If the management body chooses to hire a professional property management, how do they pick the right one? Do you know what their duties entail? With so many property management companies out there, what would you need to consider before appointing one as your building and property manager?

“Many of these new projects are valuable opportunities to create new national icons to showcase and promote Malaysian talent and design professionals. The creative economy must be engendered locally besides the proposed customised incentives of RM1 billion annually for 5 years, to bring in Fortune 500 and “global unicorns” to spearhead the creative economy.”

“It remains uncertain whether each particular state government will adopt the federal government’s proposal to lower the foreign buying threshold for condominiums and apartments in urban areas from RM1million to RM600,000 in 2020.”

Rehda Institute also appreciated the government’s effort in introducing the Home Ownership Campaign (HOC) which has generated strong market interest and achieved good sales results. The association hopes the government will consider extending the campaign to next year in light of its success.

PR1MA Malaysia chairman Tan Sri Eddy Chen: The revision is a good move, the only thing is that it has to be location-based. Because in some states such as Kelantan, Terengganu and Perak, a lot of the properties are below RM600,000, which means there are not many choices for foreign buyers to acquire.

The RM85 million allocation for the Causeway and Second Link would be a boon to Johor that would result in more investment in Johor, and higher demand for property.

What Budget 2020 needs or lacks, according to him, is a new strategy on taxation.

“The revision will allow sellers to pay lower RPGT. However, we hope continuous improvements to the RPGT policy can be considered to boost more interest and activities in the secondary property market, as many buyers are looking to upgrade after disposing their older units.”

“MBAM appeals to the government to quickly tender out and implement the projects so that the economic multipliers effect for the projects can be quickly felt by all the industry stakeholders.” 
 

“The move could possibly bring an upward revision of market prices for those condominiums and apartments that are currently fetching between RM500,000 to RM600,000 in some places in Penang,” said Henry Butcher Malaysia (Penang) Asset Valuation executive vice-president for asset valuation Shawn Ong.