KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 15): Main Market-bound Pavilion Real Estate Investment Trust (Pavilion REIT), which has decided to list on Dec 7 in spite of market volatility, may take at least two more malls in the Klang Valley into its fold by 2015.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 14): Gleneagles Hospital under its parent company, Parkway Pantai Ltd, is set to open two more hospitals by 2014 in Malaysia at an approximate cost of RM700 million.

TOKYO (Nov 14): Japan's Mitsubishi Estate said on Monday it plans to sharply increase new investments in central Tokyo outside its core district of Maruouchi to about ¥100 billion (RM4.07 billion) over three years as it sees an improvement in the market.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 14): OCBC Bank (Malaysia) Bhd is offering a new mortgage loan facility to finance the purchase of residential properties in prime sections of Sydney and Melbourne in Australia.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 14): When S P Setia Bhd received the notice of takeover by Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB) over a month ago, Wong Chee Kooi was one of the first people the property firm's chief Tan Sri Liew Kee Sin called. Wong founded the property developer 37 years ago.

When it comes to real estate, easy access into an area is definitely appealing to both investors and homebuyers.

Knowledge is power, goes the familiar adage, and the Asia Pacific Real Estate Association (Aprea) is keen to demonstrate this with its researched-based approach to enhancing Malaysia’s property industry.

Retail development Galleria@Cyberjaya by Emerald Domain Development Sdn Bhd has yet to be launched but there is already an anchor tenant for the project.

The pace of price growth for private homes has been declining steadily over the past two years. URA’s 3Q flash estimate showed that the private residential price index for 3Q2011 rose 1.3% compared with 2% in the previous quarter.

September was an extraordinary month.