Aspire Tower @ KL Eco City, Kuala Lumpur
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A COMMERCIAL OFFICE TOWER OUTSIDE THE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ACT — AND THIS PAGE IS BUILT AROUND WHAT THAT MEANS · NO KPKT registration · NO developer licence for this tower · NO advertising and sales permit · NO filed advertisement · NO PRICE ON THIS PAGE, and the page says why · developer KL ECO CITY SDN. BHD., KPKT code 11889 — four housing registrations on this development, NOT ONE OF THEM THIS TOWER · 42 storeys · CCC 17 October 2023 · LEED Gold, Core and Shell, August 2025 · Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL), Daerah Kuala Lumpur, WP KUALA LUMPUR

Aspire Tower (Mercu Aspire), KL Eco City, Pantai Baru / Jalan Bangsar, 59200 Kuala Lumpur, Daerah Kuala Lumpur, WP KUALA LUMPUR — a COMPLETED 42-storey COMMERCIAL OFFICE TOWER, CCC October 2023 — and it has NO developer licence, NO advertising and sales permit and NO filed statutory advertisement: absent, not lapsed, so no Jadual G, no Jadual H and no housing-law protection reaches it

Aspire Tower is a commercial office tower, and it sits outside the Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Act 1966 entirely. There is NO developer licence for this tower, NO advertising and sales permit and NO filed statutory advertisement — absent, not lapsed. So there is no Jadual G and no Jadual H statutory sale and purchase agreement, no housing-law liquidated damages for late delivery, no section 7A housing development account ring-fencing progress payments, no statutory defect liability period and no recourse to the Tribunal for Homebuyer Claims. The contract is whatever the developer’s solicitors draft, and every term in it is negotiable rather than prescribed — which is exactly why that contract needs a solicitor rather than a brochure. That paragraph is first on this page because it is the part that changes what you are buying. Now the other half, and it is a real one. What the buyer does get is a finished building: the developer’s own site-progress caption, dated 17 October 2023, records that the tower received its fire-authority approval, its CCC and its certificate of practical completion, and that it was then handing vacant possession to purchasers with the contractual defect-liability period running. A completed building is a materially better position than an unlicensed building still to be built, and this page says that as plainly as it says the first paragraph. The developer is also checkable even though this tower is not. KL ECO CITY SDN. BHD. holds a current KPKT developer licence and four registered housing schemes on this same 25-acre site; its register conduct record reads Aktif with mempunyaiKesalahan: null, no offence recorded. None of those four registrations is this tower, and an office tower does not need one — the housing statute reaches housing accommodation, not strata office space. The absence is lawful and normal. It is also total. And because nothing is filed, there is no filed selling-price range for this tower, no public registry price band, and the house rule is therefore that this page publishes NO PRICE AT ALL.

NO KPKT registrationNO developer licence for this towerNO APDLNO filed advertisementOutside the Housing Development ActNO PRICE PUBLISHED — and the page says why42 storeys37 office levels — 5 unexplainedCCC 17 Oct 202316 liftsLEED Gold, Core and Shell, Aug 2025Unit count NOT PUBLISHEDDeveloper KL ECO CITY SDN. BHD., code 11889DBKL · WP Kuala Lumpur

Louis Koh, Director, LK Group Marketing · IQI Realty Sdn Bhd, Registered Estate Agency · every figure on this page is attributed to the document it came from, and the ones nobody publishes are listed as missing rather than filled in

0 of 4registrations on this developer’s licence are this tower — it is in no housing register at all
17 Oct 2023the developer’s own dated caption for the completion certificate
6 of 6office size figures disagree between the developer’s own two surfaces
37 of 42levels are office; no source says what the other five are
NO PRICEnothing is filed, so nothing is published — and the page states the rule as the reason
Core and ShellLEED Gold rates the base building, not the fit-out of any individual lot
The completed tower photographed in October 2023 at Aspire Tower (Mercu Aspire) by KL Eco City Sdn Bhd, KL Eco City, Pantai Baru, Daerah Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, WP Kuala Lumpur
Aspire Tower — the tower in October 2023, the month the developer recorded its Certificate of Completion and Compliance. The developer’s own photograph, and the only real photograph of this building at an acceptable grade in its whole media library. Confirmed by the asset’s own title, which names the project and dates the subject, and corroborated by the site-progress caption dated 17 October 2023.
LEED Gold Core and Shell certificate at Aspire Tower (Mercu Aspire) by KL Eco City Sdn Bhd, KL Eco City, Pantai Baru, Daerah Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, WP Kuala Lumpur
Aspire Tower (Mercu Aspire) — LEED Gold, v2009 Core and Shell Development, awarded August 2025 by the U.S. Green Building Council and verified by Green Business Certification Inc. The developer’s own certificate, read first-hand. Core and Shell is a LIMIT: it rates the base building — structure, envelope and core systems — and NOT the fit-out of any individual office lot. A buyer’s own suite is not certified by this certificate. The certificate is also the primary document that confirms Mercu Aspire as this tower’s certificated name.
Signature Office interior at Aspire Tower (Mercu Aspire) by KL Eco City Sdn Bhd, KL Eco City, Pantai Baru, Daerah Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, WP Kuala Lumpur
Aspire Tower — a Signature Office interior, as published by the developer. Confirmed by the asset’s own CMS title, which names both the tower and the tier. It is a developer image of a fitted interior and it is not a specification: no source publishes what a lot is delivered with, and the LEED certificate above does not cover a fit-out.
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Aspire Tower at KL Eco City, at a glance — and the first six lines are all absences

Everything below is attributed to the document it came from. Where a figure is published differently on two of the developer’s own surfaces, both appear, labelled by surface, and neither is adjudicated — because on this tower there is no filing to break a tie. Developer surfaces and registers read 14 October 2026.

KPKT registration
NONEThis tower appears in no housing register anywhere. Not lapsed, not cancelled, not pending — absent
Developer licence covering this tower
NONEKL ECO CITY SDN. BHD. holds a current licence and four registered housing schemes on this development. None of the four is this tower
Advertising and sales permit (APDL)
NONEAn APDL is issued against a registered scheme. There is no registered scheme here, so there is no permit to expire
Filed statutory advertisement
NONENo filed brochure, no filed newspaper advertisement, and therefore no filed building type, no filed tenure, no filed restriction in interest and no filed selling-price range
Statutory contract
NO Jadual G, NO Jadual HNeither statutory Schedule G nor Schedule H reaches a commercial strata office parcel. The agreement is a private contract
Housing-law remedies
NONE OF THEMNo statutory late-delivery damages, no section 7A housing development account, no statutory 24-month defect liability period, no Tribunal for Homebuyer Claims
Price on this page
NONE, DELIBERATELYNo filed statutory range exists and no public registry band exists, so the house rule is that this page publishes no price. A real figure comes from the price list and the agreement
What the buyer DOES get
A COMPLETED, CCC’d BUILDINGThe developer’s own site-progress caption, 17 October 2023: fire-authority approval, Certificate of Completion and Compliance, certificate of practical completion, vacant possession being handed over
Product
Commercial office towerThe developer’s own heading is COMMERCIAL OFFICE TOWER. “Grade-A stratified office tower” is third-party branded wording
Storeys
42The brochure (“Standing 42 storeys high”) and the project page agree
Office levels
37 — and 5 levels are unexplainedThe brochure’s bands (3A–9, 10–22, 23–39A) and the project page’s “19 Low Zone + 18 High Zone” both total 37. No source says what the other five are
Office tiers
Executive · Signature · PremierExecutive L3A–9, Signature L10–22, Premier L23–39A (a full floor), per the developer’s brochure
Sizes — the developer’s BROCHURE V11
1,130–1,926 / 3,562–16,110 / 18,718 sq ftExecutive / Signature / Premier. CMS-dated 6 July 2026 — the LATER document, and the one that disagrees with the other two
Sizes — the developer’s PROJECT PAGE
1,152–1,971 / 3,623–16,393 / 18,690 sq ftNot one of the six figures matches the brochure, and The Edge’s branded content agrees with the project page. Printed both ways, adjudicated neither
Number of office lots
NOT PUBLISHEDNo count on the project page, none in either brochure generation, and no register to hold one
Own parcel area
NOT PUBLISHEDOnly the development’s 25 acres exists, and it carries a dozen buildings. So no density and no plot ratio appear on this page
Lifts
16, in two independent lobbiesThe project page and The Edge agree. Card access, turnstiles and CCTV per the same sources
Car park
“SELECTED office space” carries baysThe developer’s own wording, and it never says which lots. 553 bays is one branded third-party figure and appears in neither developer document
Landscaped deck
About 19,000 sq ft — SHAREDThe developer says it is connected to Corporate Office Tower 3, the Amari hotel and ViiA Residences. A four-building amenity, not this tower’s own
Green certification
LEED Gold, Core and Shell, Aug 2025LEED v2009 CORE AND SHELL DEVELOPMENT, U.S. Green Building Council, verified by Green Business Certification Inc. It rates the base building, not any lot’s fit-out
GBI
NOT ESTABLISHED EITHER WAY“Designed to receive GBI” in branded content is targeting, not certification; the developer’s own eight-certificate set holds no GBI item; and the GBI registry was unreachable, which is inconclusive and never a negative
Awards
FOUR — and all four are the DEVELOPMENT’SThe two office awards cannot be this tower’s at all: its CCC is October 2023, three years after the 2020 FIABCI Office Gold and four after the 2019 Best Office
Strata position
ASSERTED, NOT DOCUMENTED“Stratified” comes from branded third-party content. The developer’s own brochure and project page never use the word, and no source states the title’s land-use category
Foreign buyers
POSITION NOT DOCUMENTEDThe RM1,000,000 Federal Territory floor is documented for residential property. No source reached establishes the position for a commercial strata parcel in either direction, so this page prints no threshold for this tower
Nearest rail
Abdullah Hukum LRT & KTM, 50 mThe developer’s own figure, measured from the 25-acre development and not from this tower’s lobby. It is NOT the Kerinchi station, which belongs to a different township
Authority and district
DBKL, Daerah Kuala Lumpur, WP Kuala LumpurSettled from the filed plan prefix BP S1 on the development’s own statutory panel, then the jurisdiction read off it — in that order
Developer
KL ECO CITY SDN. BHD., code 11889Licence 11889/10-2027/0156(R), 8 Oct 2022 – 7 Oct 2027, Aktif, mempunyaiKesalahan: null. No company registration number is published anywhere
Group
S P SetiaEstablished from the register’s own field, not from marketing: the licensee’s alamat_daftar is S P Setia Berhad’s corporate headquarters

