Shah Alam, Selangor’s capital, is a focal point of many existing and new infrastructure developments. The state still experiences the most property transactions. Key players in the property industry remain confident of Selangor’s continued status as a prime investment area, with no signs of the trend changing. Selangor’s prominence was well-recorded even during the pandemic, when in 2021,...
Property developers in West Malaysia reported a 26% decline in unit launches and a 5% sales drop in the first half of 2022 (1H2022) from the second half of last year (2H2021), according to Real Estate and Housing Developers’ Association (Rehda) Malaysia. Rehda’s survey of 150 respondents released on Wednesday (Oct 12) found that 7,843 units were launched in 1H2022, of which 45% or 3,549 units were...
Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz has tabled Budget 2023 on Friday, Oct 7. This year’s theme is “Strengthening Recovery and Facilitating Reforms towards Sustainability of Economic Resilience and Wellbeing of Keluarga Malaysia”. What’s in it for homeowners and property buyers? Let’s take a look at what changed or improved from 2022 versus Budget...
The general reaction towards the government’s new Premium Visa Programme (PVIP) is positive but an academic feels that there is “confusion” over how Putrajaya wants to attract wealthy foreigners to invest and reside in the country. “Well, my hope is that the introduction of the new programme is a way to reform MM2H and to make it less stringent, as the requirements for this PVIP programme...