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Dorchester Apartment

Dorchester Apartment stands out in Sri Hartamas for location and surroundings: a 2003 Mayland condo scoring 4.0 overall. What to check before you sign.

Sri Hartamas, Kuala Lumpur · By Mayland

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Living here has real drawbacks: reports mention complaints about the management and unhappy residents. About 4 min by car to Garden International School. Worth knowing: the road outside is busy.

  • Completed2003
  • TenureFreehold
  • Units300
  • Sizes400-700 sq ft built-up
  • TitleStrata
  • Towers1
Water supply
Water supply or pressure uneven at times: water shortage reported within a three-month period
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Scores

Sentiment2.0Poor
  • Resident sentiment

    Resident experience skews negative, mainly about parking.

    • Lower floors offer little privacy or tranquility due to proximity to busy commercial and office areas.
  • Public ratings
Location6.8Fair
  • Schools
  • Malls
  • Access
  • Address
  • Rail station
Environment4.5Poor
  • Traffic noise

    The road outside is busy.

    • Within 500 m of Lebuhraya Sprint (E23). Near enough to hear at times, though higher and inward-facing units get less of it.
  • Green space
  • View
    • The building overlooks a dense commercial landscape including offices, shops, highways, and residential areas.
    • No mapped green space within about 800 m
  • Construction
Facilities3.6Poor
  • Facilities provided

    Facilities include pool, gym, tennis, squash, barbecue deck, restaurant and mini-market.

  • Condition
  • Management

    Management draws criticism, mainly about responsiveness.

    • The management ignored reports most of the time.
    • The building is undergoing maintenance repairs, particularly to address piping and leakage issues.
    • The maintenance fee is RM0.25 psf.
Space3.0Poor

Compact homes, and 300 homes to a tower.

Getting around

Drive times are off-peak.

Shopping
Hartamas Shopping Centre2 min drive
Sunway 163 Mall4 min drive
1 Mont KiaraSupermarket: Village Grocer Mont Kiara4 min drive
Daily needs
Village Grocer250 m walk
A clinic3 min drive
Global Doctors Hospital4 min drive
Dobi Corporate dry cleaners3 min drive
Green space
Duta Nusantara Park2 min drive
Schools
Garden International School4 min drive
Rail
Sentul BaratMRT Putrajaya Line7 min drive
KL Sentral12 min drive

Facilities

Pools
Fitness and sport
Social and entertainment
Convenience
Security and parking

What Sri Hartamas is like

Sri Hartamas is a mature, lively neighbourhood on the north-western side of Kuala Lumpur, between Mont Kiara and Damansara Heights. It mixes condominiums and older low-rise apartments with landed streets, and it shares Mont Kiara's international character: a diverse expat community, many of them tenants, lives here alongside Malaysians who like being in the middle of things.

Its heart is commercial. Desa Sri Hartamas's shop lots are known for restaurants, bars and late-night dining, Plaza Damas and Hartamas Shopping Centre add offices, shops and services, and Publika at Solaris Dutamas is close by. Banks, groceries and everyday errands are mostly within walking distance, and the offices make it a working district by day as well as a place to eat out at night.

That energy has a cost. Sri Hartamas is not the address for quiet: the commercial streets are busy into the evening and traffic is congested at peak hours. There is no rail station today, so most residents drive, using Jalan Duta, the DUKE and the SPRINT to reach the city centre.

Change is coming quickly. Sri Hartamas has its own station on the MRT3 Circle Line, confirmed in July 2025, with construction from 2027 and trains due around 2032, and new projects are already clustering around it. That brings better transport and a rising supply of new homes, and it puts pressure on the older low-rise blocks to be redeveloped. The area has also grown popular with short-stay visitors and business travellers, which gives some buildings a more transient feel.

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