Speculation raises property prices in Hpa-An industrial zone

Industrial property prices in Hpa-An have been increasing over the last several months, even though few factories are being established there, according to realtors. “The industrial zone was developed with many purposes, including job opportunities for young people. It is also to develop regional areas. People with cash speculated and bought property in areas where […]

High-Rise Limits in Old Rangoon: a Step in the Right Direction

Rangoon is at a major turning point in its urban planning history. The city’s first comprehensive plan to limit the height of new buildings has been drafted. In the coming weeks, members of the public will be able to officially comment on it during a public hearing by the Yangon City Development Committee’s zoning committee. […]

Property prices skyrocket due to speculation and laundering

The most widely heard analysis is that Myanmar’s real estate and property market has been gradually rising based on two genuine factors. One is the growing demand for housing due to ever increasing population in urban areas and the other is the government’s urban expansion and development of low-cost housing projects. This generally ignores another […]

Myanmar industrial land speculation – music about to stop

Many speculators sitting on land in industrial zone like Thilawa Special Economic Zone will faced prosecution as they have not develop the land within a stipulated period after receiving the land from the government. Some speculators who are ignorant of the law happily “buy” land in industrial zones from the previous owner without knowledge as […]

MCDC orders land owners to build homes

Mandalay City Development Committee has given the owners of undeveloped plots in the city until the end of this year to build a house on the land or face having it confiscated. MCDC said the radical order, announced in the state-run Mandalay newspaper on January 28, had been introduced because it says vacant plots “slow […]