In Depth

Landed property beware: The URA Bill includes your home too

The proposed Urban Renewal Act (URA) Bill 2025, recently tabled in Parliament, could fundamentally reshape Malaysia’s property landscape. While initially perceived as targeting old strata developments, the URA’s language is actually wide enough to include landed residences, business premises, and commercial properties, especially those more than 30 years old.

Shopping mall performance—how much does size matter?

What are the key factors to ensure a shopping mall’s success? Typical answers often include strategic location with good accessibility, positioning of the mall, a compelling tenant mix and anchor stores, and creating a positive customer experience through amenities, entertainment, and marketing.

The Real Deal: Lessons from Hong Kong’s tower inferno

The recent Hong Kong tower inferno exposed the fragility of dense urban living and reminded us—painfully—how vulnerable vertical communities are when safety is compromised, deferred or treated as a discretionary cost.

MVV TechValley powers Malaysia’s next industrial frontier

Far from being an uncongenial concrete quarter, MVV TechValley, as a flagship of MVV City, is designed as a holistic township, comprising not just industrial, but also residential, commercial, and lifestyle components, complete with a central business district.