Najib asks if FundMyHome will benefit the people or developers
KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 8): Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak (pictured) has asked whether the FundMyHome scheme is meant to benefit the people or the developers.
KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 8): Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak (pictured) has asked whether the FundMyHome scheme is meant to benefit the people or the developers.
GEORGE TOWN (Nov 5): Extending the housing loan term to 90 years or more may help reduce the overhang of property stocks, but are the children ready to shoulder the burden? The concern was raised by Kebun Bunga assemblyman Jason Ong Khan Lee in response to a proposal by the state government to Bank Negara to introduce generational loans to mitigate the problems on securing financing for first-time homebuyers, reported The Star today.
PETALING JAYA (Oct 9): Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) is proposing a more flexible loan package with flexible interest rates and an extended maximum loan tenure for affordable home buyers, said Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin.
SINGAPORE (Sept 26): On July 5, the government has acted to cool the red hot residential property market by introducing a fresh round of cooling measures, which included higher Additional Buyer’s Stamp Duty (ABSD) rates and tighter Loan-to-Value (LTV) limits.
PONTIAN (August 21): A woman told the media that her husband had run away, and owed some RM100,000 to nine loan sharks, with their home as collateral.
The government has acted to cool the red hot residential property market.
KUALA LUMPUR (June 6): There will be a new mechanism to facilitate the bank loan application process for young Malaysians purchasing their first properties, Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today.
KUALA LUMPUR (May 31): Commercial banks in Malaysia will reduce the goods and services tax (GST) rate to 0% tomorrow (June 1), from 6% at present.
PETALING JAYA (March 28): The rejection rate of housing applications has declined to below the average rate of about a quarter of all cases, said Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) in its “Financial Stability and Payment Systems Report 2017”.
Feeling stressed out and dejected because the housing loan applications you sent out kept getting rejected? While the banks’ risk profiling and credit lending policies may vary slightly from each other, the real culprit could often be something hidden and easily overlooked.