KSL Austin Legacy @ Austin
Freehold serviced apartments by KSL, four layouts from a 506 sq ft one-bedroom to an 883 sq ft three-bedroom, with a shuttle bus to CIQ among the listed facilities. KSL publishes the sizes but not the prices — and three different sources place this development in three different Austins. Both points are dealt with below.
KSL Austin Legacy at a glance
Every figure below comes from KSL’s own project website, kslprojects.com.my, read on 26 August 2026. Where KSL has not published something it is not on this page.
- Foreign buyers
- Cannot be determined — KSL publishes no priceJohor strata floor for non-citizens is RM1,000,000. Without a price there is no verdict to give.
- Development
- KSL Austin LegacyServiced apartments · KSL Holdings Berhad
- Licensed developer
- Not identified for this phase“KSL” is a brand, not the company on your contract. Five separate companies hold KSL-group developer licences. The national register does not carry this project’s marketing name, so I cannot tell you which of the five signs your SPA. Ask.
- Group developer licences
- Five, all recorded activeKhoo Soon Lee Realty 3390 · KSL Development 7777 · KSL Medini Development 30622 · KSL Bestari 31041 · KSL Properties 10778. KPKT register, read 3 September 2026 — see the table below.
- Tenure
- FreeholdStated on KSL’s project page
- Area
- “Austin”, Johor BahruKSL says only “Austin”. Two agent sites name two different, more specific Austins — see below.
- Layout range
- 506 – 883 sq ftFour types: A, B1, B2, C
- Price
- Not published by KSL
- Facilities
- Pool, gym, childcare, EV charging, shuttle bus to CIQThe five items KSL lists
- Advertising permit (APDL)
- Not published by KSL
- Total units
- Not published by KSL
- Storeys
- Not published by KSL
- Target completion
- Not published by KSL
- Maintenance charge
- Not published by KSL
KSL sells through five separately licensed companies. Ask which one signs your SPA.
“KSL” is a brand, not the entity on your sale and purchase agreement. The National Housing Department register records five active developer licences held by KSL-group companies. The one that signs your contract is the one whose licence, permit and track record you should be checking — not the group’s.
| Licensed company | Code | Developer licence | Valid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Khoo Soon Lee Realty Sdn Bhd | 3390 | 3390/03-2029/0030(A) | 5 Mar 2024 – 4 Mar 2029 |
| KSL Development Sdn Bhd | 7777 | 7777/03-2028/0353(A) | 3 Mar 2023 – 2 Mar 2028 |
| KSL Medini Development Sdn Bhd | 30622 | 30622/11-2028/0297(A) | 20 Nov 2023 – 19 Nov 2028 |
| KSL Bestari Sdn Bhd | 31041 | 31041/05-2030/0097(A) | 20 May 2025 – 19 May 2030 |
| KSL Properties Sdn Bhd | 10778 | 10778/07-2029/0356(R) | 28 Jul 2026 – 27 Jul 2029 |
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Read from teduh.kpkt.gov.my on 3 September 2026. All five are recorded as Aktif. The first four share one registered address, A-3-55 Pusat Komersial Bayu Tasek, Persiaran Southkey 1, Kota Southkey, 80150 Johor Bahru. KSL Properties Sdn Bhd is registered elsewhere.
What this means for KSL Austin Legacy
The register indexes every scheme by its statutory name, not by a marketing name, and “Austin Legacy” does not appear under any of the five licences. Under those five, the register carries exactly two live apartment schemes in Johor Bahru:
| Registered scheme | Code | Units | Plotted at |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pangsapuri Kempas Indah 2 (D’ Secret Garden 2) | 3390-71, 3390-80 | 1,664 | 1.5520, 103.7139 — Setia Tropika |
| Residensi Alam Permai | 3390-83 | 864 | 1.4953, 103.8454 — Permas side |
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Read from teduh.kpkt.gov.my on 3 September 2026. Residensi Alam Permai carries permit 3390-83/08-2028/0701(N)-(S), valid 25 August 2025 to 24 August 2028.
Neither of those is in any of the Austins. The register does hold a completed serviced-apartment scheme plotted at 1.5460, 103.7850 in Mount Austin — Palazio — but that one is licensed to Mayland Austin Sdn Bhd, an unrelated group. So the question of which “Austin” this project sits in cannot be settled from the register either.
One question is worth more than everything else on this page: “Which company signs the SPA, and what is its developer licence and project code?” The permit, the unit count, the storey count, the maintenance charge basis and the completion date are all attached to that code, and all are public the moment you have it.
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The foreign-buyer test is a price test, and there is no price
In Johor a non-citizen buying a strata property must pay at least RM1,000,000 per unit. Under sections 433B and 433C of the National Land Code a dealing below that floor is void, with a fine on conviction of not less than RM100,000 on both sides of the transaction.
That test needs one input: the price. KSL has not published one for Austin Legacy. An agent site quotes a starting figure of RM259,000; that is an agent’s number rather than the developer’s, and I will not turn it into a verdict here. If it is accurate, the development sits far below the floor.
