Budget hotels working on app to boost business
PETALING JAYA (Oct 31): Budget hotels are hoping that an app will help them to counter the increasing popularity of Airbnb accommodation online travel agencies.
Putrajaya wants 'wealthy Hong Kong, mainland China investors' to buy unsold homes: Report
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 30): A Hong Kong daily has reported that Malaysia is “luring foreign buyers” of unsold homes, “targeting wealthy mainland Chinese and Hong Kong residents”.
重点报道：拖垮柔州房产的五大原因！
马来西亚第二大人口最多的州属——柔佛州，尽管近年来在招资上继续录得佳绩，但外资进驻却并未提振柔州房地产市场。到底是什么原因，让这个南方州属的房地产市场继续乌云压顶呢？ 根据依斯干达特区发展机构（Iskandar Regional Development Authority，简称IRDA）数据，柔州在2019年上半年取得RM167.
RM6.2b for tolled highways better spent elsewhere, says economist
KUALA LUMPUR: Economist Muhammed Abdul Khalid criticised the finance ministry’s decision to acquire four urban tolled highways for RM6.
热盘行情：隆市Mont’Kiara Pavilion Hilltop公寓单位
成交价：RM122万 交易推手：来自Big Plus Properties Sdn Bhd的Alfred Chua (REN 28642，017-202 0656) 成交日期：2019年1月 卖点： 建筑面积：1,200平方尺 中楼层，面向南边 3房2厕 部分装潢单位 临近设备有国际学校、购物广场和医疗中心 可轻易取道各大主要高速公路 Pavilion Hilltop Mont’Kiara是由Pavilion Group和Kuwait Finance House联手发展的公寓项目。该项目内有3栋住宅大楼，共有621间公寓单位，每间单位的建筑面积介于1,200 平方尺至1,830平方尺之间。该项目在两年前已竣工移交买家。 Pavilion Hilltop Mont’Kiara的公共设施有泳池、健身房、图书馆、游戏室、香料花园、篮球场等等。 来自Big Plus Properties Sdn Bhd 的 Alfred Chua最近促成了这单总值RM122万的交易。他表示，这个单位卖家是一位产业投资者。 “这个单位从来没有被入住过，所以依然维持在发展商交屋时的状态，里面有发展商随新屋附送的橱柜、冷气机、厕所配件和厨房电子用品如冰箱和微波炉。卖家决定套现这个单位以投资在别的产业上。” 买家是一对外国夫妻，他们为了孩子的教育而移居吉隆坡。 “这对夫妇参观过其他Pavilion Hilltop 的单位，但他们最喜欢这个单位。他们说这个单位有家的感觉。” Chua补充，这个单位从未被别人入住过，也是它备受买家青睐的原因，因为这样他们等同购买了新屋。 询及这个单位RM122万的成交价，Chua说对于这栋低密度的项目，以及这个单位的条件来说，这是一个公平的交易价。 无论如何，他说Pavilion Hilltop的单位供过于求，所以成交价已经在每平方尺RM950 至RM1,000之间徘徊好几个月了。 “平均来说，这个项目每月会有一、两个单位转手，但总的来说，求售的还是比求买的多。” 根据截至2019年8月21日的EdgeProp.
Selangor Dredging’s RM71m land disposal in Damansara Heights falls through
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 18): Selangor Dredging Bhd’s proposed disposal of 16 pieces of freehold land in Damansara Heights for RM71 million has fallen through.
Can ministers live with RM1,200 a month? If not, minimum wage hike too little: Wong Chen
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 16): The implementation of RM1,200 minimum wage a month as proposed in Budget 2020 should be revised higher, unless Cabinet ministers themselves could live with that level of salary, said PKR lawmaker Wong Chen [PH-Subang].
TA Securities upgrades property sector to overweight
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 16): TA Securities Research has upgraded the property sector to "Overweight" (from Neutral) and said since August 2019, developers' share prices were heavily bashed down amid concerns on rising property overhang and slow property demand due to financing issues.
Hardly anything in Budget 2020 for property sector: Rehda president
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 15): Real Estate and Housing Developers’ Association (Rehda) president Datuk Soam Heng Choon is of the view that there is not much in Budget 2020 for the property sector, as many of the measures listed are already in place.