Six things about this tower that the marketing does not put first

This is a good building with a real completion certificate, and it is also the most legally bare product this site has published. Both halves are on this page, in that order.

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The absence is total, not partial

No registration, no licence for this tower, no permit, no filed advertisement. On a licensed home you can read the filed building type, the filed tenure, the filed restriction in interest and the filed price range off one public document. For this tower none of those documents exists, so every one of those facts has to come out of the title and the contract instead.

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A completed building is the real counterweight

The developer’s own dated caption records fire-authority approval, the CCC and practical completion in October 2023, with vacant possession then being handed to purchasers. You can stand in it. That is a materially better position than an unlicensed building still to be built — and the defect-liability period protecting it is contractual, not statutory.

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Six size figures, two developer surfaces, zero matches

The July 2026 brochure says 1,130–1,926, 3,562–16,110 and 18,718 sq ft. The project page and The Edge say 1,152–1,971, 3,623–16,393 and 18,690. The later document is the odd one out, and there is no filing to break the tie, so both sets are printed and labelled and neither is adjudicated.

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LEED Gold is real, and it is Core and Shell

The certificate reads LEED v2009, CORE AND SHELL DEVELOPMENT, GOLD, August 2025. Core and Shell rates the base building — structure, envelope, core systems — and not the fit-out of any individual lot, so a buyer’s own suite is not certified by it. On a tower with nothing filed, a green badge is exactly what a reader will over-read.

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Not one award on this site belongs to this tower

KL Eco City has won four FIABCI awards and they are the development’s. The two office awards cannot be this tower’s: this tower was certified complete in October 2023, three years after the 2020 Office Gold and four after the 2019 Best Office. The office buildings that existed then were the two retained corporate towers. So this page never calls itself award-winning.

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KL Eco City holds FIVE different office products

This tower; a separate strata-office product with its own LEED certificate; two retained corporate towers; and twelve boutique office blocks with three more certificates between them. Every rent, every listing figure and every “strata office at KL Eco City” claim has to be checked against WHICH building it describes before it means anything.

Project DNA

What is actually established about this tower, and what is simply not published

A 42-storey commercial office tower inside a 25-acre mixed-use development, finished and certified complete in October 2023. The statband below carries only figures a named source prints. Where a figure is not published, the strip says so instead of estimating it — and on this tower the unpublished list is long, because there is no filing to read it off.

42storeys — brochure and project page agree
37office levels — both surfaces agree, 5 levels unexplained
16lifts, in two independent lobbies
3office tiers: Executive, Signature, Premier
17 Oct 2023the developer’s own dated completion caption
Aug 2025LEED Gold, Core and Shell
~19,000 sq ftlandscaped deck — shared across four buildings
670,000+ sq ftcommercial space — one branded third-party figure
553car-park bays — branded content only; neither developer document carries it
NOT PUBLISHEDthe number of office lots
NOT PUBLISHEDthis tower’s own parcel area — so no density, no plot ratio
NOT PUBLISHEDthe service-charge rate
NOT FILEDthe building type — there is no filing
NOT STATEDthe title’s land-use category, by any source

The five building features the developer publishes — verbatim headings, and what each one does not say

These are the developer’s own five printed headings, in its own page order. NO level is assigned to any of them, and one of the five is explicitly shared with three other buildings.

TWO EXCLUSIVE LIFT LOBBIES

no level stated
  • “Two independent lift lobbies with 16 elevators in total” — the developer’s own words
  • Card access, turnstiles and CCTV, per the project page and The Edge
  • The Edge’s branded content agrees on the lift count, which is worth saying because almost nothing else on this tower is corroborated twice
  • Not published: which lobby serves which tier, lift speeds, or the handling-capacity calculation

YOUR VERY OWN PARKING BAY

no allocation published
  • The developer’s exact wording: “A purchase of SELECTED office space within the tower entitles you to private parking bays”
  • “Selected” is doing a lot of work there, and the developer never says which lots are the selected ones
  • 553 bays appears in The Edge’s branded content and in neither of the developer’s own documents — one figure, one paid source, labelled as such
  • Not published: the bays per lot, whether they are accessory parcels on the strata title or merely licensed, and what happens to them on a resale

BUSINESS CENTRE

no level stated
  • “Meeting rooms, private offices and co-working space” — the developer’s own words
  • Not published: the area, the level, the operator, and whether access is included in the service charge or billed separately. Four unanswered questions on one heading
  • Nothing states that it is open or operating. This page describes a published feature, not a running facility

LANDSCAPED DECK

SHARED with three other buildings
  • “About 19,000 sq ft”, and the developer says it is “connected to Corporate Office Tower 3, Amari Hotel and ViiA Residences”
  • So it is a four-building amenity and not this tower’s own, and this page says so rather than letting the square footage read as yours
  • Not published: who manages it, who pays for it, and what an office owner in this tower is actually entitled to use

SKY DINING

no level stated
  • “Ambient dining, drinks and private lounge spaces” — the developer’s own words
  • No level. No operator. No statement that any tenant is committed. That is the space-only risk, and it is named here rather than dressed up: this page does not describe an operating restaurant, because no source establishes that one exists.
  • Not published: the floor it sits on, the area, whether it is accessible to office owners as of right, and whether it is in use today

What is NOT a feature of this tower, stated as a positive

  • The four FIABCI awards. They belong to the development; the two office awards pre-date this tower’s completion by three and four years and cannot be its
  • The 92% office occupancy figure. It is The Edge’s branded development-wide letting statistic, reported alongside the two retained corporate towers separately. It is not this tower’s own occupancy and it is not published beside any rent on this page
  • The named anchor tenants. The same branded source names them as tenants of the development. This page does not place any named tenant in this tower
  • The other strata-office product on this site, and the twelve boutique office blocks. Separate buildings with their own separate certificates
  • The licensed home in the same development. It has a registration, a permit history and a filed price band of its own. Not one of those reaches this tower

The dated record — and almost none of it comes from a register, because there is no register entry

2011S P Setia reports taking full control of KL Eco City Sdn Bhd, buying out a 40% minority for RM75 million satisfied in new shares. A corporate share transaction, not a property price
2015Plan approval (17) dlm.BP S1 OSC 2015 3378 under Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur. Filed on the development’s licensed residential component, NOT on this tower — it is cited here only as the evidence for the district and the authority
Sep 2020Two further residential permits issued on this licence, one day apart
Sep 2022Both of those permits now read Permit Telah Dibatalkan at peratus 0.00. 739 homes and 103 storeys of approved development inside this same site, never started
17 Oct 2023THE GOVERNING DATE FOR THIS TOWER. The developer’s own site-progress caption: “Building completed and received it’s Fire authority approval, Certificate of Completion and Compliance”, “& Certificate of Practical Completion have been issued.”, “Currently, handing Vacant Possession to purchasers.”, “Defects Liability period commence with contractors addressing the defects.” (the apostrophe error is the developer’s own)
Aug 2025LEED Gold, v2009 Core and Shell Development, awarded to MERCU ASPIRE. Dated nearly two years AFTER the completion certificate, so it certifies a finished building rather than a design target
Jul 2026Brochure V11 published, CMS-dated 6 July 2026 — and it is the surface whose six office size figures disagree with the project page and with The Edge
Oct 2027The licensee’s KPKT developer licence 11889/10-2027/0156(R) expires 7 October 2027. It governs the development’s licensed homes and it has never governed this tower
NO DATEThere is no filed vacant-possession date, no peratusSiap, no Lewat flag, no pindaanTempohSerahKosong field and no register CCC for this tower — because there is no register entry to carry them. Those fields CANNOT BE CHECKED here, which is not the same as “checked and clean”
The office tiers

The three office tiers — with BOTH of the developer’s own size sets, printed side by side

Six size figures. Two of the developer’s own surfaces. Not one match. The brochure (V11, CMS-dated 6 July 2026) is the smaller figure at every one of the six points, while the developer’s project page and The Edge’s branded content agree with each other against it. The shape you would expect if one surface quoted net lettable area and the other gross — except that NEITHER SURFACE SAYS WHICH IT QUOTES, so that is a hypothesis and not a finding, and this page will not promote it to one. And because this tower has no filing of any kind, there is no statutory schedule to break the tie. Both sets appear below, labelled by surface. Neither is adjudicated.

