CORE Residence @ TRX

Probably yes for the larger layouts, and nobody can tell you for certain about the smallest one, because CORE Precious has not published a single price.

The rule is a price test, not a project approval. Kuala Lumpur applies a minimum purchase price of RM1,000,000 to foreign interest acquiring residential property, and it is applied to the individual unit at the price written on your sale and purchase agreement. Foreign interest in Malaysian land law includes Malaysian permanent residents, so a PR holder is treated the same way as a foreign passport holder.

State consent for a foreign purchase in the Federal Territory is applied for under section 433B of the National Land Code and goes to the Jawatankuasa Kerja Tanah Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, the Federal Territory Land Working Committee. Budget for a consent fee, and budget for the time it takes.

From 1 January 2026 a non-citizen buying residential property also pays a flat 8% stamp duty on the transfer, under Item 32(ab) of the Stamp Act 1949 inserted by the Finance Act 2025. Serviced apartments are named in the statutory definition of residential property, so this project is inside the 8% rather than outside it. On an RM1.5 million unit that is RM120,000, against RM44,000 for a Malaysian citizen buying the same unit.

So the practical sequence is: get the price for the specific unit, check it clears RM1,000,000, then add 8% and the consent fee to your budget before you decide. Message me and I will get the price list.

Neither figure comes from the developer, and one document manages to print both.

CORE Precious Development does not state a total unit count anywhere on its project website. Not on the home page, not on the Tower 1 and Tower 2 page, not in the statutory block at the foot of every page.

A marketing microsite operated by a sales agency, not by the developer, carries 700 residential units in its page description and, further down the same page, describes the project as low density and high privacy with only 580 units. Those are two different numbers in one document, which tells you neither of them was checked.

The project architect, NRY Architects, publishes a project size of 72,000 square metres, about 775,000 square feet, across three tower blocks over a five-storey podium. That is a gross floor area including circulation, plant and podium, so you cannot divide it by an average unit size and get a unit count.

Why it matters: total units sets the denominator for your service charge, determines how many identical units compete with yours at resale, and drives lift waiting times. Ask for the figure in writing and check it against the schedule in the sale and purchase agreement, which is the only version of that number that binds anybody.

The developer has already answered this for you by tagging every layout to a tower. Read the tags and the decision makes itself.

Tower 2 holds A1 at 624 sq ft, A2 at 688 sq ft, B1 at 817 sq ft and B2 at 839 sq ft. It stops at 839 sq ft. Every unit is a one, a one-plus-one or a two-bedroom.

Tower 1 holds A1 at 624 sq ft, B3 at 925 sq ft, B4 at 1,011 sq ft and C1 at 1,022 sq ft. It contains the only three-bedroom plan in the scheme and the only two layouts above 900 sq ft.

For a landlord letting to people who work in the district, Tower 2 is the better fit: lower entry ticket, a size band that matches single professionals and couples, and faster re-letting. Expect more turnover and more competing listings, because the units are more alike.

For an owner-occupier or anyone who wants a resale pool of families rather than investors, Tower 1 is the answer, and B4 at 1,011 sq ft is worth comparing carefully against C1 at 1,022 sq ft — the same footprint, split two ways or three.

One caution: a sales agency microsite already flags C1 as sold out. Before you set your heart on three bedrooms here, let me confirm availability with the developer rather than with a website.

Freehold. It is stated on the developer’s own project site and repeated on the marketing microsite, and it is the single most durable advantage this address has.

Freehold inside the Federal Territory city centre is not common in new stock. Most of what launched in Kuala Lumpur over the last decade sits on 99-year leasehold titles, where every year that passes shortens the balance a future buyer’s bank will lend against. That erosion does not apply here.

What CORE Precious has not published is the land use category on the master title. The project is marketed as a residence and described elsewhere as serviced residences, and those two words carry different consequences: assessment rates, electricity and water tariffs, and the loan margin a bank will offer all follow the land use category on the title, not the name on the brochure.

This matters more than usual on a TRX parcel, because the master plan is a commercial financial district. If the parcel is on a commercial land use, expect commercial assessment and utility tariffs for the life of your ownership, and a lower loan margin than a residential-titled condominium would attract.

Ask for a copy of the master title search before you sign, and ask the sales team, in writing, whether assessment and electricity will be billed at residential or commercial rates. That one answer can be worth several hundred ringgit a month.

CORE Precious has not published a completion date or a construction status, and its own progress gallery has not been updated since May 2024.

Here is exactly what the developer does publish. A monthly site progress gallery running from 2021 through to May 2024. A note dated 5 June 2023 confirming that the pedestrian bridge from the project into TRX Central Park had been connected. A copyright line on the same pages reading 2026. And nothing else about timing.

A gallery that stops can mean the building is complete and there is nothing left to photograph, or it can mean nobody is maintaining the website. Those two explanations have opposite consequences for a buyer, and I am not going to guess which one applies.

