Alam Pesona
The second phase of a 1,200-home condominium community in Putatan, fifteen minutes from the airport — where Phase 1 is already finished and handed over, so you can inspect the facilities and the neighbours before you commit to the tower that is still to be built.
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Alam Pesona Phase 2 (Sapphire) at a glance
Alam Pesona is a condominium community of three planned 20-storey towers at Kampung Gambalon, Putatan, Sabah, by WK Consortium Sdn Bhd, with 460 units in the Phase 2 tower now selling; Putatan is the district between Kota Kinabalu and Penampang that sits closest to the airport and the Pan Borneo Highway. Phase 1 (Emerald Tower, about 400 units) received its Certificate of Compliance and Completion in June 2024 and is sold out, according to the developer. Phase 2 is Block Sapphire: a 20-storey tower of 460 units on a 99-year lease, in five layouts from 449 sq ft (one bedroom) to 868 sq ft (three bedrooms) — the sizes printed on the developer's own floor plans, which are now on this page — with completion targeted for 2028, 36 months from the sale and purchase agreement, per the developer's brochure. The developer's own website gives the Phase 2 selling range as RM340,000 to RM570,000, which puts it among the lower-priced new condominiums in greater Kota Kinabalu. The brochure prints Developer's Licence No. (100-24/1283/24/2)04-2028/02436 and Advertising and Sales Permit No. (100-24/1283/24/2)04-2028/02426, both valid from 17 April 2025 to 16 April 2028. What is still not settled in public is the size of the whole development — 1,200 homes on the developer's website, 1,320 apartments in the title printed on its artist's impressions — and a list of the developer's earlier completed projects.
- Development
- Alam Pesona · Phase 2Block Sapphire · also listed as Alam Pesona @ Putatan
- Developer
- WK Consortium Sdn BhdKompleks Karamunsing, Kota Kinabalu
- Tenure
- Leasehold 99 yearsCountry lease CL 265493409
- Height
- 20 storeysHomes from ground to 19th floor · 5-storey car park podium
- Units
- 460 in Phase 223 on each floor · 1,200 or 1,320 in all, sources differ
- Sizes
- 449 – 868 sq ftTypes A, B, C, D1, D2 · developer's floor plans
- Price range
- RM340,000 – RM570,000Developer's website, Phase 2
- Status
- Selling · under constructionTarget 2028; Phase 1 done 2024
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Phase 1 is finished — you can see what you are buying into
Emerald Tower received its Certificate of Compliance and Completion in June 2024 and is occupied. The clubhouse, pool, gym and guardhouse already exist, so you can walk the community and see how it is kept before signing for the next tower.
Priced for first homes
The developer publishes a Phase 2 range of RM340,000 to RM570,000. For a condominium with a pool, gym, cinema room and three-tier security, that is towards the lower end of what new projects in greater Kota Kinabalu ask, which is why the developer pitches it at first-time buyers.
Airport-side location
Putatan sits between the city and Penampang, and the development is described by the press as close to Kota Kinabalu International Airport, Putatan town and the Pan Borneo Highway. Listings put the airport about 15 minutes away by car.
460 homes share four lifts — and the project total is quoted two ways
The developer's unit drawings settle Block Sapphire: 23 homes on each floor, ground to 19th, which makes 460, served by three passenger lifts and one fire lift. That is a lot of households per lift at 8am, so ask how Phase 1 copes. For the whole development the developer's website says 1,200 homes, while the title printed on its artist's impressions reads three 20-storey blocks of 1,320 apartments plus four retail shop units. Ask which is current.
Treat the return figure as marketing
The developer's website estimates a return of 14–16% over five years. That is the developer's projection, not an audited figure. Ask for actual Phase 1 rents and resale transactions, which now exist, and judge from those.
Ask about drainage directly
The developer says a 10-ft deep detention drain around the site kept Alam Pesona dry in the 2024 floods that hit much of Penampang and Putatan. That is the developer's account. It is a fair question to put to Phase 1 residents and to your lawyer before you buy in a low-lying district.
Phase 2, decoded
Alam Pesona is planned as three 20-storey towers around a shared clubhouse and a car park podium whose roof carries the eco deck in the artist's impressions — 1,200 homes on the developer's website, 1,320 apartments in the title printed on those impressions: Emerald (Phase 1, completed 2024), Sapphire (Phase 2, now selling) and a third tower the 2023 press called Ruby, which the developer now dates to 2029. Phase 2 keeps the Phase 1 recipe — compact family layouts at a price aimed at first homes — and adds one-bedroom Types D1 and D2 of about 450 sq ft, which Phase 1's four types (A, A1, B, C) did not include. The sizes below are the ones printed on the developer's own floor plans. They are gross areas: the developer's unit drawings also give a smaller usable area for each type, which I quote beside each plan.
