nurul hana adi maimun

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Senior Lecturer at University of Technology Malaysia

Urban regeneration efforts often face significant challenges due to the presence of brownfield sites, which pose financial, administrative, and policy issues. These sites can lead to negative environmental and social impacts, reducing the appeal and value of nearby properties. Due to the limited market evidence in Malaysia, this study investigates...

Urban regeneration aims to create vibrant, sustainable, and inclusive urban areas. In this context, this study investigates user preferences for green retail space in Johor Bahru, focusing on activities and facilities required for an enhanced experience. Based on 400 questionnaires analyzed through descriptive statistics, relative importance index,...

This study investigates the factors influencing the rental value of residential properties near educational institutions in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where rental prices have shown steady growth but vary significantly across different areas. The research focuses on the impact of locational attributes on rental values, examining key factors such as pr...

The swiftlet farming industry is fast-growing and contributes to Malaysia’s economic growth. Nonetheless, dirty and noisy surroundings caused by bird droppings and audio systems are unattractive and may adversely impact the housing market. Hence, this study seeks to ascertain the price impacts of the swiftlet farming industry. The first objective d...

Write abstract here. Maximum 150 words. In 2015 all the United Nations (UN) member states, including Malaysia, agreed on the 17 Sustainable Goals (SDGs) as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This paper highlighted the significant development of cohousing for the elderly in Malaysia based on the Maqasid Shari'ah governance. The sig...

Introduce the first model that is able to forecast affordable housing demand

The current approach, the Hedonic model used for forecasting the house price index in Malaysia, shows its drawbacks and restricts the Malaysian House Price Index's effectiveness in forecasting the market trends. This study aims to forecast the house price index using an artificial neural network (ANN) which is fundamental in the Hedonic model theor...

The swiftlet farming industry is fast-growing and contributes to the nation's economic growth. However, the sector gives rise to adverse environmental impacts related to hygiene, health, and noise issues. Dirty and noisy environments caused by bird droppings and audio systems adversely affect the health and well-being of the surrounding population,...

Affordable housing has become essential to provide housing with affordable prices, but most of the locations of affordable housing are often not suitable with the people’s demand. To assess the suitability of affordable housing, several initiatives has been developed, to match the demand and location of the affordable housing, but most the models l...

Safety of residential areas, especially affordable housing has become an important aspect, and has been listed as part of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) initiatives by the United Nation (UN). Several initiatives on measuring the safety level have been proposed, including Safe City Index 2019, Safe City Program, Defensible Space Concept, crime p...

Objective - Economic sustainability of heritage property can be measured through an active property transaction of a pre-war shophouse in the study areas. This paper investigates the breakdown of a number of pre-war shophouse transactions in Penang, Malacca, and Kelantan. Methodology/Technique – The documentary method notably the Annual Property Ma...

The size of thin heritage property market in real numbers has become a big question amongst the researchers of the globe. This paper investigates a cut-off value towards the definition of thin market. The documentary method involves a consistently comparative sequential analysis in the study areas. The results emphasized on the clarification of the...

Property investment may take a form of either a monetary investment or a real investment (the creation of new assets). Financial investment in real property involves the acquisition of land, buildings, and related properties to derive rentals or other annual income from them. The study aimed to examine the factors influencing residential property i...

Most of the countries around the globe including Malaysia using the Hedonic Pricing Model (HPM) to build a national house price index. However, HPM seems to not reflect the current market trend due to its non-linearity and multicollinearity. Hence, one of the alternative techniques that have been applied is an artificial neural network to improve t...

In the event of recovery after the flood disasters, public order and welfare are of key importance for the institutions. Hence, community involvement via an asset-based approach is paramount to ensure that the holistic recovery of the community can be achieved. Through an asset-based approach, the vulnerability of the community can be diminished by...

Safety is an important aspect in today’s living, in urban city, residential area, and also in campus area. Several initiatives were introduced to increase the safety level, and to prevent crime from happening in the campus area, known as Safe City Concept. These initiatives included the Safe City Index, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design...

This paper aims to propose revitalisation strategies for a local area. The current revitalisation strategies to address abandoned housing are ineffective and do not reflect the local market conditions. Moreover, the lack of holistic data and empirical studies limits the effectiveness of revitalisation strategies. For the purpose of this study, Batu...

Property tax is a main source of local authority and contributes to nation’s development. Local Government Act 1976 (Act 171) has authorized local authority as the responsible party in levying property tax. Based on pilot study, there is an urgency in conducting property tax reassessment due to the lack of manpower in valuation department. Besides,...