Before any money changes hands, ask KSL in writing: what is the price of each layout, and is any unit priced at or above RM1,000,000? The floor and the penalties are set out here.
The four layouts
| Type | Bedrooms | Built-up | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 1 | 506 sq ft | Not published |
| B1 | 1+1 | 646 sq ft | Not published |
| B2 | 2 | 764 sq ft | Not published |
| C | 3 | 883 sq ft | Not published |
Bedroom counts and built-up areas are KSL’s own, published on kslprojects.com.my and read on 26 August 2026.
A note on “1+1”. It means one bedroom plus a study, box room or flexible space that is not a bedroom by the building plan — it may have no window, and it will not always take a full-size bed. It is a genuinely useful layout for a couple who works from home, and it is regularly marketed as though it were a two-bedroom. On resale and on rental listings it will be judged as a one-bedroom. Price it accordingly.
What is missing
No advertising permit number, no unit count, no storey count, no completion date, no maintenance charge, no price. My other project pages carry the APDL number issued under the Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Act 1966, because the permit is where the approved price band is recorded. Here is how to check one once you have the number.
All 4 KSL Austin Legacy layouts
KSL publishes a bedroom count and an area for each of the four, and no price and no drawing for any of them. The layout codes and areas are identical to those KSL uses at Lakeview, which suggests a shared product line rather than a bespoke design for this site — useful to know, because it means the plans are likely comparable between the two developments. Message me and I will ask KSL for the layout sheets and the price list.
Type A — 506 sq ft, 1 bedroom
Get this layoutType B1 — 646 sq ft, 1+1 bedroom
Get this layoutType B2 — 764 sq ft, 2 bedrooms
Get this layoutType C — 883 sq ft, 3 bedrooms
Get this layoutBedroom counts and areas are KSL’s own, published on kslprojects.com.my and read on 26 August 2026. Square-metre conversions are my arithmetic. The advertised area is not always the parcel area in the sale and purchase agreement — the schedule of parcel areas attached to the SPA governs.
The images KSL has published
The developer’s own images, taken from KSL’s project website on 26 August 2026 and hosted here. These are artist’s impressions of show-unit interiors.
Source: KSL Holdings’ own project website, read 26 August 2026. Interior renders show furniture and fittings that are almost never included in the price, and the images carry no address — which on this development is the open question.
Which Austin?
Three sources, three different answers — and the developer gives the vaguest of them.
Mount Austin and Seri Austin are different townships several kilometres apart, with different access roads and different rental markets. “Austin” on its own does not settle which one it is.
Because the developer has not been specific and the two agent sites contradict each other, this page is filed at city level, under Johor Bahru, rather than under a district I would be guessing at. When KSL publishes an address, I will refile it and date the change.
The CIQ shuttle is the figure to interrogate
KSL lists a shuttle bus to CIQ among the facilities. For readers of this site — most of whom are crossing to Singapore — that is potentially the most valuable item on the list, so it deserves more scrutiny than the swimming pool.
Three questions worth putting in writing. Is it contractually committed beyond the developer’s handover period, or is it a launch-period service? Who funds it after vacant possession — if the answer is the maintenance account, it is a cost carried by owners, and it belongs in your yield calculation rather than in the amenity column. And what is the timetable: a shuttle that runs twice a day is a different proposition from one that runs every thirty minutes at peak.
I am not suggesting anything is wrong with this one. I am saying it is the item on the list that would most change the numbers, and it is the one least often written into anything binding.
KSL has not published a street address, a title reference or coordinates, so this page carries no map, no travel times and no distance-to-CIQ figure.
“Austin Legacy” returns nothing, and “Austin” returns too much. Without a licensed company name, neither is usable.
Every other project page on this website carries a table read from teduh.kpkt.gov.my — permit number, licensed developer, unit count, permitted price band, certified construction percentage, project status. I could not produce one here, and I would rather show my working than leave a silent gap.
What I searched
By project name: “Austin Legacy”, nationally. Zero results.
By location: “Austin”. This returns a substantial number of schemes across the Tebrau and Austin corridor, held by many different licensed companies. Not one of them can be attached to this page on the strength of a place name, and I rejected all of them.
By licensed company: not possible. This page does not print one, and that is the search key that unlocked most of the projects on this website — company name first, then confirmation against coordinates and unit count. Without it, a district search returns noise, and publishing noise as a finding would be the worst thing this website could do.
What “not found” does and does not mean
Failing to find a project in this register is not evidence that it is unlicensed. This is the most important sentence on this page.
Two proofs from this website. “Fraser Heights” appears in the register word for word. “BEE” appears nowhere at all — and BEE has two entirely valid permits, registered as Taman Nusa Permata. And on the Setia Sky 88 page the correct records were invisible to any name search because the register’s project-name field contained the company name instead of a project name.
So the project may not have been permitted yet, or it may be permitted under a company and a statutory name I cannot connect to it. On this site the register calls Papyrus “Residensi Papirus Yakin” and South Hills “Taman Puncak Selatan”. One changed word makes a project invisible.
The one question that closes the gap
“What is the project code and advertising permit number for the unit you are offering me, and which company holds the licence?” In writing.
