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MABA Suitez Two minutes’ walk from Merdeka MRT

Nine hundred and fourteen serviced apartments and office suites in two towers, from 323 sq.ft., with sky facilities on both roofs and a basketball court in the podium.

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Overview

Two towers, three layouts, the middle of Kuala Lumpur.

MABA Suitez sits on a 1.328-acre site on Jalan Hang Jebat, in the older half of the Kuala Lumpur city centre. Menara Merdeka Maybank is a hundred and twenty metres away, the Merdeka MRT station about a hundred and sixty, and Petaling Street a three-minute walk. Nine hundred and fourteen serviced apartments and office suites across two towers.

There are three layouts and they are all small by design: a 323 sq.ft. office suite, a 484 sq.ft. one-bedroom with a study, and a 657 sq.ft. dual key with one bedroom and two bathrooms behind two front doors. That mix, at this address, is aimed squarely at short stays and letting rather than at families, and the developer is open about it — the building is to be run by a hospitality management company.

The development is a collaboration between EXSIM and MABA, and the podium shows it: MABA’s own office and a full basketball court sit on Level 6 alongside the gymnasium, the coworking lounge and the garden alcoves. Each tower then carries its own sky facilities at the top — a pool, a jacuzzi and a hanging garden above Tower A, and a second pool with music and games lounges above Tower B.

Units914
TowersTwo
Layouts3
Built-up323 – 657 sq.ft.
Land area1.328 acres
Car park bays391 plus 6 EV
Two Towers

Tower A and Tower B are not the same building.

They share the Level 6 podium and the car park, and then they diverge: different heights, different unit counts, and a different set of facilities on each roof. Ask which tower before you compare anything, because a Type C in one is not a Type C in the other.

Building composition diagram for Tower A at MABA Suitez
Tower A

Fifty-four storeys, 534 units

The taller of the two. Serviced apartments and office suites run from Level 7 to Level 51, with the water tank at 52 and the sky facilities above it on Levels 53 and 53A — the Luxe Pool, the jacuzzi, the pool deck, the Loft Lounge and the Hanging Garden. The main lobby, the retail units and the food court are at ground level.

  • Storeys54
  • Units534
  • Residential levels7 – 51
  • Sky facilitiesLevels 53 & 53A
  • Water tankLevel 52
  • At groundMain lobby, retail, food court
Building composition diagram for Tower B at MABA Suitez
Tower B

Fifty storeys, 380 units

The shorter one, and the one the podium hangs off. Units run from Level 7 to Level 43A, water tanks sit at 45 and 46, and the sky facilities are on Levels 47 and 50 — the Sunlit Pool, the pool lounge and deck, the kid’s pool and the music, games and garden lounges. Level 6 carries the podium facilities, the MABA office and the basketball court.

  • Storeys50
  • Units380
  • Residential levels7 – 43A
  • Sky facilitiesLevels 47 & 50
  • Water tanksLevels 45 & 46
  • At Level 6Podium, MABA office, court
The car park is shared and it is not generous. Three hundred and ninety-one bays plus six EV bays serve 914 units across Levels LG1 and 1 to 5, and the developer’s own slide says parking is not included with the units. In a building two minutes from an MRT station that is a deliberate choice rather than an oversight, but it is the first thing to settle if you intend to keep a car here or if your tenant will. Ask me what a bay costs and whether any are still unallocated before you book.
What Stands Out

Five things worth knowing first.

A hundred and sixty metres to the MRT, and a hundred and twenty to Merdeka 118

This is the shortest walk to a station of anything on my list. Merdeka station on the Kajang line is about two minutes on foot: one stop to Pasar Seni, one to Bukit Bintang for Pavilion, two to TRX and two to KL Sentral. Menara Merdeka Maybank is directly across the road. For a building whose whole proposition is short stays and letting, that walk is the product.

Small units, deliberately

323, 484 and 657 square feet. Nobody is pretending this is a family building. The sizes are set for nightly and monthly letting in a city centre that already absorbs a lot of it — medical travellers using the hospitals nearby, students, consultants on projects, and the ordinary tourist traffic around Petaling Street and Merdeka Square. Judge it on yield and occupancy, not on floor area.

The dual key is the one to ask about

Type C at 657 sq.ft. is a dual key: one bedroom and two bathrooms behind two separate front doors, so you can let both halves independently or live in one and let the other. It is also the largest layout and the most numerous — 377 of the 914 units — so there is stock to choose from, which is not usually true of a dual key.