Five layouts, three ways of living
Types A & B · 868 & 662 sq ft
Type A: 868 sq ft, three bedrooms and two bathrooms — the corner unit, with a balcony off the living area and a yard beside the kitchen. There is only one on each floor, so 20 in the whole block. Type B: 662 sq ft, which the developer labels ‘2 + 1 bedroom, 2 bath’ — a master bedroom, a second bedroom and a smaller Bedroom 2 beside the yard; eight on each floor, 160 in the block. The unit drawings put the usable areas at 812 and 650 sq ft. These are the homes Alam Pesona was built around — the 2023 press described the project's sizes as 540, 662, 837 and 868 sq ft, and the family types are where most Phase 1 owners live.
Type C · 540 sq ft
540 sq ft with two bedrooms and one bathroom. Agents' listings disagreed on the bathroom count; the developer's floor plan settles it at one, shared by both bedrooms. The plan is 23 ft wide and about 29 ft deep, with the kitchen by the entrance and no balcony or yard drawn, and a usable area of 527 sq ft on the unit drawing. There are eight on each floor — 160 in the block — so, with Type B, it is the most common home in Sapphire, and the one most first-time buyers and couples look at first.
Types D1 & D2 · 449 & 451 sq ft
449 sq ft (D1) and 451 sq ft (D2), each with one bedroom and one bathroom. They are two different plans, not mirror images: D1 is the L-shaped corner unit with a small balcony beside the kitchen, and D2 is a straight intermediate unit with its balcony off the living area. They interlock in pairs at the ends of each floor — three of each per floor, 60 of each in the block — and their usable areas on the unit drawings are about 400 and 395 sq ft. Phase 1 had no one-bedroom type, so these are new — aimed at single buyers, airport and Putatan-based workers, and buyers who want to let.
Facilities, and what the building gives you
The facility list is read from the developer's website, its brochure and the 2023 press report; the building details are from the developer fact sheet and unit drawings. The specification is the developer's architect-signed building specification dated 6 August 2020, which predates the Phase 2 launch — the one that binds the developer is the schedule in your sale and purchase agreement, so compare the two. Some facilities (the sky lounge) are shown for Phase 2 specifically — ask which are shared with Phase 1 and which are new.
Lifestyle facilities
- Swimming pool
- Gym and fitness suite
- Yoga room
- Mini theatre / movie room
- Karaoke room
- Function room
- Kids' room and playground
- Eco deck
- Phase 2 sky lounge
- Basketball court and BBQ area, as reported
- Reported in 2023, not yet confirmed: launderette, childcare centre, 24-hour clinic, hair salon, grocery store and café
The building
- 20 levels of homes, ground to 19th floor
- 23 homes per floor: 1 A, 8 B, 8 C, 3 D1, 3 D2
- 3 passenger lifts + 1 fire lift
- 5-storey car park podium · 1 bay per unit
- Three-tier security behind the Gambalon guardhouse
- Service charge + sinking fund about RM0.22 psf per month
- Title CL 265493409 · subsidiary titles to be applied for
Specification
- Reinforced concrete foundation, beams, columns, floors and roof
- Reinforced concrete walls; brick or lightweight block, plastered, to kitchen and bathrooms
- Ceramic floor tiles to living, dining, kitchen, yard and bathrooms
- Vinyl flooring to bedrooms
- Wall tiles 5 ft high in kitchen and bathrooms
- Ceilings finished in cement and sand to the slab soffit
- Plywood doors with lockset; waterproof plywood door to toilets
- Aluminium-frame clear-glass windows
- Single-bowl stainless steel kitchen sink with one tap
- Bathrooms: the specification says only ‘modern sanitary amenities’, with no brand or model
- Concealed electrical conduit to SESB standard
- Emulsion paint to walls and ceilings; gloss enamel to timber and metal
- 6 ft BRC perimeter fencing with a security auto gate
How the project got here
The five Alam Pesona Phase 2 layouts
These are the developer's own floor plans for Block Sapphire — one for each of the five types, with the size printed on it and a key plan showing where that type sits on the floor — followed by the typical floor layout. The printed sizes are gross areas; the developer's unit drawings give a smaller usable area for each type, which I quote under each plan. Every floor has 23 homes: one Type A, eight Type B, eight Type C, three D1 and three D2. The developer's brochure says its plans are not to scale and are subject to final survey, so the drawing that counts is the one attached to your sale and purchase agreement.
