News about property

KUALA LUMPUR (April 24): Aseana Properties Ltd, a London-listed property developer which is 23%-owned by Malaysian developer Ireka Corp Bhd, plans to sell some of its property assets and return the capital to shareholders this year, Ireka group managing director Lai Voon Hon (pictured) said in The Edge Financial Daily today.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 24): Malaysian property developers can halt the degradation of the environment and go green by improving their corporate social responsibility practices, said Deputy Minister of Urban Well-Being, Housing and Local Government Datuk Halimah Mohamed Sadique.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 24): Perak property market transaction values increased marginally by 3.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 23): Malaysian Rating Corp Bhd (MARC) has downgraded its outlook on IJM Corp Bhd’s RM1 billion commercial paper/medium-term notes programme (CP/MTN), while affirming the ratings of MARC-1/AA- on the programme.

KUALA LUMPUR: Selangor’s property market saw the value of its transactions rise by 2% to RM47.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 20): MIDF Research has maintained its “Neutral” rating on the property sector and said that it expects demand for property to remain slow in 2015.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 17): OSK Property Holdings Bhd group managing director and CEO Tan Sri Ong Leong Huat conceded that the group had held back some launches last year amid a slower property market as the company waited for better timing to unveil its products.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 16): Eco World Development Group Bhd confirmed it has received a letter of award (LOA) from the Penang Development Corp (PDC) for the development of the proposed Eco Marina Development.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 15): The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) is disposing of its One Sheldon Square at Paddington Central in London’s West End — its first property disposal in the United Kingdom — to London-listed British Land Co plc for £210 million (RM1.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 14): In a note today, Maybank IB Research said property transactions in Johor had plummeted 33% q-o-q in 4Q14, underperforming the country (-7%) and other major cities/states such as Kuala Lumpur (-12%), Selangor (+2%) and Penang (+8%).