The verdict at Silk Residence is whole-unit under highway-commute underwriting, and the fee line decides it: the building's only rent print is one card at RM1,400 ("FOR RENT | Silk Residence, Balakong / Cheras Selatan"), the corridor's demand proof is Symphony Tower's RM1,650 held over 283 chats in 5.8 years, and Brickz — which files this building under Kajang — carries the live base at RM311,000-315,000 across 164 transactions. On those inputs the gross re-derives to 5.4-6.3%, labelled; but the verbatim maintenance line runs "RM758 + RM75.80 = RM833.80" a month, and at RM0.30 psf the 942 sqft plate pays RM283-plus — the net compresses hard. PropertyGuru's "from RM180 psf" asks are a distress tail, never the market; iProperty counts 64 units for sale, a supply-heavy exit queue. Rooms: unmeasured, a 942 sqft minimum plate. Zero building-named Airbnb.
Three ways to run your unit
Pick a model card and put in your own numbers — the rent field loads RM1,400 (the only building-level card, excerpt-bound) and the purchase field loads RM315,000, the Brickz All-window median over 164 transactions (the one-year window reads RM311,000 at RM245 psf; override it with your own dated basis at any time). The answer updates as you type.
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What can you earn?
First-party first: SPEEDHOME's page reads "Zero Deposit House for Rent in Silk Residence Cheras" and zero flight objects carry the building's name — a first-mover board. The corridor pool carries the demand proof: Symphony Tower at RM1,650 with 283 chats and 35 viewings on a plate live since December 2020 — one of the fleet's biggest corridor counters — and the sibling Silk Sky at RM2,100 with an early-life 5 chats since 2023.
The measured print, honestly thin. Mudah's entity title is live — "3 Apartment / Condominium For Rent Silk Residence in Cheras, Selangor" — but this sweep bound only one value: the PG excerpt card "FOR RENT | Silk Residence, Balakong / Cheras Selatan — RM1,400/month". The corridor band frames the rest: Symphony's RM1,650, Silk Sky's RM2,100, and PG's sibling filter "74 Houses for Rent - Between RM 1K and RM 2K". A re-sweep to bind all three Mudah cards is flagged in the evidence file.
The denominator, live but filed next door. Brickz binds live — with an attribution quirk worth quoting: it files Silk Residence under Kajang, per the developer's filing. The rendered rows: "Median Price PSF (Past 1Y): RM245; Median Price (Past 1Y): RM311,000; Median Price PSF (All): RM248; Median Price (All): RM315,000; Transactions (All): 164" — the one-year count truncated in the capture, the All-time row the stable base. Labelled derivation: RM1,400-1,650 across twelve months is RM16,800-19,800 — 5.4-6.3% gross on the RM311,000-315,000 base. The ask side is the caution: PG's "Current PSF starts from ~RM180 psf" is a distress tail next to a RM248 psf transacted median — never the market — and iProperty's "64 units for sale" is a supply-heavy exit queue. Launch-era context: Silk sold at "RM440–RM480 psf" against Landmark Residence RM550-600 and One Amerin RM530+.
Rooms, short-stay, costs — the honest holes. No Silk Residence room card exists on any channel this sweep — the 942 sqft minimum plate and the absence of a room market keep per-room rates unbound. Airbnb: "No listing title mentions 'Silk Residence' or 'Silk'" — the corridor's short-stay stock is the Menara Simfoni cluster ("Apple 1 @ at 38 Floor Menara Simfoni/Wifi/Netflix — RM 453 for 5 nights"), other buildings. Maintenance is the loudest line in the file, verbatim: "* Maintenance fee : RM758 + Sinking fund: RM75.80 = Total: RM833.80" — a unit size the excerpt does not state (a penthouse listing, per the source note; it implies roughly RM0.38 psf on 2,182 sqft or RM0.88 on 942), with iProperty's ~RM0.30 psf the safer per-square-foot reference and the sinking fund exactly 10% of the fee. Quit rent: unpublished. See the real cost of self-managing a rental.
