Est8 @ Seputeh — Residensi Estetik 8 (EST8), Taman Seputeh, Kuala Lumpur

Twelve things about Est8 that do not add up — and the source for each

None of this is rumour. Every item comes from the filed KPKT statutory brochure for 19122-2, the KPKT public register, the developer’s own brochure and website, the GreenRE register, or a named published article. Where the developer’s own two documents disagree, both are shown. The first two items are the ones that change what a buyer should do next.

The ten filed unit types — with the garden area separated out, which no portal does

Every figure below comes from the filed KPKT brochure’s own plan and type schedule, never from its prose and never from a portal. Square feet are exactly as printed — the brochure uses kps for kaki persegi — and no square-metre figure is published by the developer, so none is given and none was converted. On four types the headline built-up includes an outdoor garden area; both components are printed, because a headline-only figure overstates enclosed internal space by up to 16%. No price appears on these cards: both brochures publish block-level bands only and no filed document anywhere publishes a per-type price. The filed block bands are in the statutory register section below, published once and labelled.

Provenance note, so there is no doubt what these figures are. Every built-up, bedroom count, bathroom count, level label and block assignment above is read from the filed KPKT advertisement brochure’s plan and type schedule for 19122-2, with the three block-level Luas Binaan bands from the same filing’s statutory block and matching the developer’s own 2022 brochure exactly. Square feet are as printed, in the brochure’s own kps; no square-metre figure is published by the developer and none was converted here. No price appears on these cards at all — the filed statutory block band is published once, in the statutory register section below, and no filed document publishes a per-type price or any figure per square foot. This is marketing information. It is not a price list, not a quotation and not an offer.

All four images that exist for this project, with the subject and the grade of each stated

Imagery is genuinely thin for this project, and that is worth saying plainly rather than padding around. The project website named in the developer’s own filings, est8.com.my, fails DNS resolution — the one place a gallery would live is gone. The developer’s own site, eupe.com.my, is a Drupal site with JSON:API disabled (/jsonapi returns 404), so there is no CMS metadata endpoint to confirm any subject, dimension or MIME type against; its sitemap shows exactly five Est8 URLs and no gallery page; and across the whole site it publishes only two project visuals. The IQI Atlas project folder Est8 – Seputeh › Artist Impression contains exactly two files. That is the entire available set, and all four of it is above. What was deliberately not used: the developer publishes four photographs from its 20 August 2025 topping-out ceremony whose alt text is only the digits “2”, “3”, “3” and “4” — their subjects cannot be established, so they are not captioned and not published here — and three further images that are scans of press clippings, not project photography. No stock photograph has been substituted for any of them, and no image on this page is captioned with a subject that could not be sourced. Two of the four above are graded confirmed (the IQI Atlas file titles name the subject); two are graded caption-published (the developer prints only alt=“Est8” or alt=“EST8”), which is one grade weaker and is stated rather than glossed. No floor-plan image, no facility render, no unit interior and no site photograph is published by the developer anywhere.

Taman Seputeh, Kuala Lumpur — the station the portals get wrong, and the distances nobody publishes

The pin below is the registered coordinate from the KPKT project record 19122-2 — the only coordinate any source publishes for this scheme, and not a guess. It is also the jurisdiction proof, alongside the DBKL plan-approval reference: this project is in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, under Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur. It is not in Selangor, however much the Kota Damansara address printed in its own statutory block suggests otherwise. No distance on this page was calculated by me. Every figure below is quoted from a named source, and where no source publishes a distance, the place is listed with no number.

Statutory register — RESIDENSI ESTETIK 8 (EST8), three documents side by side

Malaysian law requires a licensed housing developer to file and display statutory advertisement particulars, and that filing is public. Est8 has two of them in circulation at once — and they disagree with each other on the licence, the permit, the validity dates and the completion date. Both are the developer’s own. So this section sets out three columns: the current filed KPKT brochure, the superseded brochure still published on the developer’s own website, and the KPKT public register — which is where the approved 24-month delivery extension, the CCC date and the actual handover dates come from, none of which appears in either brochure. Reading the three together is the whole point: it is the only way to see which document is right about what. Primary sources: the filed brochure at hims.kpkt.gov.my/files/19122/P45/temp-P45-20250717-aKvOObcObl/IKLAN_BROSUR_01.pdf, the developer’s own Est8 Simplified Brochure on eupe.com.my, and the KPKT TEDUH project record api/projek-swasta/19122-2, all read on 8 October 2026. A negative control was run on the old filing path: files/19122/19122-2/IKLAN_BROSUR_01.pdf, IKLAN_BROSUR_02.pdf and IKLAN_AKHBAR_01.pdf all return a clean 404, which is why the P45 path above had to be recovered from the register’s own API rather than guessed.

