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KUALA LUMPUR (June 16): Bandar Malaysia Sdn Bhd has obtained funding for its massive project with the setting up of a fund backed by leading Chinese and Malaysian banks, with an asset base exceeding US$13 trillion.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 16): AmanahRaya Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) is acquiring a land together with a four-storey office building in Cyberjaya for RM40 million.

GEORGE TOWN (June 16): Contrary to his earlier statement, Consortium Zenith BUCG Sdn Bhd (CZBUCG) chairman Datuk Zarul Ahmad Mohd Zulkifli (pictured) yesterday said the Penang government did not order the company to halt the feasibility study on the Penang-Butterworth undersea tunnel.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 16): Hap Seng Consolidated Bhd is buying 36 parcels of freehold agricultural land with an aggregate land size of 1,449.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 16): Eco World Development Group Bhd (EcoWorld) signed the deed of revocation and rescission yesterday with the Penang Development Corp (PDC) after their mutual decision to rescind the award of the proposed RM10 billion Eco Marina project in Batu Kawan, Penang, to the developer.

PETALING JAYA (June 16): Encorp Bhd is confident of its integrated township development project in Bukit Katil, Melaka, in spite of the soft property market.

THE office market in Kuala Lumpur and beyond KL (Selangor) remained mostly static and unglued in the first quarter of the year, in the light of the slowing local economy, and the situation looks set to continue for the rest of the year.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 15): Prasarana Malaysia Bhd will begin to award the first batch of work packages for the upcoming RM9 billion Light Rail Transit Line 3 (LRT3) in the next two to three months.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 15): The Penang government has issued a halt order on the 83%-complete feasibility studies and detailed design (FSDD) for the 7.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 15): The expected higher taxes for foreign buyers of residential properties in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) are not expected to have much effect on Malaysian developers there, say analysts.