THE Malaysian Institute of Estate Agents (MIEA) will be waging a war against the country’s illegal real estate agents and property negotiators. Its president Siva Shanker said the crackdown with the theme ‘Is Your Real Estate Agent Real?’ was in line with the new ruling requiring real estate agents to ... Read More

Malaysia is seeing signs of a possible moderation in overall house prices, data from the central bank show. The growth in the Malaysian House Price Index (MHPI) declined to 9.6% in the fourth quarter of 2013, compared with 12.2% a year earlier, according to Bank Negara. This was the first time ... Read More

MORE than 2,500 residential properties will be exhibited during the Malaysian Secondary Property Exhibition Penang (Maspex 2014) at the Penang Times Square this weekend. Organising chairman Michael Geh said many of the properties, with prices ranging from RM300,000 to RM800,000, were in strategic locations. “The prices are between 20% and 30% ... Read More

The Penang Development Corporation building will be demolished to make way for a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Prime project. The project will be undertaken by a joint-venture company, formed by the Penang Development Corporation (PDC) and Temasek, in which PDC will take up a 51% stake. InvestPenang director Datuk Lee ... Read More

GEMS Education, the world’s largest kindergarten to secondary education group, will open a RM55mil international school in Bandar Tasek Mutiara in Simpang Ampat near Bukit Mertajam, Penang. The Gems International School of Pearl City is a project undertaken by Gems Education and its local partner Maju Holdings Sdn Bhd via ... Read More

This seminar is FREE to the public! As part of GM Training Academy's corporate social responsibility (CSR), the company will be organizing My First Home seminar in Penang. As a first time purchaser, normally you will have more questions than answers….. Where to buy? How to buy? What is the ... Read More

The Penang state government has endorsed Eastern & Oriental Bhd’s (E&O) masterplan for the second phase of its Seri Tanjung Pinang (STP) project. In its filing with Bursa Malaysia, E&O said its subsidiary Tanjung Pinang Development Sdn Bhd was notified yesterday that its masterplan for STP phase two had been ... Read More

With a landbank of 1,793.97ha and total gross development value (GDV) of RM43.52bil, Eco World Development Group Bhd offers a wide range of residential, commercial and industrial products with thoughtful architecture and sustainability elements. Its current projects are mainly located in the Klang Valley, Iskandar region, and Penang. In the ... Read More

In a move to further curb property speculation, developers who sell more than four residential units to a single person or a company must now register the purchaser with the housing controller within 14 days of the sale-and-purchase (S&P) agreement being signed. This new requirement is expected to improve transparency ... Read More

THE predictable announcement by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on Oct 25, 2013 that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) will take effect from April 1, 2015, bundled with several other measures will certainly have an impact on the property market. Most property developers have started to feel ... Read More