A basketball court in the podium, and MABA’s office with it

Level 6 carries a full court, a hub room and tiered seating, built as part of the collaboration the development is named for. It is the most unusual thing in the building and the easiest to describe to a tenant. Around it on the same level sit the gymnasium, the coworking lounge, the garden alcoves and the resting garden, and above both towers there are pools, a jacuzzi, a hanging garden and music and games lounges.

EXSIM’s record is the reason this gets taken seriously

Thirty-seven developments completed and delivered, more than nineteen thousand units, sixteen GreenRE gold certifications and a QLASSIC workmanship average around eighty per cent. They have won the FIABCI World Prix d’Excellence four times and the Malaysia Property Award eight. None of that guarantees your unit, but it does tell you who is building it.

Layouts

Three layouts, 323 to 657 sq.ft.

An office suite, a one-bedroom and a dual key. Every one of them appears in both towers, and the floor plate below shows where each sits on the level.

MABA Suitez Type A office suite plan, 323 sq.ft. studio

Type A — office suite

323 sq.ft.
  • LayoutStudio office suite
  • Bathrooms1
  • PantryYes
  • Units in Tower A135
  • Units in Tower B114
The entry layout, and the one labelled an office suite rather than an apartment. A single room with a pantry, a utility corner and a bathroom. Ask me to confirm the title category on the specific unit before you plan what you will do with it.
MABA Suitez Type B floor plan, 484 sq.ft. with one bedroom and a study

Type B

484 sq.ft.
  • Bedrooms1 + 1
  • Bathrooms1
  • BalconyA/C ledge
  • Units in Tower A174
  • Units in Tower B114
One bedroom and a second room off the living area, with the kitchen and pantry run along one wall. The middle option, and the one that lets most easily to a single professional on a longer stay.
MABA Suitez Type C dual-key floor plan, 657 sq.ft. with one bedroom and two bathrooms

Type C — dual key

657 sq.ft.
  • Bedrooms1
  • Bathrooms2
  • EntrancesTwo
  • Units in Tower A225
  • Units in Tower B152
The largest layout and the most numerous in the building — 377 of the 914 units. Two front doors off a shared foyer, so the bedroom half and the living half can be let separately. Type C(M) is the mirrored version of the same plan.
Layouts are the developer’s drawings and sizes are approximate until the sale and purchase agreement. Furniture shown is a space-planning suggestion and is not included. EXSIM runs a package on this project covering legal fees on the sale and purchase agreement and on the loan documentation, plus a short list of fittings that differs by type — packages change, so ask me what is current rather than relying on a slide. Car park bays are not included with the units. Prices are on request and are never published here. If you are weighing one type against another, I have written a detailed layout comparison covering sizes, unit counts, maintenance estimates and the checks that matter for each.
The Development

One floor plate, two towers on it.

Both towers sit on the same plate, with Tower B to the north-west and Tower A to the south-east. Which side you are on decides what you look at: the KL city skyline one way, Menara Merdeka Maybank the other.

Typical floor plate at MABA Suitez showing Tower A and Tower B and the position of each unit type
  • 914 serviced apartments and office suites
  • Tower A — 54 storeys, 534 units
  • Tower B — 50 storeys, 380 units
  • Three layouts, 323 to 657 sq.ft.
  • 391 car park bays plus 6 EV bays
  • Developer: EXSIM MABA Sdn Bhd
  • Part of EXSIM Development Sdn Bhd
  • A collaboration with MABA
  • Land area 1.328 acres
  • Maintenance RM0.99 per sq.ft. including sinking fund
Ask which face before you compare two units of the same type. On a plate this shape the difference between a unit looking north at the city and one looking south at Menara Merdeka Maybank is the whole character of the suite, and in a letting building it shows up in the nightly rate. Send me the unit numbers you are offered and I will tell you what each one faces and which level it sits on.
Facilities

A podium on Level 6, then a roof each.

Level 6 is shared between the two towers and carries the court, the gym and the coworking space. Above that each tower has its own sky deck, and they are not the same.

The Level 6 facilities plan at MABA Suitez shared between Tower A and Tower B

Level 6 — the podium

  • MABA Court
  • The Playmaker Hub
  • The Bench
  • Gymnasium
  • Coworking Lounge
  • Garden Alcoves
  • Resting Garden
  • MABA Office

Ground level

  • Grand Entrance
  • Grand Drop-off
  • Grand Lobby
  • Retail units
  • Food court

Tower A — Levels 53 and 53A

  • Luxe Pool
  • Jacuzzi
  • Pool Deck
  • Loft Lounge
  • Hanging Garden

Tower B — Levels 47 and 50

  • Sunlit Pool
  • Kid’s Pool
  • Pool Lounge
  • Pool Deck
  • Garden Lounge
  • Music Lounge
  • Games Lounge
Location

Jalan Hang Jebat, next to Merdeka 118.

