More and more developers have been offering the small office/home office (SoHo) category to the local market recently. As the name suggests, these are lifestyle products that combine working and living spaces under one roof. Though not something new, more of these products are coming up  in the Klang Valley.

While the repercussions of the Singapore government’s latest set of anti-speculation measures in the residential sector are still unfolding, some of the savvier investors — and those with deeper pockets — have already turned to alternative investments.

Malaysia’s listed property developers must have celebrated the country’s 53rd Merdeka Day with more gusto than usual — not because the local property climate has been kinder than elsewhere across the globe, but because the impl

Mention Melawati and what usually comes to mind is a rather quiet housing area that offers little excitement.

Bring up Ng Kit Heng’s latest project and the engineer is liable to talk up a blue streak.

KUALA LUMPUR: In conjunction with World Day of Architects 2010, the Malaysian Institute of Architects (PAM) will be holding an exhibition titled "Architects Malaysia" to honour the contributions of local architects and the industry.

PORT DICKSON: Some 1,049 problematic housing developers have been blacklisted by the Housing and Local Government Ministry.

Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Chor Chee Heung said 3,782 board members had also been blacklisted.

He said the ministry would tighten conditions for housing developer licences to avoid projects from being abandoned.

KUALA LUMPUR: Sunrise Bhd is expecting to extend TIME’s fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband service with speeds of up to 50Mbps to all its properties in Mont’Kiara and Dutamas in Kuala Lumpur, including the mixed-use development Solaris Dutamas by year-end.

TAIPEI: A house price bubble in Taiwan's metropolitan areas is expected to continue as the central bank's latest rate hike will not be enough to cool the property market or check increasing inflows of foreign funds, analysts said.

KUALA LUMPUR: Mutiara Goodyear Development Bhd (Mutiara) is planning to develop a piece of land in Sepang, Selangor in a joint venture with Paramoden Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of MK Land Holdings Bhd.

Mutiara via its wholly owned subsidiary, Susuran Timur Sdn Bhd has entered into a Joint Development Agreement with Paramoden on Thursday, Sept 30.