Hongkong Land × Hoa Lâm
The Marq — 515 apartments in two adjoining 26-storey towers at 29B Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, in the core of District 1, Ho Chi Minh City. Handed over, lived in, and titled: the sổ hồng — the ownership certificate Vietnamese buyers call the pink book — has been issued to residents since 01/2024. Here you get the wall-centre and the net usable area of every unit type, not just a price band.
29B Nguyen Dinh Chieu Street, Sai Gon Ward (formerly Da Kao), District 1, Ho Chi Minh City
Scroll to exploreHanded over 12/2021 – 02/2022 · Sổ hồng issued to residents since 01/2024 · 2 towers × 26 storeys · 515 apartments · 3 basement levels + 1 basement mezzanine · 30 m infinity pool on the roof · Hongkong Land — Jardine Matheson Group · Hoa Lâm Corporation
Project overview
The Marq stands at 29B Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Phường Sài Gòn (formerly Đa Kao Ward), District 1 — the oldest residential quarter of central Ho Chi Minh City, beside the consular cluster. It was developed by Hongkong Land together with Tập đoàn Hoa Lâm, the Hoa Lâm Group.
Unlike most of the luxury stock on offer in District 1, The Marq is no longer a property formed in the future. The building was handed over between December 2021 and February 2022, residents have moved in, and the sổ hồng — the ownership certificate, commonly called the pink book — began to be issued to residents in January 2024. That changes the nature of the transaction: you are buying an asset you can visit, measure, whose legal file you can check for that exact unit, and which you can let out straight away.
The scale works in the buyer’s favour as well: 515 apartments on a site of 5,146.4 m² is a low density compared with towers in the same bracket. A typical floor holds only 11 apartments in Tower A and 10 in Tower B, and each tower has 7 lifts — a lift-to-apartment ratio clearly above the norm.
All resident amenities were lifted to the roof as a single cluster called the Sky Club, instead of being spread through the podium. The ground floor therefore keeps the quiet of a private arrival: a drop-off courtyard, a water lantern hall, a lantern corridor and a planted atrium.
Scale figures are taken from the developer’s project introduction document. The handover and sổ hồng dates are market information rather than official announcements — Happy Land re-checks them against the file of the specific unit when you are ready to proceed.
Building section
This is the part almost no page publishes: which unit type is on which floor. The table below is reconstructed from the locator elevation printed on the developer’s own drawing for each unit type. Where no drawing has been published, we say so rather than guess.
Hover over or tap a floor for detail. The ↑ ↓ keys work too.
Besides the unit codes listed above, the developer’s typical floor plan also shows types 1B2, 1B3, 2B1, 2B2, 2B3, 3B1 and 3B3 — but the document set we hold contains no drawing and no official area for them, so we do not publish estimated figures. Contact us and we will ask for the drawing of the exact unit you are interested in.
Arrival sequence
A luxury building is judged on what residents walk through every day, not on the rendering. These are actual photographs of that sequence.
01
The podium is set back behind the street trees, with a boundary wall combined with vertical planting. The signage is stone and bronze lettering rather than an advertising board — a small detail, but it sets the tone of the whole address.
02
Cars enter through a gate with a guard house, under a timber-louvred canopy. From this point on, visitors and residents follow two separate routes.
03
People on foot do not share the car route. The walkway runs along a stone wall under a timber-louvred ceiling, lit low in the evening — this is the transition between a District 1 pavement and the world inside.
04
Water Lantern Hall: solid stone walls, a warm timber-louvred ceiling and a sculpture on the sightline. This space works as a decompression chamber — once you step through it, the street noise is gone.
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The reception counter sits in front of a stone artwork panel, under a cluster of pendant lights. The waiting area is set against full-height glass facing the garden — enough room to receive a visitor without opening your own front door.
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The arrival courtyard sits between the two towers, surrounded by layered planting. The three- and four-bedroom apartments have their own private lift lobby, 2.8 m ceilings and motion-sensor LED lighting.
Actual photographs of the building after handover. No stock images are used.
