Forest City Highrise: Unit Types, Views, and What Living There Actually Feels Like

Forest City has a range of highrise options covering four bedroom configurations, two very different view orientations, and a price range that starts under RM600,000 and goes well past RM2.5 million. The unit you choose shapes a completely different living experience — and the view question, in particular, is one where buyers who have not visited often make the wrong call on paper.

What unit types are available and what do they cost?

The highrise phases at Forest City — across Phase 1 (Cerulean Bay), Phase 2 (Regalia Park and Starview Bay), and Phase 3 (Ataraxia Park) — offer a consistent range of residential apartment types. Entry starts with compact 1-bedroom and 1+1 bedroom configurations, and the range extends to spacious 4-bedroom units suited to full family relocation.

All units come partially furnished with digital lock as standard. The price ranges above reflect current secondary market and advertised developer pricing — actual available units depend on phase and floor level. Send me a message if you want to know what is specifically available at the time you are reading this.

Sea view or garden view — which should you choose?

This is the question I get most often from highrise buyers who have not yet visited, and the honest answer is that they feel very different when you are actually standing on the balcony.

Sea view units on upper floors face the Strait of Johor. On clear days you see open water stretching toward the Indonesian coastline, with a wide, unobstructed horizon. The sunrise from these units is exceptional. The sense of space and openness is hard to replicate anywhere in Johor, and these units tend to be priced at a premium and attract strong interest from buyers who have visited in person.

Garden view units face the island's internal tropical landscaping — pools, palm trees, lagoons, and the lush green corridor that runs through the development. This view has a different quality: quieter, more sheltered, more resort-like. Families with young children often prefer it. The visual environment is closer to looking out over a tropical resort garden than an open seascape.

One important clarification worth making: the golf course and the highrise residential blocks are in different parts of Forest City, roughly 1.5km apart. The Golf Villas sit directly adjacent to the golf course fairways — that is a villa product, not a highrise. Highrise units do not have golf course views. The view options for highrise buyers are sea-facing or garden-facing, and the right choice depends entirely on which visual environment you want to wake up to.

Lower floors and inward-facing units are priced more accessibly and work well for buyers whose priority is the island environment and resort facilities rather than a specific view from their balcony. The pools, gym, tennis courts, sky garden, and BBQ areas are accessible regardless of floor or orientation.

What facilities come with the highrise units?

Across the different highrise phases, facilities include swimming pools, gym, tennis court, BBQ area, games room, multipurpose hall, banquet room, study room, sky garden, changing rooms, and a children's playground. The Carnelian Tower — a landmark 45-storey, approximately 180-metre service apartment and office tower — also includes an infinity swimming pool, meeting rooms, dining room, and a sky garden within the building itself.

Beyond the building-level facilities, residents have access to the broader Forest City island infrastructure: the Forest City Golf Resort (Classic Course, Top 100 Asia seven consecutive years; Legacy Course, Jack Nicklaus, ranked 49th Asia-Pacific 2024—2025), two five-star hotels (Forest City Golf Hotel and Phoenix International Marina Hotel), a 4km beach, the Forest City Water Park, duty-free retail, and Forest City Education City — the international school campus on-island for resident families with children.

An on-island health screening centre also operates with international certifications, which is particularly relevant for buyers who are using the MM2H programme and need to satisfy the medical check-up requirement as part of their application.

Why the 1-bedroom is popular with MM2H applicants

Forest City has its own dedicated MM2H pathway — the SFZ MM2H — which requires buyers to purchase one residential unit directly from the developer with no minimum purchase price. This makes the 1+1 bedroom units, starting from around RM550,000, among the most accessible entry points for long-term residency in Malaysia that currently exist.

The practical logic is straightforward: you satisfy the MM2H property requirement, you hold a unit on a duty-free island with resort facilities and an internationally ranked golf course, and you have a base in Malaysia that is 5 minutes from the Second Link crossing into Singapore. Whether you use it seasonally, as a full-time base, or as a pied-—-terre while your primary life is elsewhere, the 1-bedroom configuration handles all three scenarios without the maintenance overhead of a larger unit.

I have walked buyers through this decision a number of times. The 1-bedroom Forest City unit paired with the SFZ MM2H is one of the cleaner combinations in the current Johor market for buyers who want a long-term Malaysia base without overcommitting financially.

What should you know before you visit?

Units are available for viewing Monday to Sunday, 9am to 6pm. Viewing appointments need to be arranged in advance — send me a message and I will coordinate the visit directly, including briefing you on which specific units to look at based on your budget, preferred configuration, and view orientation before you make the trip.

Forest City is a cash purchase project — there is no bank loan facility for these units. That is an important practical point to understand before visiting, as it shapes the financial planning required regardless of unit size or price point.