Mahathir Bans Foreigners From $100 Billion Property Project

  • Malaysia won’t grant visas to project buyers to live there
  • China’s capital control curbed sales at project near Singapore
A model of the Forest City development.Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg
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Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said foreigners won’t be allowed to buy property at Country Garden Holdings Co.’s $100 billion project, or be granted visas to live there.

The Forest City project near Singapore had targeted buyers from China for its mixed-residential development, as well as investors from Indonesia, Thailand and Dubai. Malaysia’s My Second Home program allows wealthy foreigners to live in the Southeast Asian nation on a long-stay visa, with Chinese nationals being the largest group of participants.