Overseas Property Investment

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

There are a number of measures that can be put in place to ensure the local property market continues to be healthy, sustainable and does not succumb easily to any adversities. It was just barely three years ago that we witnessed the widespread contagion effect of the collapse of Lehman Brothers on the world economy. [...]

The bachelor or a newly-married couple just starting out in life are more likely to opt for an apartment with additional facilities. BUYING a home is a big investment for the vast majority of us. So most of us agonise over it for a long time before making the investment. We want the best for [...]

PETALING JAYA: CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets has downgraded the property sector rating to neutral from overweight in view of the mixed signals from transaction volumes and the growth rate of residential loan approval. Basically the CLSA has turned cautious on the outlook of the property market based on some negative and positive signals that have fogged [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Asian Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) have outperformed global REITS by three times in the past five years. As for Malaysian REITS, they provided an average return of 7%-8%, higher than the average 6.3% returns from Asia-Pacific property trusts, said AmInvestment Bank’s director of retail funds (fund management) Ng Chze How. “Malaysia indices [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Asian Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) have outperformed global REITS by three times in the past five years. As for Malaysian REITS, they provided an average return of 7%-8%, higher than the average 6.3% returns from Asia-Pacific property trusts, said AmInvestment Bank’s director of retail funds (fund management) Ng Chze How. “Malaysia indices [...]

Call it a niche market, but the Malaysian My Second Home Program has captured the hearts and minds of a growth market – Iran.

PUTRAJAYA: The moderately strong performance of the Malaysian economy, together with favourable demographics, income and employment growth, urbanisation and accommodative financing conditions will support continuing growth of the property market. RAM Holdings Bhd group chief economist Dr Yeah Kim Leng said Malaysia’s demographic structure was still a relatively young population, with a very low age [...]

At the roundt able are: (from left) Dr Teoh, Chan, IJM Properties’ Toh, SP Setia’s Rajoo and Sunway’s Tan. The Starregional operations manager (north) Chung Chok Yin and Henry ButcherMalaysia(Penang) Sdn Bhd director Dr Teoh Poh Huat recently met up with developers to ascertain the impact of a slower GDP forecast for 2011, rising interest [...]

Win-win deal: Construction workers at a site near the KL Sentral in Kuala Lumpur. OSK Research says the latest land deal will enable MRCB to expand its KL Sentral development projects. PETALING JAYA: Malaysian Resources Corp Bhd (MRCB) struck a good deal, getting two plots of land in return for constructing several public infrastructure projects [...]

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak looking at a model at the launch of the 1Malaysia Housing Programme in Putrajaya today. Look on are Minister of Federal Territories and Urban Well-being Datuk Raja Nong Chik Zainal Abidin and Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop(extreme right). – Starpic by Mohd [...]