The short read
A 2019 freehold tower of 288 homes, sized 1,122 to 1,906 sq ft, with higher floors taking in skyline, golf and forest views. Traffic noise, opinion on management and resident sentiment are all mixed here.
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Social and entertainment
Families
Living here
Location & Environment
Traffic noise
- Some residents find it far enough from the highway to feel very quiet, while others compare the nearby road to a much busier neighbouring street at peak times.
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- Sunway Mont Residences is located at Jalan Kiara 5, to the Mont Kiara insider it commands more premium over Jalan Kiara 3, but lesser to Jalan Kiara itself. Those who frequent Jalan Kiara 3 and tasted the traffic madness during peak hours will likely concur. Some units at Sunway Mont Residences will be quite close to high tension cable.
Green view
- Higher floors get city skyline views, with some units also overlooking a golf course and forest.
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- No mapped green space within about 800 m
Green space
- Bukit Kiara forest & park is about 2.5 km on foot.
Air quality
- Described as a green, clean-air setting.
Schools
- About 2 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 Hartamas Shopping Centre by car.
Access
- The nearest rail station, KA05 Segambut, is about 7 min by car.
Facilities
Facilities provided
- Facilities include children's pool, gym, playground, function hall, barbecue deck and games room.
Management
- Opinion on the management is split: some praise the developer's reputation, while others describe slow responses and calls that go unanswered.
Sentiment
Resident sentiment
- Residents are mostly happy, with several saying their quality of life improved significantly after moving in, though one describes it as one of the worst places they have stayed.
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- Recently launched in May 2017, Sunway Mont Residences is a 38-storey condominium introduces the dual-key concept. This concept has received good responses from the public as over 90% take-up was seen upon its launch. Sunway Mont Residences gave a breath of fresh air to the condominium market in Mont Kiara with its dual-key concept. It attracts both homeowners and investors who are looking at the area.
Space
Home size
- Homes from 1,122 to 1,906 sq ft.
Homes per tower
- 288 homes across 1 tower.
Videos
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Found by searching for Sunway Mont Residences. We haven't checked them, and many are agents' sale or rental videos.
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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.
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