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City&Country: Mixed views on Sg Besi airbase redevelopment

It is just a matter of time before the estimated 400-acre Sungai Besi Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) base in Kuala Lumpur (picture) is redeveloped, considering its substantial size and strategic location that’s only a 15-minu

City&Country: Big plans for Naza TTDI

The last time City & Country met up with S M Faliq S M Nasimuddin, it was six months after he had taken on his post as managing director of Naza TTDI Sdn Bhd, when the global financial crisis was at its peak.

New home sales in Shanghai dropped by 12%

SHANGHAI: New home sales in Shanghai declined 12% to 84,000 sq m (904,168 sq ft) between June 7 and 13, according to a statement by Shanghai Uwin Real Estate Information Services.

According to a report by ShanghaiDaily.com, sales of these new homes exclude those designated for relocated residents under urban redevelopment plans.

KHSB eyes RM1b project in PJ’s Section 14

SHAH ALAM: State-controlled Kumpulan Hartanah Selangor Bhd (KHSB) is planning a high-end mixed development at a prime location in Section 14, Petaling Jaya with a potential gross development value (GDV) of nearly RM1 billion.

Its chairman Datuk Abdul Karim Munisar said the company was finalising the purchase of a 9.3-acre plot there for the proposed development.

Buyers size up lifelike Hermitage show flat

HONG KONG: There was not a glass wall to be seen, the doors were all in place and visitors were even given a tape measure on arrival.

Potential buyers at the first major residential project regulated by tighter measures on sales tactics were greeted yesterday with a layout and finish identical to a real 1,003 sq ft flat.

Probe into failed luxury flat sales in Mid-Levels

HONG KONG: Regulatory and law-enforcement agencies are looking into the cancelled sales of flats in a luxury Mid-Levels project that the developer said in October last year had fetched prices of up to a world-record HK$88,000 (RM36,804) a square foot.

Property retains appeal for China's new rich

BEIJING: Make small talk with someone on the mainland and eventually the topic will get around to property.

"It may be a good time to buy property in the next few months," says Miffy Li, a 27-year-old yoga teacher, sipping her tea in a coffee shop at a five-star Beijing hotel.