Executive Offices floor plan at Aspire Tower (Mercu Aspire) by KL Eco City Sdn Bhd, KL Eco City, Pantai Baru, Daerah Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, WP Kuala Lumpur

Executive Offices

Levels 3A–9 · brochure V11: 1,130–1,926 sq ft · project page and The Edge: 1,152–1,971 sq ft

7 levels by the brochure’s own bandBoth bounds disagreeLot count NOT PUBLISHED

The smallest tier, and the one where the disagreement matters most, because at this size a difference of 22 to 45 sq ft is real money per square foot. The brochure puts the band at 1,130–1,926 sq ft; the project page and The Edge put it at 1,152–1,971 sq ft. Neither surface states whether its figure is gross or net, and no filed schedule exists to settle it. The developer publishes no lot count for the tier, no floor plate as a single figure, and no statement of what sanitary or pantry provision a lot is delivered with. The plan here is the developer’s own drawing and it is not to scale; the area of the lot you buy comes from the strata plan and the agreement.

Ask for the strata parcel area in writing
Signature Offices floor plan at Aspire Tower (Mercu Aspire) by KL Eco City Sdn Bhd, KL Eco City, Pantai Baru, Daerah Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, WP Kuala Lumpur

Signature Offices

Levels 10–22 · brochure V11: 3,562–16,110 sq ft · project page and The Edge: 3,623–16,393 sq ft

13 levels by the brochure’s own bandBoth bounds disagreeThe “Low Zone” with Executive

The widest band in the tower, and the widest disagreement: 283 sq ft at the top end. The brochure gives 3,562–16,110 sq ft; the project page and The Edge give 3,623–16,393 sq ft. The project page groups Signature with Executive as the “Low Zone”, 19 levels — which is exactly what the brochure’s own two bands (3A–9 plus 10–22) come to, so the two surfaces AGREE on the zoning while disagreeing on every size. Note also that the developer’s media library holds TWO Signature Offices plans under separate records, so a plan you are shown is identified by its heading, not by a size line.

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Premier Offices full-floor plan at Aspire Tower (Mercu Aspire) by KL Eco City Sdn Bhd, KL Eco City, Pantai Baru, Daerah Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, WP Kuala Lumpur

Premier Offices

Levels 23–39A · brochure V11: 18,718 sq ft (1,739 m²), a full floor · project page and The Edge: 18,690 sq ft

17 levels by the brochure’s own bandA full floor per the brochure28 sq ft apart

A whole-floor tier. The brochure states 18,718 sq ft / 1,739 m² and calls it a full floor; the project page and The Edge state 18,690 sq ft. 28 sq ft apart, and on a full-floor product that is the closest of the three disagreements — which is worth saying, because it is also the one place where the two surfaces nearly meet. The project page groups Premier as the “High Zone”, 18 levels, again matching the brochure’s band. No source publishes the floor plate as a single dimension, the core-to-window depth, the ceiling height or the facade module.

Ask for the full-floor plate in writing
No plan exists for this, because no source says what it would show. 37 office levels in a 42-storey building leaves five.

The five levels nobody accounts for, and the lot count nobody publishes

42 storeys — 37 office levels = 5 levels NOT DESCRIBED BY ANY SOURCE

NOT PUBLISHEDNot a floor planPrinted as a gap

The brochure’s three level bands total 37 office levels. The project page’s 19 Low Zone plus 18 High Zone also totals 37. The building is 42 storeys on both surfaces. So five levels are something other than office space, and NOT ONE SOURCE SAYS WHAT. The number of office lots offered in this tower is also not published by anyone — not on the project page, not in either brochure generation, and there is no register entry to carry a unit count. Nor is this tower’s own parcel area published, which is why there is no density and no plot ratio on this page: the only land figure in existence is the development’s 25 acres, and that denominator carries this tower plus a hotel, a mall, two retained corporate towers, a separate strata-office building, twelve boutique office blocks, a mosque, a rail hub and the residential towers. Dividing anything by 25 acres here would be arithmetic dressed as a fact.

Ask what is on the other five levels

Every plan above is the developer’s own drawing, published at tier level rather than at lot level, and none is to scale. No source publishes, for any tier: the number of lots, the car-park allocation per lot, the floor plate as a single figure, the sanitary or pantry provision per lot, the ceiling height, or which levels the five non-office storeys are. The document that would close the size disagreement and the lot count at once is the strata floor plan, or the schedule of parcels attached to the agreement itself. On a licensed home this page would be able to read a filed built-up schedule instead. There is no such schedule here.

Location

KL Eco City, Pantai Baru / Jalan Bangsar, 59200 Kuala Lumpur

Every distance below is the developer’s own published figure, and every one of them is measured from the 25-acre DEVELOPMENT rather than from this tower’s lobby. That is not a quibble: the developer prints the identical 23-place table, to the metre, on this tower’s page and on the licensed residential component’s page, with two cosmetic wording differences and nothing else. So the figures describe the site, not the building. The two buildings are a few hundred metres apart at most, so the error is small — but this page says which thing was measured. No travel TIMES are published by the developer at all, which is a credit, and this page invents none. Nothing below is estimated and nothing is converted.

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Daerah Kuala LumpurWP Kuala LumpurDewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL)Plan-approval series BP S1Abdullah Hukum LRT & KTM: 50 m

The pin is the development, not this tower. No source publishes a coordinate pair for Aspire Tower itself; the only filed coordinates on this licence belong to the development’s registered residential components, and one of those four records files its latitude and longitude the wrong way round (a latitude of 101 does not exist), so no filed coordinate on this licence is used on this page for anything.

Rail and road — the developer’s own figures

  • Abdullah Hukum Integrated LRT & KTM Station — 50 m. This project’s transit claim is structural rather than marketing: the station is itself listed as a component of the development, and the developer separately lists a two-tier internal road system, pedestrian links, new access ramps and link bridges as masterplan infrastructure
  • And the trap, named: this is NOT the Kerinchi LRT station. Kerinchi serves the adjacent township one stop away on the same line and belongs to other projects’ pages. Nothing on this page borrows a distance from a neighbouring development
  • Mid Valley KTM Station — 1 km
  • Bangsar LRT Station — 1.7 km. Printed deliberately, because the address says Jalan Bangsar and a client will assume the Bangsar station is the near one. It is not. The developer’s own figure says 1.7 km
  • KL Sentral — 3.6 km
  • NOT PUBLISHED, and never estimated here: the walking distance and route from this tower’s own lobby to the station gates. The 50 m is to the station, not through it

Retail, offices and the rest of the development

  • KL Eco City Mall — 50 m · Mid Valley City — 100 m (诘中城)
  • Bangsar Village — 2.7 km · NU Sentral — 3.1 km · Bangsar Shopping Centre — 4.2 km
  • Bukit Bintang — 9.3 km · Suria KLCC — 12.0 km
  • Inside the development itself: a retail mall and podium, a hotel, two retained corporate office towers, a separate strata-office building, twelve boutique office blocks, the licensed residential towers, a mosque and the rail hub. The developer’s own master page now lists only TWO collections still being sold, of which this tower is one — which is the evidence for the branded claim that it is the development’s “final” office tower. “Final” is checkable and it checks out; “finest” is an adjective in paid content

Healthcare, education and parks — all development-wide figures

  • Pantai Medical Centre — 1.8 km · University Malaya Medical Centre — 3.3 km · Assunta Hospital — 5.3 km · Prince Court Medical Centre — 10.5 km
  • University of Malaya — 2.7 km · Kuen Cheng High School — 5.4 km · Alice Smith School Primary Campus — 8.1 km
  • Kuala Lumpur Butterfly Park — 5.0 km · Kuala Lumpur Bird Park — 5.6 km · Perdana Botanical Garden — 6.3 km · Royal Selangor Golf Club — 5.5 km · Tournament Players Club (TPC) Kuala Lumpur — 8.0 km
  • NOT PUBLISHED by anyone, and not guessed at here: any distance to a national or Chinese primary school, to a kindergarten, to a wet market, to a supermarket inside the development, to KLIA or Subang, or to any mosque other than the one on the site — for which no distance is published either

Chinese place names, and the three that stay in Latin script

  • Verified and used on the Chinese version of this page: 吉隆坡 (Kuala Lumpur) · 孟沙 (Bangsar) · 诘中城 (Mid Valley)
  • NOT FOUND in any verifiable source, and therefore NOT invented: a Chinese name for KL Eco City, for Pantai Baru or for Abdullah Hukum. All three stay in Latin script on the Chinese version of this page, and the page says why rather than transliterating them
  • The project names stay in English on the Chinese page in any case, per the standing house rule: Aspire Tower, Mercu Aspire and KL Eco City are written as they are

Lot reference: the only lot reference attached to this development by any source is Lot 215, Pantai Baru, Jalan Bangsar, 59200 Kuala Lumpur, printed as the development’s address on the developer’s master page. It is development-wide and it is NOT published here as this tower’s lot. The mukim, the seksyen, the PT number, this tower’s own parcel title and its own land area are not published by anyone; a strata or master title search, or a DBKL planning extract, would close every one of them.

