KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 27): In this week’s cover story of City & Country, we talk to Country Garden Pacificview Sdn Bhd (CGPV) executive director and chief of regional industrial business development Kevin Li and regional vice-president Syarul Izam Sarifudin on the latest update of Forest City, as well as the company’s future game plan for the 7,500-acre development in Johor.
Since the inception of the mega project a decade ago, the ambitious development has made several international headlines over the years. As the mega project now leverages Special Financial Zone incentives and Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone’s transformation into a regional financial hub, the master developer is shifting its focus to industrial and commercial developments, bringing in investments and creating job opportunities in the integrated development.
As the National Budget 2027 approaches, we speak to developers, consultants and industry bodies about their expectations for the budget and how its measures could support a more resilient and liveable property sector.
In the fourth instalment of Strata Sense series this week, Henry Butcher (Mont Kiara) Sdn Bhd (HBMK) managing director Low Hon Keong talks about the importance of proactive governance, especially in a mixed-use development.
Also in this week’s issue, we talk to Fuze Ecoteer, Kongsi Co-op and Native Discovery about reconnecting with the natural world. The organisations highlight that reconnecting with nature does not necessarily mean retreating from modern life, but understanding the systems, communities and knowledge that connect people to the environment and finding ways to take part in the relevant activities.
In this week’s MySpace column, Master Builders Association Malaysia president Kenneth Liew discusses how the data centre boom is revitalising the construction industry after years of stagnation.
On the international front, we have a report about the European real estate debt starting to show the strain of higher interest rates, with a slump in riskier bonds and the rare cancellation of a new junk issue.
Read more in the Sept 28, 2026 issue of The Edge Malaysia weekly.
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