Housing market likely to remain challenging

Property sector Maintain neutral: Our analysis shows that the Medium 40% (M40) and Bottom 40% (B40) households face difficulty in buying properties as the average house price is above both groups’ affordability range.

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Compliance cost and what it means

The calls to reduce compliance cost and capital contributions in housing developments have been made for some time now and finally, the government or rather the new Pakatan Harapan administration has decided to do something about it.

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Economic inequality hinders Malaysia’s high-income aspirations

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 22): Although Malaysia aims to achieve high-income nation status by 2024 — the previous target was 2020 — Putrajaya appears cognisant of the need to address the yawning income gap between the B40 (bottom 40%) households and middle- and high-income households for social stability, since a sizeable 2.

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