The site is about a hundred and twenty metres from Menara Merdeka Maybank and roughly a hundred and sixty from the Merdeka MRT station on the Kajang line — both walks, not drives. Petaling Street is three minutes away on foot.

Location map showing MABA Suitez, Merdeka MRT station and the surrounding Kuala Lumpur city centre

On foot

  • Menara Merdeka Maybank About 120 m
  • Merdeka MRT (SBK17) About 160 m
  • Petaling Street About 240 m
  • Stadium Merdeka Nearby

By MRT

  • Pasar Seni 1 station
  • Bukit Bintang for Pavilion KL 1 station
  • Tun Razak Exchange 2 stations
  • KL Sentral via Muzium Negara 2 stations

Landmarks

  • Merdeka Square About 1.2 km
  • KL Tower About 2 km
  • Perdana Botanical Garden About 2 km
  • Suria KLCC About 2.8 km

Shopping & leisure

  • Pavilion KL About 2 km
  • TRX About 2.5 km
  • 118 Mall at Merdeka 118 Across the road
  • Central Market Nearby

Getting out of town

  • KL Sentral for the ERL 2 MRT stations
  • Bandar Tasik Selatan Nearby
  • MEX and SMART tunnel Nearby
  • Jalan Tun Razak Nearby
Area Analysis

Is the Merdeka 118 area worth investing in?

Maybank has moved into Menara Merdeka Maybank with around 7,000 staff. 118 Mall has not opened yet — the August 2026 date slipped and November is the current plan. Between those two facts sits the question most buyers in this precinct are actually asking.

I wrote the long version up separately rather than bury it in this page: what a corporate anchor of that size really does for weekday demand, why the rail link matters more here than usual when 391 bays serve 914 units, the supply and operating-cost risks worth reading twice, and a ten-point check to run before you book anything.

The short answer. The area deserves serious consideration, but the landmark alone does not make every surrounding property a good investment. Entry price, unit selection, operating costs, management rules and competing supply matter just as much as the address — and in a 914-unit building your closest competitor on rent and on resale is inside your own lobby.
International Buyers

Foreign buyers: check the unit and the title.

RM1,000,000Kuala Lumpur’s minimum purchase price for a foreign buyer
Mixed titlesServiced apartments and office suites in the same towers
ConsentState consent is required for a foreign purchase

Two separate questions here, and they need separate answers. The first is price: Kuala Lumpur sets the floor for a foreign purchase at RM1,000,000, and with layouts ranging from 323 to 657 square feet not every unit in this development clears it. Eligibility is therefore decided unit by unit rather than building by building. The second is title: these two towers are described as serviced apartments and office suites together, and Type A is labelled an office suite, so the category is not uniform — and residential strata and commercial strata are not treated the same way for foreign ownership, for financing, or for the utility tariff you will pay afterwards. Send me the exact unit and I will confirm both in writing before you pay anything. Purchase by a foreign buyer also needs the consent of the state authority, 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.

Questions Buyers Ask

MABA Suitez FAQ.

Where exactly is MABA Suitez?

On Jalan Hang Jebat in the Kuala Lumpur city centre, on a 1.328-acre site about a hundred and twenty metres from Menara Merdeka Maybank and roughly a hundred and sixty metres from the Merdeka MRT station on the Kajang line. Petaling Street is about two hundred and forty metres away, Merdeka Square around 1.2 km, KL Tower and Pavilion KL about 2 km each, TRX 2.5 km and Suria KLCC 2.8 km.

How big is the development?

Two towers and 914 units. Tower A runs to fifty-four storeys with 534 serviced apartments and office suites from Level 7 to Level 51; Tower B runs to fifty storeys with 380 units from Level 7 to Level 43A. They share a Level 6 podium and a car park of 391 bays plus six EV bays across Levels LG1 to 5.

What are the layouts?

Three. Type A at 323 sq.ft. is an office suite — a studio with a pantry and one bathroom. Type B at 484 sq.ft. is a one-bedroom with a second room off the living area. Type C at 657 sq.ft. is a dual key: one bedroom and two bathrooms behind two separate front doors, with Type C(M) the mirrored version of the same plan. All three appear in both towers.

What is the dual-key unit?

Type C, 657 sq.ft., and it is the most numerous layout in the building — 225 in Tower A and 152 in Tower B, 377 in total. Two front doors open off a shared foyer into two separately lockable halves, each with its own bathroom. You can let both, let one and keep the other, or put a family member in one side. In a building this close to an MRT station and run by a hospitality operator, that flexibility is the point.

