The short answer has three layers, and the middle one is the one nobody prints.
Johor’s general minimum purchase price for a foreign buyer is RM1,000,000.
The state’s own fee schedule also prices an approval for a serviced apartment or SOHO sold below that floor, so the below-RM1m category is real, in Johor’s own documents.
What we could not find, in the developer material reviewed for this site or in a fresh search on 17 August 2026, is a public document naming a project or a unit inside that category.
So the honest way to treat the question is as a document request about your specific unit, not a rule you rely on in advance.
The floor, and who sets it
The minimum purchase price for foreign buyers is set by each state, not by federal law.
Most states, including Johor, Kuala Lumpur and the other federal territories, Kedah, Pahang, Terengganu and Sabah, set RM1,000,000.
Perlis, Kelantan and Sarawak set RM500,000.
Penang varies by property type and by whether you buy from a developer or on the resale market.
The state-by-state walkthrough, the financing and the full buying process are in the Singapore buyer’s guide, which this page deliberately does not repeat.
The category below the floor, in Johor’s own schedule
Johor’s published schedule of foreign acquisition fees, under the Johor Land Rules (No. 1) (Amendment) 2026 and in force from 1 April 2026, carries this line item:
“Servis apartment / SOHO yang dibenarkan jualan bawah had harga minima RM1,000,000.00”, meaning a serviced apartment or SOHO permitted to be sold below the RM1,000,000 minimum price.
The schedule prices it.
The approval fee for that category carries a minimum of RM50,000, against a general approval fee of 3% of value with a RM30,000 minimum, and a RM2,000 registration fee per title.
A state does not price an approval that cannot exist.
So the category is real, and you can read it yourself at the source.
What we could not find
No public document we reviewed names Bodaiju, Medini as a whole, or any specific unit inside that category.
Assertions to the contrary are easy to find.
Commercial buying guides make them in general terms, usually resting on the IRDA Act 2007.
What none of the material we reviewed produces is the project-level document: a state approval, or other written basis, naming a development or a unit as approved for sale below the floor.
That is what we checked: the developer material reviewed for this site, the state fee schedule itself, and a fresh web search, as at 17 August 2026.
Not finding a document is not the same as the document not existing.
It means the burden sits where it should: on paperwork for your unit, produced before you pay.
What to obtain before you pay anything
Ask the developer’s solicitor for the written basis their project relies on, by name: the state approval, or the incentive correspondence that reflects it.
Then have your own Malaysian property lawyer read it before you pay a deposit.
If the basis is the below-RM1m approval category, the fee schedule above already tells you what that approval costs, so the paperwork and the budget can be checked against each other.
That is the whole test.
A project either produces the document, or RM1,000,000 is the number to plan on.
The money side, in one place
Every foreign acquisition in Johor pays the state’s consent and registration fees, and stamp duty on top.
Those lines are worked through one by one on the purchase costs page, each rate tied to its source, so this page does not restate them.
Malaysian buyers are not the subject of these foreign-acquisition rules.
Other conditions, such as title category, Bumiputera lot or affordable-housing eligibility, can still apply to a Malaysian buyer, and those are a separate set of rules.
Where this comes from
- Maklumat Bayaran. Pejabat Tanah dan Galian Johor. The published schedule of foreign acquisition fees under the Johor Land Rules (No. 1) (Amendment) 2026, in force 1 April 2026. Rechecked 17 August 2026.
- Malaysian Bar Circular No 444/2024. The state-by-state floors, as verified for the Singapore buyer’s guide on this site.
- The developer material reviewed for this site, and a web search on 17 August 2026, for the project-level document search described above. It found assertions, and no document.
This is general information, not legal advice. Confirm the written basis, and the fees for your specific unit, with your own solicitor before you commit.