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On 03 May 2023, Bank Negara Malaysia announced the increase of the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) by another 25 bps from 2.75% to 3.00%. Since then, and for the next 12 consecutive meetings (over 2 years), BNM kept the OPR at 3.00%. On 09 July 2025, Bank Negara Malaysia announced the decrease of the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) by 25 bps from 3.00% to 2.75%. What does this mean to home buyers...

On 09 July 2025, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) announced the decrease of the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) by 25 basis points (bps) from 3.00% to 2.75%. Much, much earlier in 2023, BNM announced the last increase of the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) to 3%, in line with “the sustained reopening of the global economy and the improvement in labour market conditions continue to support the recovery of...

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); UPDATED: On 03 November 2022, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) announced the increase of the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) by another 25 basis points (bps) from 2.5% to 2.75%. On 08 September 2022, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) announced the increase of the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) by another 25 basis points (bps) from 2.25% to...

UPDATED: On 03 May 2023, Bank Negara Malaysia announced the increase of the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) by another 25 bps from 2.75% to 3.00%. On 03 November 2022, Bank Negara Malaysia announced the increase of the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) by another 25 bps from 2.5% to 2.75%. On 08 September 2022, Bank Negara Malaysia announced the increase of the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) by 25 bps from...

Earlier in August this year, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) announced the release of the Revised Reference Rate Framework, which will be effective August 1, 2022. Under this new framework, the Standardised Base Rate (SBR) will be used as the reference rate for new retail floating-rate loans, replacing the existing Base Rate (BR). What is the Standardised Base Rate? First, it helps to understand how...

There are 2 types of purchasers: Cash purchaser Loan purchaser A cash purchaser buys properties with 100% cash. A loan purchaser buys properties by borrowing money from the bank. The loan purchaser can finance his property purchase with a bank loan of up to 90%. Therefore, the loan purchaser only needs to fork out a downpayment of 10% for the property....