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CBRE | WTW has launched their report on Jan 7 titled “Market Outlook 2022: Creating Resilience” which provides an insight on the market performance and market outlook for 2022,  For the Klang Valley region, the report has noted that the market performance in 2021 had been subdued by the pandemic.

PETALING JAYA (Jan 27): Total property investment sales in the fourth quarter of 2021 (4Q21) decreased by 51% compared with 3Q21, however, 2021 saw a 117% increase in total major transactions compared with 2020, according to Nawawi Tie Leung Property Consultants Sdn Bhd 4Q21 report headlined "Gradual recovery on the back of positive economic outlook".

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 20): During the Real Estate and Housing Developers’ Association Malaysia (Rehda) Institute CEO Series 2022, property developers have urged for the government to step in to address the surging building material prices to ensure that house prices will remain stable, reported by The Star.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 12): The property market, which was subdued last year, is expected to see moderate growth in 2022, in tandem with expected recovery of the global economy, said CBRE | WTW Group Managing Director, Foo Gee Jen during the media launch of the real estate consultancy’s 2022 Market Outlook Report at the Malaysia International Trade and Exhibition Centre on Tuesday (Jan 11) morning.

PETALING JAYA (Jan 6): The residential market performance remains cautiously optimistic for 2022 with growing demand for landed residential development, according to Knight Frank Malaysia.

PETALING JAYA (Jan 4): After the equally challenging years of 2020 and 2021, Savills Malaysia Group Managing Director Datuk Paul Khong said the global economy will remain high in 2022 despite the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Last week, I presented the National House Buyers Association (HBA)’s: ‘tick where applicable” checklist to our newly minted Minister of Housing & Local Government, YB Datuk Seri Reezal Merican Naina Merican in my article published on Dec 11, 2021 entitled: ‘If I were the Housing Minister” I have since received positive feedback from my fellow volunteers, friends of HBA, industry players, stakeholders, civil servants, politicians from both sides of the divide and housing developers (of the decent and responsible variety).

The Buffett indicator – defined as “the total market capitalization of stocks divided by the total value of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP)” – has been widely used for gauging the broad stock market valuation in a country.

We analysed the growth of average house prices over 20 years for eight states in Malaysia.

 It is heartening to see that the government, through the 12th Malaysia Plan (12MP), has outlined a more holistic approach to af­fordable housing as an attempt to reform the housing market in the post-Covid-19 era.