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SAUNTERING across his office to retrieve his blazer, Datuk Hajeedar Abdul Majid points to photographs of his grandchildren displayed atop a long cabinet and chuckles fondly.

  IT is a quarter past one in the afternoon at Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia (PAM) Centre at Jalan Tangsi when Datuk Tan Pei Ing walks in.

JOHOR BAHRU (Sept 15): S P Setia’s double-storey terraced homes dubbed Visca and Villosa in the established Bukit Indah township recorded an 80% overall take-up during its recent launch.

PETALING JAYA (Sept 15): Sunway Pyramid Hotel West in Bandar Sunway, Petaling Jaya, will have a brand new name, Sunway Clio Hotel, effective Oct 1 this year, according to Sunway Hotels & Resorts — the hospitality division of property-construction conglomerate Sunway Group.

PETALING JAYA (Sept 14): The proposal for property developers to have money-lending services to homebuyers is to bridge the remaining 10% to 15% end financing gap that financial institutions are not covering, said Real Estate and Housing Developers’ Association (Rehda) president Datuk Seri Fateh Iskandar Mohamed Mansor (pictured).

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.

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.

PETALING JAYA (Sept 9): The Valuation and Property Services Department (JPPH) is urging property owners who are dissatisfied with their valuation results to send their appeals to Petaling Land Office to have their appeals recorded.

PETALING JAYA (Sept 9): Qi City integrated development by Green Venture Capital (GVC), a subsidiary of Wawasan Qi Properties Group (WQIP), is poised to be the next catalyst for Ipoh and it’s expected to contribute RM1.

SINGAPORE (Sept 9): Maybank Kim Eng has upgraded two Singapore office REITs, CapitaLand Commercial Trust (CCT) and Keppel REIT, to “buy” from “hold”, even as office rents are expected to continue to slide in the near term.