Sky Club — rooftop
This is the most notable design decision at The Marq: instead of spreading amenities around the podium as is usual, the developer concentrated all of them on a single floor at the top of the building. In exchange, the ground floor keeps its privacy, while the pool and the entertaining areas look out over the whole city centre.
The amenity list is taken verbatim from the developer’s official document. Opening hours and house rules are set by the building management and may change — ask in advance if you have something specific in mind (holding a party, keeping a pet, short-term letting).
Unit types
Most other pages quote a single area figure without saying whether it is measured to the centre of the walls or to the inside face. At The Marq the gap between the two is about 10–11%, enough to distort the price per m². Both figures are given below, taken directly from the official drawings.
Every one-bedroom type at The Marq also has a flexible study — in practice usable as a home office. The codes below sit between the ground floor and level 2.
1B2
1 bedroom
The smallest one-bedroom in the building, and the one that runs up the most levels. The kitchen opens onto the dining and living area, with a flexible study and a loggia.
1B10
1 bedroom
The most compact one-bedroom code in the drawing set we hold. Living room open to the kitchen and dining area, plus a flexible study and a loggia.
1B6
1 bedroom
About 4 m² larger than 1B10, and the difference goes into a separate dressing room inside the bedroom.
1B14
1 bedroom
The only code on the ground floor. It has a walk-in wardrobe and a flexible study.
1B12
1 bedroom
The largest one-bedroom code. At 56.92 m² of net usable area it is close to some of the smaller two-bedroom apartments in other projects.
Two-bedroom units are the most traded line on the resale market. The official drawing we hold is type 2B2; codes 2B1 and 2B3 appear on the typical floor plate but we do not have their individual drawings.
2B2
2 bedrooms
The master bedroom has its own bathroom; the second bedroom uses the common bathroom. The kitchen runs into the dining area and the living room opens onto the loggia.
A private lift lobby, and a dry kitchen separated from a wet kitchen — this is the clearest line between the three- and four-bedroom group and the one-bedroom group.
3B4
3 bedrooms
A full family layout: private lift lobby, dry kitchen separate from the wet kitchen, dressing room, utility room and loggia. It appears on 10 odd floors, so there is a real choice of height.
The whole four-bedroom group has a private lift lobby, central VRV air conditioning, dry and wet kitchens and a drying yard. Two codes, 4B3 and 4B4, have a double-volume living room.
4B2
4 bedrooms
The master bedroom and one secondary bedroom each have their own bathroom. There is a utility room and a drying yard.
4B3
4 bedrooms
A double-volume living room — one of only two codes in the project with this feature.
4B5
4 bedrooms
A rare code: it exists on one floor only. Two dressing rooms, with en-suite bathrooms to the master and one secondary bedroom.
4B4
4 bedrooms
The same area as 4B1, but with a double-volume living room and two dressing rooms.
4B1
4 bedrooms
The four-bedroom code spread across the most floors, and therefore the one where it is easiest to find the height and aspect you want. Two dressing rooms and a private drying yard.
The wall-centre area (diện tích tim tường, also written DT sàn) is measured to the centre line of the external and partition walls; the net usable area (diện tích thông thủy, DT sử dụng) is the space inside the walls that you actually walk on. Take 1B10: 54.70 m² wall-centre but 48.69 m² net usable — a difference of 6.01 m², about 11%. When you compare a "price per m²" between listings, ask which of the two areas that figure was divided by, because the same apartment can produce two unit prices more than 10% apart.
1B2 and 2B2 have been added from the developer’s official leaflet. Individual drawings are still missing for 1B3, 2B1, 2B3, 3B1 and 3B3 — these codes appear on the typical floor plate but come with no drawing or area. We do not publish estimated figures; if you are interested in a specific code, we request the drawing for that exact unit and send it to you.
Handover specification
Most sales pages stop at “high-end fit-out”. Below is the real list, summarised room by room from the materials schedule attached to the sale and purchase agreement, set next to photographs of the actual apartments.
Photographed without loose furniture — this is the condition in which the apartment is handed over.
The bed, curtains and styling in this photograph are loose furniture added by the owner and are not part of the handover list.
Three- and four-bedroom units with a private lift lobby are split into a dry kitchen and a wet kitchen.
