The short read
Completed in 2003, this strata development has 180 homes across one tower, from 1,052 to 1,205 sq ft, with larger penthouses at 1,948 sq ft. Traffic noise and management complaints are recurring themes, though residents find it convenient and reasonably priced.
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What it read
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Facilities
Pools
Fitness and sport
Wellness
Social and entertainment
Families
Convenience
Security and parking
Living here
Location & Environment
Traffic noise
- Traffic noise is a recurring complaint, since the building sits close enough to the main road that lower, road-facing units are likely to feel it.
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- Within 200 m of Persiaran Surian. Traffic noise is likely, most of all on road-facing and lower floors.
Green view
- A nine-hole golf course sits nearby, about 610 metres away.
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- Near The Club @ Bukit Utama (9-hole golf) (about 610 m away)
Green space
- Bukit Kiara forest & park is about 3.4 km on foot.
Schools
- About 6 min to BSKL and about 11 min to Garden International School by car.
Malls
- About 3 min to Sunway Giza Mall, about 4 min to IPC Shopping Centre and about 4 min to Encorp Strand Mall by car.
Access
- KG08 Mutiara Damansara is about 720 m on foot.
Facilities
Facilities provided
- Facilities include pool, children's pool, gym, sauna, playground, function hall, barbecue deck and jogging track.
Management
- Management draws repeated complaints, including a guard who refused to help a visitor at the entrance, and house rules that residents say change without notice.
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- A reviewer describes being refused help at the entrance by a guard and asks for the guards to be trained.
- RM0.25 psf - RM0.35 psf (inc sinking fund)
Sentiment
Resident sentiment
- Residents are broadly happy, describing the location as convenient and rents as reasonable.
Space
Home size
- Homes from 1,052 to 1,205 sf (penthouses 1,948 sf).
Homes per tower
- 180 homes across 1 tower.
Videos
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Getting around
What Bandar Utama is like
Bandar Utama is a mature freehold township in Petaling Jaya, on the Selangor side of Kuala Lumpur's western edge, developed from the 1990s around what became one of the largest shopping centres in the country, 1 Utama. It is a family address first: streets of double-storey terraces, semi-detached houses and bungalows for a comfortable middle and upper-middle class, with condominiums and newer high-rises around the commercial core.
1 Utama is on the doorstep, with First Avenue, the One World Hotel and office towers beside it, so shopping, dining, cinemas and work are all close. Major employers keep offices here, and the township has established national and private schools, clinics and neighbourhood shops, from mini-marts to community malls.
It is well connected. Two MRT Kajang Line stations serve the township, Bandar Utama station links on foot to 1 Utama and First Avenue, and the LRT3 Shah Alam line, whose Bandar Utama terminus opened in June 2026, runs west to Klang. The LDP, the SPRINT and the NKVE are a junction or two away, and roads have been widened over the years, although some residential roads stay narrow and the approaches to the mall and the highways jam at peak hours.
Bandar Utama is essentially built out. New launches are few, mostly high-rise projects on the remaining commercial plots and in the older villages it is growing into, such as Kayu Ara, which keeps existing homes scarce and in demand.
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
