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KUALA LUMPUR: (Oct 8): State governments play an important in providing affordable homes for the B40 and M40 groups as they can provide more land suitable for the development of affordable homes to the federal government, said Housing and Local Government (KPKT) Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin.

PETALING JAYA (October 8): Within the next three years, Forest City will look into building affordable housing that is tailored to local tastes and needs, said the developer.

KUALA LUMPUR (October 8): Burgess has been appointed as the exclusive central agent for the sale of the US$250 million (RM1.

PETALING JAYA (Oct 7): The RM2 billion that has been deposited by buyers of condominiums in Forest City into its Housing Development Account (HDA) proves that the units were transacted in Malaysia, said its developer Country Garden Pacificview Sdn Bhd (CGPV).

PETALING JAYA: Leasehold properties generally see slower price growth than freehold properties especially after 30 years into the lease.

PETALING JAYA (Oct 6): Over 150 people showed up to watch Amtrol Flower Designing principal Eunice Teo perform live demonstrations of her floral creations that graced the set of Hollywood blockbuster Crazy Rich Asians at the “Crazy Rich Asians is Crazy Flower Power” event here today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 6): The Edge Malaysia asked this question as part of its cover story this week: Will we see new taxes on inheritance and capital gains? “Talk of new taxes being introduced normally intensifies as the tabling of the annual budget approaches.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 6): Planners, architects and engineers have to sell their good ideas to others and make them accept that planning is the only way forward for waste management, Malaysian Institute of Planners president Ihsan Zainal Mokhtar (pictured) told The Star recently.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 6): Vizione Holdings Bhd’s order book “provides relatively clear earnings visibility in the coming four years, at least”, The Edge Malaysia said in a report in its latest issue.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 6): Mammoth Empire Holding Sdn Bhd’s (MEH) Empire Remix development in USJ 1, Subang Jaya, Selangor, “is expected to be taken over by a new investor, or a group of new investors”, reported The Edge Malaysia in its latest issue.