologue Finally we come to the development itself, Southlink! For overview of Bangsar South, readers is recommended to read it here PROPCAFE™ Review : Bangsar South @ Kuala Lumpur for the full appreciation of what the township can offer. Similarly to township such as DPC, you are not just buy a standalone condo. The price […]
PROPCAFE™ News : Sunway Serene Residence Received Hot Response During Sales Preview

The weather has been extremely hot for the past few days but there is another heat wave been hitting on another hot project development at Petaling Jaya – Sunway Serene Residence, the latest masterpiece from Master Community Developer, Sunway Property, which is located in the mature neighbourhood of Petaling Jaya, has more than 8,000 registrations […]
PROPCAFE™ Review: Bangsar South @ Kuala Lumpur

Not many will recall that 60 odd acres concrete jungle Bangsar South was formerly a squatter area known as Kampung Kerinchi. The leasehold land bought by UOA way back in 2005 and helped to relocate the squatters to the nearby flats. Separated by Jalan Kerinchi, one piece of land is developed as Park Residences where […]
PROPCAFE™ Review: Housing for Klang’s Millennials: Part 1 Maple Residences Canary Garden By KSL Holdings

Housing for Klang’s Millennials Part 1 Maple Residences Canary Garden High rise projects in Klang A quick trivia challenge here, name one notable high rise project in Klang in 5 secconds! Ok it is too challenging, 30 seconds…40s, 50s…we reckon most of us can’t really name one, as there is a lack of it, […]
PROPCAFE Guest Review: Rimba Villa @ Bandar Setia Alam By SP Setia

PROPCAFE loves to hear and learn from all property enthusiats and always believe that the best way for each of us to do it is to share the views (good or bad) on each of property that we are interested, be it for investment or ownstay. Surely, there is a story behind each property. PROPCAFE […]
PROPCAFE News : Unveiling of Pavilion Damansara Heights by Pavilion Group and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

Kuala Lumpur, 27 September 2017 – Pavilion Group and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (“CPPIB”) held an exclusive unveiling of Kuala Lumpur’s most anticipated integrated development, Pavilion Damansara Heights in one of the most prestigious addresses in the country – Pusat Bandar Damansara (PBD), today. Representing Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (“CPPIB”)’s first direct […]
PROPCAFE Review: South Brooks @ Desa Parkcity By Perdana Parkcity

Desa Parkcity is always regarded as the most successful story in township development in Klang Valley, opps, should have said Malaysia. Not just its fantastic concept that started 15 years ago, it created enormous capital appreciation for the early birds who believed in developer’s delivery on this so called “Cina Man Land – Kepong”. There […]
PROPCAFE News : Malton Unveiling The Final Tower of The Park 2 Pavilion Bukit Jalil

A successful sellout of Tower 1 of The Park 2 Pavilion Bukit Jalil in just months has prompted Malton Berhad (“Malton or The Group”) to fast‐track the early release of Tower 2, the final block of luxury serviced apartments at Bukit Jalil City. Savvy buyers now have one last opportunity to secure a property on […]
PROPCAFE News : PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards Malaysia 2017

A yearly affair but this year contenders and nominees are more interesting compared to last year. There are few projects were reviewed by PROPCAFE among the nominees for this year. The fourth annual PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards Malaysia 2017 have revealed the official shortlist of nominees who are competing for honours in the country’s most […]
PROPCAFE Review: Par 3 @ IOI Resort City By IOI Properties

PROPCAFE has covered many IOI PROPERTIES projects over the years but this time PROPCAFE needs to complete the mission to figure out more on the Premium behind the latest IOI’s Signature Homes – Par 3. This SIGNATURE series, which is categorised as the most Premium series in IOI products, offers 207 units of Condominiums and […]
PROPCAFE Review: IOI Resort City Part 2

Time passed so fast and since the inception of the blog more than 4 years ago, PROPCAFE have been covering property from North to South and East to West of Klang Valley. PROPCAFE was set up by 7 of us, with diverse background – from engineer to retiree and to student, with the diversity of […]
PROPCAFE Review: The Suite Starz @ KL South By CMMC

Kuchai Lama is a place that is known for its vibrant buzz with high concentration of the commercial shoplots. Some of the famous restaurants that can be found in Kuchai Lama are Meng Kee Char Siew, Tangkak beef noodles, Fish Head noodles and plenty of well hidden old establishments. Ask the foodies and they […]
PROPCAFE Review: Sejati Residences @ Cyberjaya By Paramount Property

PROPCAFE always loves to cover the landed property project in Cyberjaya as every project here always comes with its unique concept and proposition for property enthusiasts. For Sejati Residences, the review lastly materialised. This late visit, in fact, works in our favour as it is so much easy to conduct the review when houses from […]
PROPCAFE Review: Cyberjaya Revisit @ The “Mist” Over Cyberjaya

Being born in end of baby boomers or some said early Gen Y, landed properties are almost a given to many of us, especially those who are not the local in Kuala Lumpur. If you are at the same boat with me, you would have also witnessed the evolution of acceptance of living from landed […]
PROPCAFE Review : Bukit Bintang City Centre (BBCC) Kuala Lumpur by EcoWorld

