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PETALING JAYA (Jan 29): The property market slowdown might represent an investment opportunity for when the market improves, said Chester Properties head of projects, Matthew Kuan, at a briefing by TheEdgeProperty.

IN one corner of the office are trophies bearing his name: 2007 Top Rookie of the Year, 2011 Top Sales, 2012 Top Leader, 2013 Nationwide Top Leader of the Year, among others.

BACK in the 1860s, the Kepong area in northwest Kuala Lumpur was a major tin mining area.

(Jan 4): Australian home price growth stalled in December as tighter lending rules and higher mortgage rates took the heat out of the Sydney market, though the overall result masked wide differences across the major cities.

SINGAPORE (Jan 4): Singapore's Urban Redevelopment Authority released flash estimates for the change in Singapore private home prices during the fourth quarter of 2015: Quarter-on-quarter, percentage price change: Quarter             Q4/2015  Q3/2015 Singapore private    -0.

IPOH (Dec 14): Residents of Seri Bougainvillea, Bandar Seri Botani in Ipoh are unhappy with their housing developer for hiring an illegal security company to guard the neighbourhood over their protests.

JOHOR BAHRU (Dec 1): The state’s RM3 million budget to help Johoreans buy their own homes is underfunded, Opposition assemblyman Ee Chin Li (DAP-Tangkak) has said in response to Housing and Local Government chairman Abd Latiff Bandi’s winding up speech on the Supply Enactment 2016 at the State Assembly session on Sunday.

GEORGE TOWN (Nov 25): The Penang government is seeking clarification from the Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government on its plan to increase the prices of low cost (LC) and low-medium cost (LMC) homes.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 21): High-rise homes are more than just an option first-time homebuyers or younger property investors settle for; in fact, they can also be desired by young professionals and older folks alike, says See Hoy Chan Sdn Bhd CEO Joe Tan.