The short read
Aston Kiara 3 is a freehold tower of 160 homes, completed in 2011, on the fringe of Mont Kiara near older villages. Worth knowing: traffic noise is a recurring complaint here.
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Facilities
Pools
Fitness and sport
Wellness
Social and entertainment
Families
Work and study
Gardens and outdoors
Convenience
Security and parking
Living here
Location & Environment
Traffic noise
- Traffic noise is a recurring complaint, with residents saying the area would be better if peak-hour traffic were controlled.
Green view
- Some homes face west toward green hills, while others look toward the wider Mont Kiara area rather than any landmark view.
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- Type 1 units face west overlooking green hills; Type 2 units face south with Mont Kiara vicinity views
- No mapped green space within about 800 m
Green space
- Bukit Kiara forest & park is about 2.8 km on foot.
Schools
- About 1 min to Garden International School and about 12 min to BSKL by car.
Malls
- About 2 min to Sunway 163 Mall, about 2 min to 1 Mont Kiara and about 4 min to Publika Shopping Gallery by car.
Access
- The nearest rail station, KA05 Segambut, is about 4 min by car.
Facilities
Facilities provided
- Facilities include pool, gym, sauna, squash, playground and barbecue deck.
Management
- Opinion on security is split: some residents find the guards helpful and friendly, others say they are often distracted on their phones.
Sentiment
Resident sentiment
- Residents praise the facilities and low-density living, but many see the surrounding village setting as holding back prices and appeal.
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- Residents praise facilities and low-density development with top-notch specifications. However, forum posts and portals report location is major drawback: surrounded by Segambut Dalam villages and squatter settlements despite Mont Kiara branding, creating stark aesthetic contrast. Capital appreciation has suffered badly due to less-than-savory location, with oversupply in Mont Kiara market limiting price growth. Completed 2011.
Space
Home size
- Homes from 1,518 to 1,598 sq ft.
Homes per tower
- 160 homes across 1 tower.
Videos
More videos
Found by searching for Aston Kiara 3. We haven't checked them, and many are agents' sale or rental videos.
Getting around
What Mont Kiara is like
Mont Kiara is a hillside township of high-rise condominiums in the north-west of Kuala Lumpur, planned from the 1990s as a self-contained address and now one of the densest residential pockets in the country. It is the city's best-known expat enclave: Japanese and Korean families are the largest communities, alongside Europeans, other international-school families and well-paid young professionals. Its reputation rests on three things: international schools on the doorstep, well-run gated and guarded condominiums, and everything a household needs within a short walk.
Schools anchor the place. Garden International School and Mont'Kiara International School are inside the township and the French lycée is close by, so many families choose a building by its walk to the school gate. Daily life runs on foot more than almost anywhere else in the city: most streets have proper walkways, many shaded by mature trees, and plazas and retail parks such as 1 Mont Kiara, Arcoris and 163 Retail Park hold supermarkets, banks, clinics and a dense cafe and restaurant scene, heavy on Japanese and Korean cooking. Walkability does vary by street, and the newer western edge is thinner on pavements.
The catch is traffic. There is no rail station yet, and the main roads, Jalan Kiara and Jalan Kiara 1 in particular, clog at office peaks and badly at the afternoon school run, roughly 2 to 3 pm. By car the city centre and KLCC are 10 to 15 minutes away off-peak, via the DUKE, the Penchala Link and the SPRINT. Noise follows the same pattern: the inner residential streets and units facing greenery are quiet, while units over the main roads or beside a building site hear it.
The township is still growing. The western side, forest until recently, has opened up with road extensions such as the widening of Jalan Kiara 5, and a dozen or more projects are under construction, so building-site noise and new supply are part of life for now. The MRT3 Circle Line, approved in July 2025, will bring Mont Kiara and Bukit Kiara stations, with construction from 2027 and trains due around 2032. Next door, the KL Metropolis development is rising around the MITEC exhibition centre. For all the density, the hills, the planted verges and the forest reserves around the edges keep much of Mont Kiara green, and many towers look out over greenery or across to the KLCC skyline.
Before you view it
- View the unit at rush hour with the windows open, and ask which side of the block faces the road.
- Ask how long the current managing agent has been in place and for the sinking-fund balance.
Who built it
