KUALA LUMPUR: With increasing end-user demand and the government’s initiative to push for wider broadband usage, developers may soon be expected to install fibre to the home (FTTH) infrastructure in their developments.FTTH, which refers to fibre-optic cables, can deliver video, Internet and voice services through greater high-speed broadband connection with high definition.Guven Togan, chief te

PETALING JAYA: Sales of high-end homes has slowed but sales of affordable homes should remain good, said Real Estate & Housing Developer's Association Malaysia (Rehda) national council member Wan Hashimi Albakri Wan Ahmad Amin Jaffri.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Agathians Shelter will be transformed into the country's first "green" children's home by Rehda Youth, the youth wing of the Real Estate & Housing Developers' Association (Rehda).

Chan Kin-Meng, Rehda Youth chief, said the renovation and refurbishment of the home is the organisation's maiden project under its corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Agathians Shelter will be transformed into the country’s first “green” children’s home by Rehda Youth, the youth wing of the Real Estate & Housing Developers’ Association (Rehda).

KUALA LUMPUR: The Real Estate and Housing Developers' Association of Malaysia (Rehda) has called for the implementation of the International Financial Reporting Interpretations Committee 15 (IFRIC 15) to be postponed further, citing a need to resolve issues affecting its application on property developers here.

SEREMBAN: The Negeri Sembilan branch of Real Estate and Housing Developers' Association (Rehda) will hold Malaysia Property Expo (Mapex) from May 20-22, 2011 at the Seremban Parade complex here.

The government recently proposed new measures to tackle the issue of abandoned housing projects in the country. One proposal is to compel developers to implement the build-then-sell (BTS) concept in property development.

Housing prices in Malaysia, especially in the Klang Valley, have been surging in the past year or so, giving rise to concerns that there could be a property bubble.

Both the government and local housing industry have been looking at implementing the build-then-sell (BTS) concept as a means of solving the issue of abandoned projects, but the question is, is Malaysia ready for it?

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Developers’ Council (MDC) wants the government to expand the coverage of the newly launched My First Home Scheme.It proposed that the RM100,000 minimum housing price for eligibility under the scheme be lowered to benefit lower income homebuyers of medium low-cost housing, said MDC in a statement.