Mentari Court, Bandar Sunway Insights

Developed by Mentari Group, Mentari Court 1, a leasehold 18 storey - 4 block (A, B, C, & D) - apartment development, is located at the Northern edge of Bandar Sunway. It has a second phase called Mentari Court 2 comprising blocks E, F, & G. Both are high density apartments meant originally for the lower classes to lower-middle classes, especially low- income group families and factory workers. But now the majority of their dwellers are students, both local and foreign, although there are a smaller percentage of families and factory workers living here. Because Mentari Court 1is located adjacent to the Federal Highway and the flourishing shop office lots of Sunway Mentari Township, and still within walking distance from Sunway Pyramid Shopping Mall, it is considered prime residences. Adding to this positive note, there are major academic centres located nearby also providing numerous students as rental tenants. The area south of Mentari Court 1 is also a ‘Hot Spot’ bustling commercial centre. However, there are many complaints about the property’s cleanliness and safety, as rubbish is constantly thrown or left carelessly in and around the property by its residents or foreign types ‘hanging’ around there. **##Location##** Mentari Court 1 is strategically located with KTM Setia Jaya station just behind it, the lebuhraya Damansara-Puchong nearby and the commercial centre just across the road from it. There are popular food outlets like Mcdonald’s, Domino’s Pizza, Pizza Hut, Oldtown White Coffee, and San Francisco Coffee minutes’ walk away only. Spoiling its residents further is a host of restaurants which serve Thai or Chinese or Japanese or Korean to Malay and Indonesian food. There also are banks, ATM machines, clinics, hair salons, hotels, inns, beauticians, karaoke centres and many business offices too. And to top things of it is still within easy rich of Sunway Pyramid and Bandar Sunway shops not to mention Sunway Lagoon and Sunway Resort Hotel & Spa. Buses ply along the LDP and Jalan PJS 8/9 with bus-stops at key spots for the benefit of dwellers of many residences here. Shell, Caltex and BHP petrol stations are conveniently close to this property also. This development is easily accessible from the LDP, Federal, and NPE Highways which all help link this property to other areas like Puchong, Subang Jaya, Kelana Jaya, Klang and the rest of Klang Valley. SK Kampung Lindungan, Sri KL, SMK Bandar Sunway and Kampung Tunku Primary School are some of the schools within a short drive distance away from this property. Wawasan Open University and Kasturi College International are actually just 10 and 5 minutes’ walk away respectively. Sunway and Subang Jaya Medical Centres are conveniently nearby also. **##Analysis##** Bandar Sunway is really a prime residential and commercial area with lots of important academic schools, colleges and universities, all of which make Mentari Court 1 highly sort after. It offers lower cost accommodation not only to students but to lower income groups that in other cases, would not allow them to afford staying in such a popular area. So because of all the above, Mentari Court 1 is an ideal property for rental investment and even for capital gains.