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Goods & Services Tax and the Property Investor
* Article by Richard Oon * While presenting the recent Budget 2014, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and when enacted, GST will be effective from 1 April 2015 and standard rated supplies will be subject to GST at a ... Read More

5 Property Feng Shui Features To Look Out For
Today, feng shui has been inaccurately associated with the practice of understanding if a home, property or general area is considered “good”, “bad”, “auspicious” or “inauspicious”. These terms get thrown around so much, people tend to lose logic and rationale in the rush to fulfil certain “feng shui criteria”. To ... Read More

Increase In House Prices Just Temporary After GST Implementation
Any increase in house prices upon implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in April next year is just temporary, as a number of measures are already in place to curtail the rise. Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Ahmad Maslan said among the measures are increasing the real property gains ... Read More

The Reality of Affordable Housing in Penang
by Ken Lim Housing affordability is a common issue not only in Malaysia, but also in many other countries such as Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Australia. Recently I have also read the latest news about India inviting Malaysian developer to build affordable homes in India. In some developed countries ... Read More

Property summit in January
The inaugural Penang International Property Summit and an international property exposition will be held in January next year at the Subterranean Penang International Convention and Exhibition Centre (SPICE) in Relau. The summit themed ‘Managing Future Trends and Challenges’ will be held on Jan 9 and Jan 10, while the property ... Read More

Housing: Build-then-sell concept will not be implemented in 2015
The Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Ministry has decided that the plan to compel housing developers to adopt the concept of build-then-sell will not be implemented next year. Its minister, Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan, said it was to prevent shortage of houses in the market, which will cause a ... Read More

Tambun Indah calls off RM150m land purchase in Penang
Tambun Indah Land Bhd has terminated its sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with TPPT Sdn Bhd to acquire 27 parcels of land in Seberang Perai, Penang for RM150mil. The company said on Tuesday the SPA, signed by its unit Palmington Sdn Bhd on July 4, 2014, with TPPT had ceased ... Read More

Quality of affordable houses still not up to the mark
The quality of affordable houses in the country is still not up to standard, said the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) Malaysia. Development Sector Senior General Manager Ahmad 'Asri Abdul Hamid said of the 700 projects assessed to date by the CIDB under the Quality Assessment System in Construction (Qlassic), ... Read More

8 million more houses needed in Malaysia
My attention was captured by a news entitled “The only place where housing is easily affordable” when reading The Times, a UK paper recently. While I had expected some light on affordable housing solutions, I was surprised to find out that Copeland is the only area in England where house ... Read More

US firms choose Malaysia
Malaysia is now the choice location for US companies that want to diversify in Asia. Deputy chief of mission of the US Embassy in Kuala Lumpur Edgard D. Kagan toldStarBiz that there were also companies in China that wanted another location in Asia to set up a platform. “They are looking ... Read More
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