The verdict at Gurney Park is the whole-unit let on a tight, excerpt-grade band — RM2,200-2,800 across 98-plus live portal cards in one of Penang's deepest rental markets — with zero dedicated listings on our own board at a premier address: the zero-deposit route is unclaimed here. Resist the short-stay temptation the address invites: the Gurney belt is a deep short-stay corridor, yet not one building-named Gurney Park unit — the overflow sits in neighbouring towers and caps what conversion would earn anyway. The sale leg is thin — no Brickz building row, one unreconciled launch pair — so the yield is withheld. One snippet cost datum exists: a service charge of about RM160 a month, verify against the MC statement. Condition and floor decide here, not scarcity.
Three ways to run your unit
Pick a model card and put in your own numbers. The rent field loads RM2,300 — iProperty's 68-card from-price, the deepest supply read; the band is RM2,200-2,800, all search excerpts. The purchase field stays empty: no building-level sale row reconciles. The rooms card is not wired — the RM650 from-price on PropertyGuru is room-tier on an unstated plate, not a measured room market. Every load is labelled with its basis; the answer updates as you type.
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What can you earn?
First-party first: zero dedicated, one nearby. Our building page renders "Zero Deposit Houses for Rent in Gurney Park Gurney Drive · 1 nearby" — and the nearby card is not this building. At an address this liquid, an empty zero-deposit board is an unclaimed position, not missing demand.
The band — excerpt-grade, and labelled as exactly that. Three independent search excerpts converge: an agent guide at "Guide rent from RM 2,200+"; iProperty at "68 condos for rent, starting from around RM 2,300/month"; Mudah at "30 units for rent, with prices ranging up to RM 2,800". Together: RM2,200-2,800 over roughly 98 live cards, every figure a search snippet, no live portal page read this sweep. In a market this deep, the listing that rents first is presented best and priced sharpest — the band is competitive, not scarce.
Rooms — a floor, not a market. PropertyGuru prints "Rental price starting from RM 650" on a 588-unit, ~970 sq ft three-bed stock — that is a room-tier from-price on an unstated plate, not a measured room card; no Gurney Park room was read anywhere. Nothing is wired, nothing asserted. If the management ever clears multi-tenancy in writing, the room rental and co-living guide is the operating checklist — with rates to be measured, not assumed.
Sale — no reconciled denominator. Brickz carries no Gurney Park row; the search surfaced "THE LOOC RESIDENCE, GURNEY" at RM1,067 psf — a different building, discarded. The area context band is roughly RM750-1,800 psf (2026, NAPIC/Brickz-checked) — corridor, never the building. And the one launch-history pair does not reconcile on one plate: "original launch price ~RM260 psf" against "3-bedroom at ~RM690,000" on 950-970 sq ft — both quoted, basis unstated. So: yield withheld, purchase field waits for your dated number. Short-stay: zero building-named Airbnb units; corridor context runs RM737-2,228 for five nights ("Modern 2BR @ SunriseGurney ... RM 1,790 for 5 nights"; "Gurney Seaview 2BR ... @ Jazz RM 1,280"; "3BR/2Car Park Seaview ... The Landmark RM 912") — the engine is real, it just does not run on this building's name. Costs: an agent page prints a service charge of about RM160 a month — the sweep's one recurring-cost datum, snippet-grade, verify against the MC statement. Beyond that, nothing is published. Running costs default to RM330 a month as a fenced placeholder; council is MBPP.