Why a mixed-use highway tower runs whole-unit
Silk Residence is Cheras Hong Soon's freehold, single 30-storey mixed-use tower off the SILK Highway — 551 serviced apartments of 942-2,182 sqft in three-bed layouts, duplex penthouses above, shops and offices in the same development, completed 2014 under MPKj. That form decides the model: the parcels sit above commercial lots with commercial neighbours, so the by-law register is the operative document and "serviced apartment" is a title category, never hotel permission — and the tenancy that survives is the highway-commute family let the corridor's 283-chat Symphony record proves exists. The economics tip on the fee line, not the rent line: this is a building where a RM283-a-month fee on the smallest plate is the difference between a 5.4% gross and a net worth holding, and where the 64-unit exit queue means your exit prices against the distress tail, not the median. The scarce card remains the pet-friendly whole unit — setups earn roughly 15-20% more where allowed, market context from the operator registry, with no pet signal measured at this building yet. SPEEDHOME coliving is cat-friendly — cats welcome in our coliving rooms — whatever the handbook says for the corridors; the offer is our policy, the by-law variance is one line in the same letter.
5 checks before you commit
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Read the real title document — the parcel's title category decides what an approved residential tenancy looks like above commercial lots, and the lease-free freehold title still names encumbrances. Done: you hold the copy.
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Get the MC's written position on short-stay, multi-tenancy and pets — mixed-use towers run stricter house rules; the letter, not the label, decides. SPEEDHOME coliving is cat-friendly — cats welcome in our coliving rooms — whatever the handbook says. Done: the letter itself.
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Get the real fee schedule before any yield math — the verbatim RM833.80 line is size-unknown and penthouse-suspect; the MC's current schedule, the sinking-fund balance and the levy history decide the net. Done: the latest statement.
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Price the exit against the queue, not the tail. 64 units for sale and "from RM180 psf" asks are the distress side; RM248 psf transacted is the base — your dated basis or a professional valuation only. Done: your offer references one.
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Keep the fit-out reversible and commute-grade — RM20,000 lean and RM40,000 premium are SPEEDRENO planning assumptions, not quotes; the highway-commute family tenant rewards durable services over styling, and structural change goes to MPKj and the MC in writing first. See the SPEEDRENO fit-out guide. Done: scope stays reversible.
FAQ
Can you rent out rooms at Silk Residence?
No room card was measured on any channel — the room market here is unpriced, and the 942 sqft minimum plate is a three-bed family product, not a split candidate. The MC's multi-tenancy clause would gate any sharing plan regardless. See the room rental and co-living guide.
What yield does Silk Residence give?
5.4-6.3% gross, labelled: RM1,400-1,650 corridor-band rents against the Brickz live base of RM311,000-315,000 (164 transactions, filed under Kajang). The number that matters more is the net: at RM0.30 psf the smallest plate pays RM283-plus a month, and the verbatim RM833.80 listing line shows how steep the fee side runs. Enter your own dated basis and fee schedule in the calculator above.
Is short-stay allowed at Silk Residence?
Zero building-named Airbnb presence was measured — no title mentions "Silk Residence" or "Silk". The corridor's short-stay trade runs from the Menara Simfoni cluster, other buildings, and the MC's written short-stay clause — under its statutory authority — decides before any guest clock is underwritten.
Are pets allowed at Silk Residence?
The MC's stance is not published, and no pet signal was measured at the building this sweep. 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 offer is SPEEDHOME policy; the by-law variance travels in the same letter.
What running it looks like
Setup is two documents: the title copy (category and plate named) and the MC letter (short-stay, multi-tenancy, pets) — plus the current fee schedule, because this building's arithmetic lives or dies on that line. The work is one durable three-bed card in the measured band with zero deposit — the first dedicated card a corridor holding a 283-chat demand record has never seen from this building — while 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 Silk Residence unit with SPEEDHOME — zero deposit, we run the viewings, you approve the tenant.
The own-board read, the live Brickz bind (Kajang filing quoted), the Mudah entity title with its one bound card, the portal excerpts and the Airbnb read are reads of 12 October 2026 (evidence file silk-residence-cheras-market-evidence-2026-10-12.yaml); the RM16,800-19,800, 5.4-6.3% and RM283-plus figures are labelled derivations from those inputs; the three Mudah card values remain excerpt-bound with a re-sweep flagged. More: the room rental and co-living guide and the SPEEDRENO fit-out guide.