Nanyang Street @ Raja Uda, Penang
Four-storey freehold shop offices by Jayamas Property Group in Raja Uda, Butterworth, drawn with Southern Chinese Eclectic and Art Deco facades instead of the usual glass-and-cladding shoplot front. The developer’s page gives the type, the tenure and the location; listing information adds 77 units in three phases. Two existing condominium blocks stand within 180 m, and Penang Sentral is 3.3 km away in a straight line.
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Nanyang Street @ Raja Uda, Penang at a glance
The property type, tenure, storeys and location below are Jayamas Property Group’s own published statements. Figures marked ‘listed’ come from published listing information, not from a developer brochure; I will confirm them against the sale documents for you.
- Development
- Nanyang StreetBy Jayamas Property Group · listed elsewhere as Nanyang Street @ RU Square
- Where it is
- Raja Uda, ButterworthJalan Pusat Perniagaan Raja Uda 4, 12300 — Seberang Perai, mainland Penang
- Property type
- 4-storey shop officesThe developer’s description; on its Hotel & Commercial list, status on-going
- Tenure
- FreeholdStated on the developer’s project page
- Units
- 77 (listed)Four published sources agree; the developer’s page gives no count
- Built-up area
- 3,337 – 7,337 sq ft (listed)A second listing prints 1,300 – 2,303 sq ft; the floor-plan sheets print lots of 20 ft × 65 ft and 20 ft × 70 ft — 1,300 and 1,400 sq ft of land — so that range reads as lot sizes, not floor area
- Phases
- 1A, 1B and 1C · seven blocks (listed)Southern Chinese Eclectic, Late Straits Eclectic and Art Deco facades
- Completion
- End-2026 to early 2028 (listed)Three different dates are in print; the developer’s page states none
- Government register
- Not on the housing registerSearched by project and developer names on 2, 5 and 7 Oct 2026; shop offices fall outside it
- Foreign buyers
- Commercial rules applyState consent and foreign-company conditions differ from residential; I confirm them for your unit
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Six things about Nanyang Street to weigh before you enquire
Four are reasons a business owner or an investor in Butterworth would look at these shop offices. Two are cautions about what is, and is not, published.
A street designed to look like old Penang
The developer describes facades influenced by Southern Chinese Eclectic and Art Deco styles, and its logo carries the two Chinese characters for Nanyang. Listings add a third style, Late Straits Eclectic, with one style to each phase. For a food, retail or studio tenant, a row that photographs like a heritage street is a different proposition from a standard shoplot block.
Freehold, and four full storeys
Both points are the developer’s own: four-storey shop offices on freehold title. The developer also speaks of generous spaces, flexible layouts and extendable configurations, which is the vocabulary of a building meant to be split between a ground-floor trade and offices or storage above.
Households already live beside it
Marminton Homes is 149 m away and Elements Garden 176 m, straight-line — each a 14-storey block of 112 condominiums with eight terrace houses, both completed. SJK(C) Kwang Hwa is 0.9 km away. A shop here opens to an occupied neighbourhood on day one, not to an empty new township.
One piece of a larger commercial plan
Listings place Nanyang Street inside RU Square, a mixed development of about 14.58 acres that also names King’s Galleria, drive-through and retail outlets, and an international school for which a memorandum of understanding was reported in November 2024. Jayamas’s separate ChinaTown @ Raja Uda project is 590 m away. Footfall will depend on how much of that plan is actually built and let.
The published sizes and dates do not agree
One report gives built-up areas of 3,337 to 7,337 sq ft; another listing prints 1,300 to 2,303 sq ft. The floor-plan sheets in the layouts section print lots of 20 ft by 65 ft and 20 ft by 70 ft, which is 1,300 and 1,400 sq ft of land, so the smaller range looks like lot sizes — but no sheet prints a built-up area, so the larger range is still unchecked. Completion appears as end-2026, Q4 2027 and Q1 2028. The phase breakdown in print — 23, 24 and 25 units — adds up to 72, five short of the 77 total. None of these is on the developer’s page, so treat each as a question for the sale documents; I will put them to the developer in writing.
Commercial property, with fewer public safeguards
Shop offices are outside the national housing register: no advertising permit, no permit price band and no government progress report exist to read, and the agreement is the developer’s own form. One listing also states that no dedicated car park bays are allocated and that the lift is a provision space only. Ask what ‘extendable’ allows, who pays for it, and where customers park.
The whole development, decoded
Figures marked ‘listed’ come from published listing information, not from a developer brochure; everything else is the developer’s own or the government register’s.
