2. Bridging the Gaps in Affordable Housing: A Policy Implementation Index Evaluation of Malaysian Public Housing Schemes

3. A Prediction Model of Managing Building Obsolescence for Sustainable Adaptation

4. Pembangunan Pangkalan Data Profil Pembeli dan Harta Tanah bagi Menilai Permintaan Harta Tanah Kediaman

5. A Guideline for Managing Abandoned, Underused and Change of Use Buildings Due to Obsolescence

6. Property and Equity Markets in Malaysia: Building Sustainable Financing Strategies and Policies

7. Decision Support System for Disaster Recovery Centre in Malaysia    

8. Assessment of Economic Worth of Green Roof To Mitigate Urban Heat Island: A Case Study in Putrajaya

9. Developing a Heritage Buildings’ Revitalization Management Framework for The Purpose of Commercialization

10. e-Decision Support System: Buy or Rent (e-DSSBR) MyRumahKira 

11. IoT-Based Solution for Sustainable Mitigation of Urban Heat Island (UHI) Through Implementation of Green Infrastructure (GI)

12. The Impact of Home Financing Costs and The Built Environment on The Depression Levels of Lower-Income Employees Working From Home During The Covid-19 Pandemic (March 2020 - March 2021)

13. The Critical Success Factors in Adoption of ODOORS for Affordable Housing in Malaysia   

14. Emergence of Virtual Space: Impact on Shopping Malls in Klang Valley, Malaysia  

15. Green Roof for Sustainable Urban Flood Control Via Cost Benefit Approach for Local Authority    

Global changes counting economic development, population growth, and people migration to the urban region has created densely opaque and impervious urban landscape. This is a catastrophic problem for countries receiving large and continuous annual rainfall. Impervious surface generates high storm water runoff volumes and flow rates, which overwhelm the traditional centralized  ...........

16. Models of Sustainable and Responsible Investment Sukuk as a Potential Source of Funding for Affordable Housing in Malaysia 

17. Fostering Customer Satisfaction on The Eco-Based Residential Development in Malaysia    

Awareness of the delicate balance between bio-ecological systems and the need for the industrial development and achievement is becoming more sensitive. It focusses on the well-being of the natural environment whilst conducting such development. The main objective of this study is to identify the key eco-based residential features and their relationship with buyer’s satisfaction. ...........

18. A Study on The Need for A Comprehensive  Guideline on Design and Planning (Quality and Standard) of Low-Cost Housing for Sharp'ah Compliance

The study was commissioned with an aim to envisage that the problems,  issues and challenges in the design and planning (i.e.  Quality and Standard) of Low-Cost Housing could be resolved from the Shari'ah perspective. In addition, the research would embark  on designing and developing a comprehensive guideline on Shari'ah compliance housing in terms of design and planning .......

19. Affordability of Potential First Time Home Buyers in Urban Areas, Malaysia 

20. Ageing in Place Overview for The Elderly in Malaysia – Landed Property Home for Generation X and Baby Boomers

The size of population in Malaysia had reached 28.3 million in 2010 and is expected to increase to 38.6 million in the next 30 years. Malaysia data illustrates that 7% of the older population age are more than 60 years during 2005, which is anticipated to double up to 14% in the year 2028. This research has comprehensively reviewed the relevant articles and journals to discover the concepts, .......

21. An Assesment of Disabled Community Ability to Own Residential Property in Urban Areas of Kuala Lumpur and Selangor

22. Assessing The Strata Housing Attributes for Elderly to Age in Place in Klang Valley     

The world is aging and so does Asia countries, which aging even faster including Malaysia. Malaysia is predicted to become an aging nation by the year of 2030. Most of the elderly prefer to age in place. Besides, less elderly lives with their children thus placing them in an independent living. The death of the spouse could also put the elderly in the same situation. Housing is a basic human need.. ...........

23. Islamic Housing Partnership Equity Trust (HPET-i): The Pull and Push Factors 

The concept of Housing Partnership Equity Trust, which derived from United States Housing Market, has effectively provided home to middle-income and low-income people. Adopting to this concept, this research intended to explore an alternative home financing which can be used in financing houses at an affordable price. The main objective of this paper is to determine the pull and push factors .......

24. House Demand and House Prices,  Drivers of Default and Rejection of Housing Loans in Malaysia: A Micro-Level Perspective

Malaysia was reported as having high household debt to gross domestic product (GDP), reaching 89.1 % in 2015 from around 60% in 2008 (Bank Negara Financial Stability and Payments System Report, 2016). In this regard,  residential loans continue to be the largest contributor to Malaysian household debt (50.3% of the total debt), followed by personal financing (14.9%), motor vehicles financing .........

25. The Study of Putrajaya as a Smart City 

Established in 1995, Putrajaya has been declared as the administrative centre for Malaysia. Despite the extensive investment on city development and accolades received on its many achievements, Putrajaya still suffers from a number of issues which include the lack of vibrancy and the lack of diversity within the population that would contribute to the city's cosmopolitanism. In the era of trade ........

