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•    This week, we focus on the non-landed residential properties in one of Kuala Lumpur’s oldest suburbs, Setapak.

BINTAN (June 27): The Haven Sdn Bhd aims to launch its S$1 billion integrated hospitality project here in Indonesia by year-end, said its CEO Peter Chan.

PRICES on the Kota Kinabalu secondary market are expected to continue rising, albeit at a slower pace, in the coming months.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 26): Railway tracks, godowns, temples, living quarters and shops from a bygone era: this image of Sentul, one of Kuala Lumpur’s original districts, is gradually giving way to condominiums, private landscaped parks and arts spaces, thanks to the urban redevelopment project undertaken by YTL Land and Development Bhd over a decade ago.

Real estate agents should be consultants, not salesmen, says Reapfield Properties Sdn Bhd real estate negotiator Jonathan Kuek.

Twenty-two 1940s shophouses along Jalan Doraisamy in Kuala Lumpur that had been converted into the Asian Heritage Row of nightspots in the early 2000s, are again being readapted.

PETALING JAYA (JUNE 25): Encorp Bhd and Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) will develop an integrated township in Bukit Katil, Melaka, which has an estimated gross development value (GDV) of RM4.

• Today we look at price growth and indicative asking rental yields for non-landed residences in Sentul.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 24): Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak today said Majlis Amanah Rakyat's (Mara) Australian property buy was decided by consensus, claiming that some media organisations had purportedly twisted the remarks of agency chairman Tan Sri Annuar Musa.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 24): The government should probe Majlis Amanah Rakyat (Mara)'s three other property purchases in Australia if allegations of kickbacks in its purchase of Dudley Intenational House apartments has basis, the National Oversight and Whistleblowers (NOW) said today.