News about housing

PETALING JAYA (Jan 10): Housing and Local Government (KPKT) Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin said the ministry is working on “rebranding” the money lending licence to encourage public to borrow from legitimate money lenders instead of 'Ah Long' (loan sharks or illegal money lenders).

PETALING JAYA (Jan 10): The newly established National Affordable Housing Council which held its first meeting recently, will introduce the National Affordable Housing Policy by end of the month.

Arriving at the National House Buyers’ Association office at Kuala Lumpur’s Jalan Imbi, its honorary-secretary general Datuk Chang Kim Loong greets us with a smile and leads us to HBA’s small but cosy office where the organisation has for the past 18 years, attended to thousands of homebuyers’ grievances.

  PETALING JAYA (Jan 2): Penang State Housing, Town, Country Planning and Local Government Committee chairman Jagdeep Singh Deo said that the property market in Penang was still strong despite reports of overhang units.

PETALING JAYA (Dec 26): Research from a global property firm has found that Kuala Lumpur home prices fell this year.

JOHOR BAHRU (Dec 19): The southern state of Johor has 5,988 units of unsold properties worth RM3.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 19): Property developer Crescendo Corp Bhd is buying a piece of land in Johor Bahru for RM13 million to develop apartments for rent by Crescendo International College students.

KUANTAN (Dec 17): The could have been a “failure in coordination between the local authorities and the Irrigation and Drainage Department” as “the same old problems” of flood are occurring in Pahang, said state Local Government and Housing Committee chairman Abd Rahim Muda.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 11): The tearing down of the two surviving Highland Towers blocks has been put back to allow more study of the “structures”, Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin told the Malay Mail yesterday in response to queries.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 11): Residents living in the vicinity of Highland Towers (pictured) continue to ask for the surviving two blocks to be torn down, reported The Malay Mail.