The statutory record — and it is an absence

What the KPKT register holds for Aspire Tower: NOTHING — field by field, against what a licensed scheme would file

On a licensed housing development this block is the spine of the page: you read the filed building type, the filed contract schedule, the filed tenure, the filed restriction in interest, the filed unit count and the filed selling-price range off one public register entry and one filed advertisement. Aspire Tower has neither. It is in no housing register, under no developer licence of its own, with no advertising and sales permit and no filed statutory advertisement — absent, not lapsed. So the table below is deliberately shaped the other way round: the left column is the field, the second column is what a licensed scheme on this very site DOES file, and the third is what exists for this tower. The licensee KL ECO CITY SDN. BHD., KPKT developer code 11889, holds licence 11889/10-2027/0156(R) valid 8 October 2022 to 7 October 2027 and four registered housing schemes on this development. Walked 11889-1 through 11889-5; the fifth is a client error and the register’s own bilanganProjek reads 4, so the walk and the count agree and no phase was missed. NOT ONE of the four is this tower. And a commercial office tower does not need one: the housing statute reaches housing accommodation, not strata office space. The absence is lawful. It is also complete. Register and developer surfaces read 14 October 2026.

FieldWhat a licensed scheme on this site filesAspire TowerWhat it means for a buyer here
Register entry
Project name as filed
Developer licence
Licence validity
Advertising and sales permit
Permit validity
Filed building type
Contract schedule
Filed unit count
Filed storeys
Filed tenure
Restriction in interest
Encumbrance
Plan approval
Approving authority
Filed selling-price range
Public registry price band
Construction completed
Built percentage
Vacant-possession date
Delivery extension field
Filed advertisement
Late-delivery remedy
Payment protection
Defect liability period
Dispute forum
a numbered record, e.g. 11889-2
a projek.nama value
11889/10-2027/0156(R)
8 Oct 2022 – 7 Oct 2027
an APDL number with a serial and a suffix
a dated window
Pangsapuri Servis / Rumah Pangsa
Jadual G or Jadual H
Jumlah Unit
tingkat
Pajakan with an expiry date
Sekatan Kepentingan, or none
Bebanan Tanah
(17) dlm.BP S1 OSC 2015 3378
Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur
Harga Minima / Harga Maksima
hargaMin / hargaMax
Tarikh Siap Pembinaan
peratusSiap
vp
pindaanTempohSerahKosong
a filed brochure and newspaper advertisement
the statutory damages formula
a section 7A housing development account
24 months, statutory
the Tribunal for Homebuyer Claims
NONE. In no register anywhere
NONE — there is no record to carry one
NONE for this tower
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NONE. ABSENT, NOT LAPSED
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NOT FILED. The developer’s own heading is COMMERCIAL OFFICE TOWER
NONE. No statutory schedule is prescribed, because the housing statute does not reach it
NOT PUBLISHED by any source
42, on the brochure and the project page
NOT PUBLISHED, by anyone
NOT PUBLISHED, in either direction
NOT PUBLISHED
NONE for this tower
Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur — established from the development’s plan prefix, not from a filing on this tower
NONE EXISTS
NONE EXISTS
17 Oct 2023 — the developer’s own site-progress caption
NO FIELD. Cannot be checked
NO FIELD. Cannot be checked
NO FIELD. Cannot be checked
NONE
whatever the private contract gives
NONE statutory. Progress payments are NOT ring-fenced by statute
contractual only — commercial periods are commonly 12 months or less
court or arbitration, at commercial cost
There is no code to search and no name to search — the tower is in no housing register at all
Search the development’s licensee by the string “Eco City”, and expect to find its HOMES, not this tower
The licensee is checkable; this tower is not
Aktif, no offence recorded
No permit to expire, so no permit to check
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A developer heading is not a filed type
Read the actual agreement with a solicitor. Every term in it is negotiable rather than prescribed
Ask for the schedule of parcels
Both surfaces agree
Get it from a title search before any booking
A restriction could exist and nothing published would show it. The title is the only source
Ask for a land search
Cited here only as district evidence
Federal Territory jurisdiction
This is WHY this page publishes no price
And why there is no band to quote either
The strongest fact on this page: it is finished
Not a readable field here
A CCC is not a vacant possession
Not a readable field here
No statutory particulars of any kind
Read the clause
Ask who holds your money and under what
Ask for the period in writing
Budget for it

THERE IS NO PRICE IN THIS TABLE, AND THAT IS THE FINDING RATHER THAN AN OMISSION. No filed statutory selling-price range exists for Aspire Tower, because it is not a licensed housing development and nothing has been filed for it. No public government registry band exists either, because it is in no register. The developer publishes no price on its project page and none in either brochure generation — and that is a clean outcome worth crediting, not a gap. The house rule where no filed statutory range exists is that the page publishes no price, and this page follows it. A real figure comes from the developer’s price list and from the sale and purchase agreement itself. This page is not a price list, a quotation or an offer.

Two things in that table deserve to be read twice, because they are the fields that look clean and are actually unreadable. First, the delivery fields. On a licensed scheme this page would print peratusSiap, the Lewat flag, the pindaanTempohSerahKosong extension field, the filed vacant-possession date and the register’s own CCC, and it would score the developer’s delivery against them. For this tower those fields do not exist, so they CANNOT BE CHECKED — which is not the same thing as having been checked and found clean, and this page will not let the blank read as a pass. Second, the title fields. No source states this tower’s tenure, its restriction in interest, its encumbrance position or the land-use category of its title. The only filed title particulars anywhere on this development belong to a different, licensed, residential component, and they are that component’s and not this tower’s. This page does not read them across, and neither should anybody else. And the standing distinction, because it cuts the other way too: a commercial land category would not of itself remove the housing statute from a licensed scheme. The absence of a licence on this tower is a separate and sufficient fact, and that is the one this page rests on.

What a buyer of an office lot here actually has — and what they do not

Say the absent half first, because it is the part that changes the purchase. Aspire Tower sits outside the Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Act 1966 entirely. There is no developer licence for this tower, no advertising and sales permit and no filed statutory advertisement. It follows, and every line of it is a real loss of protection compared with a licensed home: no Jadual G and no Jadual H statutory sale and purchase agreement — the agreement is whatever the developer’s solicitors draft, and every term in it is negotiable rather than prescribed; no statutory liquidated damages for late delivery — the only late-delivery remedy is whatever that private contract gives; no section 7A housing development account, so progress payments are not ring-fenced by statute and you should ask who holds your money and on what terms; no statutory defect liability period — the housing statute’s 24 months does not apply, the period is whatever the contract says, and commercial periods are commonly 12 months or less; no recourse to the Tribunal for Homebuyer Claims — a dispute goes to court or to arbitration, at commercial cost. And no filed advertisement means no filed building type, no filed tenure or lease expiry, no filed restriction in interest, no filed chargee, no filed car-park allocation, no filed built-up schedule and no filed selling-price range. NOW THE OTHER HALF, AND IT IS NOT A CONSOLATION PRIZE. The building is finished and certified. The developer’s own site-progress caption, dated 17 October 2023, records fire-authority approval, the CCC, a certificate of practical completion, vacant possession being handed to purchasers, and the defect-liability period running with contractors attending to defects. You can inspect what you are buying, which is the single largest practical advantage over an unlicensed building still to be built. The developer is checkable even though the tower is not. KL ECO CITY SDN. BHD. holds a current KPKT licence, four registered housing schemes on this same site and a register conduct record that reads Aktif with mempunyaiKesalahan: null — no offence recorded. That record is readable in both directions, so here is the other side of it: two of those four registrations read Permit Telah Dibatalkan at peratus 0.00 — 739 homes and 103 storeys of approved, permitted and then abandoned residential development inside this same 25-acre site, and no source says why. A buyer of an office lot here can check the developer even though they cannot check the scheme, and that is a materially better position than an unlicensed developer. It is not the same as statutory protection, and this page does not let it stand in for one. What replaces the statute is your contract. Which is why that contract needs a solicitor rather than a brochure, and why the first thing to ask for is the draft agreement and the title.

