KUALA LUMPUR: The Housing and Local Government Ministry is reviewing the Uniform Building By-laws to make Malaysian buildings more environment-friendly. The review of the By-laws will incorporate green building technologies and features.

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What can you buy with RM6,480? If you’re a techie, you could go out and buy up to four Apple iPads — currently tagged at US$499 (about RM1,600) at the Apple online store. Add another RM300 and you could take home a 2.13 Ghz MacBook Air with Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB memory and a host of other specifications.

In bustling Kuala Lumpur, between Menara Tun Razak and Bangunan LTAT on Jalan Bukit Bintang, is Menara Worldwide.

City & Country took the 45-minute drive recently to take a look at Bukit Beruntung, only to be greeted by the sight of abandoned, vandalised high-rise flats and apartments.Window frames, glass doors and even electricity cables were missing.

Most developers see Johor Baru housing prices likely to inch upwards for the next one to 1½ years if the economy continues to recover, a recent poll by KGV Lambert Smith Hampton revealed.Samuel Tan (pix), director of KGV Lambert Smith Hampton, says that while it is difficult to say how much prices will rise, it is likely that values will adjust upwards with each new launch.The JB housing primar

Demand for auction properties, especially landed homes, rose in February and March. Auctioneers recorded a rise of at least 10% in sales in both months compared with January.Auction House Sdn Bhd CEO Gary Chia says approximately 6,309 properties nationwide were put up for auction in February, and 6,571 in March.

Since the start of the year, Grace Ng, deputy managing director of agency and business services at Colliers International, has noticed an increase in the number of investors looking at older condominiums in Singapore.