Austral Yarra Link, Puchong
We are all pretty familiar with all those Australian properties being heavily advertised locally, especially those touting that places like Melbourne CBD is the ‘next hot property market’.
Now here’s something a little different – it’s a local project, with an Australian theme. Why Australian? No idea. Maybe it’s just a name.
The project is located behind Tesco in Puchong, next to Glomac’s Lakeside Residences (review here). To get to this place, there are two ways to enter the site, and the main entrance will be from YTL’s Lake Edge, past some factory lots and you will see this development on your left just before Lakeside Residences.
The other way to come in here would be from Puchong Intan, but that way would be less preferable.
This site is actually just across the river from USJ, and you can clearly see USJ1 Avenue across the waterway on the way in. A huge part of the marketing for this project hinges on the future connecting link from Puchong to USJ. However, as most residents on both sides of the river will tell you, this issue has been much talked about in the past ten years or so, but there seems to be no concrete plans as to when the bridge will actually start to be developed.
But even without the bridge, this area is still quite accessible to the main road, which is the LDP.
The development (which is actually called Bandar Metro Puchong) sits on an ex-mining land, similar to the neighbouring Lakeside Residences. The developer has opted for a raft foundation to alleviate the long term settlement due the effects of mining land, but the extent of the raft foundation is probably limited only to the houses, which may still cause differential settlement in the long term.
The development is quite sizable, about 200 acres in size and the master plan shows a commercial area and some amenities planned to make it an integrated mixed development. According to the salespeople, the developer is planning to set up their own headquarters here in the near future. But besides that, on the residential portion of the development, this is only the first of many phases that will be launched.
For this first phase, there are 213 homes open for sale. There is only one type of unit available for this pilot phase, and the three variations are the intermediate, corner and end lot types. It is a standard 2 and a half storey linkhouse set on a standard 22’ x 75’ plot.
The standard intermediate lot is about 2846sq.ft., and there are 4 rooms. There is a store room on the ground floor, but they’ve shown it to be a bedroom in the brochure. Maybe they should have just named it as a room to avoid any confusion. Every unit comes with a courtyard in the living room area, which opens up all the way to the sky. This courtyard is actually quite large. The other key feature of the house is that the living room and dining is at the back of the house, and the front of the ground floor is occupied by the aforementioned store/bedroom and a powder room.
The kitchen opens out to the courtyard, so ventilation may be a big problem here as air circulation may not be sufficient. This kind of layout was last seen in Ametis of Bukit Puchong.
The project is planned to be gated and guarded.
We are not fans of this kind of layout, but if you are interested, you should check it out. Plus factoring in the previous use of the land, plus the fact that it is leasehold may prompt comparison with other competing projects. It is priced as competitively as we had expected it to be, the prices start from RM482k upwards.
Maintenance fee is about RM150 monthly, please check with the sales people for the latest info.
This is the developers’ first major project in the Klang Valley. Previously they were mainly involved as a turnkey contractor.
| Project Name | Austral Yarra Link |
| Location | Puchong |
| Description | First phase of linkhomes in larger mixed development |
| Land type | Leasehold |
| Encumbrances | Charged to Maybank |
| Price | from RM482,000 to RM782,880 |
| Build-up | 2,846 to 3,018sq.ft. |
| Plot size | 22’ x 75’ |
| No of units | 213 (for this phase) |
| Launch Date | now available |
| Expected Completion | Sept 2009 |
| Developer | Austral Development Sdn. Bhd (subsidiary of Am-El Group) |
| Contact | 03 – 8068 2291 |
Seems quite expensive for Leasehold and ex-mining land. No doubt its not that far in but for that price, many other options available.
Comment by preacher — November 23, 2007 @ 11:48 am
Watch out! This piece of land has court case, which was published in the chinese newspaper about a week ago. Furthermore the developer has been issued stop work order until the court case is settled. Be careful! Do not lose half a million ringgit to this developer and land owner.
Comment by jpcolimited — November 23, 2007 @ 1:59 pm
Preacher,
for the large built-up, I think it’s “justificable”, if you compared it with LakeEdge and comes with nice streetscape. Also note that Bdr Metro Puchong is where future Puchong LRT is going to build. I didn’t know why Admin didn’t mention this part!
Admin,
It themed australian style because of the concept of living and dining areas facing backyard. A typical australians home concept.
Comment by linustw — November 24, 2007 @ 10:50 am
we are still waiting for the official word from star or putra lrt. or does anyone have the link to the announcement?
Comment by Administrator — November 24, 2007 @ 11:27 am
If you read chinese. Annoucement in SinChew.
http://mykampung.sinchew.com.my/node/20417?tid=6
Comment by linustw — November 24, 2007 @ 1:20 pm
thanks. but any official announcement from star or putra lrt?
Comment by Administrator — November 24, 2007 @ 1:32 pm
follow up news in China Press http://www.chinapress.com.my/content_new.asp?dt=2007-11-26&sec=local&art=1126lk04.txt
Comment by update — November 26, 2007 @ 1:32 pm
Haven’t seen the show unit but agree with preacher, it’s expensive for leasehold + ex-mining land. Personally I won’t take the risk to buy a property on a ex-mining land.
Comment by KS — December 4, 2007 @ 5:24 pm
nice project, u hav to view the sales office to appreciate the potential of tht area n the project.
Comment by expired — December 7, 2007 @ 10:58 pm
Location is good but too bad there is court case (between Glomac and land owner) and land issue (originally industrial land with owners). Unless there is clearer picture, I will not even think about putting half a million RM in this house. Be a smart buyer, if not an investor.
Comment by jpcolimited — December 10, 2007 @ 2:26 pm
if anyone of u guys wanna buy a house in this bandar metro puchong.do check with all the MPSJ on the land status. Glomac was there… giving promises of having a gated community liKe Aman Suria (glomac project too) in Kelana Jaya with great prospect of price apreciation. But now even the first phase of the Lakeside Residence wl be handover to purchaser in DEc 2007 as promise is still in question. The road leading to this place thru YTL LakeEdge is also block by the road owner???? and furthermore there is a huge warehouse/factory build right infront of the so call austral yarra link. who knows what is there intend to use this huge factory for…..:(
Comment by frank — December 10, 2007 @ 5:03 pm
Well, its actually a warehouse and not a factory, and it apparently is a warehouse for expensive stuffs. SO the security should be good on alongside the wall.
And its better to have 1 big warehouse instead of 150 SMI’s in that same area
Comment by phenom — December 11, 2007 @ 8:31 pm
Hi admin,
There is a website for this development:
http://www.am-el.net/austral/index.html
Comment by cel — December 26, 2007 @ 5:53 pm
its starting price is rm482,000 per unit and built up area for that unit is 2846 sq feet, making it rm169.36 per sq feet.
not bad for the price and the quality of the build, unlikely u can get the type of stuff they put in building the house in puchong for that price
Comment by anne — January 8, 2008 @ 2:55 am
so has anyone visited the site ? how is the sale of the project?
Comment by expired — March 3, 2008 @ 10:08 pm
there is no showhouse to view yet…. what is anne talking abt? i dun believe in small scale model
Comment by frank — March 27, 2008 @ 5:16 pm