The Oasis@Cheras Courtyard Terraces, Cheras
Cheras is strange kettle of fish. For those who live there, there is no better place to be. It’s near KL City, it’s well-connected, there’s lots of cheap homes and apartments, and business centres are all over the place, you’ll never run out of places to find good food. But for the outsider, the traffic and the maze of interconnected housing areas can certainly make you wary of entering.
But with all other suburbs of the city, they are moving along with the times. Recently, there have been quite a few new launches in Cheras, some of the ones we’ve reviewed here are Pertama Residency Suites and Monte Bayu.
But there is no shortage of landed properties either. With Cheras being such a matured township you’d think that developers are hard-pressed to find sizable land to build houses. But there always seems to be plots of unused land here and there ready for development.
The Oasis is right smack in the mature neighbourhoods of Cheras. Strictly speaking, this is located in Cheras Utama, but you can forgiven for assuming it to be part of Taman Len Seng. It is virtually surrounded by old landed homes on all sides – Damai Perdana, Taman Len Seng, Alam Damai, and Bandar Tun Hussein Onn. Further up on one side is of course Jaya Jusco, which is next to the SILK highway.
Access to this place can either from Jalan Cheras through Phoenix Plaza, from the MRR2 via Taman Connaught, and off the SILK highway itself, which is the nearest.
There are 121 units altogether, arranged a few parallel rows, with all units facing NE or SW. Beside the homes, there is some provision for greenery, and not much else. The plot of landed is slightly elevated over it’s surrounding, so there is some vantage point here. The units are all 2 and a half storey linkhomes, with a very small courtyard in the unit opening up to the sky, a little too small for us to consider it a ‘courtyard home’, as they use in the marketing brochure. The porch is wide enough for 2 side by side cars, and ground floor has a pretty small living (maybe integrating the courtyard into the living may have been a better idea), a guest room and a sizable kitchen (wet and dry).
The living room has an added head room of 15’, due to fact that the master bedroom above is stepped higher from the rest of the first floor. This is a good idea, not many have implemented it. The back of the home extends all the way out to the boundary, so no possibility of extensions here, unless you want to build on the government reserve here.
The first floor has a master plus one or two rooms (depending on which unit type). Type A is the more typical layout with all floor above ground, Type B has a sub-basement. We definitely prefer type A. Actually, 2,800q.ft isn’t quite spacious, especially if you consider it spread over 2 and a half floor. Lots of space is taken up by the way the staircase is designed, and of course there’s that void for the courtyard.
The plot size of 22’ x 70’ is not really big, but considering the scarcity of land here, looks like the developers didn’t have much of a choice. The internal layout could have been much better. The price of a standard intermediate lot starts from RM439k onwards, and if compared with the other new landed projects in direct competition with this place, it may seem quite attractive.
We liked the overall feel to the place, but Cheras isn’t really our cup of tea. But if you’re from the area looking for a new place to invest in or stay, this may look like a good deal.
There is a maintenance fee of about RM150 per unit, please check with the developer for details. The fee is expected to be mainly to cover the security costs. The show gallery is actually located in Taman Segar shoplots. The unit actually comes bare with no freebies thrown in, but the developers are also offering a RM10k upgrade package, please check with them.
This is the second project undertaken by the developer. The first one is the more upmarket Kiara1888 in Mont’Kiara.
| Project Name | The Oasis@Cheras Courtyard Terraces |
| Location | Cheras Utama, KL |
| Description | 121 units of 2 and a half storey linkhomes |
| Land type | Freehold |
| Development Size | about 10 acres |
| Price | from RM438,800 |
| Lot size | 22’ x 70’ |
| Build-up size | 2,769 to 3,018sq.ft |
| No of units | 121 |
| Launch Date | now available |
| Expected Completion | mid 2009 |
| Developer | Venue Plan Sdn. Bhd. (subsidiary of Mitraland Group of companies) |
Sounds good, but RM439k is very expensive.
Comment by Neo — April 8, 2007 @ 1:04 pm
description reminds me of prima tropika (seri kembangan). anyone have any opinions on prima tropika’s 3 storey (type D perdana link homes)…any reviews on this project, admin? a bit difficult to compare between these two as PT is leasehold…
Comment by fuzzy — April 10, 2007 @ 8:36 pm
For more info, you may refer to http://www.mitraland.com.my/
Comment by tankc — May 3, 2007 @ 10:35 pm
I went to check out the details from the sales office. Considering that it is giving porcelain tiles for living and dining, timber strips for flooring to all bedrooms, 8ft high doors and 15ft ceiling, the price is considered attractive if compared to damai perdana d’eleganza, bkt mandarina, the peak, sunway cheras.
Comment by tankc — May 5, 2007 @ 5:05 pm
the developer has not obtained the licence to develope that piece of land. the area is all surrounded by very old residence. access through really “kampung” road. although lots of nice features/free gifts mentioned, it is still a question mark whether the land is going to be developed.
Comment by SKK — May 18, 2007 @ 11:38 pm
is it still no news about whether this project is going to be launched?
Comment by tankc — August 14, 2007 @ 12:10 am
oasis@cheras will be officially launched on sept 15th. $25K worth of goodies for early birds who made the booking on the 15th and 16th of sept. price from $408,084 (bumi price)
Comment by tankc — September 10, 2007 @ 11:19 pm
More comments here :
http://www.realestate.net.my/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5423
Comment by tankc — September 20, 2007 @ 6:04 pm
and here :
http://mypropertytalk.com/viewtopic.php?t=1922
Comment by tankc — October 24, 2007 @ 11:00 pm
60% sold out, pricing now @ $458,800
http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/12/3/business/19562694
Comment by tankc — December 3, 2007 @ 10:12 am
I strongly agreed that the access is really terrible. It is located in the heart of many old gardens whereby I never heard of their name before. The surrounding areas really look like kampung are and The Bintang Supermkt there also seems to be funny type, not like those I visited before.
Comment by LL — December 26, 2007 @ 3:50 pm
visit some of the progress pics here :
http://www.realestate.net.my/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17535
Comment by tkc — April 13, 2008 @ 12:28 pm