Three- and four-bedroom units with a private lift lobby also have a maid’s toilet finished in porcelain tiles.
Only for three- and four-bedroom units with a private lift lobby. The lift opens directly into the apartment’s own lobby rather than onto a shared corridor.
Summarised from the “List of materials and equipment for a typical apartment” annexed to the sale and purchase agreement. Brand, colour and model are supplied subject to availability at the time of handover. Marble is natural stone: veining and tonal variation are properties of the material, not defects. For any specific unit, check the schedule attached to that unit’s own contract.
Photographs showing loose furniture (beds, sofas, dining tables, curtains) are of apartments fitted out after handover — that furniture is not part of the list above. Photographs without furniture show the handover condition.
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Three 3D tours produced by the developer inside the show apartments. Press to load — until you press, this page loads nothing at all from any third party.
The tours were produced by the developer for the show apartments; the actual furnishing and finish of an individual resale unit may differ. The placeholder images are real photographs of the project, not frames from the tours.
Market price range
The Marq sold out in its primary phase, so most transactions today are chuyển nhượng — a resale, a transfer from an existing owner rather than a purchase from the developer. The table below shows the price and rent ranges we can observe on the open market. They are not the developer’s published prices, and they are not our giỏ hàng, the live list of units an agency actually holds.
Price range updated: 09/2026
| Unit type | Area as listed | Resale price | Unit price | Rent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 bedroom The segment with the most listings | 45 – 55 m² | VND 9.5 – 11.6 billion | VND 192 – 250 million/m² | VND 22 – 35 million/month |
| 2 bedrooms No official drawing in the document set | 71 – 77 m² | VND 14.0 – 17.5 billion | VND 194 – 246 million/m² | VND 30 – 57 million/month |
| 3 bedrooms Only one listing observed — see the note below | 108 – 129 m² | VND 23 – 31.8 billion | ~VND 247 million/m² | VND 50 – 78 million/month |
| 4 bedrooms All of them types with a private lift lobby | 144 – 146 m² | VND 33 – 36.5 billion | VND 226 – 252 million/m² | VND 85 – 127 million/month |
| Car parking space Traded separately from the apartment | — | VND 800 million – 1.2 billion | — | — |
Loan estimate
The calculation runs in your browser and no data is sent anywhere. The result is carried into the message when you press contact, so we know the level you are considering.
Monthly running costs
Other pages quote a management fee but nobody multiplies it out for a specific apartment, and the car parking charge is written differently everywhere, from VND 350,000 to several million a month. The reason is simple — and it comes down to whether the space is a designated one.
≈ VND 2.4 million/month (electricity, water and internet not included)
The charges above are market information as at the date of our survey. They are set by the building management and may change. Before paying a deposit, ask for the current fee notice and confirm whether that apartment comes with a designated car space.
Location
The Marq sits in a long-established residential quarter of District 1, close to the consular cluster and the botanical gardens. This is the part of the centre with almost no new land left, so the supply of luxury apartments here is very hard to increase.
29B Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Phường Sài Gòn (formerly Đa Kao), District 1, Ho Chi Minh City
The ward name changed after the 2025 reorganisation of administrative units. We write both the new and the old name, because files, contracts and search habits still use "Đa Kao".
The Đa Kao quarter holds a concentration of consular offices and representative offices. That is why the tenant pool here leans heavily towards foreign professionals and senior staff — the factor that determines how easily a unit lets.
Vincom Center Đồng Khởi, Diamond Plaza and Saigon Centre – Takashimaya are all within a few kilometres, along with the international restaurants and hotels of the Đồng Khởi – Lê Duẩn axis.
Ba Son is the nearest station. Line 1 entering service changes how people move between the centre and the eastern districts, although there is no reliable data yet on exactly how much it affects District 1 apartment prices.
Nguyễn Đình Chiểu is a main traffic route and is busy at peak hours. Apartments facing the street are affected more than those facing inwards. We do not quote a noise measurement because there is no reliable measurement to quote; the only way to know is to stand inside that particular apartment at peak hour — and we are happy to arrange exactly that.
We give distances only, never "x minutes". Every minute figure online assumes a clear road; in practice, peak hour in Ho Chi Minh City is usually two to three times longer.
