Borey Lim Chheang Hak — Chhouk Va 1

The confirmed housing format is a link house, meaning an attached landed home within a continuous row. One detailed property profile records two bedrooms, three bathrooms and a stated floor area of 40 sqm, together with dimensions of 4 by 10 metres. Those figures describe a published unit or house type; they should not be treated as the specification of every property in the community. No complete public catalogue was found for Chhouk Va 1 showing all series, frontage widths, land areas and built-up areas. Two homes with the same bedroom count may therefore differ materially.

Available photographs show a coherent estate layout: symmetrical rows with a consistent facade treatment, an internal access lane and a more prominent central building at the end of the view. Images of the sample or listed home show a separate living area, a compact kitchen, bedrooms and ancillary space. The project description also mentions a balcony, usable rooftop, car parking and a backyard. This is a practical family arrangement, but each resale house still needs its own inspection because finishing quality, ventilation, daylight and wet-area condition can vary after several years of occupation.

The project now operates mainly as a resale or mixed market. Older primary-sale profiles remain online, but they do not establish the developer’s present inventory. In a completed borey, the effective deal is often shaped by an individual owner: one house may include furniture, another may be empty; one may have been owner-occupied, another rented; extensions, kitchens, facade changes and roof condition can differ between neighbouring plots. The useful comparison unit is therefore the complete property package—asking price, land size, built-up area, title, liabilities, physical condition and actual access—not a generic project price.

A published listing for one house identifies a hard title, but that must not be assumed for every unit. Before paying a reservation, a buyer should inspect the original title, match the registered owner and cadastral details to the physical house, and check for mortgages, disputes or unregistered alterations. This is particularly important for foreign buyers because a borey is landed property and does not follow the same ownership structure as a strata-title condominium. The legal holding route must be assessed for the individual buyer and the individual title rather than inferred from marketing language.

Public information on shared amenities is limited. Car parking is confirmed, and the house description lists several private features, but there is no reliable, complete schedule of common facilities such as a clubhouse, swimming pool, a precisely defined security regime or a formal management company. That does not prove that services are absent; it means they should not be promised without an on-site check. Buyers should inspect gate access, street lighting, drainage, road surfaces, waste collection, water pressure, electricity supply and any recurring community charges.

Samraong Kraom will suit buyers who deliberately prefer a landed home on Phnom Penh’s western edge. Daily travel patterns matter more than straight-line distance. A serious inspection should include morning and evening drives, alternative exit routes, wet-weather access and the practical reach of the buyer’s schools, markets, clinics and workplace. Property portals publish indicative travel times to selected landmarks, but traffic conditions are fluid. Testing the route during the hours that matter to the household gives more useful evidence than relying on a portal estimate.

Borey Lim Chheang Hak states in its corporate material that the business dates to 1990. This helps confirm the developer identity and explains why the same brand appears across several locations. It is not a substitute for house-level due diligence. At Chhouk Va 1, the decisive questions are who is selling, which title is presented, what alterations were made after completion, whether community or utility arrears exist, whether the measured dimensions match the paperwork, and which fixtures remain after handover. Corporate longevity does not guarantee a clean secondary transaction.

Chhouk Va 1 is best approached as a completed family-home option with a documented basic layout, not as a packaged investment promising fixed returns. Its advantage is that the physical environment can be inspected and residents can be asked about day-to-day conditions. Its limitation is the lack of a central, current price and availability list. A disciplined buyer should gather several homes within the same project, normalise the information into one checklist, inspect them on the same day, and then compare price, title quality and renovation budget.

A structured inspection is more useful than a casual viewing. Start by matching the address and house number to the title, then measure frontage, plot depth and usable internal areas without treating them as the same figure. Check the rooftop and any signs of leakage, drainage, water pressure, the electrical board, cracks, doors and windows. Record every fixture and item of furniture that will remain after handover. This sequence exposes meaningful differences between visually similar homes and gives the buyer a clearer renovation budget, move-in timetable and list of points for negotiation.