Supply of new hotels on the rise in Malaysia

PETALING JAYA (April 17): Thirty new hotels were completed last year, adding a further 5,777 rooms to the sector in 2017, over 50% more than the 3,733 new rooms introduced in 2016, said the Valuation and Property Services Department’s (JPPH) “Malaysian Property Market Report 2017”.

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See Hoy Chan plans to inject assets into REIT?

  PETALING JAYA (March 31): Property developer See Hoy Chan Sdn Bhd — which owns and manages offices, shopoffices and Starling Mall at its flagship Damansara Uptown — may plan to set up a real estate investment trust (REIT), reported The Edge weekly.

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Stakeholders must collaborate to reduce severe imbalances in the retail, office segments

PETALING JAYA (March 28): The authorities, property developers, owners, and other stakeholders in the real estate sector are urged to come up with specific measures to reduce the severe imbalances in the office and shopping complex segments that threaten the rest of the economy, according to the “Financial Stability and Payment Systems Report 2017” published by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) today.

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