DUBAI: Demand for office space in Dubai could get a boost in the medium term from the recent unrest in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) as companies from volatile places relocate to relatively more stable markets like the emirate, according to Jones Lang LaSalle.

KUALA LUMPUR: Sunway City Bhd (SunCity) partly-launched Phase 1A of its Sunway Velocity project — consisting of 112 units of office suites with two levels of retail shops (one single-height unit besides an environmental deck, and one double-height unit on the ground floor, immediately below the single-height unit) — last Saturday, Apr 9, its managing director for property development Malaysia H

KUALA LUMPUR: Moevenpick Hotels & Resorts has announced the soft opening of Moevenpick Heritage Hotel Sentosa, its first property in Singapore, with the grand launch earmarked towards the end of the year.

KUALA LUMPUR: OSK Research is maintaining its "sell' call on IOI Corp Bhd at a fair value of RM4.41.

"As IOI is an established developer like City Development, we have little doubt that the venture into the Singapore property market will be profitable.

KUALA LUMPUR: Hong Leong Group's property arm GuocoLand (China) Ltd (GLC) became the first Malaysian company to officially adopt a baby panda at the China Conservation and Research Centre for Giant Pandas in Wenchuan County, Sichuan last Saturday, Apr 9.

KUALA LUMPUR: IOI Corp Bhd ended trading eight sen lower on Monday, Apr 11 at RM5.57 on a volume of 4.12 million shares, as investors and analysts weighed in on the plantation heavyweight upping its stake in a major property project in Singapore called South Beach.

HONG KONG: Henderson Land Development could supply the city with 45,000 new flats from its own landbank, more than the government's annual target, chairman Lee Shau-kee has boasted in his official biography.

KUCHING: No one was more excited than Prof Dr Sim Kui Hian when Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced on Sunday night, Apr 10 that Sarawak will have the second health metropolis in the country.

The world-renowned cardiologist knows better what will come next when the hub is set up in Kuching.

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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians can expect to see housing supply decline and housing prices spike should the build-then-sell (BTS) method of property development be implemented, said members of a panel discussion on the topic “Build-then-sell: The impact on property prices” at The Edge Investment Forum on Real Estate 2011 last Saturday.The panellists were Bandar Utama township developer See Hoy Chan H