26. A Conceptual Analysis on The Application of Reits in Developing Waqf Land in Malaysia

One of the major issues in waqf is the inadequacy of fund that leads to undeveloped waqf assets. In the case of Malaysia, less than 1% of the waqf land has been developed, mainly due to the problem  of  illiquidity and inadequacy in waqf management. Thus, efforts  to find alternative financing methods needs to be expedited in order to address this issues. This study analyses the potential of Islamic .........

27. Klasifikasi Fasiliti Perumahan Berstrata Bagi Pembangunan Model Penentuan Dana Pengurusan (DMFM)

Masalah tunggakaan dana pengurusan atau caj perkhidmatan merupakan punca utama dalam pengurusan penyenggaraan dan fasiliti bagi skim perumahan bertingkat. Masalah ini berpunca daripada 2 aspek yang saling berkaitan iaitu dana pengurusan yang dikenakan kepada penduduk skim perumahan di dapati tidak seimbang dengan fasiliti yang disediakan keadaan ini boleh menyebabkan .......

28. Land Development on Highland and Steep Slope Areas: A Comparative Study Between Malaysia and Hong Kong on Process Mechanism and Legislation Issues

Malaysia has an integrated strategic development plans and frameworks, thus, achievement of sustainable development should not be an issue. The development plan provides strategies and approaches in development with legalization provision. The government also equipped with various legislations had undermined full consideration on the quality life, communication and transport system, socio- ........

29. Green Building Incentives Strategies for Property Tax Assessment

The aim of this research is to encourage the growth of retrofitted green building in Malaysia (through the merger and deployment of green components with existing building) by developing strategies for property tax incentives to be awarded to green building in Malaysia. The method used for this research included reviews of literatures on green components and property tax incentives .........

30. Landscape Design as an Added Value to Real Estate Development in Klang Valley

The research evaluates the basic landscape requirements in residential areas by studying and identifying basic landscape preferences. The aim of the study is to investigate the importance of landscape design in the planning and designing of a residential property in Klang Valley. It has been proven that proper landscape planning and design with the sustainable concept and approach help to create ...........

31. House Buyers’ Preference of Housing Delivery Methods: The Choice Between Build Then Sell or Sell Then Build

The Malaysian housing development industry had grown by leaps and bounds since the birth of the independent nation in 1957. Within the context of free market economy, the Government had allowed the housing developers to chart their own path that can suit the demands of the Malaysian house buyers. Nevertheless, the activities of the players did not go unchecked. The developers had traditionally ...........

32. The Impact of “MSMA” (Manual Saliran Mesra Alam) on Construction Costs – Small Scale Development

In 2002, the Malaysian government has officially approved the Manual Saliran Mesra Alam (MSMA) to be used to regulate development works and to assist relevant parties towards achieving sustainable storm water management. The guideline is expected to be fully implemented ten years from the launching date. Two years away from the ten year period there are still a lot of questions, particularly ...........

33. A Study on Affordable Housing Within the Middle Income Households in the Major Cities and Towns in Malaysia

Housing forms one of the basic needs of human. Maslow’s Theory Hierarchy of Needs sees that housing forms the foremost important needs, in addition to security, food and others, at the lowest among the five levels. Acknowledging this importance, the Malaysian government has drawn various policies to facilitate homeownership. This has resulted in the housing industry to tremendously grow.........

34. Readiness of Private Housing Developers and Financial Institutions to the Build Then Sell Concept

This research assesses the readiness of private developers and financial institutions in Malaysia to implement or support Build Then Sell (BTS). A generic model of BTS readiness and factors influencing it, was developed to analyze the BTS readiness of developers and financial institutions in Malaysia. A questionnaire survey was carried out to assess developers readiness to implement BTS. Elite .......

35. Attributes Influencing Property Transaction in Heritage Cities: The Paradox of George Town and Malacca

A lot of effort is spent on the application for heritage city status by the interested cities. Other than the recognition and preservation of culture and environment, a city hoped that the inscription will bring economic returns and will be one of the main drivers of economic growth. The main expectation usually contred on increased tourism and the many spin-offs from tourism. However, does the ...........

36. Export Capabilities of Malaysian Housing Developers in the Context of Globalisation and Liberalisation 

Globally, the housing sector is now characterised by cross-border operations of operators. Perhaps for the first time, a study was conducted to examine the internationalisation of housing developers from Malaysia. Its purpose was to determine the export capabilities of Malaysian housing developers and to investigate and understand those significant factors that enable them to be competitive .........

The most important message emanating from this research is to confirm the central role of institutions in the economic development and competitive position in Klang Valley cities in the world economy. In Malaysia a clear definition and openness of the intended goals for the country, along with the initiatives that are made available to both public and private organisations through a focused, harmonised, ...........

38. Managing High-Rise Residential Building in Malaysia: Where Are We? 

High-rise residential property management sector in Malaysia is still at an infancy stage. Clear and standard qualification to determine a qualified property manager or managing agent and how to ensure that high-rise residential properties are managed in a professional manner has yet to be established. The management agents in charge of property management are also lacking in professionalism. .......