The strata position is ASSERTED, not documented — and the developer never uses the word

A commercial office tower sold in parcels would normally be a strata product, with individual strata titles under the Strata Titles Act 1985 and a management corporation formed under the strata legislation to run the common property. That is almost certainly what this is. It is still not what the developer’s own documents say. The word “stratified” comes from third-party BRANDED content. The developer’s own brochure and its own project page never use the word “strata” at all, and the only thing the developer itself puts in writing is a general offer of office space, service premises and parking bays for purchase. No source states the land-use CATEGORY of this tower’s title either. So this page records the strata characterisation as resting on branded third-party wording, and says plainly that it should be confirmed from the actual title and the strata plan before any booking — not because it is doubted, but because on this tower there is no filed document that would otherwise settle it, and a management arrangement you will pay for every month should not be established from an article. The practical consequence, and it is the one to act on: if this is a strata parcel, then the management corporation, the share units, the service charge, the sinking fund and the accessory parcels (the parking bays) are all defined in documents that exist — the strata plan and the agreement. Ask for them. Nothing published answers any of those five questions.

Foreign buyers — the honest answer is that the position is NOT DOCUMENTED for this product

This page is not going to print a threshold figure for this tower, and the reason is not caution. It is that no source reached establishes one. The district was settled first, from the filed plan prefix: the development’s own statutory panel carries plan approval (17) dlm.BP S1 OSC 2015 3378, the BP S1 series is Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur’s one-stop-centre building-plan series for the city’s south-west quadrant, and the approving authority named on that same panel is DBKL. DBKL has Federal Territory jurisdiction only. So: Daerah Kuala Lumpur, Negeri WP Kuala Lumpur, a FEDERAL TERRITORY project. Then the threshold, looked up second — and here the answer runs out. The RM1,000,000 Federal Territory acquisition floor is documented for RESIDENTIAL property, through the Ministry of Economy’s property-acquisition guideline effective 13 July 2022, with consent routed federally rather than through a state authority because Kuala Lumpur is a federal territory. It is NOT documented, in either direction, for a COMMERCIAL STRATA PARCEL by any source reached on this job — so this page does not print it as though it governed this tower, and it does not invent a commercial figure either. What a foreign buyer of an office lot here actually needs is specific advice, on three questions, before signing: whether a minimum-value floor applies to a commercial strata parcel at all; whether consent is required and from whom; and whether any restriction in interest is endorsed on this particular title — which nothing published would reveal, because nothing is filed for this tower. Two figures that must NOT be used here, and they are named so nobody reaches for them: any Selangor zone figure, because this project is not in Selangor; and the filed particulars of the licensed residential component in this same development, because a residential floor applied to a commercial title would be a borrowed number wearing a statutory face.

LEED Gold, Core and Shell — what the certificate says, and what it does NOT cover

The certificate was read first-hand, and it reads: MERCU ASPIRE, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · LEED v2009 · CORE AND SHELL DEVELOPMENT · GOLD · August 2025, established by the U.S. Green Building Council and verified by Green Business Certification Inc. Three things follow and the page has to get all three right. ONE: Core and Shell is a LIMIT, and stating it is the honest half of the fact. It rates the base building — the structure, the envelope and the core systems — and NOT the fit-out of any individual office lot. A buyer’s own suite is not certified by this certificate. On a tower with no licence, no permit and no filed advertisement, a green badge is exactly the kind of thing a reader will over-read, and stopping that is part of this page’s job. TWO: the rating version is v2009, which is a retired version, certified in August 2025. That is stated because it is on the certificate. No inference is drawn from it, in either direction — this page is not going to tell you an old rating version means more or less than a new one, because nothing reached here establishes that. THREE: the certificate is dated nearly two years AFTER the October 2023 completion certificate, so it certifies a completed building rather than a design target. That is the stronger of the two evidential positions available and it is worth one sentence: a “designed to achieve” claim and an awarded certificate are different things, and this is the second kind. And the GBI claim, which fails three ways. The Edge’s branded content says this tower was “designed to receive GBI and LEED Gold certification”, attributed to a property-consultancy representative rather than to the developer — “designed to receive” is TARGETING, not certification. The developer’s own certificate batch holds eight certificates and not one GBI certificate: BCA Green Mark for the residential buildings and LEED for the commercial ones. If a GBI certification existed for this tower, that is the folder it would be in. And the GBI public registry was unreachable to the research tool, which is INCONCLUSIVE and never a negative — so GBI cannot be positively excluded either, and this page simply does not claim it in either direction. GreenRE holds nothing for this project, and for once the absence is EXPLAINED rather than hedged: all four GreenRE tiers were read, three of them close clean against the relevant window and the fourth truncates at the older end and is therefore inconclusive — but this developer certifies this development under BCA Green Mark and LEED, which is why GreenRE holds nothing. The zero is the expected result rather than a search failure. One last discipline point, because this development makes it easy to get wrong: the developer’s own CMS labels each certificate with the component it belongs to, and there are FIVE other LEED certificates on this site for five other buildings — including the development’s OTHER strata-office product. Only the one naming MERCU ASPIRE is this tower’s, and only that one is on this page.

The awards belong to the development, and the two office awards CANNOT be this tower’s

KL Eco City has won four real awards and this page is glad to say so. Not one of them is attributed to Aspire Tower by any source, and two of them are arithmetically impossible as this tower’s. The four, as a branded third-party source states them, and it states them as the DEVELOPMENT’S: FIABCI World Prix d’Excellence, Mixed-Use, Gold, 2022; FIABCI World Prix d’Excellence, Office, Gold, 2020; FIABCI Malaysia Property Award, Mixed-Use, 2021; FIABCI Malaysia Property Award, Best Office, 2019. Now the dates. This tower’s own completion certificate is dated 17 October 2023 — THREE years after the 2020 Office Gold and FOUR years after the 2019 Best Office. A building that was not finished cannot have won an award for being a good office building. The office buildings that existed on this site in 2019 and 2020 were the development’s two retained corporate towers, neither of which is for sale and neither of which is this one. So “award-winning office tower” would be wrong twice over on this page: wrong component and wrong decade. This page does not call itself award-winning. What it may say, and does: the DEVELOPMENT this tower sits in has won four FIABCI awards, in the years named, and the awards are the development’s. The attribution rests on branded content, and the document that would close it is FIABCI’s own citation list, which was not reached. No QLASSIC score was found for this tower, and no award of any kind attaches to the licensee by name.

The three claims in branded content that this page does not adopt

A large part of what is written about this tower sits in one piece of BRANDED, advertorial content. That is not a reason to ignore it — it carries real figures that appear nowhere else — but it is a reason to label every one of them, which this page does. “Grade-A” — there is no statutory or registry definition of Grade A office space in Malaysia and no certifying body is named, so this page quotes it as a third-party description and does not assert it. “Kuala Lumpur’s new central business district” — there is no official designation of a CBD and none is cited. It is an aspiration in paid media and it is labelled as one here. “MSC Malaysia Cybercentre status” — this one is different, because it is a REAL and CHECKABLE status with genuine tax consequences for an office occupier. It could not be verified on this job: the national digital agency’s own Cybercentre register was not reached. So it is recorded here as an unverified branded claim, named rather than quietly dropped, and it is one of the first things to ask about in writing if it matters to your business. Two figures from the same source that ARE printed on this page, each labelled every time it appears: the 553 car-park bays, which appears in neither of the developer’s own documents; and the 92% office occupancy, which that source states as development-wide and reports alongside the two retained corporate towers separately. It is NOT this tower’s own occupancy, it is a letting statistic rather than a price or a return, and this page never places it beside a rent. And the named anchor tenants in that same content are stated as tenants of THE DEVELOPMENT. This page does not place any named tenant inside this tower, because no source does. One claim from that source does check out, and credit where it is due: that this is the development’s “final” office tower. The developer’s own master page now lists only two collections still being sold and this is the only office among them. “Final” is supported. “Finest” is an unfalsifiable adjective in paid content.