Type A — 868 sq ft, 3 bed 2 bath
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Type B — 662 sq ft, 2 + 1 bed 2 bath
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Type C — 540 sq ft, 2 bed 1 bath
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Type D1 — 449 sq ft, 1 bed 1 bath
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Type D2 — 451 sq ft, 1 bed 1 bath + balcony
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Typical floor — 23 homes, four lifts
Get this floor planInside Alam Pesona
Where Alam Pesona sits
Kampung Gambalon, Putatan — the district just south of Kota Kinabalu city, between Tanjung Aru and Penampang, and the nearest residential district to Kota Kinabalu International Airport. The site is reached past the developer's Gambalon guardhouse. The developer's office is at Kompleks Karamunsing, Kota Kinabalu.
The map is set to the development's name as it appears on public maps. No official coordinates or postcode are published by the developer — confirm the exact entrance with me before you visit.
- Putatan townAbout 5 minby car, portal figure, not the developer's
- Kota Kinabalu International AirportAbout 15 minby car, portal figure, not the developer's
- Kota Kinabalu city / ImagoAbout 20 minby car, portal figure, not the developer's
- Pan Borneo HighwayClose byas reported by the press; no figure published
- SMK PutatanNo figure publishednamed as nearby in property press
- Lok Kawi Wildlife ParkNo figure publishednamed as nearby in property press
Why there is no federal register table on this page
Peninsular project pages on this website carry a table read from teduh.kpkt.gov.my, the federal housing register. Sabah is outside that register by design — housing developers here are licensed under Sabah’s own Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Enactment 1978 — so a Sabah project will not appear there however you search.
What to check instead
The Sabah licence and permit are printed on the developer’s brochure: Developer’s Licence No. (100-24/1283/24/2)04-2028/02436 and Advertising and Sales Permit No. (100-24/1283/24/2)04-2028/02426, both valid from 17 April 2025 to 16 April 2028, with completion stated as 36 months from the date of the sale and purchase agreement. Check that the same numbers appear in your agreement, and if you sign close to April 2028, ask whether they have been renewed.
Ask for the title position. The land is held under a 99-year country lease, CL 265493409, and the development title printed on the developer’s artist’s impressions says subsidiary titles are still to be applied for. Ask whether subsidiary (strata) titles have been issued for Phase 1 yet, and how long Phase 2 owners should expect to wait.
Foreign buyers
Sabah sets its own minimum price for non-citizens and runs its own consent process, and the quoted figures conflict — RM1,000,000 in the Bar Council’s state table, with a lower strata figure also in circulation. With Phase 2 priced at RM340,000 to RM570,000, most or all units are likely to fall below the threshold, so this is realistically a project for Malaysian buyers. If you are not a citizen, get written confirmation through a Sabah conveyancing solicitor before you pay anything, and budget for the flat 8% stamp duty on residential purchases by non-citizens since 1 January 2026.
About WK Consortium Sdn Bhd
The developer is WK Consortium Sdn Bhd (company no. 660499-D, as printed on its brochure), a Sabah company with its office at Lot 9CF01 & 9CF02, Block C, Kompleks Karamunsing, Kota Kinabalu. It names Alam Pesona on its own website and social pages, and describes itself as building properties in Sabah for over 20 years. Its chief executive, Aidah Wong, was quoted by the Daily Express in February 2023 when State Finance Minister Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun visited the project.
The public track record I can verify is Alam Pesona Phase 1 itself: the 400-unit Emerald Tower. In February 2023 the CEO said it was expected to receive its certificate of occupancy that year; the developer's website now states it received its Certificate of Compliance and Completion in June 2024 and that all units are sold. That is a handover roughly half a year after the date the developer itself gave — not a serious delay, but worth knowing.
The developer's social links also point to a project called 1 Avenue, and a business directory lists Kota Marudu alongside Putatan among its project locations. I could not find a published portfolio of earlier completed projects, so I would not rely on the ‘20 years’ claim without asking for the list.
The project's marketing includes a developer-estimated 14–16% return over five years and a leasing service for owners who want the developer to find tenants. I searched for litigation, abandonment and Housing Tribunal claims against WK Consortium and found none reported — which is no adverse record found, not a clean bill of health.
Frequently asked questions
What is Alam Pesona Phase 2 (Sapphire)?
It is the second tower of WK Consortium's Alam Pesona condominium community at Kampung Gambalon, Putatan. The fact sheet gives it as a 20-storey block of 460 units on a 99-year lease, in five layouts from 449 to 868 sq ft — gross areas as printed on the developer's floor plans; its unit drawings put the usable areas at about 395 to 812 sq ft.
