Lim: Banks should aid first-time house buyers


  • Nation
  • Thursday, 20 Jun 2019

PETALING JAYA: Banks should provide greater access to financing to first-time homebuyers, as well as to small and medium enterprises in order to churn economic growth, says Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng.

“The financial health of Malaysian households is slowly recovering with the household debt-to-gross domestic product which has fallen to 83% in 2018 from 83.8% in 2017.

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