Property Demand Buoyant as Focus Shift to Medium Segment

In this 2012 interview, Glomac Bhd GMD/CEO Datuk FD Iskandar discusses:

- Sentiment - said to be shifting to medium-end and into landed from high-rise - whether true;
- Glomac - said to be a firm in the mid-level, positioning-wise - wisdom of strategy;
- Rates - outlook - still expansionary - China booming - imported inflation in 2013;
- Speculation clampdown - issues - RPGT (Budget 2013) issues - impact on sales;
- REHDA: Build then sell - sell then build - conundrum - deadline 2015;
- REHDA: Affordable housing - issues;
- 315m in cash @ end-Q1 in July -- Landbank -- or acquisitions;
- M&A - options - On record as saying you are looking at buying smaller property firms or boutique firms - issues;
- Regionalisation - EPF - London - Battersea etc -- views - participatory;
- Presence in Australia .. which is slipping?
- Socio-political landscape - issues;
- Role in politics and UMNO -- extent of help - landbank replenishment, approvals, financing etc;
- Talk - candidate - Selangor CM - issues;
- Reports - Tun Daim - Najib - a ‘general without soldiers’ - issues.