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SHAH ALAM (Feb 20): Premier lifestyle developer Eco World Development Group Bhd (EcoWorld) is optimistic about the overall property market this year, which it expects to improve, partly anchored by factors that include low interest environment and positive buying sentiment.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 20): MyHSR Corp Sdn Bhd has launched a strategic development framework (SDF) to outline socioeconomic development direction along the 350km Kuala Lumpur Singapore High Speed Rail (HSR) corridor.

PETALING JAYA (Feb 20): There may be a slowdown in the property market but niche developer Bukit Kiara Properties Sdn Bhd (BKP) has recently announced that the processing of their contractors’ payments would be changed from once a month to every two weeks.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 16): Bina Darulaman Bhd’s group managing director Datuk Izham Yusoff’s contract has been extended by another two years, effective from this month.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 16): Yong Tai Bhd is taking up a 70% stake in land holding company Iconic Paragon Sdn Bhd for a proposed development on two leasehold plots with a cumulative size of 1.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 14): Ekovest Bhd rose as much as 17 sen or 6% after the company declared a special dividend of 25 sen a share to shareholders.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 14): Ekovest Bhd, which has completed the sale of a 40% stake in the Duta-Ulu Kelang Expressway (DUKE) concession to the Employees Provident Fund (EPF), will be paying a 25 sen special dividend to shareholders.

While there was a sharp drop in the volume of transactions across all subsectors in the property market last year, average prices per unit are still increasing 5%, says CBRE | WTW managing director Foo Gee Jen in presenting the Malaysia series of the property consultancy firm’s Asia-Pacific Real Estate Market Outlook for 2017.

PETALING JAYA (Feb 11): WZR Property Sdn Bhd will be launching two new phases of its Bukit Jalil development — The Earth, by the end of next month, according to the company’s director of development Ibrahim Rahmad.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 10): BBCC Development Sdn Bhd, the developer of the Bukit Bintang City Centre (BBCC) project has inked an Agreement to Lease (ATL) today with Zepp Hall Network Inc (Zepp Hall) for a 20 year lease tenure to operate a Zepp branded concert hall at BBCC.