As the speakers at The Edge Investment Forum on Real Estate 2011, themed “Buy, sell or hold?”, were unable to take all the questions from the floor, participants were invited to send in any questions they might have for the respective speakers.

KUALA LUMPUR: Viva Home, the first mall of its kind in the country that pools home furnishing retailers under one roof, expects to see an occupancy rate of 90% when it officially opens next month.

LONDON: The cost of market entry for first-time owner-occupiers is preventing many from buying their own home and so is boosting demand for rental property in London.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Asia Pacific Real Estate Association (Aprea) has released a corporate governance index for Malaysian real estate investment trusts (M-REITs) as part of its efforts to beef up corporate governance of listed Asian real estate investment funds.The index is calculated based on qualitative and quantitative measures derived from information from publicly-available documents such as

KUALA LUMPUR: Property developer S P Setia Bhd is sponsoring the publication of a coffee table book entitled Selangor: 300 Early Postcards that captures the transformation of Selangor through a series of postcard galleries.The book is authored by Prof Dr Cheah Jin Seng and published by Editions Didier Millet and Jugra Publications.

KUALA LUMPUR: Property developer S P Setia Bhd is sponsoring the publication of a coffee table book entitled Selangor: 300 Early Postcards that captures the transformation of Selangor through a series of postcard galleries.

The book is authored by Prof Dr Cheah Jin Seng and published by Editions Didier Millet and Jugra Publications.

KUALA LUMPUR: Property developer IGB Corporation Bhd has allocated up to RM3 billion for various assets acquisitions overseas this year, said managing director, Robert Tan.
He said the acquisitions comprising mixed developments, including hotels in Europe and the United States, was in line with the company's expansion plan.

MELAKA: Melaka will emulate Melbourne, Australia in implementing the green technology town programme by the year 2020, said Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam.

He said the state government would set up the Green Building Council similar to the one in Melbourne to supervise and monitor the use of the green technology for all buildings in the state.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Malay Contractors Association (PKMM) president, Datuk Mokhtar Samad, has expressed disappointment over some quarters still resorting to the ‘Ali Baba’ system of awarding construction contracts because such deals undermine bumiputera contractors who genuinely want to succeed in the construction business.

SINGAPORE: Singaporeans have been invited to invest in Malaysia's booming property market.

The invitation was extended at the "Invest in Malaysia, "Invest in Kuala Lumpur" forum held in the republic hosted by Eastern & Oriental Bhd (E&O), Malaysia's leading developer of prime urban properties.