'King of affordable homes' Mustapha Kamal dies at 73
25 Jul 2022 09:31am
Fondly known as MK, he was an icon of building affordable homes
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According to Astro Awani, the founder of MK Land is believed to have died at National Heart Institute (IJN).
He will be buried at Bukit Kiara Muslim Cemetery, it further said.
"Currently, my father's remains are still at IJN," Mustapha's daughter Felina was further quoted.
He was an icon of building affordable homes. The dream began almost 40 years ago when Mustapha was determined to build homes that people could afford, especially first-time homebuyers.
The group has collectively build developed 54,000 units of homes of which 35,000 of them are priced below RM100,000, earning him a status of the “King of Affordable Housing”.
The Emkay group founder and executive chairman desire to build affordable homes come while working with communities from the rural areas which led him to quit the civil service and become a property developer. He has never looked back since.
Mustapha started off as a civil servant. During the course of his duties in the civil service including being an Assistant District Officer for Ulu Selangor, he felt it his moral duty to help communities in need, even initiating an applied nutrition programme for the residents in the Kuala Langat district before mobing into the property sector.
His group has build 60,000 residential, commercial and office units worth a gross development value (GDV) of RM20 billion,
He then moved into focusing the group’s CSR work and philanthropic causes through foundations such as Yayasan EMKAY, Pulau Banding Foundation and the Bukit Merah Orang Utan Island Foundation.