Read the three columns across, and the pattern is unmistakable. What all three agree on is the substance of the building: the licensee, the scheme name, the unit counts, the built-ups, the tenure and its 2118 expiry, the restriction in interest, the Maybank charge, the DBKL approving authority and reference, and the price band except for one number. What they disagree on is the paperwork and the dates — and that is where a buyer gets hurt. Column B carries a licence and permit that both lapsed on 22 July 2023 and a June 2024 completion date, and it is still the brochure the developer links from its own project page. Column A carries the current licence and a permit that lapsed on 22 July 2026, prints that permit twice — once real, once as xxxx, and gives two different Block A unsold counts. Only column C discloses the 24-month extension, and only column C tells you the building was finished on 19 May 2026 and handed over on 21 May and 19 August 2026. No brochure, no portal and no press release found mentions the extension at all.

Price labelling, so there is no ambiguity about what is published above and what is not. Every RM figure in column A is the filed statutory Unit Selling Price minimum and maximum per block (Harga Jualan, minima – maksima) as printed in the KPKT advertisement brochure — that is, the filed SPA price range — and every RM figure in column C is the KPKT public register’s own harga band for the same components. They are published once each, labelled, and shown together precisely because the two government sources disagree on Block A’s minimum by RM4,600. This is marketing information. It is not a price list, not a quotation and not an offer. These are historical advertisement figures: the project is complete and handed over, and the APDL lapsed on 22 July 2026. Both brochures publish block-level bands only — no filed document anywhere publishes a per-type price, and no filed document publishes any figure per square foot. The figure that governs what you pay is the price list and the SPA. There is no Diskaun Bumiputera field in either filing and no Bumiputera quota field in the register — clean negatives, not withholdings. Separately, two price figures carried by one publisher are deliberately not published here; the reason is set out in the policy note below.

The three delivery dates, side by side — and the one question this page will not answer for you

Set them out together, because no single document does. Original contractual vacant possession: 18 November 2024 — the register’s serahKosongIkutPjb, being 36 months from the first SPA on 18 November 2021. Approved extension: 24 months, taking the Schedule H construction period from 36 to 60 months, giving a revised contractual date of 18 November 2026. What actually happened: CCC on 19 May 2026, vacant possession on 21 May 2026 for Block A and 19 August 2026 for Blocks B and C. So handover came roughly 18 and 21 months after the original date, and six and three months before the extended one. Nothing in either brochure or on either portal mentions the extension; the developer’s live brochure still prints Jun 2024, and the filed brochure prints November 2026 without saying it is an extended date rather than the original. Why it matters in money: Schedule H calculates liquidated damages from the contractual vacant possession date, so against 18 November 2024 the delivery was late, and against 18 November 2026 it was early. Everything turns on whether the approved extension is effective against an individual purchaser’s own contract — and that is a question of law, not of filing. Extensions of the Schedule H delivery period have been litigated in Malaysia: the Federal Court considered the Controller of Housing’s power to modify that period in Ang Ming Lee & Ors v Menteri Kesejahteraan Bandar, Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan & Anor [2019], and that case is cited here only to show that the issue has been before the courts. This page gives no legal advice and expresses no opinion whatsoever on the validity or effect of this or any extension. Take it to your own solicitor, with your own SPA in front of you, and ask which delivery period your contract states. Separately, the DLP runs 24 months from the actual vacant possession date under Schedule H — so from 21 May 2026 for Block A and 19 August 2026 for Blocks B and C — but no source states the resulting end dates, and you should have yours confirmed in writing.

Can a foreigner buy here? Block C clears the floor; Blocks A and B straddle it

Est8 is in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, where the minimum purchase price for a foreign buyer is RM1,000,000, with EPU (Economic Planning Unit) consent where required. Against the filed statutory bands in column A: Block C clears it entirely — its whole filed band sits above RM1,000,000, so all 17 of the Level 9 garden units are above the floor. Blocks A and B straddle it: their filed maxima clear it comfortably, but their filed minima do not, so the smaller Block A and Block B units sat below the Kuala Lumpur floor at their filed advertisement prices, unit by unit. The figures themselves are in column A above, published once and labelled. Then the second consent, which most pages omit: because the land is on restricted leasehold title, a foreign purchaser faces both the consent for foreign acquisition and the WP Kuala Lumpur Land Works Committee consent on transfer — two separate approvals, two sets of timing. No source states a foreign-ownership quota for this scheme, and neither brochure prints a foreign-purchase clause, so treat quota as not published. Get the specific unit’s SPA price and have eligibility confirmed in writing before anything else. For contrast on the state next door: Selangor sits at RM2,000,000 in Zone 1 and Zone 2, strata property and gated landed strata only, and RM1,000,000 in Zone 3 (Hulu Selangor and Sabak Bernam) — but Est8 is in Kuala Lumpur, not Selangor, whatever the Kota Damansara address in its own statutory block suggests.

