Anderson Residences @ Ipoh

No, and there are two separate reasons, either of which would be enough on its own.

First, tenure. Perak is recorded as barring non-citizens and foreign companies from acquiring, owning, holding or inheriting freehold property, a position taking effect from September 2023. Anderson Residences is freehold. Every unit in it is therefore outside what a non-citizen may hold in this state.

Second, price. For residential strata bought direct from a developer in Zone 1, which is Ipoh, the state's foreign-buyer band starts at RM500,000. The highest number on this project's published block schedule is RM402,400. Sub-sale strata purchases by foreigners in Perak are recorded as not permitted at all.

Note that “foreign interest” includes Malaysian permanent residents. If you hold PR rather than citizenship, both restrictions apply to you.

These figures come from the Bar Council Conveyancing Practice Committee's own state-by-state table. Perak's rules are unusual enough that I would not act on them from any website, including this one — get written confirmation from the Perak Land and Mines Office through a Perak conveyancing solicitor.

I do not know, and I am not going to speculate about the reason. What I can tell you is what I observed. On 12 August 2026, andersonresidences.com, anderson2ipoh.com, theanderson.my and andersonreresidenceipoh.com all returned browser error pages in a live session, while an unrelated developer site loaded normally in the same session. So this is not a slow page or a rendering problem at my end.

The practical effect is that no brochure, price list, floor plan or facilities plan for this project can currently be obtained from the developer online. Fragments of the developer's own content survive only inside search-engine indexes, and I have labelled every figure that comes from there.

This does not mean the project has stopped. A sales gallery on Lebuh Cator has a public place record and the completion date on the developer's submitted listing data is 2028.

It does mean you should insist on paper. Ask for the current advertising and sale permit, the price schedule for all four blocks, and the stamped floor plans, and do not accept a screenshot.

No, and this is the single most common error in public records on this project.

The Anderson @ Ipoh is Phase 1: 1,030 units, 18 storeys, at 2 Jalan Yeoh Khuan Joo, Taman Fair Baharu, 31400 Ipoh, completed around March 2023. Anderson Residences is Phase 2: 1,290 units, four blocks, on Lebuh Cator, still under construction.

At least one major listing site has imported Phase 1's 7.25-acre land area into Phase 2's record, which is why you will see 7.25 acres and 9.05 acres quoted for the same project. Some agent and directory pages describing “The Anderson” are describing the completed Phase 1 entirely.

If you are shown a completed building or a photograph of finished units, check which phase you are being shown. They are two different products at two different stages.

The schedule I could reach covers three blocks: Block A 295 units at RM294,300 to RM402,400, Block B 334 units at RM225,300 to RM307,100, and Block C 334 units at RM236,000 to RM317,800. That totals 963 units.

The published total for the project is 1,290 units, so 327 units — presumably Block D — are not in that schedule. Public sources consistently describe four blocks.

I am not going to estimate a price band for the fourth block. If an agent quotes you one, ask which document it comes from.

Note also that these are the block schedules on record, not necessarily today's selling prices. With the permit period lapsed, the current price list is a document to ask for by name.

Yes, and more directly than for most projects I write about, so I will give you the numbers rather than a general warning.

NAPIC recorded Perak's residential overhang at 4,063 units in Q1 2026 — the highest of any state in Malaysia. In 2025 Perak held 3,943 unsold completed units, 12.9% of the national 30,471. Kinta district, where Ipoh sits, held 1,035 of those, 26.2% of the state's total, and Kinta's unsold stock is mainly condominiums and apartments. Kinta also holds more than 60% of Perak's condominium and apartment stock.

The RM200,001 to RM300,000 band accounts for the bulk of Perak's unsold units. Types A2, B and B1 all start inside that band.

Valuers attribute the Ipoh problem to a local preference for landed homes over high-rise. That is a structural demand issue, not a pricing one, and it does not resolve by discounting.

The counterweight is the address. A hospital and a school across the road generate real, non-speculative rental demand. But 1,290 units is a very large number for Ipoh, and on resale your main competition will be the other owners in your own building.

They are both in Ipoh and they are close to opposites, so the decision is usually clear once you see them side by side.

Location: Anderson is in the city centre on Lebuh Cator, opposite the general hospital. Raffles 188 is on Jalan Kelab Golf in Taman Golf, the Tiger Lane area, next to the Royal Perak Golf Club and the Perak Turf Club.

Tenure: Anderson is freehold. Raffles 188 is reported as 99-year leasehold with no expiry year disclosed. For a Malaysian buyer that is the biggest single difference between them.

Density: Anderson is 1,290 units across four blocks. Raffles 188 is 188 units in one block. If you dislike sharing lifts, that is your answer.

Price and size: Anderson runs RM225,300 to RM402,400 for 516 to 884 sq ft. Raffles 188's three layouts are 712, 714 and 888 sq ft at a materially higher price per foot.

Maintenance: Anderson is reported at RM0.242 per square foot including sinking fund; Raffles 188 at RM0.30 excluding it. Both are unverified, but the direction of the gap is worth checking.

In short: Anderson for a first home or a hospital-tenanted rental at the lowest entry price; Raffles 188 for low density and a quieter address, if the leasehold does not trouble you.

Neither is published by the developer, because the developer's websites are offline. Aggregator and listing sources quote RM0.242 per square foot inclusive of sinking fund, with one source rounding it to RM0.24. Phase 1 was marketed at RM0.22.

On a 668 sq ft Type B, RM0.242 is about RM162 a month. Against a rent of RM1,100 to RM1,800, that is manageable — but a very low maintenance rate on a 1,290-unit building with a pool, a futsal court, a function hall and a kindergarten is worth stress-testing. Underfunded sinking funds are how buildings decline.

Car park allocation is not published anywhere. Phase 1 was marketed as one free bay per unit. Do not assume the same here — ask for the allocation clause in the sale and purchase agreement, and ask specifically whether the bay is an accessory parcel tied to your title.

Q1 2028 on the developer's own submitted listing data, and April 2028 in a search-index copy of the developer's site. Those are close enough to be the same answer.

One competitor page still says Q4 2025, which is almost certainly stale and should be ignored.

The current construction stage is not published anywhere, and with the developer's websites down there is no progress gallery to check.

If you are considering this project, the single most useful thing you can do is drive to Lebuh Cator and look at the structure. Count the floors. That will tell you more about a 2028 handover than any listing field.

The storey count, because no source I trust gives one. The car park ratio. The Type C starting price. The definitive land area, because 7.25 acres and 9.05 acres are both in circulation and 7.25 belongs to Phase 1. The definitive postcode, for the same reason. The current construction stage. And any project image at all.

On images: there are renders, floor plans, a site plan and facilities graphics circulating for this project, but every one I found is hosted either on an aggregator site or on a competitor's content delivery network. Neither is a source I will republish from. When the developer's material is available again, or when I have the stamped plans from the gallery, the images will go up here properly credited.

I would rather show you an honest gap than a picture I cannot stand behind.