Not published, therefore not on this page — and what would close each gap

This is the list Louis will go and ask the developer and the management corporation for. Nothing on it has been filled in from a portal, a brochure or an inference. The number of office lots in this tower — published by nobody; the strata plan would close it. Which lots carry a parking bay, and how many — the developer says “selected” and stops; the agreement’s own schedule of parcels would close it. Which levels the five non-office storeys are — 37 office levels in a 42-storey building, and no source accounts for the rest. The floor plate as a single figure, the core-to-window depth, the ceiling height, and the sanitary and pantry provision per lot. This tower’s own parcel area — only the development’s 25 acres exists, so there is no density and no plot ratio on this page; the title or the DBKL approval would close it. The mukim, seksyen, lot and PT number for this tower’s own parcel — only the development-wide Lot 215 exists, printed as an address. The land-use category of the title, the tenure, and whether any restriction in interest or charge is endorsed — stated by no source; a title search would close all of them at once, and it is the cheapest and most important open item on this whole page. The strata position in a DEVELOPER document — asserted only by branded third-party content. The service-charge and sinking-fund rates. The business centre’s area, level, operator and whether access is charged. The sky-dining space’s level, operator and whether any tenant is committed. Who manages and pays for the shared landscaped deck, and what an office owner here may actually use. This tower’s contractor, contract sum and commencement date — not found, so no construction-float test can be run in either direction on a building with no registration to run it against. A NAPIC or land-registry transaction band — not obtained, and no portal figure has been substituted for one; a current market figure needs a NAPIC or land-registry check. Whether any GBI certification exists — inconclusive, never a negative. The licensee’s company registration number — the register omits the field and no reachable source carries one; a paid company search would close it. The current shareholding of the licensee and the local authority’s position in it, and the terms of the land arrangement behind the development. Why the two sibling residential permits were cancelled, and what those buildings were to be called. A verified Chinese name for KL Eco City, Pantai Baru or Abdullah Hukum — none was found in any source, so all three stay in Latin script on the Chinese version of this page rather than being transliterated.

What this page does not publish, and why

Louis’s own compliance rule governs this page without exception, and it is absolute: no figure describing a discount, a rebate, a nett price, a promotion, a freebie, an incentive or an agency commission from any company material may appear here in either language — and no leaseback rate, guaranteed-rental rate, yield, ROI or rental-return figure may appear either. On a commercial office tower that rule reaches further than it does on a home, and the page states the reasoning rather than just the conclusion: a RENT, a rental rate, a rent-growth percentage and a capital value per square foot are all the direct arithmetic inputs to a return figure. Publishing one of them beside a price would reconstruct the forbidden number. So none of them is published here. ONE, and it is the whole reason there is no price on this page. No filed statutory selling-price range exists for this tower and no public registry band exists either, because nothing has been filed and the tower is in no register. The developer publishes no price on its project page or in either brochure generation. The only price claim anywhere is an “office space from” starting figure inside one piece of branded advertorial content, and it is WITHHELD — and in any case the house rule where no filed statutory range exists is that the page publishes no price at all, which is the rule this page is following. TWO: that same branded source makes claims about rental GROWTH since completion and about rent levels relative to the surrounding market. Those claims EXIST, they are named here so that you know a figure exists rather than wondering whether anyone looked, and no figure from them is recorded anywhere on this page. THREE, and this one is a clean negative rather than a withholding, which is a distinction worth making: because nothing is filed for this tower, there is no statutory particulars panel to carry an ethnic-allocation field at all. A filed housing advertisement in Malaysia prints a Diskaun Bumiputera field; this tower has no filed advertisement, so the field does not exist here and there is nothing to withhold. And one positive worth recording: the developer’s own project page and both brochure generations carry no return claim of any kind — no yield, no ROI, no guaranteed return, no leaseback. Every return claim on this tower sits on paid media, and none on the developer’s own documents. That is the right way round. What this page DOES publish from that paid source, each labelled at every appearance: the 553 car-park bays, and a development-wide 92% office occupancy figure, which is a letting statistic and not a price or a return, and which never appears here beside a rent. For anything about money — what a specific lot costs today, and what is or is not included — ask Louis directly and get the answer in writing. This page is not a price list, a quotation or an offer.

How to check every line of this page yourself, in about ten minutes

Start with the search that proves the central point: look for this tower in the KPKT TEDUH public register and you will not find it. “Aspire” returns three licensed developers and NOT ONE of them is this development’s. The first of the three is the trap: a real, live, correctly-spelled licensee with “Aspire” in its name, in the same city, selling the same product class — and its filed coordinates put it about 4.5 km away in a different quadrant, and its business address is a different road entirely. Same word, different company, different building. “Mercu” returns two licensees and neither is this one, even though Mercu Aspire is this tower’s own Malay name. The only string that reaches this development’s licensee is “Eco City”, which returns KL ECO CITY SDN. BHD., developer code 11889, licence 11889/10-2027/0156(R), with bilanganProjek: 4. Open all four registrations. Every one of them is residential. Three of the four carry the project name Kl Eco City Sdn Bhd — the licensee’s own company name, “Sdn Bhd” included — and the fourth carries the development’s name, so not one of the four carries a project name at all. None of them is this tower. That is the finding, and it is the whole page. Two more searches that return a confident wrong answer, worth running so you recognise them: a search for the GROUP brand returns a real, live, correctly-spelled licensee of the same group that is the WRONG COMPANY, with six projects of its own; and a search for the group’s short name returns forty-plus licensees of which not one is this one, because this licensee’s registered name does not contain the group’s name at all. Then read the developer’s own two surfaces for this tower — its project page and its V11 brochure — side by side, and check the six office size figures against each other. They do not match, on any of the six. Then look for a statutory particulars panel on this tower’s own page. There is none. The licensed residential component in the same development has a full one, and that is exactly the comparison that makes the absence legible. Everything on this page was read on 14 October 2026 and the page is dated.

The developer

KL ECO CITY SDN. BHD. — licensed, checkable, and licensed for the HOMES rather than for this tower

The company every marketing surface names is S P Setia. The company that actually holds the KPKT developer licence on this development is KL ECO CITY SDN. BHD., a single-development special-purpose vehicle named after the development itself. KPKT developer code 11889 · licence 11889/10-2027/0156(R) · valid 8 October 2022 to 7 October 2027 · statusPemaju: Aktif · mempunyaiKesalahan: null, no offence recorded · bilanganProjek: 4. The suffix (R) means RENEWED rather than first-issued, so this is not a new licensee. And the sentence this whole page turns on: that licence and those four registrations govern LICENSED HOUSING on this site. Not one of them is Aspire Tower, and a commercial office tower does not need one.

The group relationship is established from the register’s own field, not from a brochure, and that is a stronger kind of evidence. The register’s alamat_daftar — the licensee’s registered office — reads S P Setia Berhad Corporate Hq, No. 12 Persiaran Setia Dagang, Setia Alam, Seksyen U13, 40170, Selangor. The licensee’s own registered office IS S P Setia Berhad’s corporate headquarters, named as such in the register’s own field. That is how the relationship should be stated: not “a S P Setia project” on a brochure’s word, but a licensee whose registered office the public register puts at the group’s head office. A note on the licensee’s business address, in passing, because it is a trap: the register gives it as the hotel inside this very development. So the licensee’s business address is a building it built. Useful for identification, and it is an office address rather than this tower’s site address. What is NOT published, and is not guessed at here: the licensee’s company registration number. The register omits the field entirely and no reachable source carries one. No registration number for this company appears anywhere on this page; a company search at the companies registry is the document that would close it, and it is a paid search.

The land arrangement behind the development, stated as what it is and labelled so that the words cannot be misread. KL Eco City is developed under a joint-venture arrangement with the city authority, Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur, on the site of a former village; and DBKL is also the plan-approving authority for the development, named on the development’s own statutory panel. The same shape has turned up twice before in this series and it explains the tenure structure and the consent requirements that sit on the development’s titles. In 2011 S P Setia reported taking full control of KL Eco City Sdn Bhd, buying out a 40 per cent minority holding for RM75 million satisfied by issuing 19.379 million new S P Setia shares at RM3.87 each, against an independent valuation of that 40 per cent at between RM53 million and RM73 million. Read that as what it is: a CORPORATE SHARE TRANSACTION between shareholders in 2011. It is not a property price, not a buyer inducement, not a leaseback and not a guarantee of any kind — and that is said in the same breath because the words “privatisation” and “consideration” invite exactly the wrong reading. What is NOT established, and so is not written anywhere on this page: the CURRENT shareholding of the licensee (the 100 per cent position rests on a 2011 report of an intention, not on a filing read here); whether the city authority holds any equity; the terms, date, consideration or duration of the land arrangement itself; and whether the former minority retains any interest. The group’s audited subsidiary list and the stock-exchange announcement of the agreement would close those, and neither was reached.

The readable half of the developer’s record, in both directions, because that is what “checkable” has to mean. In this licensee’s favour: the licence is current with just under a year to run, the conduct record is clean, and the development includes a 708-home tower that was completed and certified in 2017 and a 326-home tower completed and certified in 2021. This is a developer that finishes buildings on this site, and this tower is itself the third piece of that evidence. Against it, on the same public record: two of the four registrations — 289 homes over 41 storeys and 450 homes over 62 storeys — were permitted one day apart in September 2020, each granted an approved delivery extension, and both now read Permit Telah Dibatalkan at peratus 0.00: never started, and then cancelled. 739 homes and 103 storeys of approved development inside this same 25-acre site, and no source anywhere says why. For an office buyer that is the most useful unpublished fact on the whole job, because it is the honest answer to “what else is coming here?” — and it is also the reason this page prints no forward-looking density or population figure for the site.