Distances are approximate, measured in a straight line or along a rough road route, and are there to help you place the building. The map loads only when you press to open it.
Buying as a foreigner
Plenty of pages state flatly that foreigners can buy any apartment at The Marq. One credible English-language source says the opposite. We do not publish either side as the truth — we publish the rules, then check the quota against the specific apartment you choose.
Before any discussion of price, the first task is to confirm whether that apartment falls within the portion available to foreigners, and whether the seller is a foreign individual or a Vietnamese one. The two cases involve completely different paperwork.
The authorities publish a list of housing projects in which foreign organisations and individuals may own property. We cross-check it for you before you pay a deposit.
A valid passport with a valid entry stamp, and an account at a bank licensed to operate in Vietnam to bring the funds in and evidence their source.
Sign a notarised transfer contract, pay the taxes and fees, then complete the procedure to update the certificate. For an apartment that already has its title, the transfer is usually measured in weeks rather than months.
One point that no public source answers consistently: when a foreigner buys an apartment from another foreigner, whether the 50-year clock continues from the existing certificate or restarts. This is the single most important question for a foreign buyer in an already-titled building, and we will not guess at it. Let us obtain the actual file for the apartment you are interested in and put the question to the notary handling it — the answer depends on what is written on that apartment’s own certificate.
Side by side
The table uses the unit-price ranges we could observe in public listings. The purpose is to show relative position, not to claim that one project is better than another.
| Project | Observed unit price | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Marq (District 1) | VND 192 – 252 million/m² | Handed over · sổ hồng from 01/2024 | 515 apartments, Hongkong Land × Hoa Lâm. You can see the real thing and let it out immediately. |
| The Grand Manhattan (District 1) | VND 186 – 253 million/m² | In fit-out | The closest unit price to The Marq but in a completely different state: transactions are mostly sale-and-purchase contracts, with no title yet. |
| Vinhomes Golden River (District 1) | VND 160 – 301 million/m² | Handed over 2018 | The deepest secondary market in District 1, so the price band is very wide depending on where the unit sits within the estate. |
| The Nassim (Thảo Điền) | VND 131 – 239 million/m² | Handed over | Same developer, Hongkong Land. The gap in unit price between its Thảo Điền product and District 1 product shows how much of the value belongs to the central location. |
| The Metropole Thủ Thiêm | VND 302 – 386 million/m² | Handed over by sub-zone | Noticeably above The Marq despite being on the other side of the river — another way of reading the current price level. |
| Grand Marina Saigon (District 1) | VND 379 – 583 million/m² | Handed over tower by tower | The ceiling of the branded-residence segment in District 1. |
Compiled from public listings as at the survey date of 09/2026, not from developer published prices. Listings do not measure area consistently, so the unit prices are only useful for relative comparison.
Developers
The Marq is a joint effort between a listed Asian property developer and a domestic diversified group.
Hongkong Land is a listed property investment, development and management group that owns and operates more than 850,000 m² of prime office and luxury retail space in major Asian cities, concentrated in Hong Kong, Singapore and Beijing. MCL Land in Singapore is a member company. Hongkong Land Holdings Limited is incorporated in Bermuda, with a primary listing in London and secondary listings in Bermuda and Singapore; the group is a member of the Jardine Matheson Group.
Tập đoàn Hoa Lâm has been active since 1988 with a diversified portfolio covering healthcare services, banking investment, computerised lottery and property development. Its notable projects include the two Lim Tower buildings, Kingdom 101 and the Hoa Lâm Shangri-la high-technology medical park. The group is named after its two co-founders, Mr Dương Ngọc Hòa and Mrs Trần Thị Lâm.
In this segment, the point worth making is not the track record but the outcome: the project is built, handed over, lived in, and the sổ hồng has started to be issued. That is something a project still being sold on paper cannot yet demonstrate.
The project list is taken from the project’s official introduction document. As a matter of Happy Land policy, this page does not link out to developer websites.
Frequently asked questions
If your question is not here, message us on WhatsApp or Zalo — we answer from the file of the exact apartment you are asking about, not in generalities.
Contact
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