{"id":1221,"date":"2026-01-20T17:42:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/wptest\/2026\/01\/20\/budget-2018-boost-for-developers-and-home-buyers\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:03:59","slug":"budget-2018-boost-for-developers-and-home-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/2026\/01\/20\/budget-2018-boost-for-developers-and-home-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2018 &#8211; Boost for Developers and Home Buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bina Darulaman Berhad (BDB) welcomes the RM2.2 billion allocations by the government to boost the housing sector, particularly homeownership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome the government\u2019s efforts to extend the conditional step-up financing scheme introduced by PR1MA to developers in the private sector. This scheme aids selected buyers, particularly those struggling to draw loans for their first home to obtain financing,\u201d said from Dato\u2019 Izham Yusoff, Group Managing Director of Bina Darulaman Berhad (BDB):\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Izham also commends the MyHomes programme, which is an incentive for developers to construct more affordable homes for Malaysians, in addition to RM200 million set aside for maintenance funds, stamp duty exemptions for house buyers and tax exemptions on house rentals below RM2,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bina Darulaman Berhad (BDB) welcomes the RM2.2 billion allocations by the government to boost the housing sector, particularly homeownership.\u201d \u201cWe welcome the government\u2019s efforts to extend the conditional step-up financing scheme introduced by PR1MA to developers in the private sector. This scheme aids selected buyers, particularly those struggling to draw loans for their first home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5128,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/5128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}