One cross-reference, and the boundary that goes with it. The licensed residential component in this same development — a completed 326-home serviced-residence tower with a real registration, a filed statutory panel, a permit history, a filed price band and a filed contract schedule — has its own page here: ViiA Residences, KL Eco City. NOTHING on that page reaches this tower. Its developer licence, its registration, its advertising permit, its filed contract schedule, its filed price band, its own green certificate and the residential acquisition threshold that applies to it are all that component’s and none of them is Aspire Tower’s. Two legally different products on one 25-acre site, by one developer, and the single worst thing either page could do is let the protections that genuinely attach to the licensed home read across onto the office tower where they do not exist. That is why they are two pages.

Sources for this section: the KPKT TEDUH public register’s own licensee and project records, read field by field on 14 October 2026; the developer’s own project page and V11 brochure for this tower; the development’s own statutory panel on its licensed residential component, cited only for the plan-approval reference and the approving authority; one business-press report for the 2011 corporate transaction; and a public encyclopaedia entry for the development’s component list and the land arrangement. No company material of Louis’s own agency was opened and nothing on this page comes from one. Nobody was contacted on Louis’s behalf in preparing this page: no email was sent, no enquiry form submitted and no developer or agent approached.

Questions and answers

The questions a commercial office buyer actually asks about Aspire Tower

Is Aspire Tower a licensed housing development, and does it have an advertising and sales permit?
No, to both, and the absence is total rather than partial. Aspire Tower holds no KPKT registration, no developer licence of its own and no advertising and sales permit, and no statutory advertisement has been filed for it. Absent, not lapsed — there is nothing that expired. The developer of this development, KL ECO CITY SDN. BHD. (KPKT code 11889, licence 11889/10-2027/0156(R), valid to 7 October 2027), does hold four registered housing schemes on this same 25-acre site. Not one of them is this tower. And a commercial office tower does not need one: the Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Act 1966 reaches housing accommodation, not strata office space. So the absence is lawful and entirely normal for this product class — which is a different statement from saying it does not matter. It matters a great deal, and the next answer is what it costs you.
So what protections do I lose compared with buying a licensed home?
All of the statutory ones. Here they are, one line each, because every line is a real difference. No Jadual G and no Jadual H statutory sale and purchase agreement. The contract is whatever the developer’s solicitors draft and every term in it is negotiable rather than prescribed. No statutory liquidated damages for late delivery — the only late-delivery remedy is whatever that private contract gives you. No section 7A housing development account, so progress payments are not ring-fenced by statute; ask who holds the money and on what terms. No statutory defect liability period — the housing statute’s 24 months does not apply; the period is contractual and commercial periods are commonly 12 months or less. No recourse to the Tribunal for Homebuyer Claims — a dispute goes to court or to arbitration, at commercial cost. And because nothing is filed, there is no filed building type, no filed tenure, no filed restriction in interest, no filed car-park allocation, no filed built-up schedule and no filed selling-price range to read. What replaces every one of those is your own contract and a title search. Which is why this purchase needs a solicitor engaged before a booking, not after it.
Then what do I actually get, and is any of it better than a new launch?
Yes, and the biggest item is the simplest: the building is finished. The developer’s own site-progress caption, dated 17 October 2023, records that the tower received its fire-authority approval, its Certificate of Completion and Compliance and its certificate of practical completion, that it was then handing vacant possession to purchasers, and that the defect-liability period had commenced with contractors attending to defects. You can walk the floor plate, measure the ceiling, see the lift lobby and look at the view before you commit, and no amount of statutory protection substitutes for that. Beyond that: 42 storeys with 37 office levels in three published tiers; 16 lifts in two independent lobbies; a shared landscaped deck of about 19,000 sq ft; a published business centre and sky-dining space; the rail hub 50 m from the development; and LEED Gold for Core and Shell, awarded August 2025 on the finished building. Plus a developer you can check: a current licence, a clean conduct record and two completed, certified residential towers on this same site. A buyer here can check the developer even though they cannot check the scheme. None of that is a statutory protection, and this page does not let any of it stand in for one.
Why is there no price on this page?
Because there is no filed figure to publish, and the house rule in that situation is to publish nothing rather than something. On a licensed scheme this page would print the filed statutory selling-price range off the filed advertisement, labelled as such. Aspire Tower has no filed advertisement, so there is no filed range. It is in no public register, so there is no registry band either. The developer itself publishes no price on its project page or in either brochure generation, and that is a clean outcome worth crediting rather than a gap. The one starting-price claim that exists anywhere sits inside a piece of branded advertorial content, and it is withheld — and in any case the rule above would govern. A real figure comes from two documents: the developer’s price list, and the sale and purchase agreement itself. Ask Louis and get it in writing. This page is not a price list, not a quotation, not an offer.
How big are the office lots? I have seen two different sets of figures.
So have we, and both sets are the developer’s own. Six figures, two of its own surfaces, not one match. Here they are side by side.
TierLevelsDeveloper brochure V11, CMS-dated 6 Jul 2026Developer project page, and The Edge (branded)Gap
Executive3A–91,130 – 1,926 sq ft1,152 – 1,971 sq ft22 and 45 sq ft
Signature10–223,562 – 16,110 sq ft3,623 – 16,393 sq ft61 and 283 sq ft
Premier23–39A18,718 sq ft (1,739 m²), a full floor18,690 sq ft28 sq ft
The brochure is the smaller figure at every one of the six points, which is the shape you would expect if one surface quoted net lettable area and the other gross — but NEITHER SURFACE SAYS WHICH IT QUOTES, so that is a hypothesis and this page will not promote it to a finding. The brochure is also the LATER document, and yet it is the odd one out: the project page and the branded article agree with each other against it. And because nothing is filed for this tower, there is no statutory schedule anywhere to break the tie. Both sets are printed, labelled by surface, and neither is adjudicated. The document that would settle it is the strata floor plan, or the schedule of parcels attached to the agreement for the specific lot. Ask for that before agreeing a price per square foot.
The building is 42 storeys but only 37 levels are offices. What is on the other five?
Nobody says, and this page is not going to guess. The developer’s brochure gives three level bands — Executive 3A–9, Signature 10–22, Premier 23–39A — which total 37 office levels. The project page describes 19 levels in the Low Zone and 18 in the High Zone, which also totals 37. So the two surfaces AGREE on 37 office levels, and both say the building is 42 storeys. Five levels are therefore something other than office space, and no source published by anyone says what they are. It is worth asking about specifically, because what sits directly above or below a lot — plant, car park, a food-and-beverage level, a transfer plate — affects noise, access, floor-to-ceiling height and sometimes the service charge. Ask for a schedule of what is on all 42 levels.
Is it a strata title? Will there be a management corporation?
Almost certainly yes to both, and the honest answer is still that it is asserted rather than documented. “Stratified” comes from branded third-party content. The developer’s own brochure and project page never use the word “strata” at all — the developer’s own wording is a general offer of office space, service premises and parking bays for purchase. No source states the land-use category of the title either. If it is a strata parcel, then there will be individual title under the Strata Titles Act 1985 and a management corporation formed under the strata legislation to run the common property, and the share units, the service charge, the sinking fund and the accessory parcels will all be defined in documents that exist: the strata plan and the agreement. Not one of those five things is published anywhere. So: confirm the strata position, the land-use category and the tenure from the actual title and the strata plan before any booking. Not because it is doubted, but because on this tower there is no filed document that would otherwise settle it, and a monthly management charge should not be established from an article.
Can a foreigner buy an office lot here, and what is the minimum price threshold?
This page will not give you a threshold figure for this tower, and the reason is that no source reached establishes one. The district is settled: the development’s own filed plan-approval reference carries the BP S1 prefix, which is Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur’s one-stop-centre building-plan series, and DBKL is named as the approving authority. DBKL has Federal Territory jurisdiction only. So this is Daerah Kuala Lumpur, WP Kuala Lumpur — a federal territory project. The RM1,000,000 Federal Territory acquisition floor is documented for RESIDENTIAL property, under the Ministry of Economy’s property-acquisition guideline effective 13 July 2022, with consent routed federally because Kuala Lumpur is a federal territory. It is NOT documented in either direction for a COMMERCIAL STRATA PARCEL by any source reached on this job. So this page does not print it as if it governed this tower, and it does not invent a commercial figure to put in its place. And no Selangor zone figure applies: this project is not in Selangor. What a foreign buyer here needs is specific advice on three questions before signing: whether a minimum-value floor reaches a commercial strata parcel at all; whether consent is required and from whom; and whether any restriction in interest is endorsed on this particular title — which nothing published would reveal, because nothing is filed for this tower. A title search and a Malaysian lawyer, in that order.
Does my office lot come with car-park bays?
The developer’s own answer is: only some lots do, and it does not say which. Its exact published wording is that “a purchase of SELECTED office space within the tower entitles you to private parking bays”. “Selected” is doing a great deal of work in that sentence, and the developer never identifies the selected lots. The only bay count that exists anywhere is 553, and it comes from one piece of branded third-party content — it appears in neither of the developer’s own documents. One figure, one paid source, labelled as such every time it appears on this page. Not published by anyone: the bays per lot, whether a bay is an accessory parcel on the strata title or merely licensed to the owner, where the bays sit, and what happens to them on a resale. Those four questions are answered by the schedule of parcels attached to the agreement, and they should be answered in writing before a booking, because on a commercial office parcel a bay that is licensed rather than titled is a materially different asset.
It is LEED Gold certified. What does that actually cover?
The base building, and not your suite. That distinction is the whole answer. The certificate reads: MERCU ASPIRE, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · LEED v2009 · CORE AND SHELL DEVELOPMENT · GOLD · August 2025, from the U.S. Green Building Council, verified by Green Business Certification Inc. Core and Shell rates the structure, the envelope and the core systems. It does NOT rate the fit-out of any individual office lot, so a buyer’s own suite is not certified by this certificate. On a tower with no licence, no permit and no filed advertisement, a green badge is exactly the kind of thing a reader will over-read, so this page states the limit as prominently as the grade. The rating version is v2009, a retired version, certified in August 2025. That is stated because it is on the certificate; no inference is drawn from it in either direction. And the one genuinely strong point: the certificate is dated nearly two years AFTER the October 2023 completion certificate, so it certifies a COMPLETED BUILDING rather than a design target. A “designed to achieve” claim and an awarded certificate are different things, and this is the second kind. Separately: “designed to receive GBI” in branded content is targeting rather than certification, the developer’s own eight-certificate set contains no GBI certificate at all, and the GBI registry could not be reached — which is inconclusive and never a negative. So this page claims no GBI certification, and does not assert its absence either.
Is this an award-winning office tower?
No, and two of the four awards could not possibly be this tower’s. KL Eco City has won four real FIABCI awards and they are the DEVELOPMENT’S: World Prix d’Excellence Mixed-Use Gold in 2022, World Prix d’Excellence Office Gold in 2020, a Malaysia Property Award for Mixed-Use in 2021 and a Malaysia Property Award for Best Office in 2019. Aspire Tower’s own completion certificate is dated 17 October 2023 — three years after the 2020 Office Gold and four years after the 2019 Best Office. A building that was not finished cannot have won an award for being a good office building. The office buildings that existed on this site in 2019 and 2020 were the development’s two retained corporate towers, neither of which is for sale and neither of which is this one. So “award-winning office tower” would be wrong twice over here: wrong component and wrong decade. What is accurate, and what this page says: the development this tower sits in has won four FIABCI awards in the years named, and the awards are the development’s. The attribution itself rests on branded content; FIABCI’s own citation list would close it and was not reached.
How many office lots are there, and how many are left?
Neither figure is published by anyone, and there is no register entry that would carry either. The developer’s project page gives no lot count. Neither brochure generation gives one. There is no KPKT registration for this tower, so there is no Jumlah Unit field and no Baki Unit remaining-stock field to read. That is a genuine difference from a licensed scheme, where both numbers are public: on the licensed residential component in this same development you can read 326 units and the number still unsold straight off the developer’s filed panel. For this tower you can read nothing. What IS published is that the developer’s own master page now lists only two collections still being sold on this 25-acre site, and this tower is one of them — so it is still selling, and it is the development’s only office product still on the market. The strata plan would give the lot count. Ask for it, and ask what is left in writing.
What is the landscaped deck, the business centre and the sky dining, exactly?
Three published features, and between them eleven unanswered questions. Taking them in order. The landscaped deck is about 19,000 sq ft and it is SHARED. The developer’s own words are that it is “connected to Corporate Office Tower 3, Amari Hotel and ViiA Residences” — so it is a four-building amenity, not this tower’s own, and the square footage should not be read as yours. Who manages it, who pays for it and what an office owner here may actually use are not published. The business centre is described as “meeting rooms, private offices and co-working space” and nothing else: no area, no level, no operator, and no statement of whether access is included in the service charge or billed separately. The sky dining is described as “ambient dining, drinks and private lounge spaces” — no level, no operator, and no statement that any tenant is committed. That is the space-only risk and this page names it: nothing establishes that an operating restaurant exists, so this page does not describe one. All three are worth asking about in writing before a booking, because all three are the kind of amenity that is priced into a purchase and then turns out to be shared, charged or empty.
Is this the same thing as the other strata offices at KL Eco City?
No, and this is the sharpest confusion risk on the whole development, because it sits inside the development itself. KL Eco City contains at least FIVE distinct office products: this tower; a separate strata-office product with its own separate LEED certificate and its own listings; two retained corporate office towers, one of them a former city-authority building and both let rather than sold; and twelve boutique office blocks with three more LEED certificates between them. So every listing-portal figure, every rent, every “Grade-A strata office at KL Eco City” claim and every image has to be checked against WHICH office product it describes before it means anything at all. The developer’s own media library makes the point for us: it labels every green certificate with the component it belongs to, and only the one naming MERCU ASPIRE is this tower’s. The library’s most attractive facade render is titled simply “Tower” and is attached to the development’s township record — which identifies nothing on a site with seven towers, and is why it is not on this page.
What else is still to be built around this tower?
Less than the masterplan once promised, and the public record says so. Two of the four housing registrations on this developer’s licence — 289 homes over 41 storeys and 450 homes over 62 storeys — were permitted one day apart in September 2020, each granted an approved delivery extension, and both now read Permit Telah Dibatalkan at peratus 0.00: approved, permitted, advertised, never started, then cancelled. That is 739 homes and 103 storeys of residential development inside this same 25-acre site that did not happen, and no source anywhere says why or what either building was to be called. For an office buyer that is useful in two directions: it is the honest answer to “what else is coming here?”, and it is the reason this page prints no forward-looking density or resident-population figure for the site. The developer’s own master page now lists only two collections still being sold, which is the other half of the same picture: most of this development is built, let or sold.
How do I check all of this myself?
In about ten minutes, and the first search is the one that proves the point. Search the KPKT TEDUH public register for “Aspire”. You get three licensed developers and not one of them is this development’s. The first is the trap: a real, live, correctly-spelled licensee with “Aspire” in its name, in the same city, selling the same product class — and its filed coordinates put it about 4.5 km away in a different quadrant of Kuala Lumpur, with a business address on a different road. Same word, different company, different building. Search “Mercu” and you get two licensees, neither of them this one, even though Mercu Aspire is this tower’s own Malay name. The only string that reaches this development’s licensee is “Eco City”, which returns KL ECO CITY SDN. BHD., code 11889, licence 11889/10-2027/0156(R), with four registrations. Open all four. Every one is residential. None is this tower. Then read the developer’s project page and its V11 brochure side by side and check the six office size figures against each other. They do not match on any of the six. Then look on this tower’s own page for a statutory particulars panel. There is none. The licensed residential component in the same development has a full one, and that comparison is what makes the absence legible. Everything on this page was read on 14 October 2026 and the page carries that date.

