The short read
A 2019 freehold tower of 245 family-sized homes from 1,333 to 1,771 sq ft near the international schools. Residents are largely happy with life here, though the building's position on the congested Jalan Kiara 3 is worth knowing before you move in.
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Living here
Location & Environment
Traffic noise
- Opinions on noise differ: some call it calm and quiet, while others point to school-run traffic building up on Jalan Kiara 3.
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- Directly on Jalan Kiara 3 - the GIS school road - which reviewers describe as a congestion bottleneck at drop-off/pick-up times.
Green view
- Views are limited for most units, facing traffic and neighbouring buildings, though higher floors can catch a KLCC or hill outlook.
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- High floors get KLCC skyline or Bukit Kiara green views depending on stack; lower floors face Jalan Kiara 3 traffic and neighbouring developments.
- No mapped green space within about 800 m
Green space
- Bukit Kiara forest & park is about 2.6 km on foot.
Air quality
- Air quality is typical for the area, with more traffic fumes and construction dust affecting road-facing units.
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- Typical Mont Kiara; road-facing units get more traffic fumes at peak; nearby construction sites in the Kiara 3 corridor add dust.
Schools
- About 1 min to Garden International School and about 11 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 gym, jacuzzi, tennis, badminton and playground.
Management
- Management and security are mostly well regarded, with guards often praised as strict and helpful, though repairs can be slow and manners inconsistent.
Sentiment
Resident sentiment
- Most residents are positive, praising the generous family-sized layouts and play areas, with the main gripe being traffic congestion on Jalan Kiara 3.
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- Newer (2019) family-sized condo praised for generous 3-bed layouts (~1,333 sq ft up), Sandy Island play area and Star Deck; main gripe is its position on congested, bottlenecked Jalan Kiara 3 and moderate rental yields.
- The word is largely positive: a low-density freehold UEM Sunrise build near the international schools. The catches are peak-hour traffic on Jalan Kiara and moderate yields against the entry price.
Space
Home size
- Homes from 1,333 to 1,771 sq ft.
Homes per tower
- 245 homes across 1 tower.
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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.
Prices
Mar 2025-Feb 2026; P25 RM1.06m / P75 RM1.19m
Transacted sale prices
| Year | Median psf | Median price | Txns |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | RM782 | RM1,145,000 | 5 |
| 2025 | RM805 | RM1,100,000 | 15 |
| 2026 | RM760 | Not held | Not held |
Sale psf is shown to the ringgit.
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 which stack the unit is in and look out of its windows: floor plans rarely show what a window faces.
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