Meikarta is a massive development area. I went there and talked to sales, I have seen the apartments showroom. There were way more than 300 people. Thousands maybe more came on ID independence day. It gave me a perfect insight how the whole area will look like with traffic. Me and my wife we were considering to buy something but ..... decided not to. There is going to be MRT train to Jakarta, the sales gave us all the maps, brochures ect. where the schools are going to be, shops ect... but like with everything plans are different to reality. Some towers are going to be sold/build in first stage, some you cannot buy now or even book them. Their plans is something like this: Let's get this unpopular area occupied first - build tower and sell it eg. far from Park, pond ect... then once people will move in they will build tower near the park. As this is more desirable area. Nothing more desirable like looking from your balcony to muddy pool being used as mosquitoe's farm.
My concern were:
- that if my tower is not ready and there are no more people willing to buy tower which I booked they will give me / propose another flat in different tower, size of apartment, area!
- I wanted to have a flat which will have sunshine inside afternoon not a 24/day always in shadow "cave"
- I wanted to have a fully finished development not something like having next tower build to your flat once yours is done, this goes on pair with when you are buying flat with "view" from the top floor, you pay for the view just to have it taken away from your in few years as new-development, hotel is build
- depending on which tower you choose, you have like 8/12 units per floor x 27 (or was is 30 floors) that is a lot of flats with each having at least 1 motor/car, this is a high density development area which will turn out to be having problems with traffic jam not mentioning waiting ages for the lift to come.
Remove from the plans happy bule couple walking holding their hands on sidewalks as those will be parking places for motorcycles, cars, lima kaki sellers, angkot and various cheap plastic banners inviting you to doubtful quality of food dining areas, or warehouses selling gas and water with their merchandise being outside their store (remember this is luxury development). I highly doubt there is going to be a hermes store (as it is nicely printed on their brochure) if the flat cost 200 jt and its neighbour is selling gas/water. There are not going to be 20-30 cars on the road, there will be huge traffic, people parking on the road using emergency lights on as parking places will cost some money. Big trucks going via cibatu to their logistic warehouse YOE and other factories between Jababeka and Lippo other trucks heading to deltamas huge factories. What I can guarantee you is that you will have a nice suffocating place to live with view on the traffic jam. There will be busses or more cars of people coming for a meeting / party /wedding which will be held on the 1st, 2nd floor of your apartment and yes it is going to be very loud till midnight.
If this is luxury in your terms then you can go ahead and invest. For me this is another complex of blok.
PS. Next to this meikarta Lippo is building orange county. I am not sure how many towers 8-9. So far not even one is finished (though they managed to get (20-22 floors I think 1-2 tower(s)). The progress is way .....way slower compared to some apartments I know in Bandung. The prices when I asked were about 12-15 jt. per m2 (2.5 years ago) as this is "prime area". This "prime area" is going to be surrounded by way cheaper meikarta!
PS2. It came as a huge surprise to me to find out there are not going to be any mosque there? Sounds very unlikely.... and more probably there will be something build later on. But 50 school are ... impressive!