News about DBKL

SEVERAL buildings in the city centre near Bukit Bintang, built during the British administration, are expected to make way for a multi-billion ringgit integrated development project comprising serviced apartments, offices and a mall.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 25): Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) is redevloping old council flats in an effort to provide 50,000 affordable homes in the city.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 17): The Board of Valuers, Appraisers and Estate Agents Malaysia (BOVAEA) has teamed up with the authorities to stop unlicensed people from acting as brokers in real estate transactions, after the industry lost RM40 billion worth of transactions to unlicensed property brokers last year alone.

Twenty-two 1940s shophouses along Jalan Doraisamy in Kuala Lumpur that had been converted into the Asian Heritage Row of nightspots in the early 2000s, are again being readapted.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 24): Despite approving the Kampung Baru Development Corporation Act, "not one piece of steel" has been seen in the redevelopment of the historical Malay enclave, which sits on prime real estate in Kuala Lumpur, a senator said today.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 15): Developers will be offered charge reduction incentives and green lane to speed up development approvals to build more affordable homes in the Federal Territory.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 13): A seismic code of practice for new buildings is in the final stages of being formulated and submitted to the government for implementation to ensure development projects, including those in Kuala Lumpur, will be able to withstand the impact of an earthquake.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 11): Kuala Lumpur City Hall advisory board member Datuk P.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 2): Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) is in the final stages of discussing plans to revive the Plaza Rakyat project in Jalan Pudu with Profit Consortium Sdn Bhd, the developer appointed to take over the long-abandoned building and give it a new lease of life.