Danga Sutera (Phase 2)

No. Phase 2 launched in February 2020 with a completion target of December 2022, and public project databases record the estate as completed in 2023. Anything you see marketing it as a new launch is running on stale data.

This matters more than it sounds. On a completed landed house you are buying from an individual owner, not a developer — which means no Housing Development Act protections, no defect liability period from a developer, no staged payment schedule, and the condition of the house is entirely your problem after the keys change hands. You gain the ability to inspect what you are actually buying, which is not nothing.

It also means the honest question is no longer “when will it be ready” but “what has this specific house been through in five years”. Ask for the CCC, the renovation approvals and the last two years of maintenance receipts.

This is landed property, so the threshold is Johor’s RM2,000,000 minimum for a non-citizen buying landed residential property — not the RM1,000,000 strata figure people quote for apartments. Phase 2 was sold by the developer at around RM1.61 million, which is below that floor. Some renovated resale units are currently asked at RM2.7 million, which clears it on paper.

Clearing the price floor is only the first gate. You would also need Johor state consent for the transfer; the title must not carry a restriction barring non-citizens; you would pay the Johor foreign buyer levy of 3% of the purchase price or RM30,000, whichever is higher, in force since 1 July 2025; and you would pay the flat 8% stamp duty that has applied to non-citizens buying residential property since 1 January 2026. On a RM2.7 million house that stamp duty alone is RM216,000.

One narrow exception worth knowing: where the sale and purchase agreement was already signed and stamped and a complete application was submitted to the state land office (PTG) on or before 29 August 2025, the older levy of 2% or RM20,000 whichever is higher applies instead, under PTG circular 02/2014. That is a transitional rule, not a route you can arrange today.

Also note that current listings describe these as non-Bumi lots, which removes one common obstacle but does not remove the consent requirement. If you are a Singaporean looking at landed in Johor, message me before you view anything — the paperwork sequence is what kills these deals, not the price.

Phase 2, which is what this page covers, is 34 two-storey semi-detached homes. That figure comes from the developer’s own HouzKEY collaboration material.

The estate-wide total is genuinely contested. One widely-cited project database gives 525 units for the whole of Danga Sutera; the developer entity’s own company profile describes the estate as approximately 645 landed residential units plus a commercial plot reserved for future development. Iskandar Waterfront City’s corporate page for the project publishes no unit count at all, and the project website that would have settled it is offline.

I am not going to quietly pick one. If the estate-wide count matters to your calculation — for example if you are modelling the maintenance fund — ask the management office for the actual number of parcels paying the monthly charge. That is the only figure that affects you.

Two lot depths on a common 43-foot frontage. Type B sits on a 43 × 70 ft lot with 3,254 sq ft of built-up area; the developer’s HouzKEY specification lists 4 bedrooms plus a maid’s room and 5 bathrooms. Type A sits on the deeper 43 × 85 ft lot with 3,474 sq ft built-up.

A caution on the bedroom counts you will see advertised. A March 2026 resale listing for a Type A advertises 5+1 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms on a 3,655 sq ft land area, described as an intermediate south-facing non-Bumi lot. Some of those rooms are almost certainly owner additions rather than original build. Renovations that add wet areas can and do fall foul of the approved plan.

There are no published floor plans for either type. Before you commit, get the approved building plan and the certificate of completion and compliance from the seller, and have your lawyer check that any extension was approved.

The developer marketed Type B (43 × 70, 3,254 sq ft) through Maybank HouzKEY at RM1,610,800 to RM1,618,800. That is the closest thing to an official launch price in public.

In the resale market as at March 2026, a renovated Type A (43 × 85, 3,474 sq ft built-up, 3,655 sq ft land) was asking RM2,700,000, which works out at RM738 per square foot of land. Asking prices are not transactions.

The transaction record that is public is dominated by the terrace phase, not the semi-Ds: four-bedroom terraces in this estate changed hands between RM900,000 and RM1,175,000 across 2025, at RM569 to RM678 per square foot of built-up area. Semi-D transaction prices in this estate are not published in the free databases.

I pull the actual semi-D transaction history from the paid data before I let a client make an offer here. Message me and I will run it for the specific lot you are looking at.

About 11.2 kilometres in a straight line to Bangunan Sultan Iskandar (the Causeway) and about 10.2 kilometres to the Second Link at Tuas. That near-equal split is the most useful thing about this address and almost nobody advertises it.

Most Johor Bahru addresses commit you to one crossing. From here, on a morning when the Causeway is backed up to Jalan Tun Abdul Razak, you have a real alternative that does not involve doubling back through the city.

What you do not get is rail. The RTS Link terminus at Bukit Chagar is about 11 kilometres away — you would drive there and park. There is no station, no announced line and no walkable transit from this estate.

A private clubhouse shared by all three phases: swimming pool, wading pool, gym room, indoor badminton court, sauna, BBQ pavilion, cafeteria, social lounge, function room and an outdoor children’s playground. Security is a guardhouse with 24-hour patrols, CCTV and card access.

On cost, the only figure in public is from a March 2026 resale listing, which quotes RM150 a month for the clubhouse and RM250 a month for maintenance. That is an agent’s number on one listing, not a published schedule, and landed estate charges are typically reviewed by the residents’ association rather than fixed by a developer.

Before you buy, ask the management office for the current charge in writing, the last audited accounts of the maintenance fund, and whether any special levy has been raised in the past three years. In a 67-acre estate with a real clubhouse, the sinking fund is the number that decides whether the place still looks like the photographs in ten years.

Yes, for a Malaysian citizen or PR this is ordinary residential lending on freehold landed property with individual title — usually the most straightforward category a Malaysian bank sees. Margins of up to 90% are common on a first or second residential property, subject to your debt service ratio.

Two things specific to a resale purchase here. First, the bank values the house, not the asking price; on a renovated unit asking RM2.7 million in an estate where the public transaction record is dominated by RM900,000 to RM1,175,000 terraces, expect the valuer to be conservative and budget for the shortfall in cash. Second, unapproved extensions can reduce the valuation or hold up disbursement — get the approved plan checked before you sign, not after.

For a non-citizen the loan margin is typically 60–70%, and that is on top of the RM2 million price floor, state consent, the levy and the 8% stamp duty. Send me your numbers and I will tell you honestly whether the deal works before you spend anything on it.

The trade is certainty versus warranty. At Danga Sutera you can walk the road, meet the neighbours, count the cars, look at the condition of the clubhouse and see exactly what the management has and has not maintained. You cannot do any of that at a new launch, where you are buying a drawing.

What you give up is the Housing Development Act framework — the defect liability period, the staged payment schedule and the developer’s obligation to deliver to the approved plan. You also give up the developer rebates that make a new launch cheaper than it looks on paper.

Against that, Johor had 3,852 unsold completed residential units in Q1 2026 according to NAPIC, which is a genuine reason to be selective about new landed supply in this state. My rule of thumb: if the specific house is right and the estate is well run, a completed home you can inspect beats a plan you cannot. Message me and I will compare a shortlisted Danga Sutera house against two current landed launches on the numbers, not the brochures.