Property Hunter Magazine Issue 64 2015 | Page 48

SABAH PROPERTY NEWS Look East, Only Closer household income are between RM2,500 and RM10,000 per month. Chris Tan, managing partner of Chur Associates O ne can’t help but to feel the déjà-vu sensation upon every year’s budget speech made by our Prime Minister. For the last three years, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has introduced PR1MA to drive housing with an allocation from the initial RM500 million to the recent RM1.3 billion of Budget 2015. Since Budget 2011, housing the nation has always been a key agenda and the Government has started off by introducing My First Home Scheme through the establishment of Cagamas Bhd that will provide a guarantee to banks for the financing of 10% downpayment for houses below RM220,000. Aiming at the low to middle income groups, this is a new governmental home widely known today as “affordable housing”. As a legal practitioner, one should always start with the definition of “affordable” before GvV