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TRX City Sdn Bhd (formerly known as 1MDB Real Estate Sdn Bhd) saw a net profit of RM380.

THE slowdown in the property market is not news to developers and the public.

GEORGE TOWN (Aug 2): The Penang government is proposing a rent control policy for pre-war buildings after numerous complaints from business operators in the George Town Unesco World Heritage Site over excessive rental hikes, Bernama reported today.

SINGAPORE (Aug 2): Religare is reiterating its “buy” call on Starhill Global (SGREIT) with an unchanged target price of 90 cents, with the view that its portfolio’s performance is set to stabilise.

SINGAPORE (Aug 2): Frasers Centrepoint Ltd’s Australian unit, Frasers Property Australia (formerly Australand), on Tuesday announced it is acquiring a 10ha site adjacent to its Eastern Creek Business Park in western Sydney.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 2): Mass Rapid Transit Corp Sdn Bhd (MRT Corp) said it is currently undertaking the mechanical and electrical system works of Phase 1 of the MRT Sungai Buloh-Kajang (SBK Line or MRT Line 1), which is on track to meet its targeted completion by end-2016.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 2): Scomi Engineering Bhd’s (SEB) indirect unit will sell its industrial land in Rawang to Axis Real Estate Investment Trust (Axis REIT) and lease it back from the trust for RM42 million cash.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 2): Malaysians are looking at offshore investments to diversify from ringgit-denominated assets, considering that the exchange rate of the local currency does not fare well in the low crude oil price environment.

WITH widespread expectation that global interest rates will stay low for a long time, real estate investment trusts in Singapore have performed well since the beginning of this year, despite a chorus of warnings about the deteriorating fundamentals of the commercial property sector.

Banking sector Maintain overweight: June 2016 loan growth (+5.