Ask the questions this page cannot answer, and get them answered in writing

This page has taken the public record as far as it goes, and on this tower the public record runs out early: there is no registration, no licence for this tower, no permit and no filed advertisement to read. What remains is the draft agreement, the title, the strata plan and the price list — four documents that exist and that Louis can ask for on your behalf. Ask for all four before a booking, not after one.

Not a price list, not a quotation, not an offer. This page is marketing information compiled from the KPKT TEDUH public register, the developer’s own published surfaces and named third-party sources, each attributed where it is used. No price is published on this page, because no filed statutory selling-price range and no public registry band exists for this tower. Aspire Tower is a commercial office tower outside the Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Act 1966: no Schedule G, no Schedule H, no statutory late-delivery damages, no section 7A housing development account, no statutory defect liability period and no Tribunal for Homebuyer Claims apply to it. Figures and registers read 14 October 2026.

Louis Koh

Director, LK Group Marketing · IQI Realty Sdn Bhd, Registered Estate Agency

Over a decade in Johor Bahru and Kuala Lumpur property, and this page is written the way Louis works: the public register first, every figure tagged with the document it came from, and whatever nobody publishes written down as missing rather than filled in. On a commercial office tower outside the housing statute that discipline matters more, not less: there is no filed advertisement to check the marketing against, so the only honest page is one that says exactly which document each line came from and which lines have no document at all. For the price, the draft agreement, the title, the strata plan and the schedule of parcels, message Louis and ask for them in writing.

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Published 15 October 2026 · last verified 15 October 2026 · KPKT TEDUH register, the developer’s own project page and V11 brochure, the developer’s own LEED certificate and named third-party sources, all read 14 October 2026 · marketing information, not an offer · no price is published on this page, and the page states why

Aspire Tower, KL Eco CityCompleted 42-storey commercial office tower · CCC 17 Oct 2023 · NO licence, NO permit, NO filed advertisement · NO price published
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Developer: S P Setia (11 developments on this site)

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