News about homes

RAWANG (Dec 5): Quicksand! You only think that such a phenomenon only occurs in adventure movies, but quicksand appears to have surfaced in the Bandar Country Homes here.

For an experienced property developer, the technical part of building and construction is often easier than the effort it takes to build a sustainable community that is able to elevate the lives of the people.

An ideal home may mean different things to different people.

The Lafarge-EdgeProp MYHOME initiative culminated with the completion of the model house representing the home that Malaysians co-created.

PETALING JAYA (Nov 19): The Selangor authorities are planning to get an insurance company to provide coverage for private low-cost, high-rise homes, reported The Star today.

The design of affordable housing schemes have been pretty much the same everywhere – a few high-rise blocks that look like pigeon holes, a high density of small apartments with the typical 2-bedroom or 3-bedroom layouts.

  PETALING JAYA (Nov 2): The government will allow the setting-up of property crowdfunding  platforms which will serve as an alternative source of financing for first time homebuyers, said Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng today.

PETALING JAYA (Nov 2): Bank Negara Malaysia will be establishing a RM1 billion Fund for Affordable Homes (the Fund) to help homebuyers from the lower income group nationwide to finance the purchase of their first homes.

Rising property prices and inflation are natural in a growing economy.

SHAH ALAM (Oct 20): Instead of building more homes, improving the purchasing power of income earners is the key to encouraging homeownership, said EdgeProp.