Boost for Mutiara Damansara?

Boustead Properties Bhd’s Mutiara Damansara township in Petaling Jaya will soon see the establishment of Curve NX, a 7-storey car park building, that comprises 625 parking bays, a McDonald’s drive-thru restaurant and an education theme park.The RM80-million building will be built on two land parcels totalling 1.5 acres, including the site on which the current McDonald’s outlet (beside Wisma Ben

Success in teamwork

We are going for a football match later,” Previndran Singhe, CEO of Zerin Properties, says gleefully when City & Country drops in at his office. Team Zerin is going for a game in the evening. “We’re standing on the lower rungs of the Kuala Lumpur Social Soccer League, but it doesn’t matter. The most important thing is the team having fun and working together,” he laughs.

Investing in properties overseas

Many people have described the current global financial crisis as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to invest in not only the equity markets overseas but in the property markets as well, where prices have taken a beating. David Lye, an agent with Chester Properties, cites Trump SoHo, a five-star, 45-storey hotel condominium in New York, as an example.

Property Down Under

It is not surprising that Malaysians are becoming target investors for properties Down Under.

Staying the course

For almost four decades, the Urban Development Authority, or UDA, has been the government’s flagship vehicle for the redevelopment of cities and towns in the country. Set up by the federal government in 1971, the national property development agency’s mission was to launch and undertake various urban development projects.UDA was incorporated in 1996 and became UDA Holdings Sdn Bhd.

SunCity beefs up office offering

Sunway City Bhd (SunCity), which first made its foray into property development two decades ago, has in recent years reinforced its reputation as an integrated property development player.

Green facts and tips

Award-winning scientist environmentalist Dr David Suzuki said: “We are in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone is arguing over where they are going to sit.” If this is so, and if we continue damaging our environment and the earth with the effects clearly showing, instead of focusing on consciously saving it, surely there would not be much left for our children?Imagine this — ev

Urban regeneration

The high intensity of human activity in cities around the world, brought about by rising urbanisation, spells a world that’s becoming increasingly unsustainable.

Planters’ Haven comes of age

Those of you who remember the popular TV show Dallas or the Oscar-winning movie Gone With The Wind will probably find some similarities between these and Planters’ Haven, Sime Darby Property Bhd’s exclusive gated residential development set in a mature orchard.The project was conceived in the 1990s, during the boom years of the property industry, when words like “green living” and “sustainabili