HI World City @ Penang Science Park, Penang

55. The developer’s website gives the total, and its layout plan numbers the plots 1 to 55 in two rows.

By my count from the floor plans, 47 are two-storey intermediate lots and 8 are three-storey corner and end lots: plots 1, 14, 15, 28, 29, 42, 43 and 55.

The developer has not published the tenure. Its website gives the location, the unit count and the floor plans, but no tenure, land area or title type.

Do not rely on a portal listing for this. Ask me and I will get the title particulars in writing, then have your solicitor confirm them with a land search before you sign.

The typical two-storey lot is about 24 ft by 64 ft (7,315 mm × 19,395 mm), with a ground-floor shop of approximately 1,359 sq ft and a first-floor office of approximately 824 sq ft.

The eight three-storey lots are larger. Added across three floors they run from about 5,097 sq ft for plots 14, 15, 42 and 43 to about 10,136 sq ft for plot 55. All areas are the developer’s approximate figures, and the drawings are marked not to scale.

Possibly, but not on the residential rules. A purchase by a non-citizen or a foreign-controlled company needs the consent of the Penang state authority, and for a shop office the application is assessed as commercial property.

The mainland minimums you may have read — RM500,000 for strata homes and RM1,000,000 for landed homes bought by foreign individuals — are written for residential property, and so is the flat 8% stamp duty that applies to non-citizens from 1 January 2026. I do not apply either to this scheme. Tell me who the buyer will be and I will confirm the conditions and the duty with a solicitor before you go further.

No completion date has been published. The developer’s website shows plans and perspectives dated March 2026 but gives no construction progress and no handover date.

Because this is a commercial sale, the delivery period is set by the sale and purchase agreement and not by statute. I will get the contractual date and the current stage of the works for you.

Choose by how much upstairs area your business will actually use. The two-storey lot has only about 824 sq ft upstairs because the front of that floor is a void, so it suits a shop, clinic or eatery that trades on the ground floor.

If you need working office floors, look at the three-storey lots, which have full plates on the first and second floors. Plots 1 to 28 face Jalan PSPN 1; plots 29 to 55 face the road behind. Ask about plot 55 separately, because a TNB substation sits inside its ground-floor footprint.

There is no public price I can quote. The only price source this site uses is the permit band on the government housing register, and no record exists there under this name or this developer.

I will not repeat figures from portals or social media. Message me the plot number you are considering and I will send the current price, the charges and whether the lot is still available, as issued by the developer.

They are 3.9 km apart in a straight line and serve different catchments. HI World City sits inside Penang Science Park North among factories and worker housing; PuncakCity is at Permatang Tinggi, on the Bukit Mertajam side of the expressway.

PuncakCity’s developer states freehold tenure and gives its terrace shop a 22 ft frontage, but does not publish a unit count. HI World City publishes 55 lots with a 24 ft typical frontage, but not its tenure. Compare the titles first, then the frontage.

Not strictly. It is in Penang Science Park North, postcode 14100 Simpang Ampat, in Seberang Perai Tengah — about 6 to 8 km north of the Batu Kawan town area.

The developer markets it with Batu Kawan Industrial Park, and both sit along the same stretch of the North–South Expressway. Measured from the pin, the Bukit Tambun toll is 3.2 km away, Design Village 6.2 km and IKEA Batu Kawan 7.4 km, all straight-line.