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SAUNTERING across his office to retrieve his blazer, Datuk Hajeedar Abdul Majid points to photographs of his grandchildren displayed atop a long cabinet and chuckles fondly.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 15): The urban wellbeing, housing and local government ministry has been tasked by the cabinet to formulate a set of guidelines for property developers wishing to use moneylending licences to provide bridging loans to buyers facing constraints in meeting the initial payment.

THERE is a big elephant in the room and it is Malaysia’s household debt — among the highest in Asia.

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KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 14): The Ministry of Urban Wellbeing, Housing, and Local Government has been tasked by the cabinet to formulate a set of guidelines for property developers who wish to undertake a money-lending licence to provide bridging loans to buyers facing constraints in meeting the initial sale-and-purchase payment.

PETALING JAYA (Sept 14): Properties priced from RM500,001 to RM700,000 faced the highest loan rejection rates, according to almost a quarter of 157 respondents to the Real Estate and Housing Developers’ Association (Rehda) property industry survey 1H2016.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 14): Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Tan Sri Noh Omar will brief the cabinet today on the controversial developer lending scheme, after the ministry’s initiative was met with strong resistance and censure — even from within the cabinet itself.

URBAN Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Tan Sri Noh Omar seems to have created a shock wave by announcing the idea of having property developers apply for moneylending licences so that they can lend to homebuyers who fail to get mortgages from banks.

RAM Rating Services does not expect the property sector to be significantly lifted by the move to allow eligible developers to apply for a moneylender's licence to provide loan facilities to house buyers KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 13): Malaysian homebuilders' accumulation of debts to finance their land purchases over the past few years have left little room for them to undertake the developer financing scheme sanctioned by the Ministry of Urban Wellbeing, Housing, and Local Government, said RAM Rating Services Bhd.

Property sector Maintain neutral call: According to media reports quoting Urban Wellbeing, Housing, and Local Government Minister Tan Sri Noh Omar, eligible housing developers can now obtain licences to provide homebuyers with up to 100% of house financing.