Pick your phase
Phase 1A
Listed as Blocks Y, Z1 and Z2 with 23 units. Southern Chinese Eclectic is one of the two facade styles on the developer’s own page, so this is the phase its published description fits most directly. The site plan in the gallery puts Block Y nearest Jalan Raja Uda with Z1 and Z2 in a line behind it, and the six floor-plan sheets further down are all for these three blocks.
Phase 1B
Listed as Blocks Z3 and Z4 with 24 units. Late Straits Eclectic appears in listings and news reports but not on the developer’s page, which names only the other two styles. Ask to see the elevation drawings for these two blocks before judging them by the published renders.
Phase 1C
Listed as Blocks Z5 and Z6 with 25 units — the largest of the three counts. Art Deco is the other style the developer names. The three phase counts in print total 72 against 77 for the whole scheme, so the true number in each block is something I confirm from the unit schedule.
Specifications and surroundings, as listed
The developer’s page lists no specifications. These come from published listing information and a property-news report; I will check each line against the developer’s specification sheet.
Inside each unit (listed)
- Ceilings up to 3.75 m
- Entrance doors 2.4 m wide
- Three toilets
- Split utility meters
- Space provided for a lift
- Mezzanine levels extendable after handover
- No dedicated car park bays allocated
- 12-month defect liability period
RU Square around it (listed)
- King’s Galleria
- Drive-through outlets
- Retail outlets
- Grocery store (planned)
- The Ark International School (memorandum signed Nov 2024)
Where the project is now
Six layouts drawn for Blocks Y, Z1 and Z2
These six sheets are the developer’s floor-plan drawings for Blocks Y, Z1 and Z2, as circulated with published listing information; the developer’s own website shows none. Each prints the lot dimensions but no built-up area, so the built-up figures in print — 3,337 to 7,337 sq ft in a property-news report — still need the schedule of areas. Drawings for Blocks Z3 to Z6 are not in print; ask and I will get the one for your lot.
Blocks Z1–Z2 typical unit
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Blocks Z1–Z2 end unit
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Blocks Z1–Z2 corner unit
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Block Y typical unit
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Block Y end unit
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Block Y corner unit
Get this floor planWhere Nanyang Street sits and how the blocks are laid out
Where Nanyang Street @ Raja Uda, Penang sits
Jalan Pusat Perniagaan Raja Uda 4, in the Raja Uda township of Butterworth on mainland Penang — 149 m from Marminton Homes, 1.4 km from the Bagan Ajam toll plaza on the Butterworth Outer Ring Road and 3.3 km from Penang Sentral, all in a straight line.
Pinned to the coordinates on the developer’s own project page (5.419562, 100.381812), because the national housing register holds no record for these shop offices. Distances are straight-line from that point.
- Marminton Homes149 mstraight-line
- Elements Garden176 mstraight-line
- ChinaTown @ Raja Uda (same developer)590 mstraight-line
- SJK(C) Kwang Hwa, Butterworth0.9 kmstraight-line
- Bagan Specialist Centre1.1 kmstraight-line
- Bagan Ajam toll plaza (BORR)1.4 kmstraight-line
- Sunway Carnival Mall, Seberang Jaya2.9 kmstraight-line
- Penang Sentral, Butterworth3.3 kmstraight-line
- KOMTAR, George Town5.8 kmstraight-line
About Jayamas Property Group
Jayamas Property Group is a Penang developer incorporated in 2011. Its website lists completed work that includes Abel Residence, Casa Residences, Casa Business Center, Dutamas Residence, Jernih Residence, Jernih Residence 2, Teres 23, The Bagan Suite and Ink Hotel Penang.
Nanyang Street sits on the group’s Hotel & Commercial list as an on-going project, next to King’s Galleria, Ventus & Tradesmen and ChinaTown @ Raja Uda — the last of these 590 m away. In other words the group is concentrating its commercial work in this one township. Its residential projects, such as MARC Residences and Ayana Residence, have their own pages on this site.
What the developer itself says about Nanyang Street is brief: a commercial development blending heritage-inspired architecture with contemporary design; four-storey freehold shop offices; facades influenced by Southern Chinese Eclectic and Art Deco styles; generous, flexible, extendable space. The page gives no unit count, no sizes, no completion date and no brochure. Listings name Jayamas RU Sdn Bhd as the project company, which the agreement will confirm.
One honest caveat. With no register record there is no government progress figure to check, and the completion dates in print have moved later with each publication — end of 2026 in a 2023 report, Q4 2027 in a July 2025 report, Q1 2028 on a further listing. That is a reason to read the delivery date and the late-delivery clause in the agreement closely, and to visit the site to see how far each block has risen.
Frequently asked questions
How many units are there at Nanyang Street?
77 shop offices, according to published listing information — the figure appears in two property-news reports and on two project listings. The developer’s own page does not state a count.
