Country Garden Pacificview
Country Garden Pacificview has three projects on this site, all in Johor: Forest City Golf Villa on the mainland golf resort, Forest City Nigella Park on Pulau Satu, and Country Garden Danga Bay in Johor Bahru. All three are stated as freehold – Nigella Park's tenure is described as freehold by the developer and should be confirmed by title search. Golf Villa is 688 strata landed homes of 2,034 to 6,975 sq ft; Danga Bay is around 8,500 units of 794 to 1,523 sq ft across 41 blocks on 57.11 acres, with a transacted median of RM688 psf; Nigella Park's unit mix and sizes are not published by the developer. Note that the SFZ MM2H entry figure of RM500,000 quoted for Forest City is a foreign-buyer eligibility threshold sold direct by the developer, not a price list.
Country Garden Pacificview Sdn Bhd (201301014505 / 1044344-D) is the master developer of Forest City and a joint venture: Country Garden Holdings of Guangdong holds 60% and Esplanade Danga 88 Sdn Bhd, an associate of the Johor state investment arm Kumpulan Prasarana Rakyat Johor, holds 40%. The Forest City master plan covers a planned 30 sq km, of which about 13 sq km is currently planned out. Golf Villa's two phases carry expected completion dates of October 2019 and April 2021 on their sales permits and are built and occupied, alongside two GEO-certified 18-hole courses. Danga Bay is a finished township with retail avenues, a clubhouse, a marina, a private beach and the Beletime mall.
Disclosure, and this is the section to read first. Country Garden Holdings missed offshore bond payments in August 2023 and was declared in default that October; its US$17.7 billion offshore restructuring was sanctioned by the Hong Kong High Court on 4 December 2025 and took effect on 30 December 2025. Forest City's own April 2026 release reports 26,000 completed units, around 80% sold and close to 20,000 residents from more than 20 nationalities – yet a photo caption in the same release says more than 15,000 residents, so the developer's own document is not internally consistent, and all of it is self-reported. Independent property analysts put occupancy across completed towers materially lower than those figures, and the roughly 80%-sold against roughly 20,000-resident gap points to a thin resale and rental market. At Danga Bay, the developer's website claims occupancy of up to 90%, while on 3 August 2026 EdgeProp listed 791 units for sale and 754 for rent in the same scheme. Forest City carried a ghost-city reputation for years. Separately, Nigella Park is marketed in places as golf condominiums with fairway access; its registered parcel sits about 9.4 km in a straight line from the golf resort.
Before committing, run a title search to confirm tenure and any restriction in interest rather than relying on the developer's description. Ask for the developer licence and advertising and sale permit numbers and check them on KPKT's TEDUH portal, including the expected completion date on the permit. If you are a non-citizen, get the SFZ or MM2H eligibility route and its conditions in writing, including any resale restriction period. For resale stock, price against transacted data on the strata scheme, not against asking prices. – Louis Koh, 11 years in Malaysian property.