What facilities are there?

Level 6 is the shared podium: a full MABA basketball court, the Playmaker Hub, the Bench, a gymnasium, a coworking lounge, garden alcoves and a resting garden, with MABA's own office alongside. At ground level there is the grand lobby, retail units and a food court. Then each tower has its own sky deck — Tower A on Levels 53 and 53A with the Luxe Pool, a jacuzzi, a pool deck, the Loft Lounge and the Hanging Garden, and Tower B on Levels 47 and 50 with the Sunlit Pool, a kid's pool, a pool lounge and deck, and garden, music and games lounges.

Is there parking?

391 bays plus six EV bays for 914 units, on Levels LG1 and 1 to 5, and the developer's own slide states that parking is not included with the units. Two minutes from an MRT station that is a deliberate design choice rather than a mistake, but it means a bay is a separate conversation. Ask me what one costs and whether any are still unallocated before you book a unit.

Can foreigners buy at MABA Suitez?

It depends on the unit, and on two things rather than one. Kuala Lumpur sets the floor for a foreign purchase at RM1,000,000, and with layouts from 323 to 657 square feet not every unit here clears it. Separately, the towers hold serviced apartments and office suites together and Type A is labelled an office suite, so the title category is not uniform — and residential and commercial strata are not treated the same way for foreign ownership, for financing or for utility tariffs. Send me the exact unit and I will confirm both in writing. A foreign purchase also needs state consent, which I apply for, and from January 2026 the memorandum of transfer stamp duty for a foreign buyer is a flat 8 per cent.

Is the advertising permit in place?

Not on the face of this material, and you should ask before you pay anyone anything. The sales kit carries no developer's licence number and no advertising and sales permit number, and it gives completion as sixty months from the permit rather than as a date — which reads as a permit that has not been issued yet. A developer may only advertise and sell while a valid licence and permit are in force. I have asked EXSIM for the numbers and the issue date and will not take a booking until I have them in writing; once they exist you can check them yourself at teduh.kpkt.gov.my.

When will it be completed?

The developer states sixty months from the advertising and sales permit. That is five years from a date that has not happened yet, so there is no completion year to quote honestly until the permit is issued. When it is, the sale and purchase agreement will carry a fixed delivery date and a liquidated ascertained damages clause, and that clause is your protection if the date slips. Read it rather than taking a brochure figure on trust.

How much does it cost?

Pricing is released on application rather than published here. WhatsApp me with the layout you are after, which tower, and roughly which level, 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, the car park bay, and the progressive payment schedule through to completion. I will also tell you what the current package covers, because that changes.

The Developer

EXSIM MABA Sdn Bhd.

MABA Suitez is developed by EXSIM MABA Sdn Bhd, which the sales kit describes as a collaborative effort between EXSIM and MABA. EXSIM Development Sdn Bhd began in timber and moved into property development in 2008. The particulars below are the developer’s own; read the note underneath them before you go any further.

  • Developer: EXSIM MABA Sdn Bhd
  • Group: EXSIM Development Sdn Bhd, in property development since 2008
  • Collaboration: With MABA, whose office and court sit on Level 6
  • Type of property: Serviced apartments and office suites
  • Total units: 914 across two towers
  • Land area: 1.328 acres
  • Car parks: 391 bays plus 6 EV bays, not included with the units
  • Maintenance: RM0.99 per sq.ft., including the sinking fund
  • Management: To be operated by a hospitality management company
  • Track record: 37 developments completed and delivered, 19,250 units
  • Certification: 16 GreenRE gold certifications across the group
  • Workmanship: QLASSIC average around 80 per cent
  • Expected completion: Stated as 60 months from the advertising and sales permit
  • Developer’s licence: Not stated in the sales kit — requested
  • Advertising permit: Not stated in the sales kit — requested
There is no advertising and sales permit number in this material, and completion is quoted as sixty months from the permit rather than as a date. Read together, that says the permit had not been issued when the kit was printed. It matters, because a housing developer may only advertise and sell while a valid licence and permit are in force, and because until the permit exists there is no fixed completion date to hold anyone to — the sixty months start whenever it is granted, not now. I have asked EXSIM for the licence number, the permit number and the issue date, and I will not take a booking on this project until I have them in writing. You can check both yourself at teduh.kpkt.gov.my once the numbers exist. If you are being shown this development by anyone else, ask them the same question and see what you get.
MARKETED BY WINSON TEORegistered Estate Agent’s Negotiator REN 29818 with IQI Realty Sdn Bhd. I take international and local buyers through eligibility, financing, state consent and handover. winsonteo.com
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