Malaysia

Economic Freedom Rating, 5-Yr Change - Malaysia Compared to Continent

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Uzbekistan	36.51%
Laos	20.00%
Georgia	18.21%
Tajikistan	17.02%
Kazakhstan	15.78%
Mongolia	8.81%
Vietnam	7.85%
Kyrgyztan	7.74%
Japan	7.13%
Nepal	6.11%
India	5.81%
Malaysia	5.65%
Armenia	4.48%
Pakistan	3.34%
Azerbaijan	2.22%
Hong Kong	0.50%
China	0.42%
South Korea	-0.60%
Taiwan	-0.87%
Singapore	-0.90%
Indonesia	-3.39%
Thailand	-3.54%
Sri Lanka	-6.72%
Philippines	-7.31%
Bangladesh	-8.96%
Cambodia	-11.81%
Myanmar	-11.95%
Turkmenistan	-15.54%
North Korea	-66.25%

Malaysia: Economic freedom index, 5-year change

Increased economic freedom is strongly associated with high GDP growth, and therefore with rises in residential property prices. Changes in a country’s score on the Heritage Foundation’s freedom index are calculated by the Global Property Guide to produce a 5-point rating:

• Greatly Improved
• Improved
• Nuetral
• Worse
• Much Worse

Source: Calculated using figures from The Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal

Malaysia releases a quarterly house price index. Data are available from the Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM). The Real Estate and Housing Developers Association (REHDA) is the best source of papers, press clippings and stories about the housing market. The National Property Information Center (NAPIC) publishes Property Market Status Report which focuses on property sales.

BNM has useful monetary, financial and economics data.