Duduk Santai 3 @ Eco Spring

No. Not one unit. The advertising permit puts the price range at RM555,500 to RM594,000, and Johor requires a non-citizen buying strata property to pay a minimum of RM1,000,000. The ceiling here is barely half of that.

EcoWorld's own permit also carries the Sekatan Kepentingan restriction in plain Malay: parcels built on this land cannot be sold or transferred in any manner to non-citizens or foreign companies without state authority consent. So there are two separate bars, not one.

For completeness, if you are comparing this with a project you could buy: the Johor foreign buyer levy from 1 July 2025 is 3% of the price or RM30,000, whichever is higher, with a special minimum of RM50,000 where a serviced residence is priced under RM1 million. The old 2% / RM20,000 rates apply only where the sale and purchase agreement was signed and stamped and the complete application reached the state land office on or before 29 August 2025. Non-citizens buying residential property also pay a flat 8% stamp duty from 1 January 2026. If you hold a foreign passport, message me and I will send you the Johor projects that are actually open to you.

RM555,500 to RM594,000, stated on the advertising permit printed at the foot of EcoWorld's own Santai 3 page and repeated on ecoworld.my. At 872 sq ft that works out to roughly RM637 to RM681 per square foot. There is a 15% Bumiputera discount.

You will find “from RM450,000” and “from RM460,000” on several listing and agent sites. Those are not the permit figures and I would not use them. EcoWorld itself issued an indicative “from RM505K with an early-bird package” line back in June 2025, before the permit was issued in October 2025 — so even the developer's own earlier number has been superseded.

Because there is only one built-up, price differences between units come down to floor level, facing and any terrace attachment. Ask me for the current stack chart and I will tell you what each remaining level is actually being quoted at.

October 2029, on the advertising permit as published on both duduk.my and ecoworld.my. An earlier version of the e-brochure printed September 2029; the current permit says October. Either way it is 2029.

The “2028” that appears on listing portals and agent pages is simply wrong, and it is wrong by more than a year. On a project you are financing through construction, a year of progressive interest is real money.

Construction has started. EcoWorld's published site-progress update at 1 August 2026 reads “Santai 3 – Framework In Progress”. Santai 1 and Santai 2 on the same site are further along and both target January 2027.

627 units, and one layout. Every unit is 872 sq ft (81.0 sqm), three bedrooms, two bathrooms, with two car park bays. As at the permit's July 2026 update, 472 of the 627 were still shown as unsold.

EcoWorld's floor plan shows nineteen units per floor. You will see type codes A, A1, A2 and a set of terrace variants — those differ in sanitary fittings and whether a private terrace is attached, not in area. All of them are 872 sq ft.

The permit does not state a storey count. Nineteen units per floor across 627 units implies 33 residential levels, which matches the “33 storeys” figure circulating online — but that is arithmetic, not a developer statement, and I flag it as such.

It is a real question, because Santai 1 and Santai 2 are the same builder, on the same site, and both hand over in January 2027 — nearly three years before Santai 3.

The numbers: Santai 1 and 2 are 947 sq ft at RM528,000–RM574,800, about RM558–607 psf. Santai 3 is 872 sq ft at RM555,500–RM594,000, about RM637–681 psf. So the earlier phases are 75 sq ft larger and roughly 14% cheaper per square foot. Both are sold out from the developer, so buying in means buying an assignment before completion or a subsale after it.

The case for Santai 3 is that it is new stock with developer package and legal-fee absorption, a full warranty period from 2029, and two car park bays confirmed on the permit. The case for waiting is space and price per foot. What I would actually do is go and stand in a completed Santai unit first — and by early 2027 you will be able to.

EcoWorld does not publish either distance, and that is itself the answer. The developer's own location map names the EDL, Tebrau Highway, IKEA Tebrau, AEON, Hospital Sultan Ismail, Sunway College and Senai Airport — but it shows neither Bangunan Sultan Iskandar nor the RTS Bukit Chagar station.

What EcoWorld does publish is 20.6 km to the Johor Bahru city centre via the EDL Expressway and 20.6 km to Singapore. I am not going to convert that into a checkpoint distance, because a straight-line estimate dressed up as a fact is exactly the sort of number that gets repeated for years.

The honest framing is this: Santai 3 is a Tebrau-corridor family apartment, not a border play. If your reason for buying in Johor is the RTS commute, this is not the project, and I will say so rather than sell you the wrong thing. If your reason is a three-bedroom freehold flat with two parking bays near Austin, Tebrau and Hospital Sultan Ismail, it fits properly.

From EcoWorld's official facilities plan: a swimming pool and wading pool, a gymnasium plus a semi-outdoor gym, children's playground, BBQ area, multipurpose hall and multipurpose area, a hang-out space, childcare, separate male and female suraus and changing rooms, an accessible toilet, the management office, a mail room and a covered drop-off. The detailed plan covers the ground-floor deck.

The building also carries a retail band at its base, and the vertical stacking runs retail, mechanical and electrical services, facilities, commercial car park, resident car park, then the residential floors. The number of retail lots is not published — the “26 shop lots” figure circulating online does not appear in any EcoWorld document I could find.

Township-level, you also get the Eco Spring residents' clubhouse, Urban Park, Spring Labs retail park, Eco Palladium, and Santai Square with Jaya Grocer, a Coffee Bean drive-thru and TITAN Preschool signed as of June 2025.

Supply is the main one. NAPIC's Q1 2026 figures show Johor holding 9,972 unsold completed serviced apartment units — more than any other state in Malaysia. Santai 3 adds 627 more, all of them the identical 872 sq ft three-bedroom.

Title category is the second. The building plan is filed under MBJB's KOM — commercial — reference, which is normal for a serviced apartment but carries commercial-rate assessment, commercial water and electricity tariffs, and usually a tighter bank margin than a residential-titled condominium. The permit does not spell out the land use in words, so confirm it in the sale and purchase agreement.

Third, there is a Bumiputera quota with a 15% discount, and the title restriction means a unit that has passed into Bumiputera ownership cannot later be sold to a non-Bumiputera buyer without state consent. That does not affect you at purchase, but it does narrow the resale pool for that portion of stock. Ask which quota category the unit you are looking at falls into — it is a fair question and the sales team can answer it.

Neither is published. EcoWorld's advertising permit is unusually detailed — it gives the price band, unit count, remaining units, built-up, parking allocation, completion date, licence numbers and the land charge — but it does not state the maintenance fee, the sinking fund, the parcel's land area, the storey count or the number of retail lots.

I am not going to fill those gaps with numbers from listing sites. On a building with a retail band, commercial and resident car park levels and a ground-floor facilities deck, the maintenance rate is not something to guess at — the allocation of shared costs between the residential and commercial portions genuinely matters over twenty years.

What I do is ask EcoWorld directly and get it in writing. Message me and I will send you the current price chart, the maintenance rate as tabled, the remaining stacks and the official layout sheet in full resolution.