PETALING JAYA (Sept 14): Properties priced from RM500,001 to RM700,000 faced the highest loan rejection rates, according to almost a quarter of 157 respondents to the Real Estate and Housing Developers’ Association (Rehda) property industry survey 1H2016.
PETALING JAYA (Sept 14): Despite being the one of the most expensive housing markets in Malaysia, the Penang government has been making efforts to push affordable housing development for the young working population.
KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 14): AWC Bhd’s 51%-owned environment division has bagged three independent subcontracts, including one for the KL118 project, for a collective value of RM27.
Glomac Bhd (Sept 13, 76 sen) Maintain hold with a higher target price (TP) of 82 sen: Glomac Bhd’s upcoming first quarter ended July 31, 2016 (1QFY17) results could come in below expectations, with weaker core net profit quarter-on-quarter (q-o-q) and year-on-year (y-o-y).
KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 14): Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Tan Sri Noh Omar will brief the cabinet today on the controversial developer lending scheme, after the ministry’s initiative was met with strong resistance and censure — even from within the cabinet itself.
URBAN Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Tan Sri Noh Omar seems to have created a shock wave by announcing the idea of having property developers apply for moneylending licences so that they can lend to homebuyers who fail to get mortgages from banks.
RAM Rating Services does not expect the property sector to be significantly lifted by the move to allow eligible developers to apply for a moneylender's licence to provide loan facilities to house buyers KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 13): Malaysian homebuilders' accumulation of debts to finance their land purchases over the past few years have left little room for them to undertake the developer financing scheme sanctioned by the Ministry of Urban Wellbeing, Housing, and Local Government, said RAM Rating Services Bhd.
KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 13): VERITAS Design Group is one of the 2016 recipients of “Cityscape Awards Emerging Markets” award under the category of Leisure & Hospitality award (built) for its Sinkeh Hotel project in George Town, Penang by Dubai’s Cityscape Awards Global.
KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 13): Property developers have hit back at the Selangor government for amending policies and imposing surcharges that would increase their costs of business, an issue that becomes all the more critical when the current soft market forces them to compete for the segment that demands affordable homes.
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