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Sweetener: Johor Baru’s close proximity with Singapore has attracted buyers to properties in Iskandar Malaysia. The outlook for the Johor property market is likely to remain positive in the second half of the year based on the number of property transactions taking place in the state. Johor Real Estate and Housing Developers Association (Rehda) branch [...]

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 [...]

Kuala Lumpur: It is cheaper to gain control of a listed company with landbank in Penang than buy large chunks of land in the island, analysts said. Therefore, it makes sense for the likes of SP Setia Bhd to eye a stake in such companies as landbank in Penang is depleting and buying the plots [...]

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 [...]

Land dilemma: The redevelopment of Kampung Baru (beneath the KL city skyline) is potentially a very problematic one due to multiple ownership of land. The impending redevelopment of Kampung Baru, which is located in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, will be one of the most challenging urban regeneration projects by the Government. A source from [...]

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 [...]

Business Times learns that shareholders of SP Setia have made overtures in recent months with certain shareholders of Eastern and Oriental George Town: Major shareholders of SP Setia Bhd, Malaysia’s biggest developer, plan to buy a strategic stake in property and hospitality company Eastern and Oriental Bhd (E&O), people familiar with the matter said yesterday. [...]