The CapeHauz Fifty-two storeys on the Penang seafront

On the reclaimed seafront at Bukit Coombe in Gelugor, on Penang Island, directly off the Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway and immediately north of The Light City. Lotus's Gelugor and the retail around it sit across the expressway, Universiti Sains Malaysia is in the same district, and the Penang Bridge, George Town and Penang International Airport are each a short drive. The planned LRT Mutiara Line and a Penang Waterfront station would add rail to that.

Yes. It is a freehold development, which on Penang Island is worth noting — a freehold title is uncommon among new high-rise launches on the island. Freehold removes the lease-expiry question from your financing and from your eventual resale, and it matters more to a foreign buyer than to a local one, because a shortening lease complicates both ends of an overseas purchase.

Fifty-two storeys. The grand lobby, the drop-off and the lobby lounge are on Level 1. The car park runs from the basement to Level 8. Homes occupy Levels 9 to 49, with the podium facilities deck on Level 9. Level 50 is mechanical and electrical plant. The sky facilities take Levels 51 and 52. Level 23A is a breaktank level and Levels 48 and 49 have their own floor plate, so the layout is not identical all the way up.

Sixteen codes and two sizes. The 700 sq.ft. homes (65 sq.m.) are one bedroom plus a study with two bathrooms, and come as A1, A1(M), A1a and A1a(M) with a balcony and A2, A2(M), A2a and A2a(M) without. The 947 sq.ft. homes (88 sq.m.) are two bedrooms plus a study with two bathrooms, and come as B1, B1a, C1 and C1(M) with a balcony and B2, B2a, C2 and C2(M) without. The (M) codes are mirrored versions of the same plan.

Floor area, none — both are 947 sq.ft. The difference is the arrangement inside and where they sit on the floor plate, which decides what they look at and when they get sun. On a tower with water on two faces that is not a minor difference, so compare B against C on aspect rather than on size. Tell me which codes you are offered and I will tell you what each one faces.

The tower runs northwest to southeast. The northwest face looks over Bukit Dumbar and Jelutong toward George Town. The southeast face looks at the Penang Bridge and the mainland behind it. Both are water views and they are different products — city and sunset on one side, the bridge lit at night on the other. Settle which one you want before you compare unit numbers.

Two levels of them. The Level 9 podium deck carries the TideFit Studio and WaveFit Zone, Harbour Hall, the Coastal Hoops half basketball court, the Sunset Grill and BBQ, Little Explorers' Cove, the Serenity Pavilion, a therapeutic garden, a reflexology walk, the Mindful Space, Harbour Retreat, Starlight Terrace and an urban farm. Level 51 has the Joy Hub, the Coastal Lounge, the sky lounge and games room. Level 52 has the Celestial Pool, the Cloud Lagoon wading pool, Little Mariners, the Azure Hammock, the sky deck and the sunbed loungers.

The 700 sq.ft. homes are allocated either one tandem bay or two single bays, and the 947 sq.ft. homes two single bays. Tandem means two cars nose to tail in one space rather than two independent bays, which matters if two people in the household drive separately. Confirm which allocation attaches to the specific unit you are offered before you book.

Penang Island sets the minimum purchase price for a foreign buyer of strata property at RM1,000,000, and landed property at RM3,000,000. This is strata, so the RM1,000,000 floor applies — but with layouts at 700 and 947 square feet, not every unit necessarily clears it, so eligibility is decided unit by unit. Send me the type and level and I will confirm in writing. A foreign purchase also needs state consent, which I apply for on your behalf, and from January 2026 the memorandum of transfer stamp duty for a foreign buyer is a flat 8 per cent.

Same developer, same stretch of Gelugor waterfront, different buildings. The Lighthauz is a 57-storey freehold tower of 671 units at 732 and 1,001 sq.ft. with its sky facilities on Levels 56 and 57. The CapeHauz is 52 storeys with 700 and 947 sq.ft. layouts and its sky facilities on 51 and 52. If you are choosing between them, the honest comparison is aspect, level and what is actually still available in each — I market both and will give you the same answer either way.

Pricing is released on application rather than published here, and it varies by type, by level and by which way the unit faces. WhatsApp me with the size you want, whether you want a balcony, and which aspect you prefer, and I will send the developer's current price list, tell you what is still available in that stack, and set out the full cash requirement stage by stage — booking, legal fees, stamp duty at the foreign rate if that applies to you, and the progressive payment schedule through to completion.