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Green Moves: Wrapping up to keep cool

The Year of the Golden Tiger has brought with it a heat wave that has driven many Malaysians into the comfort of air-conditioned space — day and night — raising electricity usage, and the bills. But did you know that if every house in Malaysia was insulated with mineral wool, some RM2 billion could be saved over 10 years through reduced consumption? That's a cool RM200 million a year.

City&Country: Mixed signals in property market

Delegates to the 3rd Malaysian Property Summit 2010 last Tuesday would have gone home with mixed signals about the market this year. The speakers were generally optimistic, but there was no show of great enthusiasm.

City&Country: Offshore-- More investment deals ahead

Alastair Hughes, Jones Lang LaSalle’s CEO for Asia-Pacific, describes his first year in Singapore as “a bit of a baptism of fire”. He relocated from London, where he was  JLL’s CEO for Europe, Middle East and Africa for five years, and prior to that, managing director for JLL in UK.

City&Country: My Space-- In the right direction

Jan 21, 2010, seemed to be a very significant day for the development of Malaysian land law, with headlines nationwide lauding another landmark decision that corrected a “blatant error” which had stood as good law for the better part of the last decade.

World’s housing marts mostly recovering, but situation patchy

The world’s housing markets are (mostly) recovering, according to the Global Property Guide’s latest survey of residential property time-series. During the last quarter of 2009, house prices rose in 22 countries, of the 34 countries for which quarterly house-price statistics are available, and fell in only 11 countries.

SStwo is a ‘mall that cares’

PETALING JAYA: SStwo Mall, located in the centre of the SS2 residential suburb here, is scheduled for opening in the third quarter of this year. The RM180 million project is developed by Asian Retail Mall Fund II (ARMF II) and is strategically located along SS2/72, Petaling Jaya.