KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 12): The Ministry of Housing and Local Government (KPKT) is developing an integrated housing data repository under the 13th Malaysia Plan to tackle unsold completed residential units and avoid additional compliance costs for developers.

Deputy Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Aiman Athirah Sabu said the initiative aims to consolidate information on supply, demand, affordability, income, house prices and unsold residential stock by locality.

She said this would centralise demand and housing affordability analyses to support state government and local authority considerations, without requiring every developer to commission separate market studies.

"The imposition of additional study requirements across the board on all developers could potentially raise compliance costs, particularly for small and medium-sized developers.

“This would ultimately affect house prices," she said during the oral question-and-answer session in the Dewan Rakyat on Thursday.

She was responding to Mohd Hasnizan Harun (PN-Hulu Selangor), who asked whether the government intended to mandate studies on real demand and affordability before approving any housing project.

He also sought the measures being taken to address the 8.6%  increase in completed but unsold residential units compared with 2025.

Aiman Athirah said that according to the National Property Information Centre (Napic), 30,471 completed but unsold residential units valued at RM17.73 billion were recorded in 2025, rising 8.6% to 33,094 units worth RM17.8 billion in the second quarter of this year.

"This increase reflects the challenge of a mismatch between supply and actual housing demand, particularly in terms of house prices relative to household income affordability, as well as the suitability of development locations, types and specifications of residential units offered," she said.

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