There were only three favourable factors with the on-going MRT and infrastructure project ranked first, well ahead of the two others, namely availability of good stock/ investment opportunities and availability of equity capital/ fund. In terms of negative factors, the country’s political scene was one of the great concern, followed by the unpopular GST, Malaysia’s slowing economy, cooling measures, KLSE performance, ringgit depreciation and others. It is also noted that the negative global media coverage of the politics have impacted the commercial real estate sentiment, affecting foreign direct investment (FDI) flow.
Source : Knight Frank