News about Kuala Lumpur

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 7): Kuala Lumpur slipped three spots to 20th out of 30 leading cities globally in this year’s "Cities of Opportunity" benchmarking, developed by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), released today.

“You coming?” asks Professor Dr Jimmy Lim, founder and principal of Jimmy Lim Design, as he steps into his home office.

Property sector (Sept 5) Upgrade to neutral from underweight: Year to date (YTD), the Kuala Lumpur Property Index (KLPRP) is up by 2.

With the mushrooming of high-rises and mixed-use developments in Kuala Lumpur, boutique landscape and architecture firm, Pentago, decided to take the road less travelled — it refurbished a heritage site to lodge its main office, Pentago House.

SINGAPORE (Sept 2): Frasers Centrepoint Limited on Thursday announced that its hospitality arm, Frasers Hospitality Group, will open a 253-unit serviced residence in Putrajaya in 2019.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 2): The 1,200 SoFo units of the M101 SkyWheel development, by M101 Holdings Sdn Bhd, have received encouraging response as over 1,000 potential buyers have registered their interest since the project was previewed early this year, said M101 Holdings founder and executive director Datuk Seth Yap Ting Hau.

THE Transition Town movement came about because many people from all over the world were getting worried about issues such as peak oil (fossil fuel production reaching its peak and then dwindling to nothing) and climate change.

MALL owners and operators are urging the local authorities in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur to impose a two-year freeze on new applications to build shopping centres as a way to overcome the current oversupply of retail space.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 27): TheEdgeProperty.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 27):The planned high speed rail link between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore (HSR) is a long-term project that would not create a property boom, but property values will increase gradually, said Savills Malaysia executive chairman Chris Boyd.