News about management

PETALING JAYA (Aug 3): After the stink raised at the Kuala Lumpur High Court following a janitor strike, the Malaysian Institute of Property and Facilities Management (MIPFM) has urged building owners to only engage with registered property or facility managers to ensure that they have a means to take action against errant service providers.

PETALING JAYA (August 1): Kumpulan Darul Ehsan Berhad (KDEB) Waste Management Sdn Bhd has been contracted to take over solid waste management and general cleaning around Petaling Jaya City Council’s (MBPJ) jurisdiction from today.

PETALING JAYA (July 31): Malaysia will not become the world’s solid waste dump, assured the government.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 26): CapitaLand Malaysia Mall REIT Management Sdn Bhd (CMRM), the manager of CapitaLand Malaysia Mall Trust (CMMT), announced today that CMMT achieved net property income (NPI) of RM53.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 25): Approved permits (AP) for the import of the HS Code 3915 plastic waste for 114 companies and factories has been revoked for three months, effective July 23.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 21): Sunway Construction Group Bhd (SunCon) and Sunway REIT Management Sdn Bhd have mutually agreed to revise the provisional contract sum of an ongoing project in Penang from RM274 million to RM286 million due to additional scope of works.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 12): Malaysia Shopping Malls Association (PPK) committee member for research YL Lum foresees that the calculation of share unit weightage in strata-titled properties will be the next ‘time bomb’ in property management.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 12): Cases related to maintenance fees collection and inter-floor leakage top the list of claims filed by house owners to the Strata Management Tribunal (SMT), said Ministry of Housing and Local Government (KPKT) senior legal officer Roshan Karthi Kayan.

PETALING JAYA (July 12): Forming a subsidiary management corporation (sub-MC) is no easy feat as it is fraught with challenges, said Royal Institution of Surveyors Malaysia (RISM) past honorary secretary general Chan Keat Lim.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 11): Putrajaya is studying the possibility of increasing minimum property prices for foreign buyers Housing and Local Government Ministry secretary general Datuk Mohammad Mentek told a local business publication that “a new threshold will be set based on the condition of the local currency”.