KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 21): Malaysia needs to have higher population growth to sustain the rate the country is injecting new housing supply into the market, said property consultancy firm Rahim & Co International Sdn Bhd director of research and strategic planning Sulaiman Saheh. “I have mentioned this a few years ago – Malaysians, maybe we […]
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Time to pander to millennial shoppers
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 21): It is time for Malaysian retailers and shopping mall operators to stop asking whether e-commerce or physical stores will win in the fight for shoppers and focus on combining the two to create a shopping experience targeted at millennials, said retail consultancy Savills Malaysia. Millennial shoppers, it added, are expected to […]
Stewart Labrooy: Government buildings’ REIT will do very well
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 21): Alpha REIT Managers Sdn Bhd chairman Datuk Stewart Labrooy said real estate investment trust (REIT) of government buildings would do very well, given the good location and quality of these assets. During his presentation at the 12th Malaysian Property Summit, Labrooy said having the government as a tenant is as good […]
JPPH expects property market to improve gradually from 2019
The property market is expected to remain resilient in the first half of 2019 followed by a gradual improvement in market activity, said Valuation and Property Services Department (JPPH) director Ahmad Zailan Azizuddin. He told EdgeProp.my that his prediction is backed by JPPH’s data which showed positive increments or only marginal declines in the movement […]