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EXCITEMENT over Kerjaya Prospek Group Bhd’s (formerly Fututech Bhd) new businesses has been obvious, pushing up its share price to an all-time high last week.

REAL estate investment firm Pelaburan Hartanah Bhd (PHB) seems to have had a busy 2015.

•     Today, we look at price growth and indicative rental yields for non-landed homes in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur.

PETALING JAYA (May 11): Japanese property developer Tokyu Land and property investment company NTT Urban Development Corp will launch the Branz Tower Wellith Shinsaibashi South project in Tokyo this weekend in Malaysia, said JLL Property Services (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd head of international residential property services Jazmine Goh.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 11): Malaysia and Singapore were the sixth most preferred property investment countries for China investors in 2015, ahead of Japan (seventh) and Hong Kong (eighth), according to Australian property investment portal Investorist.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 11): Malaysia Building Society Bhd (MBSB)’s net profit for the first quarter ended March 31, 2016 (1QFY16) slumped by 71.

TAN Sri Datuk Sri Leong Hoy Kum expects the local property market to hit a turning point soon and anticipates demand to pick up in the second half.

AFTER spending the most of the last seven years jetting back and forth between Vancouver, Canada, and Kuala Lumpur, the 36-year-old new CEO of TA Global Bhd, Tiah Joo Kim (pictured) — the third child and eldest son of chairman Datuk Tony Tiah and his wife Datin Tan Kuay Fong — says he is now back in town to “crack the whip” and get the group’s property projects moving.

•     Today, we continue our focus on Cheras in Kuala Lumpur by looking at average prices on a per square foot (psf) basis.

PETALING JAYA (May 10): The en-masse sale of the 7.