News about stability

KUALA LUMPUR (March 30): The number of unsold houses remained elevated in the third quarter of 2021 despite some improvements in activity in the residential property market, said Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM).

KUALA LUMPUR (March 30): Against the backdrop of low interest rates domestically and globally, there have been limited signs of credit-fuelled speculative investments in the housing market, according to Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM).

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 29): First-time buyers of affordable residential property continued to support house prices in Malaysia in the first half of 2021 (1H21) despite the housing market reversing improvements observed in 2H20 as the effects of the positive response to various homeownership incentives introduced by the government subsided.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 13): The federal coalition and the opposition Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition have inked a bi-partisan memorandum of understanding (MoU) on ‘political transformation and stability’, said prime minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 14): Despite the expected weakening in financial health among non-financial corporates (NFCs) due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the aggregate indicator of the debt- servicing capacity of NFCs has remained above the prudent threshold, reflecting the reasonably healthy financial conditions prior to the pandemic, according to Bank Negara Malaysia's (BNM) Financial Stability Review for the first half of 2020 (1H20).

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 14): Household loan impairments are projected to double, albeit from historically low levels, said Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) in its latest Financial Stability Review.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 3): Malaysian house prices, relative to income, remain seriously unaffordable, due to a pronounced and prolonged mismatch between demand and supply, stated Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) in its Financial Stability Review for Second Half 2019 released today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 22): Bank Negara Malaysia's (BNM) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has reduced the overnight policy rate (OPR) to 2.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 18) : The country’s household debt level remains high at an “elevated” 82.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 19): Total unsold units continue to rise for residential properties priced above the maximum affordable house prices in individual states, according to Bank Negara Malaysia’s (BNM) Financial Stability Review for the first half of 2019 (1H19).