Urby lets you buy shares, from RM10, in vacant houses in mature Klang Valley neighbourhoods. The houses are restored and sold to families who will live in them. You share in the profit when each one is sold.
Gable House, Gasing Indah, Petaling Jaya
Vacant three months before purchase
Listed before renovation; the after photograph follows on completion
Photograph to place: Gable House as found, gable and front elevation.
Urby is a platform for investing in one specific house at a time. Each share is a Profit-Share Contract tied to a single landed property. It entitles you to a portion of the profit when that house is sold. It does not make you an owner or a landlord: you carry none of the upkeep, and it gives no right to live there.
That is a different structure from a REIT, which spreads you across a market, and from the special purpose vehicle most fractional platforms use, where investors also inherit the property's management. On Urby the listing partner buys, restores and manages the house. You participate in the appreciation.
Urby earns fees on transactions: new listings and trades on its secondary market. Terms are in the FAQ.
The lead product. Co-owned houses follow the same steps over a longer horizon.
Currently listed
Gable House
Gasing Indah, Petaling Jaya. Pre-renovation.
RM9.90 a share
Figures as shown on urby.ai on 22 September 2026. Availability changes; the app shows the current position.
A vacant house is bought outright by the listing partner, restored, and sold to a family. You earn on the sale.
Urby's partner and a family buy a house together. The family lives in it and maintains it without taking on the full debt. You earn when the family sells, or buys out the partner's share.
The record to date, stated as counted. The platform lists redeemed houses alongside active ones, so completed sales stay visible.
19
houses listed as at 11 January 2026, of which 11 FastTrack1
6 months
from listing to sale for Ketupat House, Kelana Jaya, the first FastTrack house completed
RM10
the smallest stake in any house on the platform
Listed, renovated and sold within six months. The first FastTrack house to complete the cycle.
Vacant more than five years
Vacant one year
Vacant three months
Before photography is evidence; after photography is what the capital made possible. These are finished Urby houses as shown on urby.ai.
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1.9 million
vacant houses in Malaysia, as counted by Urby3
Many of these stand in mature neighbourhoods: a station within walking distance, markets and cafés nearby, a park close enough to use. Left empty, maintenance costs climb, the street quietens and the old shops close. Restoring a house that already stands avoids the materials and construction of a new one, and puts a household back on a street that needs one.
This is what the phrase at the top of the page means in practice. Capital that is patient enough to restore rather than demolish, and disciplined enough to insist on sound economics, ends up creating places people want to live in. Urby is built so that ordinary savers can be that capital.
Urby operates within the Securities Commission Malaysia regulatory sandbox and is working towards formal regulation, voluntarily following the Commission's best-practice guidelines in the meantime.1
A property is listed only after it has been fully acquired. Your money funds the renovation, not the purchase.
Your money is held by a trustee and released only for the use you have authorised.
Every account passes electronic know-your-customer checks. Funds and systems are audited regularly.4
The data engine
Collects and analyses city data across Malaysia for banks, developers and policymakers. The same data selects the houses on Urby.
The listing and renovation partner
Acquires and restores the houses: plumbing fixed, structures strengthened, layouts brought up to date, then matched with a buyer.
Founder and chief executive
Trained in city planning at MIT. Founded UrbanMetry, then UrbanWave and Urby, to apply city data to everyday houses and the people who live in them.
In the press
The Edge Malaysia's January 2026 cover story on fractional property investment reported that Urby lets Malaysians invest from RM10 in refurbished homes and earn a share of the profit on sale, with no ownership or management responsibility. Read the feature.