Overseas Property Investment

The most recent malaysian property investment news from a variety of international property news sources.

SINGAPORE: Malaysia Property Inc’s (MPI) Singapore Gallery has launched a marketing initiative with Glomac Bhd to promote three new residential launches – Suria Residen (Kuala Lumpur), Mutiara Damansara Residences and Glomac Damansara Residences (Selangor) to Singapore home buyers and investors. Glomac’s group managing director/chief executive officer, Datuk FD Iskandar said Singaporeans, who were considering a [...]

GEORGE TOWN: The general election appears to be a factor in property purchasing decisions by certain investors, a survey carried out by an online property portal has revealed. PropertyGuru, Asia’s leading property portal, and its Malaysian arm HomeGuru, have said 40 per cent of over 2,000 respondents of a survey carried out in Malaysia have [...]

AmInvestment Bank Group director of retail funds says he sees a small bubble in the property market, but it’s no where near big yet KUALA LUMPUR: There is a property bubble building up in Malaysia and the region but it is nowhere near alarming levels as the main indicators are still at comfortable levels, AmInvestment [...]

Urban renewal is necessary if cities are to thrive. When cities thrive, the country progresses. From Penang to Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur to Johor Baru, the major cities in Malaysia are heading towards urban renewal. It is not unique to Malaysia. Singapore’s most recent renewal programme is the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme, or SERS (see [...]

In any renewal programme, the question to ask is the carrying capacity of the city because ultimately structures do not make a city, people do. Very often, in the enthusiam of having new structures to bring glory to a city, the carrying capacity is forgotten, says PJ councillor Mak Khuin Weng. In the case of [...]

Market analysts at C.H. Williams Talhar & Wong predicted in their most recent report that there would be a moderate rise in prices for Maylasian real estate, and the second quarter is proving out that prediction. The national price index rose 6.5% so far this year, following a 7.7% increase last…

SP Setia Bhd, a Malaysian real estate developer, scrapped a joint venture with Hangzhou Ju Shen Construction Engineering Ltd to develop a mixed property project in China because terms of the agreement weren’t met. SP Setia “still firmly believes” that property prospects in China are “positive,” the company said in a statement in Kuala Lumpur [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB) is on track to monetise some of its land bank assets in the Klang Valley, said chairman Datuk Wira Ahmad Hamzah. He said MRB was satisfied with the smooth progress so far particularly on the sale of over 40ha of its Rubber Research Institute (RRI) land in Sg [...]

Kuala Lumpur: Property developer Hua Yang Bhd is banking on strong demand for affordable houses from Malaysia’s large young population to more than double its revenue to over RM500 million by 2015. While most property developers are targeting high-end market to ride on the rising income of Malaysians, Hua Yang prefers to focus on the [...]

Shum (left) and senior sales manager Daniel Tan with a model of the three-storey Garden and Duplex Suites of The Seed @ Sutera Utama. Buying a property at The Seed @ Sutera Utama in Johor Baru is similar to taking an oath of allegiance to take care of the environment for the present and future [...]