Country Garden Holdings Co Ltd (Country Garden) is looking to sell all the remaining 2,000 high-rise residential units at its Country Garden @ Danga Bay development in Johor by end-2017, said its sales executive Lee Yi Shen.

The Real Estate and Housing Developers' Association Malaysia (Rehda) wants the government to involve the private sector more when it comes to boosting the affordable housing supply and home ownership in the country.

There is a constant race to create and innovate in order to make everyday life easier.

The past 12 months have not been easy for the domestic property market. Transactions have declined and new launches have been scaled back. With Budget 2017 set to be tabled on Oct 21, some property players and experts are hoping for measures that will make it easier for first-time homebuyers to buy and help boost the property market. Read on to find out what they hope to see in the budget.

Help them own homes!!

"The state government will sit down with Rehda to find out what development aspects that could be exempted which can indirectly cut construction costs.”

While he is no architect, Ee Soon Wei is no stranger to the practice of adaptive reuse. In 2012, the 36-year-old spearheaded the transformation of The Royal Press, his family’s printing press business in Melaka, in a bid to preserve the family legacy and revive the dying art of the letterpress.

Standing at the corner of Leith Street in George Town, Penang is the iconic indigo blue-walled Cheong Fatt Tze Blue Mansion.

Imagine living in a neighbourhood that generates its own electricity, where public areas have 24-hour camera surveillance and residents are encouraged to get around by electric car-sharing services provided by the township.