One listing divides them into seven blocks over three phases of 23, 24 and 25 units. That adds up to 72, so I will confirm the block-by-block schedule with the developer.
Is Nanyang Street freehold?
Yes, according to the developer: its project page describes four-storey freehold shop offices.
Listings also use the words ‘freehold, extendable’. Extendable refers to the building, not the title — ask what may be added, when, and with whose approval.
What are the unit sizes at Nanyang Street?
The developer’s own website has not published sizes. A property-news report gives built-up areas of 3,337 to 7,337 sq ft, about 310 to 682 sqm; a second listing prints 1,300 to 2,303 sq ft.
The floor-plan sheets shown in the layouts section help to read those figures. They print lots of 20 ft × 65 ft for a typical Block Y unit and 20 ft × 70 ft for a typical Block Z1 or Z2 unit — 1,300 and 1,400 sq ft of land — so the smaller range reads as lot sizes. They draw four levels: a ground-floor shop, a second-floor office, and two part floors beside a void, which fits the listing that speaks of two floors plus two mezzanine levels. None of the sheets prints a built-up area, so I will get the schedule of areas for the lot you are considering.
Can foreigners buy at Nanyang Street?
Shop offices are commercial property, so the residential rules are not the test. Seberang Perai’s price floors for non-citizens buying homes, and the flat 8% stamp duty for non-citizens that began on 1 January 2026, are written for residential property.
A foreign individual or a foreign company buying commercial property still needs Penang state consent, and the conditions for a company differ from those for an individual. Tell me who the buyer will be and I will confirm the position for the specific lot.
When will Nanyang Street be completed?
The developer’s website shows it as on-going and gives no date. In print there are three: end of 2026 in a 2023 report, Q4 2027 in a July 2025 report, and Q1 2028 on another listing that speaks of a 36-month build.
The only date that binds anyone is the one in the sale agreement. I will ask which phase your lot is in and what its contractual delivery date is.
Which phase and which lot should I choose?
Listings describe three phases by facade: 1A in Southern Chinese Eclectic style, 1B in Late Straits Eclectic and 1C in Art Deco. Style is taste; frontage is money. The site plan in the gallery shows the seven blocks — Y nearest Jalan Raja Uda with Z1 and Z2 in a line behind it, and Z3 to Z6 in a row along the far side. Use it to mark which lots are corners and which look onto the internal street, then ask me for the lot-by-lot plan.
Then match the lot to the trade. Food and retail need visibility and somewhere for customers to stop; an office or a studio can sit on a quieter inner lot. I will send the lots that are still open in each phase.
What is the price and the maintenance fee?
There is no government permit band to quote, because shop offices are not on the housing register, and I do not repeat asking figures from property portals on this page.
Any service charge for common areas has not been published. Message me and I will send the developer’s current price list for the open lots and the charges in writing.
How does Nanyang Street compare with Wisdom Boulevard in Batu Kawan?
Wisdom Boulevard, 20.3 km to the south in a straight line, is 46 freehold two-storey shoplots of about 2,510 to 2,770 sq ft across the highway from Design Village. Nanyang Street is listed at 77 four-storey shop offices in an older, already-populated part of Butterworth.
Two storeys in a new growth area against four storeys in an established town: the first is a lighter commitment, the second gives more floor to use or let. Tell me your trade and I will set them side by side.
Is Raja Uda a good place to run a business or to let a shop?
The surroundings are occupied: two completed condominium blocks within 180 m, SJK(C) Kwang Hwa 0.9 km away, Bagan Specialist Centre 1.1 km and the Bagan Ajam toll plaza 1.4 km, all straight-line. That is everyday local custom, not tourist trade.
For letting, I do not quote rental figures. What decides a shop office’s tenancy is frontage, parking and how much of the rest of RU Square is trading — and one listing says no dedicated bays come with the units. Look at those three before you buy to let.
Get the lot-by-lot plan, the open lots and the contract dates
With shop offices the lot matters more than the brochure. Tell me your trade, or whether you are buying to let, and I will send back the lots that suit it, the developer’s price list and the delivery date for that phase in writing.
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Louis Koh
11 years in Malaysian property · Johor Bahru, Kuala Lumpur & Penang new launches · English & 中文
I work with cross-border buyers from Singapore and further afield, 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 2026-10-05 · Last verified 2026-10-07 against Jayamas Property Group’s project page, the developer’s marketing artwork circulated with published listing information, property-news reports, and three searches of the KPKT housing register, which holds no record for it. Unit availability, pricing and completion dates are set by the developer and subject to change. This page is marketing information, not an offer or a contract.
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Developer: Jayamas Property Group (6 developments on this site)
Where it is: Butterworth, Penang