Napic urged to break down unsold housing data by unit type and location
Social Democracy Malaysia has called on the National Property Information Centre (Napic) to publish more detailed data on unsold housing, including finer price bands, unit sizes and location. The call follows first-half 2026 figures showing 33,094 completed unsold residential units worth RM17.78 bil
PETALING JAYA (Oct 19): The National Property Information Centre (Napic) needs to improve the level of detail in its housing data, said Social Democracy Malaysia.
The centre's publicly available data, especially on unsold housing units, does not provide sufficient detail for the public to understand beyond the headline figures, Social Democracy Malaysia co-founder and Selangor assemblyman Rajiv Rishyakaran said in a statement today.
Napic's first-half 2026 figures showed 33,094 completed unsold residential units worth RM17.78 billion, compared with 30,471 units worth RM17.73 billion at end-2025. The number of units increased by 8.6%. Of the first-half total, 12,340 units, or 37.3%, were priced at RM300,000 and below.
Rajiv suggested that some units in this price band could be studios measuring 300 to 500 sq ft, potentially helping to explain developers' difficulties in selling them. He said these should be distinguished from full-sized three-bedroom homes. He called for finer price bands, unit sizes and prices per square foot to give the public a clearer picture of the stock remaining on the market.
Location information should also cover states, districts, localities and individual developments, allowing users to identify concentrations of unsold homes and assess their accessibility to jobs, transport and services, he said. Rajiv urged Napic to release the underlying data in downloadable, machine-readable formats so researchers, journalists, civil society organisations and the public could analyse it independently.
The call echoes concerns raised in columns published by EdgeProp.my by National House Buyers Association (HBA) honorary secretary-general Datuk Chang Kim Loong. In his June column, Chang noted that Napic's public first-quarter 2026 release did not further divide the RM300,000-and-below stock into narrower price bands, such as below RM200,000 and RM200,000 to RM300,000. Writing separately in August, he proposed a National Housing Data Bank to connect and standardise information held across institutions.
Chang said housing data was dispersed across agencies using different definitions, methodologies and reporting schedules, making it harder to develop a consistent picture of the market. Napic operates under the Finance Ministry's Valuation and Property Services Department. It maintains national property supply, demand and transaction data, and compiles the Malaysian House Price Index.
