A DECADE OVERVIEW OF RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY: A CASE STUDY OF HOUSING CONSTRAINTS

Abstract

Residential property is not the new issues but this issues should be concerned over the time. It is because the property sector is the largest contributor to the countries’ economy development. The aim of study is to overview the summary of literature review on residential property in the context of housing constraints that obtained in several papers and reports. Moreover, by review these constraints, then will help to know the sources that need to be concentrated by government in residential property will be sorted by developed and developing countries and Malaysia. This paper reviewed in seventeen journal articles, papers and reports in 2007 to 2013 in Malaysia (searched via Science Direct, Google Scholar, Wiley, Emerald Insight and other government reports). In addition, constraints of other countries were also referred which consisted of nineteen articles journals and papers during 2005 to 2014. From the result, found that there were four type of constraints always became problem between Malaysia and others countries housing that were price & affordability, supply and policy constraints.