In Depth

From green to wellness buildings

“A building can be designed to promote health, for example a building can be built in such a way to encourage people to walk or to ‘exercise’ without them knowing it."  

Property Management: Ask the experts — dealing with defects

Common types of latent defects that appear soon after the DLP are water leakage, cracks, paint failure, debonding of tiles, etc. In the longer term, the types of latent defects may be concrete spalling, ground settlement and leaks from embedded and/or boxed-up utility pipes, etc.

Thirst for new catalysts in Johor

The 2018 Property Market Report released by the National Property Information Centre (Napic) revealed that Johor recorded 41,653 transactions worth RM19.33 billion in 2018, an increase of 7.8% in volume and 3.8% in value from the previous year.