KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 11): Dijaya Corporation Bhd and Ivory Properties Group Bhd have signed a joint venture (JV) agreement to develop mixed residential and commercial properties in Penang with a gross development value (GDV) of RM10 billion. In a joint statement on Friday, the two companies said the development will ... Read More

GEORGE TOWN: The state government should consider building low medium-cost (LMC) units on the island instead of pushing such projects to the mainland. State Gerakan Housing bureau chairman Quah Kooi Heong said that to date, Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng had only announced one notable LMC project, which is the ... Read More

PETALING JAYA: Demand for luxury residential properties is expected to turn cautious, given greater economic uncertainties and a tightening of credit by banks, DTZ Research said in its latest Property Times market report. In the report for Kuala Lumpur for the third quarter, the research house said there would be ... Read More

GEORGE TOWN: The concession rights obtained by the developer of the RM300mil Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway are now worth RM5bil, said Penang Local Government and Traffic Management Committee chairman Chow Kon Yeow.“Former Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon’s outburst had not been able to dispel that ... Read More

Selangor Dredging Bhd (SDB) will be making its debut on Penang shores, literally, with a breezy project known as By The Sea.The foray into the island’s famed Batu Ferringhi beach comes just several months after the launch of its fourth project in Singapore.The Kuala Lumpur-based developer has completed several projects ... Read More

What is it about the sea that attracts both developers and homebuyers? Along the Penang coastal road from Gurney Drive to Batu Ferringhi, condominiums, apartments and landed housing compete for buyers and tenants.Landed units and villas sit snugly on hill slopes fronting narrow roads on one side while multi-storey high-rise ... Read More

AN assemblyman has asked the state government to review its existing requirements for developers to build low-cost or low medium-cost houses, to compel them to build more of such units. Jason Ong Khan Lee (PKR-Kebun Bunga) said the current requirement was that developers build 30% of low or low-medium cost ... Read More

There seems to be a lack of awareness among foreign investors about the property market in Malaysia, laments Kumar Tharmalingam, chief executive officer of Malaysia Property Incorporated (MPI). And to remedy such a situation, a Malaysian delegation of distinguished property developers and non-profit government entities will participate in MIPIM Asia ... Read More

A MULTI-STOREY car park and a hotel block will soon be built within the Penang International Airport ground, said state Public Works, Utilities and Transportation Committee chairman Lim Hock Seng. “The car park, which will have 1,218 lots, and the hotel will be tendered to interested concessionaires via open tender ... Read More

Abdul Rahim Rahman expects Budget 2012 to boost the property and construction sectors.THE RM232.8bil budget tabled by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on Oct 7 was formulated with the theme National Transformation Policy: Welfare for the rakyat; well-being of the nation”.It aims to implement development plans such as ... Read More