News about URA

  KUALA LUMPUR (June 12): Former press secretary to Housing and Local Government Minister, Ahmad Soffian Mohd Shariff (pictured) today revealed he resigned from his job after losing faith in the Pakatan Harapan government.

  KUALA LUMPUR (June 10) Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin’s press secretary Ahmad Soffian Mohd Shariff is reported to have informed his boss (Zuraida) that he resigned via Whatsapp.

  KUALA LUMPUR (June 1): Following Minister of Water, Land and Natural Resources Dr Xavier Jayakumar’s recent announcement regarding the government potentially tapping underground water resources, environmentalists have voiced concerns about the negative impact of such a move.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 27): Lawyer Syazlin Mansor was removed from representing the Housing and Local Government Ministry in the inquest into the death of fireman Muhammad Adib Mohd Kassim for fear of conflict of interest.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 13): The government will no longer provide allocation of affordable homes built by the government for civil servants and Housing and Local Government (KPKT) Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin (pictured) today revealed the reasons for such a move.

  SHAH ALAM (May 11): Housing and Local Government Ministry (KPKT) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with eight companies from China, for future potential foreign direct investment and technology knowledge transfer towards Malaysia’s affordable housing development.

The National Home Ownership Campaign 2019 (HOC) could be one good way to help tackle the overhang situation in the current residential property market but the Association of Valuers, Property Managers, Estate Agents and Property Consultants in the Private Sector Malaysia (PEPS) president Michael Kong opines that the initiative should extend to the secondary market to resolve the problem in a more effective way.

The Real Estate and Housing Developers’ Association (Rehda) lauded Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin’s willingness to listen to the needs of stakeholders in handling the various housing and development issues.

You see her in the news almost every day.

During a Grab car ride from KL Sentral to our office in Mutiara Damansara recently, the driver asked us where we worked and when told that we were from the property portal EdgeProp.