Take-up, completion status, and the one number that is press-only

Take-up, as four sources state it. The current filed brochure prints 9 or 10 unsold in Block A, 0 in Block B and 7 in Block C — so 16 or 17 unsold of 821, the two copies of the block disagreeing by one. The KPKT register records peratus 100.00 on all three component rows. One portal reported 807 of 821 sold as of August 2025, “per HIMS” — 14 unsold, a third figure. And the press reported “99% sold” at the August 2025 topping-out, one of them as at June 2025. All four are consistent in substance: the scheme is effectively sold out, with a low double-digit tail. But note what that means together with the lapsed APDL: there were still units unsold when the permit expired on 22 July 2026, and whether the permit has been renewed is not published by anyone. Completion status, today. The register files all three components Siap Dengan CCC, CCC 19 May 2026, handover 21 May and 19 August 2026. Both major portals are out of date: one still prints completion as “2026, Delayed” and the other as “2026 (estimated)”, when the building is finished and handed over. Scale, and where the figure comes from. One press title reports a GDV of RM658 million, attributed to the listed parent — no filed document publishes a GDV, so that is a press figure and is labelled as one. The same title reports the site as 2.9 acres, which the portals repeat — but Keluasan Tanah is NOT PRINTED in either brochure, so no density can be computed from any filed document. On that press acreage, 821 units works out at roughly 283 units per acre; that is my own arithmetic on a press land area, not a filed figure, and it should be read as nothing more. What it does say is that this is a high-density urban infill site — which is exactly what a 41-storey tower on under three acres beside Mid Valley is. Nobody claims “low density” for this project, and nobody should.

What this page does not publish, and why

Louis’s standing policy, applied to every project page on this site: no discount, no rebate, no nett price, no promotion, no freebie, no incentive, no commission, no Bumiputera figure, no leaseback or guaranteed-rental rate, and no yield or ROI projection is published here, ever. On this project that specifically means two price figures carried by one publisher: a 2024 “average transacted” figure that sits at roughly half the filed statutory minimum, and a “from” floor for the scheme that sits below the filed statutory minimum for Block A. Neither number appears anywhere on this page. What is recorded is that the discrepancy exists and how thinly it is carried — and the independence check matters, because the two titles carrying it belong to the same publishing group, which makes them one publisher, not two confirmations. Also not carried: the press figure per square foot, because no filed document prints any psf figure at all and it cannot be tied to a filed SPA price. Those belong in a conversation where they can be stated accurately for a specific unit on a specific date, not scraped off a web page months later. Beyond that, this page leaves blank everything no named source published: the land area (Keluasan Tanah is NOT PRINTED, so no filed density exists), the lot and PT number, the mukim and section, the site address and street (the portals give two different streets), the land use category — residential or commercial title, which changes utility tariffs and assessment rates — the lease commencement date, the share units per type, whether the Maybank charge has been discharged on any block, a storey field in either statutory block, car park bays per unit type or in total, visitor and motorcycle bays and EV charging, the type-to-level map, ceiling and floor-to-floor heights, lift counts and lift-to-unit ratios, aspect and orientation, the maintenance and service charge per square foot and the sinking fund contribution, whether the APDL has been renewed since 22 July 2026, the per-block DLP end dates, strata title issuance status, the management corporation or JMB arrangement, whether the provisional GreenRE Gold has been converted to final, any quantified green metric or solar capacity, why the 24-month extension was sought and under what provision it was approved, whether any purchaser was notified of it and in what form, whether any liquidated damages has been paid, claimed or disputed, the contract sum for the MCC Overseas (M) Sdn Bhd works and that contractor’s registration number, the architect and engineers, any joint-venture or landowner arrangement, and every distance — above all the length of the covered walkway, who built it, who maintains it, and whether residents have a right of passage over it. Every one of those is a question I will put to Titian Sama Sdn Bhd in writing for you.

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Published 8 October 2026 · Last verified 8 October 2026 · Built from the filed KPKT HIMS statutory advertisement brochure for 19122-2, the developer’s own Est8 Simplified Brochure, the KPKT TEDUH project records 19122-2 and 19122-1, the GreenRE project register, the developer’s own project and topping-out pages, Wikipedia on the Mid Valley and Seputeh Komuter stations, and named press and portal articles, all read on 8 October 2026. This is marketing information. It is not a price list, not a quotation and not an offer.