PETALING JAYA: Malaysians will go to the polls on May 9, which falls on a Wednesday, the Election Commission (EC) announced.

1. Learn the basics - An auction property is real estate that has been foreclosed by a bank or the High Court, mainly because the owner has failed to settle the payment for mortgages or quit rent.

PUTRAJAYA: After months of speculation, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak announced that Parliament will be dissolved on Saturday (April 7), paving the way for the 14th General Election (GE14).

LAST year, there was an increase in the number of new launches in Selangor compared with 2016.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 3): Up to 300 units of 1Malaysia People’s Housing project (PR1MA) homes would be built in each state constituency, Terengganu Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Ahmad Razif Abd Rahman, revealed yesterday.

PUTRAJAYA: Public housing programmes have enabled low-income earners to buy houses as the prices are within their means, said an economist of Universiti Putra Malaysia.

PETALING JAYA: Bank Negara is recommending that employers provide a living wage that better reflects the cost of living.

While there are various benefits of buying property at auction, with the most obvious being the lower prices, purchasing an auctioned property can come with some risks too.

Falling behind on your loan payments can easily cause sleepless nights – if not nightmares, when pondering the thought that the home you have or car you own could be repossessed at any time.

YOU have probably read in the news about the rising number of bankruptcy cases in Malaysia, with 2013 seeing a spike in the numbers.

With Bank Negara recently limiting property loans to a maximum of 35 years from 45 years previously, settling your home mortgage payments as soon as possible is now the order of the day.

Property investment has always been known to be a great and traditionally “safer” way to generate attractive returns.