What you should ask for, in writing, before paying anything: the current developer licence and advertising permit numbers, whether the certificate of completion and compliance has been issued, and if not, the scheduled vacant possession date written into the sale and purchase agreement for your specific unit.

That last point matters because the liquidated damages clause in your agreement attaches to the date in the agreement, not to any date in marketing material. Get it in writing and read it before you sign.

CORE Precious publishes neither, and I will not reprint a figure from a listing portal on a page like this.

What I can give you is the shape of the service charge, because the published facilities tell you a lot about it. Twenty-two numbered facility items across two decks is a modest count by 2026 Kuala Lumpur standards, which pushes the rate down. But a rooftop pool and gymnasium at Level 50 is expensive infrastructure to pump water to, and a Level 7 landscaped podium with a forest trail, a green wall and eighteen separate features is expensive to maintain. Those push the rate up.

The bigger unknown is the denominator. Until the developer states a total unit count, nobody can model the service charge per square foot with any honesty, because that is the number the total maintenance budget is divided by.

There is one more line to ask about specifically at TRX: whether the project pays a share of any master-plan or district-level charge on top of its own building service charge. Integrated financial districts commonly carry one. It will not appear in the brochure and it will appear on your bill.

I ask developers for the price list, the service charge rate, the sinking fund contribution and any district levy in one written request. Message me and I will send you whatever comes back, including the questions they decline to answer.

If you are a non-citizen buying a home in this building, the transfer stamp duty is a flat 8% of the price. There are no tiers and no exemption.

The mechanism: the Finance Act 2025 inserted Item 32(ab) into the First Schedule of the Stamp Act 1949, charging RM8 for every RM100 of consideration or market value, whichever is greater, on transfers of residential property to non-citizens and foreign companies executed on or after 1 January 2026. Malaysian citizens continue to pay the tiered 1% to 4% scale.

The statute defines residential property as a house, condominium, apartment, flat, service apartment or SOHO used solely as a dwelling. A serviced residence marketed for living in is inside that definition. Do not assume a commercial land use category takes you out of it — the test in the Act is about use as a dwelling, and this is a question for your conveyancing lawyer on the specific title, not for a salesperson.

Malaysian permanent residents are excluded from the 8% rate and pay the citizen scale. Note the asymmetry: a PR is treated as foreign interest for the RM1,000,000 floor and state consent, but as a local for this stamp duty. Two different rules, two different definitions, and getting them the wrong way round is an expensive mistake.

Run the arithmetic before you commit. On an RM1.5 million unit a non-citizen pays RM120,000 in transfer duty against RM44,000 for a citizen, plus a Federal Territory consent fee, on top of a loan margin that is typically 50% to 70% rather than 90%.

Because CORE Precious has published both in a form I have not yet uploaded properly, and because the distances circulating online are not the developer’s.

On images: the developer publishes a large official image set — facility renders, the Level 7 and Level 50 facility plans, seven floor plan drawings, lobby and drop-off views, and site progress photographs. I have catalogued the full set for this project with filenames, captions and alt text in both languages, and it goes onto this page the moment those images are properly hosted here rather than hotlinked from someone else’s server.

On distances: CORE Precious itself publishes exactly two claims, that the MRT interchange is a 100 metre walk and that the Twin Towers are within walking distance. It attaches no metres to anything else. The precise figures you will see elsewhere — Pavilion KL at 800 m, the golf club at 850 m, the medical centre at 900 m — come from a microsite operated by a sales agency, not from the developer, and I am not going to launder an agency number into a developer fact by putting it on this page.

This is the standard I apply on every page here. If a number is not from the developer, from a government source, or measured by me, it does not appear. Ask me for real drive times and I will go and drive them.

Four very different products get lumped together under the word TRX, so here is the map.

Read this page if you want a home physically inside the TRX master plan, on a freehold title, with the layout schedule already published and the MRT interchange under the district. The open questions here are unit count, price and completion date.

Read the Golden Crown Residence page if you have been shown that project as a TRX address. It is a 60-storey tower of 490 units whose developer publishes a location pin on Jalan Ampang, not in TRX, and whose tenure is described as freehold by one mainstream source and as leasehold expiring 2111 by several agency sites. That page is mostly about sorting out what is actually true.

Read the Aras Residences OUG page if TRX pricing is not where your budget lives. It is a different city entirely: Taman OUG, twin 57-storey towers, 1,272 units, 850 to 1,062 sq ft, completion targeted at the fourth quarter of 2029, and a developer that publishes measured distances in kilometres.

Read the Exchange 106 page if you are thinking about the office tower rather than a home. Commercial property is a different legal regime — foreign buyers must register a qualifying purchase under a Malaysian-incorporated company, the 8% residential stamp duty does not apply, and the numbers that matter are occupancy and lease terms, not bedrooms.