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Auction: More interest in landed homes

Demand for auction properties, especially landed homes, rose in February and March. Auctioneers recorded a rise of at least 10% in sales in both months compared with January.Auction House Sdn Bhd CEO Gary Chia says approximately 6,309 properties nationwide were put up for auction in February, and 6,571 in March.

16 May, 2010
Offshore: Catching the en bloc train

Since the start of the year, Grace Ng, deputy managing director of agency and business services at Colliers International, has noticed an increase in the number of investors looking at older condominiums in Singapore.

16 May, 2010
Green Moves: Learning from the Danish experience

Poul E Kristensen, managing director of green building consultancy IEN Consultants Sdn Bhd, describes himself as a “Dane who has grown roots in Malaysia”.  The 54 year-old mechanical and civil engineer set up IEN Consultants and was based in Copenhagen before moving to Kuala Lumpur in 1999 when he won a consultancy tender for the office building of the then Ministry of Energy, Communications an

16 May, 2010