Phase 1, the Emerald Tower, is finished: it received its Certificate of Compliance and Completion in June 2024 and is sold out, according to the developer.
Where is Alam Pesona located?
Alam Pesona is at Kampung Gambalon in Putatan district, Sabah, just south of Kota Kinabalu city and next to Penampang, near Kota Kinabalu International Airport and the Pan Borneo Highway.
Listings put Putatan town about 5 minutes away, the airport about 15 and the city about 20 by car — portal figures, not the developer’s. The developer publishes no coordinates or postcode, and the site is reached past its Gambalon guardhouse, so confirm the exact entrance with me before you visit.
What are the prices at Alam Pesona Phase 2?
The developer's website gives the Phase 2 selling range as RM340,000 to RM570,000. In February 2023 the press reported the next phase starting from RM260,000, so prices have moved up since the first announcement.
Price depends on type, floor and facing. I take the current price list directly from the developer and will send it with the availability.
Is Alam Pesona freehold or leasehold?
Leasehold: Alam Pesona is on a 99-year lease, per the developer’s brochure, on country lease CL 265493409, with subsidiary titles for the units still to be applied for.
One property portal’s summary table shows it as freehold while its own description says leasehold; the developer’s brochure is the source to rely on. Ask in writing for the lease start and expiry dates, and for when the subsidiary titles are expected.
When will Alam Pesona Phase 2 be completed?
The developer targets 2028, and its brochure states completion as 36 months from the date of the sale and purchase agreement, under a developer's licence valid to 16 April 2028. Phase 3 is targeted for 2029.
Phase 1 arrived about half a year after the date the developer gave in 2023, so allow for some slippage when planning a move-in date.
How many units are there, and how many of each type?
Block Sapphire has 460. The developer's unit drawings show 23 homes on every floor from ground to 19th: one Type A, eight Type B, eight Type C, three D1 and three D2 — that is 20, 160, 160, 60 and 60 in the block. A February 2023 press report that described the next phase as another 400 units across two towers predates these drawings.
For the whole development the published figures differ: the developer's website says 1,200 homes, while the title printed on its artist's impressions reads three 20-storey blocks of 1,320 apartments plus four retail shop units. Ask the developer which is current.
Can a foreigner buy at Alam Pesona?
Realistically, no, for most units. 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 quoted — and Phase 2 is priced at RM340,000 to RM570,000.
If you are a non-citizen and still interested, get written confirmation from a Sabah conveyancing solicitor for the exact unit before paying anything, and budget for the flat 8% stamp duty on residential purchases by non-citizens since 1 January 2026.
What is the maintenance fee at Alam Pesona?
The developer fact sheet gives RM0.20 per sq ft for the service charge plus RM0.02 per sq ft for the sinking fund — about RM191 a month for an 868 sq ft Type A, and about RM99 for a 449 sq ft Type D1.
These are pre-completion figures. Ask what Phase 1 owners are paying now that their building is running.
Does the area flood?
The developer says it built a 10-ft deep detention drain around the site and that Alam Pesona stayed dry in the 2024 floods that hit much of Penampang and Putatan. I have not found an independent report either way.
Ask Phase 1 residents, and look at the ground-floor and podium levels yourself after heavy rain if you can.
What has not been published?
The floor plans, the unit mix and the licence and permit numbers are now on this page. Still unpublished: one agreed figure for the whole development (1,200 or 1,320 homes); which way each position on the floor faces; the brand and grade of the fittings; actual Phase 1 rents and resale prices; and a list of the developer's earlier completed projects.
Every one of these can be answered in writing. Ask for them before you pay a booking fee.
A first home near the airport?
Tell me which layout and roughly which floor you want, and I will send you what is still available in that position, the current price list and the rents Phase 1 owners are actually getting. I take availability directly from the developer.
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Louis Koh
11 years in Malaysian property · Johor Bahru & Kuala Lumpur new launches · English & 中文
I work with cross-border buyers from Singapore and with local investors. I'll tell you when a project isn't right for you — that's usually worth more than the brochure.
Published 2026-10-05 · Last verified 2026-10-05 against the developer's official website, the developer's brochure, floor plans, unit drawings and building specification, the developer fact sheet, Daily Express reporting and property-portal listings (marked as such). Unit availability, pricing and service charges are set by the developer and are subject to change. This page is marketing information, not an offer or a contract.
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Developer: WK Consortium (1 development on this site)
Where it is: Putatan, Sabah