Haus Da Lat Location: No. 1 Dinh Tien Hoang, Xuan Huong Lake and the HCMC – Da Lat Expressway (2026 Update)

Between mid-September and early November 2026, all three sections of the Dau Giay – Lien Khuong corridor reported new progress figures, and the overall picture has not changed: land clearance is ahead, construction is behind. We take each section in turn so that buyers can see where “three hours from Saigon” realistically lands.

(1) Dau Giay – Tan Phu (~60 km, phase 1 about VND 8,400 billion, groundbreaking 19 August 2025). Around 92% of the land has been handed over, yet by late October 2026 construction output had reached only about 5.2% of contract value, up from 3.2% in early September. After a site inspection on 9 October, the Vietnam Road Administration ordered the investor to resubmit a detailed schedule and to hand over the remaining land by 30 October. The official target is still substantial completion in 2026 and operation in 2027; at this pace Realtique reads that as a management target, not a date to plan a purchase around.

(2) Tan Phu – Bao Loc (65.88 km, Son Hai Group, BOT, groundbreaking 19 December 2025). This is the section that has changed most. In late October 2026 Lam Dong Province agreed to drop the phased plan and build the full four-lane road from the start (22 m roadbed, 80 km/h design speed, continuous emergency lanes). The preliminary investment rises to about VND 17,561 billion including financing costs, roughly VND 361 billion more than the phased plan, but the province estimates it will save about VND 422 billion compared with building two lanes now and digging them up to widen later. The trade-off is time: the schedule moves to technical opening in Q3 2028 and operation in Q4 2028, later than the 31 December 2027 date in the BOT contract signed in late 2025. Land remains the bottleneck: in September, provincial figures put the area with recovery decisions at about 126 ha, or 31.4% of the planned acquisition on the Lam Dong side, while national press reported that only around 8% was clear for machinery. The two figures measure different things, but both point to the same knot: more than 104 ha of forest land still awaiting conversion approval, which locks roughly 32 km of the alignment. ⚠️ The four-lane design and the 2028 dates are a provincial decision; the investment adjustment still has to complete the formal approval steps.

(3) Bao Loc – Lien Khuong (73.6 km, T&T – Phuong Trang – Phuong Thanh consortium, PPP, phase 1 about VND 17,718 billion). The cleanest section: by early November 2026 about 590 ha, or 94.9% of the land to be recovered, had been handed over, against 81.5% in mid-September. All five main civil packages are mobilised with 16 work fronts, although press reports note stretches where handed-over land is still waiting for contractors. The completion target remains the end of 2027.

What it means for a Haus Da Lat buyer The three sections run end to end, so “three hours from Saigon” only arrives when the slowest one is finished. With the new Tan Phu – Bao Loc schedule, the earliest realistic scenario is Q4 2028, roughly two years after the planned handover of the Sky Villas and Sky Mansions, and only if all three sections keep to time, which Dau Giay – Tan Phu shows is far from guaranteed. Our earlier view therefore stands: the expressway is an extra layer of value on a location that already stands on its own because of Xuan Huong Lake, not the main reason to buy. The genuinely positive news is the quality of the road: with the full four-lane design, there will be no second round of “dig up and widen” works in the early 2030s, sparing Da Lat property owners another construction cycle on their own gateway.