Royal Lexis Kuala Lumpur Review: Price, Layouts, Pros & Cons

Quick verdict: who should buy Royal Lexis?

My view. Royal Lexis sells one thing that nothing else in the city centre sells: a pool in your own unit. Not a shared sky pool — a private pool on the balcony, behind full-height glass, in all 371 residences. Lexis Hotel Group built its name on private-pool villas at its resorts, and this is that idea brought into a 66-storey tower on Jalan Kia Peng, between KL Tower and the Twin Towers. It is freehold, which in this pocket is rare, and the transit is a walk: I measured 450 m to Conlay MRT and 470 m to the Raja Chulan monorail. Two things to settle before anything else. The title is a Serviced Residence outside the Housing Development Act, so the protections you would get on an ordinary new home do not apply in the same way — take that to your solicitor. And the sales kit says plainly that no car park is allocated to owners: the podium bays are for hotel guests, and the basement is motorcycle parking. In the middle of the city that may not matter to you. If you drive, it decides the whole thing.

• Suits: buyers who want a resort unit in the city and will use the hotel services; foreign buyers who want freehold in the city centre; people who do not need a car.
• Think twice if: you need a car park, you want HDA protection, or you want a plain residential building without a hotel in it.

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Royal Lexis at a glance

Where is Royal Lexis, and what is nearby?

On Jalan Kia Peng, between KL Tower and the Twin Towers, with the embassies, the convention centre and the shopping belt in the same few blocks. These are straight-line distances measured from the project coordinates against an OpenStreetMap extract of every named station, so every walk is longer than the number shown.

Suria KL City Centre, Pavilion Kuala Lumpur, Avenue K, Starhill and Lot 10 are all on that walk or one stop away, with the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre and KL City Centre Park next door and the W, EQ, InterContinental and Sheraton Imperial as neighbours.

How does Royal Lexis compare with other city-centre launches?

At about RM 2,950 psf gross, Royal Lexis is the most expensive per square foot of the five. What you are paying for is the pool in the unit and the hotel operation around it. Against Conlay the comparison is clean: similar monthly charge, similar freehold city-centre address, but Conlay gives you more floor area for less money and a car park, while Royal Lexis gives you the pool and the service and no car park at all.

Which Royal Lexis layout is best?

Four types. These are the types as the sales kit lists them; the price depends on the stack and the floor, so ask for the current list.

What I saw in the show units. I filmed Type B at 802 sq ft and one of the large dual-key layouts. Type B is the one most buyers will look at: hotel-standard fit-out with the furniture and appliances included, a walk-in wardrobe, a marble bathroom with a bathtub, and the balcony opening straight onto the private pool with a seating area beside it. The dual-key layout is two doors off one entrance hall — a studio on one side and a one-bedroom on the other — and the pool sits between them, so a family can share it while the two halves stay separate. That is the layout to look at if you want to live in one half and let the other, or if you want the parents in one side.

Facilities

The hotel and sky levels sit at Level 9 to 10 and Level 55 to 66: concierge, the Roselle coffee house, gym, lobby and pre-function area, a sky ballroom with a bridal room, cafe and outdoor cafe, a sky infinity pool, a Japanese restaurant, an executive lounge, a speciality restaurant, a satellite bar and a sky deck.

Because a hotel operates in the same building, the unit is run to hotel standards rather than ordinary condominium ones. Ask the developer, in writing, exactly what the management arrangement covers, what it costs and how long it runs — that document, not the brochure, is what you are buying into.

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How to view Royal Lexis

WhatsApp Shyan Yee (REN 46305, IQI Realty) at +60 10-827 8932 for the price list, floor plans and a viewing.

Full specifications are on the Royal Lexis project page.