Maintenance data for government buildings in Putrajaya, Malaysia, consists of a vast volume of data that is divided into different classes based on the functions of the maintenance tasks. As a result, multiple interactions from stakeholders and customers are required. This necessitates the collection of data that is specific to the stakeholders and...

Modernization has created new impervious urban landscape contributed to major catastrophe. Urban drainage system incapable to convey the excess rainwater resulting in flash flood due to heavy rainfall. The combination of green roof on building have tremendously proved to control stormwater efficiently. This study is conducted to review the efficien...

The Hedonic Price Model (HPM), a prominent model used in real estate appraisal and economics, has been argued to be marred with nonlinearity, multicollinearity and heteroscedasticity problems that affect the accuracy of price predictions. An alternative method called Artificial Neural Network Model (ANN) was identified as capable of addressing the...

The existence of Brownfield sites is one of the main challenges that Malaysia must face due to financial, administrative and policy problems. The negative environmental and social impacts of Brownfield sites jeopardise residents’ health and well-being, causing nearby areas to be less desirable for occupation and investment. These impacts result in...

Rail transport is one of the factors that boost economic growth. Increased accessibility while saving travel costs and time offered by rail transport attracts foreign and local investments, which lead to increased house prices and rents. Nonetheless, it is argued that noise pollution coming from rail transport may also reduce house prices and rents...

Property market price will normally depend on the differential of location and amenities. Real estate theory in determining value has been evolving over the years due to changes in several factors. This includes property types, financial products and environmental attributes. Theoretically, selling houses in environmentally sensitive areas such as...

Affordable housing has become essential, especially in developing countries, to cater the people needs on house. Most of the affordable housing focus is on providing house at affordable prices, but the locations of these affordable housing often not suitable with demand of people. Several initiatives were conducted to identified the demand of peopl...

Housing is important since it provides security, privacy, neighbourhood and social relations, status, community facilities and services, access to jobs and control over the environment. To enable everybody to afford a house, affordable housing was introduced and developed throughout the world. But there’s an issues with current affordable housing d...

There is a consensus that green buildings have better building performance compared to conventional buildings. Whilst previous research has established the benefits of green buildings, it has been argued that this benefit might have been over exaggerated due to the evidence of dissatisfaction in green buildings performance. Thus, this calls for a r...

Like other countries in the world, Malaysia is experiencing a rapid urbanisation where currently 76% of the population lives in the city and over 90% of the national economic activity revolves in and within the cities. Continued sprawling and expansion of cities due to the increase in industrial growth has resulted in pressure to balance between so...

This paper reviews previous research that has been carried out to assess the value of built cultural heritage based on spatial-based valuation approach. Built cultural heritage is classified as a special property and can be categorised under thin market due to limited transaction or being traded inactively in certain areas. It will age with time, w...

Affordable housing was developed in order to give equal opportunity for middle and low-incomers in owning a house, especially in Malaysia. To make sure that these people can have a quality house, the National Housing Policy (DRN) with Pelan Tindakan DRN has been introduced by the Malaysian Government to not only provide adequate housing, but also a...

Real estate is complex in nature, whereby its value is determined by many characteristics. Heritage property is different as compared with non-heritage property, thus; it is essential to identify the heritage property value determinants due to limited published research about it. This paper closes the gap by reviewing the literature to identify the...

The Hedonic Model, a traditional method for forecasting house prices has been criticised due to nonlinearity, multicollinearity and heteroskedasticity problems, which were argued to affect estimation accuracy. Unlike the Hedonic Model, the Artificial Neural Network Model (ANN), permits nonlinear relationships and thus avoids the problems plaguing t...

Malaysia is expected to face ageing population in year 2030. This phenomenon is a challenge that hinders the provision of an excellent environment, including housing them. Active ageing refers to the process of improving the quality of life amongst the elderly in terms of health, social, physical, and environmental aspects. Provision of environment...

Sewerage system provide infrastructure that conveys sewage or surface runoff using sewer network. Sewerage system requires perfect infrastructure to ensure that sewage can be channelled to the sewage treatment plant safely. Meticulous asset management for sewerage system is highly recommended to avoid any risk to assets that deliver sewage. Risk as...

Highly priced properties cause affordability problems among low and middle-income buyers. To overcome this, the Malaysian government introduces affordable housing through National Urbanisation Policy, National Physical Plan, National Housing Policy, and Eleventh Malaysia Plan. Whilst having good market response, some areas experience either shortag...