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SUBANG JAYA (Sept 27): Malaysia's Budget 2017 needs to outline long-term improvements in living cost and affordable housing to yield more positive changes.

1Malaysia Development Bhd’s (1MDB) wholly-owned subsidiary TRX City Sdn Bhd is starting infrastructure works on Tun Razak Exchange, which is located on a prime tract between Jalan Bukit Bintang and Jalan Tun Razak that was sold to the strategic investment fund for RM230 million or RM75 psf in 2010, say sources in the construction industry.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 22): The Malaysian Government's Public Sector Housing Financing Board said its RM4 billion Islamic bond was oversubscribed more than three times, due to its "strong credit standing.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 22): The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) is acquiring a 40% stake in the concessionaire of the Duta-Ulu Klang Expressway (DUKE) for RM1.

  THE mature neighbourhood of Damansara Heights will soon have a new member — Aira Residence by Selangor Properties Bhd (SPB).

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 20): A maximum loan in­terest of 6% is a fair rate for developers to charge house buyers, The Star reported Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Tan Sri Noh Omar as saying yesterday.

Genting Malaysia Bhd (Sept 19, RM4.

BUKIT Jalil in Kuala Lumpur is a property hot spot.

THE Thameside area of Barnes, with its village atmosphere, attractive period properties, good schools and proximity to central London, was recently named as London’s second-best place to live in The Sunday Times’ Best Places to Live Guide, after Fitzrovia.

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.