LAST year, there was an increase in the number of new launches in Selangor compared with 2016.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 3): Up to 300 units of 1Malaysia People’s Housing project (PR1MA) homes would be built in each state constituency, Terengganu Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Ahmad Razif Abd Rahman, revealed yesterday.

PUTRAJAYA: Public housing programmes have enabled low-income earners to buy houses as the prices are within their means, said an economist of Universiti Putra Malaysia.

PETALING JAYA: Bank Negara is recommending that employers provide a living wage that better reflects the cost of living.

While there are various benefits of buying property at auction, with the most obvious being the lower prices, purchasing an auctioned property can come with some risks too.

Falling behind on your loan payments can easily cause sleepless nights – if not nightmares, when pondering the thought that the home you have or car you own could be repossessed at any time.

YOU have probably read in the news about the rising number of bankruptcy cases in Malaysia, with 2013 seeing a spike in the numbers.

With Bank Negara recently limiting property loans to a maximum of 35 years from 45 years previously, settling your home mortgage payments as soon as possible is now the order of the day.

Property investment has always been known to be a great and traditionally “safer” way to generate attractive returns.

When it comes to a home (i.e. a property you personally stay in), renting versus buying is literally one of the toughest decisions you’ll ever face.

If you ever made an emotional bid on a property, and you and the owner went back and forth on the offer, you probably experienced trying to get a loan, and everything going down the drain when the valuation came in lower than the agreed price.

HouzKEY, an innovative product based on a rent-to-own scheme that was launched last November, is now open to the public in the Klang Valley for applications.