Taman Suria Jaya Sandakan

Taman Suria Jaya Phase 1 is a scheme of 120 double-storey terrace houses at Mile 6 (Batu 6), Jalan Lintas Sibuga, Sandakan, Sabah, developed by Real Continental Sdn. Bhd. (708467-V).

It sits next to the IJM Bandar Utama township, about 10 km from the old town centre. Sandakan is on Sabah’s east coast, about 320 km from Kota Kinabalu.

The developer’s brochure gives a built-up area of 1,102 sq ft and also prints a gross figure of 1,328 sq ft, on land from 1,206 to 2,500 sq ft. The developer fact sheet lists 1,102 sq ft on 1,206 sq ft of land.

The 1,102 sq ft figure matches the drawn house — 5.25 m by 9.75 m on two floors — and 1,206 sq ft matches the intermediate lot. The larger land areas are the row-end lots. Ask for the exact figures for your lot.

Three bedrooms and three bathrooms. The ground floor has the living and dining area, a dry kitchen, one bathroom and a utility space under the stairs; the first floor has the master bedroom, two more bedrooms and two bathrooms.

There is a car porch drawn for two cars in front and a rear yard behind.

The brochure states the land tenure as 999 years under a master title, and discloses that the land is charged to RHB Bank Berhad.

That means individual titles are still to be issued. Ask when they are expected, and have your lawyer confirm how your lot is released from the bank’s charge.

I have not found a price list published on a developer website or in the press. Agents advertise asking prices on public portals, but those are agents’ figures and they differ from one listing to the next, so I do not reproduce them here.

Ask me for the current price list and I will send it with the land area of each available lot.

The developer gives 24 months from the sale and purchase agreement. One Sabah listing portal shows it as under construction with completion estimated in 2027, which is earlier than 24 months from an agreement signed today.

Ask for the latest architect’s certificate of progress and the delivery date written into your agreement.

It has to be checked lot by lot. Sabah sets its own minimum price for non-citizens — RM1,000,000 in the Bar Council’s state table, with a lower strata figure also circulating — and the prices agents advertise for these houses are well below that. The brochure also reserves 30% of the units for Bumiputera buyers.

Get written confirmation from the Sabah Lands and Surveys Department through a Sabah conveyancing solicitor before paying anything, and budget for the flat 8% stamp duty on residential purchases by non-citizens since 1 January 2026.

A developer price list; the validity dates of the licence and permit; a lot-by-lot schedule of land areas; what the 1,328 sq ft gross figure includes; an official construction progress figure; the date individual titles are expected; the developer’s completed projects; and the details of Phase 2.

Every one of these can be answered in writing. Ask for them before you pay a booking fee.

Real Continental Sdn. Bhd. (company no. 708467-V), according to the developer’s brochure, which prints Developer’s Licence No. 800-1/1/868/02549 and Advertisement Permit No. 800-1/1/868/02539.

Its office is on the 4th Floor of Wisma Saban, Mile 7, Labuk Road, Sandakan. That is also the address published by Saban Group, a Sandakan developer whose website lists the neighbouring Taman Suria Phase 1 and Phase 2 — but that website does not mention Taman Suria Jaya or Real Continental, so ask the developer to confirm any connection in writing.

I found no website, press coverage or list of completed projects under Real Continental’s own name.

The developer’s site plan shows no clubhouse or pool: Phase 1 has two open spaces, a sewage treatment plant and an SESB substation, and each house has its own two-car porch and rear yard.

The brochure does not say whether the scheme is gated or guarded, and it publishes no monthly charge, so ask about both.

The house is a reinforced concrete structure with plastered brick walls and a metal sheet roof. The specification panel lists ceramic floor tiles in the living, dining, kitchen, utility and bedrooms, homogeneous tiles in the bathrooms and cement render on the car porch; ceramic wall tiles to 1.5 m in the bathrooms and kitchen; skim-coated concrete ceilings, with a gypsum board ceiling on the first floor; aluminium-frame sliding, side-hung and top-hung windows, with obscure glass in the bathrooms; an aluminium-frame glass sliding door at the front entry, a timber flush door to the kitchen and plywood flush doors elsewhere; quality locksets; SIRIM-standard sanitary fittings; and concealed wiring to SESB requirements. It does not list the number of electrical points.