Property market slowdown intensifies
Thailand's property market is seeing a major shift as developers move beyond simply delaying new launches and begin selling land and ready-to-develop projects to preserve liquidity.
Tax overhaul hurts Aussie housing market
Just a short stroll from Sydney's famous Bondi Beach, auctioneer Clarence White struggles to drum up bids for an airy three-storey home that boasts five bedrooms and an al fresco lounge – price tag, A$5.2mil.
Sunway-led JV wins RM2.4bil Singapore residential development site
KUALA LUMPUR: Sunway Bhd has secured a prime residential development site in Singapore after a joint venture involving its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary successfully won a government land tender worth S$750.57mil (about RM2.4bil).
Titijaya Land subsidiary buys land for RM47.4mil
PETALING JAYA: Titijaya Land Bhd is acquiring a 6.07-hectare leasehold parcel in Bukit Raja, Selangor, for RM47.39mil as part of its strategy to expand its land bank and strengthen its presence in the Klang Valley property market.
Johor offices tune out election noise
PETALING JAYA: The Johor office market is on track to enter a phase of gradual recovery, supported by strengthening economic ties with Singapore, ongoing infrastructure improvements and rising investment activity.
The shopping mall conundrum
The health of commercial real estate, particularly retail shopping malls, has always been explicitly tied to the transactional velocity occurring inside its shop lots. When consumers spend, developers build, asset values appreciate and real estate investment trusts thrive.
Why RM300,000 homes remain unsold
Recent data from the National Property Information Centre (Napic) has exposed a profound structural contradiction in Malaysia's residential property market. Far from a simple housing shortage, the nation is wrestling with a growing property overhang that highlights a widening disconnect between developer-led supply and the realities of household purchasing power.
Penang LRT: Beyond property speculation
The upcoming Penang LRT (light rail transit) is already shaping expectations in the property market, especially along future rail corridors where improved connectivity is often linked to stronger demand, rising property values and new development activity.
Chinese policies deliver uptick in property sales
The traditional spring home-buying season, which typically peaks in March and April, stretched into May this year as policy support and targeted demand in first-tier cities drove a notable pickup in sales, helping to restore market expectations, experts say.
MRMA elects Derek Teh Wan Wei as chairman
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Managers Association (MRMA) has appointed Derek Teh Wan Wei, the chief executive officer and executive director of Sunway-REIT Management Sdn Bhd, as its chairman.
