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Regional debut for Mah Sing

An artist’s impression of Icon City Petaling Jaya. Mah Sing Group Bhd plans to make its debut as a regional property player this year and hopes to kick off its first offshore project in China by year-end. Group managing director and group chief executive Tan Sri Leong Hoy Kum says the decision to hold back [...]

Potential in Islamic REIT

DH Flinders Ltd, a specialist Asia-Pacific corporate advisory practice that focuses on real estate, financial services and small capital sectors, sees good investment opportunities in Islamic real estate investment trust (REIT) in Malaysia. Executive director Stephen Hawkins says Malaysia already has a good start in terms of Islamic REIT awareness, having established the guidelines for [...]

SP Setia forays into Aussie property mart

MELBOURNE: SP Setia, Malaysia’s largest property development company will make its debut in the Australian property market with the Fultan LN, a mixed development project with a gross development value of A$470 million (A$1=RM3.20). Chief executive officer of Setia Melbourne Development Company Pty Ltd, Choong Kai Wai, said the property project, comprising 730 apartments as [...]

Analysts puzzled as UOA fails to shine on debut

UOA Development Bhd chairman, Tan Sri Alwi Jantan (right) together with managing director CS Kong (centre) and non-independent non-executive director Alan Charles Winduss (left) looking at the main screen after the listing ceremony. AZMAN GHANI/The Star PETALING JAYA: Last Wednesday marked UOA Development Bhd’s debut on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia. Year-to-date, the property [...]

Bali Property Villas | Villa D’Suite Seminyak

Bali villas | Seminyak villas Designed by Australian designer Dean Kempnich, villa d’suite truly refines the word “Bali Modern”. Unmistakable Balinese rooflines mix with modern yet pleasing painting color schemes, combining lush tropical garden surrounding the villa, this is a Bali villas like no other. Centrally located on the hippest area of Bali – Oberoi, [...]

M’sians in S’pore can help promote housing scheme

SINGAPORE: Malaysians residing in Singapore can assume a vital role in promoting the “Malaysia My Second Home Programme” (MM2H) among Singaporeans, says Tourism Malaysia director in Singapore Zalizam Zakaria. He said Singaporeans were among the top ten purchasers of properties in Malaysia under MM2H followed by Japanese, British, Americans, Chinese nationals, Iranians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Indian [...]

Vancouver is the Best Place to Live in 2011 says Survey

Vancouver Canada is the best place in the world to live. This is according to the top 10 chart of the world’s most liveable cities revealed by the Economist Intelligence Unit. This is the fifth straight year that Vancouver, with its world class services and facilities has topped the chart. This time the report put [...]

Australian woman Heidi Murphy murdered in Bali

A YOUNG Sydney woman has been found brutally stabbed to death in a Bali villa in what Indonesian police believe might have been a revenge killing. The 34-year-old’s body was discovered yesterday by a shocked tradesman who arrived at her rented Bali villa to do some painting. She had received multiple stab wounds, including to [...]

Housing for average income earner

REAL estate industry players are asking the authorities to step in to control the spike in housing. International Real Estate Federation (Fiabci) Malaysia president Yeow Thit Sang says it is time the authorities look into the matter. “Home prices have gone up so much that it has reached a ceiling to the point that high-end [...]

New Hotel Marketing Conference ‘No Vacancy’ Next Week

On the heels of a highly successful Australian Event, Martin Kelly is bringing the hospitality conference “No Vacancy” to Bangkok on Tuesday June 7th.