Archive for January 2019

Rent and prices for low-cost houses will soon be regulated once Putrajaya introduces the Rent Control Bill to clamp down on profiteering. Putrajaya said rent control was crucial towards making homes accessible to bottom and middle-income earners, particularly in crowded urban centres where property prices have quadrupled in the last decade. The Bill was among…

KUALA LUMPUR: Putrajaya is drafting a new law called the Residential Tenancy Act, which among others will address racial discrimination in the property market, following incidents of landlords refusing to accept tenants due to their ethnicity. Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin said the new law will follow a similar law in Scotland. “This…

THE Rumawip (Federal Territories Affordable Housing Project) project will be rebranded as the Residensi Wilayah affordable housing project, said Federal Territories (FT) Minister Khalid Abdul Samad. “Its concept remains the same – that of an affordable home for first-time house buyers. It is not the same as PPR or low-cost flats,” he said. “What is…

KUALA LUMPUR: The Home Ownership Campaign (HoC) from Jan 1 to June 30, 2019 will help lift activities in the property market but may not parallel the achievement of the first campaign, said a property consultancy. “The scenario then and today is very different,” CBRE|WTW managing director Foo Gee Jen told StarBiz. Foo launched the company’s…

SUBANG JAYA (Jan 23): One often overlooked issue hindering homeownership is the lack of financial literacy among Malaysians. “Financial literacy remains low and people somehow don’t fully understand what it takes to own a property,” RHB Bank head of group mortgages and ASNB business Anuar Amin said at a roundtable discussion today organised by the…