With a code you can read the whole record yourself in about a minute at teduh.kpkt.gov.my/semakan-status-kemajuan: registered name, licensed developer, unit count, permitted price band, certified construction percentage, permit expiry and status.
And it is not a formality. Under the Housing Development Act a developer may not lawfully advertise or sell units in a phase without a valid advertising and developer’s licence, and the statutory sale and purchase agreement — with late-delivery compensation at 10% per annum of the purchase price for strata housing — is tied to that licence.
Register searched at teduh.kpkt.gov.my on 27 August 2026, by project name and by location, national scope. No licensed company name is published for this project.
KSL Holdings
KSL Holdings Berhad is a Johor-based developer listed on Bursa Malaysia, long established in Johor Bahru, Skudai, Ulu Tiram and Iskandar Puteri, and one of the larger domestic developers in the state by number of concurrent launches.
One observation that affects how you read any Austin Legacy listing elsewhere: KSL’s own project website lists twelve current developments, while one agent site lists thirty-three under the KSL name. I do not know the reason and will not select one and present it as fact. The practical consequence: check the developer’s own site before treating a quoted price as current.
KSL Holdings Berhad is the developer of this project. I am not employed by KSL and this page is not KSL material.
Questions I actually get asked
Can a foreigner buy at KSL Austin Legacy?
I cannot tell you, because KSL has not published a price and the test is purely a price test — RM1,000,000 per strata unit in Johor for non-citizens. Get the price list and the permit number and the question answers itself.
Is Mount Austin or Seri Austin the better address?
They serve different tenants, which is why the ambiguity matters rather than being a pedantic point. Mount Austin is the denser, more commercial of the two, with heavy food and retail activity. Seri Austin is more residential and newer. If you are buying to let, you are buying a tenant profile, and right now the public record does not tell you which one you would be getting. Ask for the address before you ask for anything else.
What is the difference between 1+1 and a two-bedroom?
A building-plan bedroom has to meet requirements a study or box room does not, including natural light and ventilation. The “+1” is the room that does not. It is useful space and it is not a second bedroom, and the gap between those two facts is where a lot of disappointed resale valuations come from.
KSL says only Austin. Two agent sites name two different Austins. Does the exact location matter?
It decides more than the commute. Austin Heights, Mount Austin and Taman Austin Perdana are different places under different local authorities, and the authority decides which assessment rate you pay and which plans were approved. A one-word address cannot settle any of that.
The layout plan can. Ask for the lot number and mukim, because that is the address that ends up on your title — everything else is marketing geography.
No advertising permit number is published. Can KSL be selling without one?
No housing scheme in Peninsular Malaysia may be advertised or sold without a valid advertising and sale permit. Its absence here is not evidence that KSL lacks one; it is that KSL has not published the number, and unverified numbers do not go on this site.
Ask for the number and its expiry, then check it against the Ministry of Housing register yourself. A lapsed permit and a current one look identical in a brochure and completely different in the register.
Without a price, can anyone tell me whether a foreigner may buy here?
No, and nobody should pretend otherwise. The Johor floor for a non-citizen buying strata is RM1,000,000 per unit, tested against the price written into your sale and purchase agreement. With no published price there is no figure to test, so this page returns no verdict rather than a guess.
Note which way the uncertainty runs. Four layouts from 506 to 883 sq ft is small-unit stock, and small units in Johor Bahru rarely clear RM1,000,000. The likely answer is no; it is simply not a verified one.
Four layouts between 506 and 883 sq ft — what is that product, realistically?
Compact serviced apartment stock aimed at renting to people working across the Causeway. It is the most heavily built product type in Johor Bahru, and it is the type NAPIC counts 9,972 unsold completed units of across the state as at the first quarter of 2026.
That does not make it a bad purchase. It does mean the building next door is selling the same thing, so your rent and your resale price are set by supply rather than by anything specific to this development.
There is a shuttle bus to CIQ. How much should that weigh?
Treat it as a service, not a feature of the property. A shuttle is operated by the management at a cost the owners carry, and it can be reduced or withdrawn once the developer hands over — it is not written into your title and it is not guaranteed by the sale and purchase agreement.
If the shuttle is part of why you are buying, ask in writing who operates it after handover, what it costs the management corporation each year, and whether that cost sits inside the maintenance charge. Then decide what the walk or drive looks like without it.
Why does this page have no price?
Because the developer has not published one. When KSL publishes a price, or you send me the price list, I will update this page and date the change.
Get the price list — and the address
For this one I would ask for both in the same message. I will tell you plainly what comes back.
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Louis Koh
11 years in Malaysian property · Johor Bahru & Kuala Lumpur new launches · English & 中文
I work with cross-border buyers from Singapore and with local investors. I’ll tell you when a project isn’t right for you — that’s usually worth more than the brochure.
Published 2026-08-26 · Last verified 2026-08-26 against KSL Holdings’ own project website (kslprojects.com.my). KSL has not published a street address, price, advertising permit number, unit count, storey count, completion date or maintenance charge for this development, and this page does not supply substitutes. This page is marketing information, not an offer or a contract.
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