Why a 1999 twin tower at the Gurney belt runs whole-unit
Gurney Park is City Associates Group's freehold twin-tower scheme — Maple and Pine, two 39-storey blocks, 588 units, roughly eight units a floor and three lifts per tower, completed 1999, on Jalan Kelawei off Persiaran Gurney with Gurney Plaza and Gurney Paragon at the doorstep, under MBPP. Three facts govern the play. First, deep-supply economics: 98-plus live cards means professional tenants comparison-shop line by line; condition, floor and presentation are the only levers — the SPEEDRENO fit-out guide scopes the presentation-grade spend this market rewards. Second, the short-stay fence: Penang's enforcement posture and the MC's statutory authority sit squarely against unapproved transient letting, and the corridor's own overflow (Jazz, Landmark, Sunrise stock) already caps what conversion would earn — the durable position is the quiet corporate-grade tenancy. Third, 1999-vintage mechanics: 39 storeys of aging plant is exactly what special levies fund; the ~RM160 service-charge snippet says the running cost is modest today, and the sinking-fund balance says whether it stays that way. Pets: no published position — but SPEEDHOME coliving is cat-friendly, cats welcome in our coliving rooms, and pet-friendly setups earn roughly 15-20% more where allowed, market context from the operator registry; the by-law variance travels in the same letter.
5 checks before you commit
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Read the real title document — freehold Kelawei parcel, tower (Maple or Pine), floor, parking bays. Done: you hold the individual issue document of title.
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Get the MC's written stance — short-stay, multi-tenancy and pets in one request; at this address the short-stay clause is the load-bearing one. Done: the clauses, in writing, with the COB filing date.
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Reconcile the service charge against the statement — the ~RM160 a month figure is an agent-page snippet; the MC statement, not the agent page, is the number. Done: the current schedule and the last three years in writing.
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Re-date the rent band with a live read — the RM2,200-2,800 band is excerpts of 11 October 2026; pull the live portal pages before you price. Done: your own dated rows, in writing.
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Name-read every sale comp — THE LOOC is not Gurney Park, and the RM750-1,800 psf area band is corridor context; your denominator must name this building. Done: a dated, building-named purchase row.
FAQ
What yield does Gurney Park give?
None is claimed: Brickz carries no building row, and the launch-history pair (~RM260 psf versus ~RM690,000 on 950-970 sq ft) does not reconcile on one plate. The measured-ish side is rent: RM2,200-2,800, excerpt-grade over 98-plus cards. Bring your own dated purchase row and run the calculator.
Can you rent out rooms at Gurney Park?
No room card was read at this building. The RM650 from-price on PropertyGuru is room-tier on an unstated plate — an unverified floor, never a room market. The MC's written multi-tenancy clearance gates any sharing model.
Is short stay allowed at Gurney Park?
No building-named short-stay unit exists — the corridor's deep short-stay stock (RM737-2,228 for five nights) sits in neighbouring Jazz, Landmark and Sunrise towers. Treat short-stay income as zero until the written by-law text says otherwise.
Are pets allowed at Gurney Park?
Not published. SPEEDHOME coliving is cat-friendly — cats welcome in our coliving rooms; the offer is our policy, and the by-law variance travels in the same letter. Pet-friendly setups earn roughly 15-20% more where allowed, market context from the operator registry.
What running it looks like
Setup is three documents plus one discipline: the title with the freehold Kelawei parcel on it, the MC's written stance, the reconciled fee schedule — then presentation-first spending in a 98-card market where condition and floor are the only scarce things. The work is one clean household per unit — zero deposit, SPEEDHOME runs the listing, the viewings and the rent collection, and you approve the tenant before anything is signed. The plans sit on top: Standard at RM799 + SST a year, Protect at one month's rent, Protect+ at one and a half.
Ready? List your Gurney Park unit with SPEEDHOME — zero deposit, we run the viewings, you approve the tenant.
The board read, the search excerpts and the Airbnb fetch are of 11 October 2026 (evidence file gurney-park-gurney-drive-market-evidence-2026-10-11.yaml, lane bi-mine-06, curl + WebSearch + WebFetch, no live portal page read); RM2,200-2,800 is the excerpt-grade whole-unit band over 98-plus cards; RM650 is a room-tier from-price, not a room market; RM750-1,800 psf is corridor context and THE LOOC a different building; ~RM160 a month is an agent-page service-charge snippet; the sale row, transacted PSF, quit rent and the pet policy were not collected or not published at this building. More: the Penang rental yield guide and the self-management cost calculator.