News about property

KAJANG (Oct 11): The property market is expected to improve in either 2H2018 or 1H2019, riding on the improvement of household sentiment and business environment, said National Property Information (NAPIC) director Badrul Hisham Awang.

KAJANG (Oct 11) : The slow market absorption of properties has led to the increase in residential overhang which totals 29,227 units worth RM17.

PETALING JAYA (Oct 10): SERC Sdn Bhd executive director Lee Heng Guie expects to see a “lean and mean but supportive” Budget 2019.

  PETALING JAYA (Oct 10): The Real Estate and Housing Developers' Association (Rehda) has urged state governments to adopt an automatic release mechanism for properties allocated under bumiputera quotas to lower the high number of unsold units in the country.

KUALA LUMPUR (October 8): Property developers have until the end of this month to announce the discount that can be passed on to house buyers arising from the sales and services tax (SST) exemption on construction materials, but cutting prices may not be as easy as it is set out to be.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 6): The Edge Malaysia asked this question as part of its cover story this week: Will we see new taxes on inheritance and capital gains? “Talk of new taxes being introduced normally intensifies as the tabling of the annual budget approaches.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 6): The deadline to finalise a proposed £1.

PETALING JAYA (Oct 4): Sime Darby Property Bhd will be developing the 379,000-acre Malaysia Vision Valley (MVV) to the south of Kuala Lumpur on its own after a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) inked with two other partners to jointly develop the project lapsed a year ago, reported The Star.

KUALA LUMPUR (October 3): Savills Malaysia chairman Datuk Christopher Boyd said the thresholds for foreign property buyers should be removed in order to deal with the oversupply issue seen in the residential segment.

KUALA LUMPUR (October 3): Property developers are behaving more and more like local councils, Deputy Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Raja Kamarul Bahrin Shah said, noting that this has given rise to the current form of townships that are not centralised and are dominated and led by private developers.