News by Natalie Khoo

S P Setia Bhd organised several gardening and landscaping events across the Klang Valley, Penang, Johor and Kota Kinabalu over the weekend to celebrate its outstanding performance at ILAM’s Malaysia Landscape Architecture Award 2015. S P Setia won six titles including Project of the Year for its Lepironia Gardens at Setia Eco Glades.

The property development sector is a good training ground for fresh graduates if they have the passion for it, said chairman and non-independent and non-executive director of Eco World Development Group Bhd (EcoWorld) Tan Sri Liew Kee Sin.

“Imagine the convenience residents will be able to enjoy from the connectivity provided by the HSR project connecting two countries in just 90 minutes. Have you sat on the Eurostar express train?”

Developers need to change how shopping malls are developed to incorporate experiential engagement with consumers, Knight Frank retail consultancy and leasing associate director Rebecca Phan told TheEdgeProperty.com.

But this slowdown will be manageable, said the Valuation and Property Services Department director-general...

Primary market property sales plunged in 1H2016 from a year ago, underpinned by the sluggish global economy and poor local market sentiments, according to preliminary figures by the Valuation and Property Services Department.

“We are currently reconfiguring the sizes of the units and cutting the space down as some buyers are having difficulty in obtaining bank loans. If the sizes are smaller, this will help the buyers to secure a bank loan more easily. There will be a total of 880 units of condos and we will launch half of them first early next year,” he told TheEdgeProperty.com in an interview.

The Malaysian Institute of Architects (PAM) has launched its Architecture Exhibition in conjunction with the Kuala Lumpur Architecture Festival 2016 (KLAF 2016) and the soft launch of the new PAM centre at Jalan Tandok.

Lee changed her name from Shirley to Aine as she shifted from the stock market to real estate.

The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on July 19 to work towards commencing the Kuala Lumpur–Singapore High Speed Rail (HSR) operations by 2026 has sparked renewed interest along the property line.