Coast still challenging for property market

Affordability, location and quality will steer demand. WITH 2016 less than two weeks away, the coast is still not clear for the local property market as far as the prevailing uncertainties besetting the market are concerned. Ensuring that their property projects have the right differentiation factors of good location, quality and value, as well as meeting buyers’ affordability are some of the good industry … Read more

Eco World wants to begin construction of RM8.7bil BBCC project in 2016

KUALA LUMPUR: Eco World Development Group Bhd is expected to start construction of the RM8.7bil Bukit Bintang City Centre (BBCC) project by the first quarter of next year. Chief executive officer Datuk Chang Khim Wah said upon getting the development approval from the Kuala Lumpur City Hall, the company would prepare the pre-marketing for the … Read more

PR1MA Developers Not Exempted From Building Affordable Homes

NUSAJAYA: Developers undertaking the 1Malaysia Peoples Housing (PR1MA) projects are not exempted from the state’s mandatory requirement for developers to build affordable units under the Johor Affordable Homes programme. State Housing and Local Government committee chairman Datuk Abdul Latif Bandi said that developers were subjected to both the PR1MA Act 2012 as well as the … Read more