Half of the Klang Valley's New Launches Are Less Than 50% Sold. Here's How Much a Launch Should Have Sold by Year 1, 2 and 3.

From the housing ministry's unit-level register of every licensed development, covering 783 projects currently on sale in the Klang Valley:

• The median active launch is exactly 50% sold — 390 of 783 projects (49.8%) have sold less than half their units
• 110,778 units sit unsold in actively selling projects alone
• Nearly 1 in 3 launches (30.5%) has sold less than a quarter of its units; only 5.1% are sold out
• KL clears far faster than Selangor: median 76.7% sold vs 44.4%
• 151 projects are officially sick or abandoned (Sakit/Terbengkalai), holding 50,873 approved units

By district (≥15 active launches, median sold): Kuala Lumpur 78.2% (121 launches) · Hulu Selangor 66.7% (21) · Petaling 63.9% (124) · Hulu Langat 55.9% (69) · Sepang 55.0% (85) · Gombak 54.9% (40) · Kuala Langat 51.2% (71) · Kuala Selangor 50.3% (29) · Klang 32.6% (89) — the slowest. 121 launches carry no district field and are counted in the totals only.

"Under half sold" by itself is not damning — a project that launched last quarter at 20% is doing fine. Splitting the 390 under-half-sold projects by launch date on the register: 258 launched in 2025-26 (young stock, low sell-through expected), but 39 launched in 2024 or earlier are still under half sold, holding 11,725 unsold units — the genuinely slow core. 93 carry no launch date on the register.

Two more register signals sharpen the picture:

• A third of the market didn't move at all. Across five weeks of register updates (24 July – 28 August 2026), 287 of the 783 active launches — 36.7% — showed zero change in declared sales. Those projects hold 16,822 unsold units.
• 38% have officially pushed back delivery. 300 active launches carry a revised vacant-possession date later than the original (none earlier), median extension 12 months, the longest past 8 years.

The timetable — what "normal" looks like. Every active launch with a launch date on the register (690 of 783), median sell-through by age:

Read it as a ruler: a healthy Klang Valley launch is roughly a quarter sold by year one, two-thirds by year two, and about 80% by year three. A project far below its age line is the question mark — not the market-wide headline, which is mostly young 2025-26 stock doing normal numbers.

District ranking — projects launched 1–3 years ago. The ratio says how fast a district clears; the units say how much is actually sitting there. Both matter, so sort by either:

1. Negotiate like the register says you can. When half the region's launches are under 50% sold, the showroom's "only a few units left" deserves a second look. In slow districts especially, rebates, free legal fees and furnishing packages are on the table — ask.

2. Check the project before you book — it's public and free. The register shows how sold any project really is and whether it is classified sick or abandoned. 151 Klang Valley projects carry those labels right now; none advertise it. Two minutes on the KPKT register (or our free checker, which reads the same data) before any booking fee.

3. Slow ≠ distressed — read the number in context. A project launched last quarter at 30% sold is normal; three years in at 30% is a question for the developer. Sell-through is cumulative since launch, so pair it with the launch date — the register carries both, and 39 Klang Valley launches from 2024 or earlier are still under half sold. Ask, too, whether the delivery date has been extended: 300 active launches (38%) already carry one.

4. In a buyer's market, completed stock competes with launches. With this much unsold new supply, subsale sellers in the same areas are negotiating too. Price the alternative before you sign.

5. KL and Selangor are different conversations. KL's median launch is three-quarters sold — less room to negotiate, faster decisions. Much of Selangor is the reverse. Adjust to the district, not the headline.