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City & Country: Bukit Beruntung hits rock bottom

What can you buy with RM6,480? If you’re a techie, you could go out and buy up to four Apple iPads — currently tagged at US$499 (about RM1,600) at the Apple online store. Add another RM300 and you could take home a 2.13 Ghz MacBook Air with Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB memory and a host of other specifications.

16 May, 2010
City & Country: Ghost Town

City & Country took the 45-minute drive recently to take a look at Bukit Beruntung, only to be greeted by the sight of abandoned, vandalised high-rise flats and apartments.Window frames, glass doors and even electricity cables were missing.

16 May, 2010
City & Country: Prices expected to rise with recovering economy

Most developers see Johor Baru housing prices likely to inch upwards for the next one to 1½ years if the economy continues to recover, a recent poll by KGV Lambert Smith Hampton revealed.Samuel Tan (pix), director of KGV Lambert Smith Hampton, says that while it is difficult to say how much prices will rise, it is likely that values will adjust upwards with each new launch.The JB housing primar

16 May, 2010
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