News about housing

Reapfield Properties HQ real estate negotiator Andrew Tan, who is also a resident of Desa ParkCity for over a decade admits that when the residents first heard about Sofiya Residensi, objections were filed to the developer, on the basis that the project would mar the whole exclusivity of Desa ParkCity.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 13): The Government should consider purchasing and repurposing the unoccupied properties in matured areas and turn them into affordable housing to address two issues at one go, said the president of the Association of Valuers, Property Managers, Estate Agents and Property Consultants in the Private Sector of Malaysia (PEPS), Michael Kong (pictured).

Two years ago, the older generations used to scorn the physically-detached virtual world, but the pandemic has changed that.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 7): Among the leading causes of abandoned projects in Peninsular Malaysia are weak financial positions of developers involved and weak project viability, said Housing and Local Government (KPKT) Minister Datuk Seri Reezal Merican Naina Merican (pictured).

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 5): The mandatory policy of provision of affordable housing should be “relooked”, Real Estate and Housing Developers’ Association (Rehda) president Soam Heng Choon (pictured) told the FMT in a report today.

PETALING JAYA (Aug 16): The outgoing Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Zuraida Kamaruddin expressed her gratitude to the former prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin for leading Malaysia for close to two years and continuing to serve the country as caretaker prime minister.

SINGAPORE (August 11): A large-scale pilot project will take place in Tampines where heat-reflective paint will be painted on some 130 housing blocks in an effort to reduce ambient temperature by 2°C, reported The Straits Times.

Recently, there have been plenty of “judicial review” proceedings mounted by housing developers at the courts of law to challenge the jurisdictions of the Housing Tribunal through what we deem as deliberate frustrations on grounds of legal technicalities, forcing laymen to expend legal fees against the developers’ battalion of lawyers.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 3): Freight Management Holdings Bhd is buying two pieces of vacant industrial land in Klang for RM56.

PUTRAJAYA (July 27): The housing development sector is allowed to resume operation under Phase 1 and 2 of the National Recovery Plan (NRP) effective immediately, said the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (KPKT) today.