KUALA LUMPUR: Ho Hup Construction Co Bhd has ceased to be a PN17 designated company effective yesterday, following Bursa Malaysia’s approval for its early upliftment of the status.

SINGAPORE: Poly Real Estate Group Co fell the most in eight weeks, leading declines in Chinese property stocks amid growing concern the nation’s housing market is cooling.

GEORGE TOWN: A group of residents here are up in arms against the Penang Island Municipal Council (MPPP) for approving a high-rise development on hilly land in front of their houses.

KUALA LUMPUR: Tan Sri Liew Kee Sin has joined Eco World Development Group Bhd as a non-independent non-executive director, confirming a report by The Edge Financial Daily last Tuesday.

His appointment came a few days following his resignation as president and chief executive officer of S P Setia Bhd effective April 30. He had helmed S P Setia for 18 years.  

KUALA LUMPUR: Developer Titijaya Land Bhd is looking to acquire a piece of land of 8.26ha in the south-eastern part of Penang island from its major shareholder for some RM126 million cash, said sources, adding that the group has appointed corporate finance advisers to look into the exercise.

DESIGN consultant William Harald-Wong has certainly carved out a unique position for himself in the property development sector.

THE chilly autumn air that hangs over London cannot deter the determined shopper looking to grab luxury items at discounted prices. Travelling an hour out of the city’s Marylebone Station, passing quaint villages, rolling hills and farmland, one reaches Bicester North station. A feeder bus that comes every 10 minutes then shuttles shoppers to their destination: Bicester Village in Oxfordshire.

WHEN you are a township developer that has been in the business for more than 30 years, many of your projects would have been developed in accordance with the surroundings of the sites.

However, what happens when 20 to 30 years down the road, new opportunities for the sites are unlocked that could not have been incorporated back then?

DEVELOPING accommodation for students has become a lucrative business in the UK as the growing sector is now worth £2.5 billion (RM13.58 billion). According to Knight Frank’s Student Property 2014 report, demand for student housing is constantly rising, making it the best performing property sector in the country.

TO say that the opening of the Second Penang Bridge has injected new life into the real estate potential of Seberang Perai is an understatement.