Bukit Bintang City Centre BBCC Kuala Lumpur by EcoWorld ABCDEFG A Boy Can Do Everything For Girl AAABC Apple Android Always Busy Competing (Copying) So what is BBC, it is an orang putih news channel in U.K. B power of 2 C power of 2 = BBCC BBCC is indeed catchy and it is the […]
PROPCAFE Review: Canary Garden @ Klang By KSL

Canary Garden Township Review It’s all about family! You heard this all over Fast and Furious franchise. We will mention ‘family’ a lot more in this review like FAST and FURIOUS series but we are pretty sure what we say will be more relatable. Those who stay in Central or Northen Klang Valley, Klang is […]
PROPCAFE Peek: The Riyang @ Happy Garden By Suntrack

Happy Garden, Happy Days Happy Garden always comes close to my heart due to my crazy nine months stay at Pearl Point condominium at Old Klang Road as a student more than 20 years ago. Strolling around OUG, Happy Gardens, and Kuchai Lama from afternoon till late night were my usual activities. It was unproductive […]
PROPCAFE Review: Sentral Suites @ KL Sentral by MRCB – Part 2

Introduction Why the part 2 the readers may ask? It’s been PROPCAFE’s DNA to be as meticulous as possible in each of our review and sometimes due to timing and hectic schedule we couldn’t produce the review to the level of PROPCAFE’s DNA. PROPCAFE will do part 2 (like Rev.O @ Bukit Jalil City and […]
PROPCAFE Review: Isola @ KLCC by OCR

Despite the concern of oversupplies of luxury condos particularly in KLCC with downtrend of subsale price, transaction volume and rental rate (Read the link http://theedgeproperty.com.my/content/1111151/luxury-condos-klcc-going-%E2%80%98cheap%E2%80%99-secondary-market), another developer has come up with new launches in Jalan Yap Kwan Seng. Aptly called Isola @ KLCC which means Island in Italian (we will come back to that later), […]
PROPCAFE Guide : Top 10 Considerations When Buying Property In Malaysia 2017

Most of the time we don’t know what we want in our life. Life can be quite confusing when it come to decision making especially when buying a property. When you ask your partner a question whichis as simple as : what would you feel like having for meal? , where do you want to […]
PROPCAFE Review: The Pinnacle Seri Petaling

Whenever people talk about Seri Petaling, it is associated with vibrant commercial area AKA wong area and comparable to mature commercial area such as SS2, USJ’s Taipan and SS15. However being wong area, traffic congestion and scarcity of carpark are pretty normal. Just check out the commercial photos below Recently while PROPCAFE is around the […]
PROPCAFE Peek : Penduline Type C Homes @ Bandar Rimbayu By IJM Land

Bandar Rimbayu Bandar Rimbayu is a premier township development by IJM LAND, inspiring nostalgia for a time when life was simple and people lived close to nature, in a safe and supportive neighbourhood. Set in tranquil green surroundings on a 1,879 acres, Bandar Rimbayu is set to be an iconic mixed development of residential, commercial, […]
PROPCAFE Review: Continew @ Jalan Tun Razak by Ibraco

Many KLites didn’t aware we have Middle Ring Road 1 (MRR1) where the acronyms is lesser famous than the elder brother MRR2. MRR1 is formed from 4 main arteries which are Jalan Tun Razak, Jalan Mahameru (now known as Lebuhraya Sultan Iskandar), Jalan Istana and Jalan Sungai Besi. The stretch of Jalan Tun Razak starts […]
PROPCAFE Property News : Sunway Acquires Prime Landbank Opposite Sunway Velocity

Sunway City, 10 February 2017 – Sunway City Sdn Bhd (SunCity), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sunway, today announced that it has entered into a joint venture agreement to develop an 8.45 acre parcel of leasehold land opposite its iconic Sunway Velocity development in Jalan Peel, Cheras. SunCity will pay RM500,001 for a 50% + 1 […]
PROPCAFE 360 Degree View : Arnica Service Residences – Tropicana Gardens @ Kota Damansara by Tropicana Corporation

Time flies, PROPCAFE had a brief coverage on Tropicana Gardens four years ago (http://propcafe.net/tropicana-gardens-bayberry), the first block Arnica Service Residences is now vacant possessed! No way PROPCAFE will miss the 360 degree view on this “used to be price record breaking property” in Petaling Jaya when Arnica first launched at sub RM750psf then second block Bayberry near to RM1000psf. Everyone […]
PROPCAFE 360 Degree View : Utropolis Glenmarie by Paramount Property – A Walk-through of Utropolis Marketplace and Utropolis Suites

PROPCAFE Review : Utropolis Glenmarie by Paramount Property was written back then in Oct 2015 and I still remember at that point of writing Utropolis Glenmarie was still at the earlier stage of construction. In this post, I won’t repeat much about Utropolis Glenmarie but if you want to know more about Utropolis Glenmarie, you […]
PROPCAFE Buyer Diary : Why Queue To Buy 3rdNvenue Neu Suites @ Embassy Row Ampang?

PROPCAFE witnessed a BBB mood last Sunday at Pullman Hotel and received many private messages to ask about this project, Phase 1 of 3rdNvenue – Neu Suites. With many projects are on our piplines, PROPCAFE will not do a detail review on this project. Maybe next phase? However, one of our followers, Benjamin, managed to get a unit and he is happy to share […]