Lumière Evergreen Handover: Furnishing & Letting

The Building

About Lumière Evergreen

Lumière Evergreen is Masterise Homes' Hanoi development inside Vinhomes Smart City in Tay Mo: three towers of 38 to 39 floors and roughly 2,294 apartments, on a site of more than 17,000 m² with a building density of about 31%. The project launched at the end of 2023 and its first tower, The Aura, was handed over on 15 May 2026.

The detail that matters most to an owner here is the handover standard. Apartments are delivered finished rather than bare: herringbone timber floors, natural stone in the kitchen and bathrooms, and built-in joinery with the kitchen and bathroom equipment already installed. That changes what you have to spend before a tenant will pay a premium — the gap is furniture, storage, lighting and soft furnishings, not a fit-out.

Sitting inside Vinhomes Smart City puts your tenant inside an established township rather than on a construction site, which is a real advantage while the surrounding plots are still being built out. It also means your apartment competes with a large volume of nearby stock, so presentation is what separates a unit that lets in weeks from one that sits empty.

Inside Vinhomes Smart CityDelivered fully finishedFirst tower already handed overWestern Hanoi growth corridor

Building Facts

Key details

Developer: Masterise Homes
Address: Vinhomes Smart City, Tay Mo, Nam Tu Liem, Hanoi
Handover: Under way — The Aura was handed over from 15 May 2026. The Atmos and The Aqua were completing their facades and final items at that point
Towers / floors: 3 towers of 38–39 floors — The Aura, The Atmos, The Aqua
Total apartments: About 2,294 apartments
Site area: Over 17,000 m², building density 31%
Handover standard: Handed over fully finished: herringbone timber flooring, natural stone to kitchen and bathrooms, and built-in joinery with kitchen and bathroom equipment installed.

Building information compiled from public developer and market sources. The Aura handover date is as reported by VTC News. Masterise Homes has not published dates for The Atmos and The Aqua. If you own in either tower, your own notice from the developer is the reliable date.

In the Building

Amenities

As published by the developer. Access and opening hours are set by the building management, not by us.

✓Around 60 indoor and outdoor amenities
✓Inside the Vinhomes Smart City township

✓Retail and schools within walking distance

Pre-Handover Inspection

What to sort out when you take the keys.

Handover is the one moment where a few hours of attention saves months of argument. If you are not in Hanoi for it, these are the things that still need doing — and the order they need doing in. We can act on your behalf for any of them.

Before you sign the acceptance

✓Inspect the unit against the contract — finishes, appliances, glazing, aircon, water pressure
✓Photograph and list every defect, then get the list acknowledged in writing before signing
✓Check meters are registered and readings recorded on the day
✓Confirm what the developer is handing over and what is yours to add
✓Confirm the service charge, parking fee and when they start being billed

In the first weeks after

✓Chase the defect list to closure — this is where remote owners lose most
✓Register electricity, water and internet, and set up how they get paid while you are abroad
✓Track your ownership certificate timeline — see Legal & Financial for how the term is counted
✓Decide furnished or unfurnished before marketing, not after
✓Get the unit photographed and listed while the building is still filling up

From Keys To Rent

Three steps between handover and rent landing in your account.

You can take any one of these on its own. Most owners taking handover from overseas ask for all three, in this order.

Furnish it to a rentable standard

Packages start at $4,000 for a one-bedroom, $5,000 for two and $6,000 for three. What a unit actually needs depends on what the developer already fitted — see the handover standard for this building above. Details on Interior & Furnishing.

Find the tenant

We market to the expat channel as well as the domestic one, screen the tenant, and handle the lease in English and Vietnamese. Our fee is one month of rent, payable only when a tenant signs — nothing if we do not let it. See Tenant Sourcing.

Hand the running of it to us

Rent collection, bills, repairs, inspections and a clear English report every month. Management is 4% of annual rent. See Property Management.

Our Work Elsewhere

What we hand back to an owner.

We do not manage apartments in this building yet. The photographs below are units we furnished and now run in other Hanoi buildings — shown so you can judge the standard of work, not to suggest we are already here.

Apartment managed by Cozyhome at The Matrix One, My Dinh, Hanoi — The Matrix One — My Dinh

Apartment managed by Cozyhome at My Dinh Pearl, My Dinh, Hanoi — My Dinh Pearl — My Dinh

Apartment managed by Cozyhome at Vinhomes Skylake, My Dinh, Hanoi — Vinhomes Skylake — My Dinh

Apartments we furnished and manage in other Hanoi buildings. Full portfolio with layouts and indicative rents is on the buildings page.

Notes for owners at Lumière Evergreen

If you own in The Aura, you are already past handover — and the clock is now the thing working against you. Several hundred apartments in one building reach the rental market within the same few months. The units that let first are the ones that were furnished and photographed before the wave, not the ones that started once neighbors had already listed.

If you own in The Atmos or The Aqua, you have the more useful position: time to have the unit ready for the week you get the keys. Practically, that means deciding furnished or unfurnished now, and having someone attend the acceptance inspection so a defect list exists in writing before you sign.

Either way, your contract has the exact layout figures for your unit; the size bands quoted by selling agents do not agree with each other. Send us the contract and we will work from that.

We are not going to tell you this building needs a $6,000 fit-out. It does not — Masterise hands it over finished. What it needs is the layer above that, and we would rather quote you for the layer that is missing than sell you a package you have already paid the developer for.

Rent, when you get to it. The building has no letting history yet, so the reference is the corridor around it. Asking rents across the five western-corridor buildings we manage, as of July 2026, run $340–800 for one bedroom, $700–1,300 for two and $1,200–2,000 for three. Each of those buildings carries its own figures, with the month they were collected, on its page in our portfolio.

A finished handover also moves your break-even forward. At a bare-shell building the first tenant is months away, because the apartment has to be built out before anyone will look at it. Here the flooring, the stone, the joinery and the kitchen and bathroom equipment are already in, so what you are buying is furniture, storage, lighting and styling for photographs. The service charge and parking run from handover either way, let or empty (building service and utility charges), and the full annual stack is in what it really costs to own and rent out a Hanoi apartment.

Before You Ask

Questions owners ask at handover.

Handover questions

Can you attend the handover if I cannot fly in?

Yes. We inspect the unit against your contract, produce the defect list with photographs, and send it to you before anything is signed. You stay the decision-maker — we do the standing around.

My unit comes with built-in furniture already. Do I still need furnishing?

Usually less than you would think, and that is worth knowing before you spend. Where the developer has already fitted floors, kitchen and bathrooms, the gap to a rentable unit is loose furniture, storage, lighting and soft furnishings rather than a full fit-out. We quote on what is actually missing.

How soon should I start looking for a tenant?

Before handover, not after. In a building where several hundred units hand over in the same months, the first well-presented apartments get seen first. See Tenant Sourcing.

Do you already manage apartments in this building?

Not yet — and we will not pretend otherwise. We manage more than 360 apartments across 13 other Hanoi buildings, several of them on the same western side of the city, so the tenant channel, the contractors and the rent expectations carry over. The buildings page shows exactly where we are.

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