The general understanding is that both the Joint Management Body (JMB) and Management Corporation (MC) are entrusted with the powers and responsibilities to manage common areas of stratified developments, enforce by-laws and collect maintenance charges and contributions to the sinking fund and others. But how is the JMB different from an MC?

Defined as units that have received their Certificate of Completion and Compliance but remain unsold for more than nine months after launch, the number of these overhang units is growing like a rolling snowball.

Market watchers caution against panic selling as there are opportunities emerging in counters hammered by the recent selldown.

Let’s take a look at three areas that benefited from their concentrated industrial activities.

‘Astrology by Animal Sign’ is a simplified form of astrology reading, adopting the sole view of one’s Earthly Branch from his or her BaZi.

Buying your own house with only a RM3,000 monthly salary may seem like just a dream, but if you are prudent enough, you may be able to realise that dream.

Saving is a habit Hyinz Ng has cultivated since she was a child. She has been saving about 20% to 30% of her monthly salary since she started working – she worked part-time at a bakery shop as a teenager prior to photography.

In the current buyer’s market, CK Chang feels that it is a good time to buy a property.

Waterfront Village is named after the lakes and waterfalls fronting the building. Sitting on a 100,000 sq ft site, it has a net lettable area of about 27,700 sq ft of which around 40% has been taken up.

The name “sinking fund” is not meant to be taken literally, but in some stratified developments, there are sinking funds that have sunk and totally disappeared.