All that glitters is not gold at PR1MA
IF there is one thing the global financial crisis taught us, it is this: When you lend money to cash-strapped individuals, time bombs can and do explode.
Housing loans are not always productive debt
IT is better to invest in property than buy a car, which depreciates in value.
Mercury Industries jumps 8.73% on bagging RM238 mil job
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 22): Mercury Industries Bhd rose 8.
Improve efficiency in PR1MA purchase process, says analyst
PETALING JAYA (Feb 21): The government should look to enhance the 1Malaysia People’s Housing (PR1MA) scheme by improving its efficiency in processing home purchases, Affin Hwang Capital Research senior associate director for equity research Loong Chee Wei (pictured) told TheEdgeProperty.
‘PR1MA loan applicants can’t have their cake and eat it too’
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 21): Buyers of the 1Malaysia People’s Housing Programme (PR1MA) homes who plan to take up its housing loan scheme by drawing down their Employees Provident Fund (EPF) Account 2 can’t expect to “have their cake and eat it too”, said the pension fund’s chief executive officer Datuk Shahril Ridza Ridzuan (pictured).
PR1MA’s new measures to aid home ownership
IT is only the second month into 2017, but Perbadanan PR1MA has already announced policy changes and introduced a special financing scheme for its 1Malaysia People’s Housing (PR1MA) programme in order to “enable more people to own a house under the programme,” it had said.
YFG active, surges 33% on bagging PR1MA sub-contract
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 17): YFG Bhd surged 33.
YFG bags RM245 mil PR1MA project
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 17): YFG Bhd has bagged a RM245 million contract for subcontract works involving construction of 1Malaysia People’s Housing Programme (PR1MA) houses in Pedas, Rembau, Negeri Sembilan.
‘PR1MA scheme has minimal impact on banks’
Banking sector Maintain neutral: On Tuesday, Perumahan Rakyat 1Malaysia (PR1MA) announced that the Special PR1MA End-Financing Scheme for first-time house buyers announced in Budget 2017 will benefit at least 15,000 buyers.
PR1MA: Start moratorium from CCC date
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 14): Perbadanan PR1MA Malaysia has submitted a proposal to the government for the moratorium on reselling imposed on buyers of its houses to commence from the date the Certificate of Completion and Compliance (CCC) issued.
