About Our Place in Johor

Last year, we read newspaper article about Singaporeans buying houses in Johor as retirement/weekend homes. It was quite an interesting concept so one day we hired a car and drove through Tuas 2nd Link to look around. We've never really been to Johor except for on the way to KL or Mersing so we knew very little about the city. The only name we knew of about the housing development was Nusajaya and Bukit Indah.

On our first driving trip, we accidentally found the East Ledang development, which is more high end luxury spacious contemporary homes on overall 275 acres of land, developed by UEM Land. This is part of Nusajaya (which is residential area of the Iskandar project).

This development is located less than 10 mins drive from the 2nd link immigration checkpoint. For more information on this development, you can visit http://www.eastledang.com/.

1st phase was launched 2 years ago, fully sold and buyers received their keys this May (2010). We viewed the 2nd Phase showhouses and very much loved what we saw. It is not for everyone, esp those city dwellers, but it provided a different lifestyle to people like us who look for space, nature outdoor activities & are not so much into living in boxes of apartments.

We also later on looked at other developments such as Leisure Farm, Horizon Hills, Bukit Indah, Nusa Idaman but in the end, decided to buy a subsale twin villa house at East Ledang Phase I (picture on the right) as it's the closest to 2nd Link. We'll be getting our keys and starting interior decor in mid November (2010), so we are now in a short term rental linked duplex located in the same phase.

Streets of linked duplexes:



My block's street & garden area:



More pictures on East Ledang area:



Updates 5th Nov 2010 - pictures we took from the Phase II showhouses:

Twin villa (I think this is type A - can't remember):



Twin villa (I think this is type B)