KUALA LUMPUR: Sunway Group's property development arms Sunway City Bhd (SunCity) and SunwayMas Sdn Bhd (SunwayMas) have bagged two awards at the Asia Pacific Property Awards 2011, in association with Bloomberg TV.

KUALA LUMPUR: S P Setia Bhd is confident of meeting its 2011 sales target of RM3 billion after the company notched up sales of RM1.66 billion in the first seven months of the year.

KUALA LUMPUR: GD Development Sdn Bhd's 350-acre resort and eco-themed Green Beverly Hills development in Putra Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, has seen a take-up of 70% for the first phase since its launch in January 2011.

KUALA LUMPUR: Zerin Properties Sdn Bhd has clinched two local awards in the Asia Pacific Property Awards 2011 this year, said its CEO Previndran Singhe.

EARLIER this decade, buyers could not get enough of hotel-condominiums. The concept, pioneered by Donald Trump in the late 1990s and adopted by a number of other hotel chains, was a no-brainer: well-off travellers enamoured of a particular hotel — its decor, amenities, location — were given the option of buying a room, and everything in it.

LOS ANGELES: The Bel Air home of Zsa Zsa Gabor went up for sale on Tuesday with an asking price of US$15 million (RM45.3 million), while the 94-year-old Hollywood actress recovers in hospital from her latest medical setback.

KUALA LUMPUR: i-Bhd, an integrated ICT developer, has set aside a US$5 million (RM15.05 million) budget for brand-building positioning of i-City, globally, which will include international promotions and themed programmes.

KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court set July 5 to hear Kuala Lumpur City Hall's application to strike out a suit by Bukit Jalil Estate residents relating to the eviction notice and demolition of their houses.

DUBAI: Jordanian Ashraf Hamdan began investing in Dubai's real estate market in 2006, with a few modest rental investment forays before turning his sights on flashier projects as a wave of luxury developments hit the market.

The real estate bust in 2008 left investors like Hamdan with half-finished projects sitting in the desert sun and losses that were unlikely to be recouped.

KUALA LUMPUR: UEM Land Holdings Bhd (ULHB) says its bread and butter property development projects in Nusajaya are on the threshold of greater prospects in 2012, as the 24,000-acre enclave reaches critical mass, which will further spur the area's growth.