What's new
Recent updates to Hartanahub. We ship improvements often — small fixes, faster pages, and the occasional new feature. Use the filter below to browse by month.
May 2026
- Improved13 May 2026
Clearer cost breakdown: 'Documentation Fees (~6.5%)' lump sum and plain-English return on cash
The Auction Cost Breakdown tool now shows a single "Documentation Fees (~6.5%)" line — a rule-of-thumb estimate covering lawyer fees, MOT stamp duty, loan agreement legal and stamp duty, and disbursements — instead of asking you to read four separate legal lines. The itemised breakdown still appears underneath for transparency. The investment box also drops the jargon: "Cash-on-Cash" is now "Yearly Return on Cash", and "Break-even: 50 months" becomes "Rent recovers your upfront cash in ~4y 2mo". Same change applies to the exported PDF.
- New12 May 2026
Proclamation of Sale: settlement window, vacant possession, bank coverage, title details
Every property listing now shows a new "From the Proclamation of Sale" section: how many days you get to settle the balance after winning, whether the property is delivered vacant or as-is-where-is, what maintenance charges the bank typically clears from auction proceeds, post-auction handover requirements (developer/state consent), and the title type, lot number, mukim, daerah, and any express conditions on the land.
- Improved11 May 2026
Buildings now show their alternate name ("also known as")
Some developments are known by two completely different names — a Malay official name and an English marketing name (e.g. "Residensi Hijauan Rimba" is the same building as "D'Erica Residences"). Searches already returned both versions, and now every listing and historical transaction shows the alternate name as an italic subline so you can tell at a glance.
- Improved9 May 2026
Faster site + clearer error pages + sharper paywall pricing
We pinned our backend to Singapore (it was previously serving from the US) so every signed-in page should feel snappier. Error pages are now properly branded with a reference code you can paste into a support email, and the upgrade modal now shows the price up front so you don't have to dig for it.
- Fixed8 May 2026
Auction registration deadline now flips to 'Too late' after 3pm
On the last working day before an auction, the countdown chip now flips from 'Last day to register' to 'Too late to register' once the clock crosses 3:00 PM Malaysia time. Auctioneers stop accepting deposits in the early afternoon, so showing 'Last day' at 9pm was misleading.
- Fixed8 May 2026
Cleared stale Malay-reserve / Bumi-lot flags + 'POS Not Ready' false positives
Some auction listings were incorrectly flagged with a Malay reserve or Bumi-lot restriction even though no source actually reported one — and many already-downloaded Proclamation of Sale documents were marked 'POS Not Ready' even though they matched the auction date. Both issues are now fixed.
- New7 May 2026
Free auction-property guidance — partnered with Settlers MY and Lelong Hub
When you click 'I am interested' or 'Request POS' on any listing, we now connect you to one of our auction-property partners — Settlers MY or Lelong Hub — who help Hartanahub users for free. The assignment is automatic; both are licensed advisors. Hartanahub itself is now email-only at hello@hartanahub.com for account questions.
- Fixed7 May 2026
Cleaner POS labels for paid users + roomier partner dialog
On any auction listing, paid and admin accounts now see a clear 'POS Not Ready' label instead of the generic 'Request POS' button when no proclamation of sale is on file. The 'Connecting you with our partner' dialog is also wider and easier to read on desktop.
- Fixed7 May 2026
Recently Sold tab now shows bank, lawyer, auctioneer and borrower for agents
Agent and admin accounts viewing the Recently Sold / Called Off / Unsold lists now see bank, lawyer, auctioneer, and borrower details in the expanded card — these were previously blank because the API was stripping them for every tier. The data was always in our database, just not flowing to the page. End-user (Free / Premium) views are unchanged.
- Improved7 May 2026
Register for This Unit now connects end users with our advisors
End users (Free + Premium) on any auction listing now have a clear 'Register for This Unit' button that connects them to our partner advisor — they help you register for the auction, request the proclamation of sale, and answer your questions. The partner dialog also got clearer wording about what the advisor can help with.
- Improved7 May 2026
Refreshed look and tighter focus on auction deal-hunting
The marketing site now leads with one story — buying Malaysian auction property below market value — and the inside of the app reads in the same warm tone, so the whole experience feels like one product. The 'Coming soon' page lists features still in build (agent CRM, commission calculator, document vault, Property Assistant) so we can ship the auction-buyer experience cleanly first.
- Improved6 May 2026
New Hartanahub favicon and home-screen icon
Browser tabs and your phone's home screen now show the Hartanahub wordmark instead of a plain letter — easier to spot among your other tabs and apps.
- Improved5 May 2026
Quick alerts and dismiss from the assistant + see your past digests
After the Property Assistant lists properties for you, just say "alert me on the first one when below RM240k" or "hide #2" and tap the chip — no menu hunting. And in Settings → Notifications, the new "Show recent digests" link reveals every daily email digest we sent you (last 30 days).
- New5 May 2026
Re-anchor area baselines, two new chatbot actions, opt-in daily email digest
If a property's reserve was already adjusted before you set up your area drop-% alert, you can now tap 'Re-anchor baseline' inside the alert editor — the next cron run captures fresh starting prices. The Property Assistant can now act on two more requests directly: 'set a price alert on this unit' and 'don't show me this property again'. And there's an opt-in daily email digest of any unread bell notifications — toggle it on under Settings → Notifications → Delivery (off by default; in-app notifications are unaffected).
- Improved5 May 2026
Attach receipts when adding an expense, smarter Property Assistant
You can now attach PDF or photo receipts straight from the Add Expense form on a property — no more hunting for the paperclip in the table after saving. The Property Assistant also understands explicit discount ranges now: ask 'Upcoming auctions with 20–35% discount' and it returns just that band.
- New5 May 2026
Watchlist price alerts + likely re-auction warnings + chatbot quick-add
Set a target price (or % drop) on any of your watch areas — get pinged the moment an Upcoming auction in that area meets your target. When a watched property ends Unsold or Call Off, you'll also get a heads-up that a re-auction is likely soon, with a predicted starting reserve (~10% lower). And you can ask the Property Assistant: 'Inform me when BSP 21 drops below RM240,000' — it pre-fills the alert form for you to confirm with one tap.
- New5 May 2026
Per-property price alerts + one-tap chatbot Save chip + per-area drop tracking
Set a target price or % drop on any individual property in your watchlist — expand the property card and a new amber 'Price Alert' panel appears for everyone (no longer agent-only). When the chatbot understands an alert request, you now get a single 'Save alert' chip — tap once and it's done, no extra modal. Per-area drop alerts also fire properly now: we capture the price first observed when you set the alert, and ping you when any matching property drops by your target percent.
- Improved4 May 2026
Pre-launch polish: accessibility, PWA, blog SEO
Hartanahub is now ready for proper home-screen install on iOS and Android — adaptive icons, app shortcuts to Auctions / Watchlist / Near Me, and crisp Apple touch icons. New Accessibility page in the footer documents what we've built (keyboard navigation, screen-reader labels, themed dialogs, 16px mobile inputs, reduced-motion support) and how to report a barrier. Blog posts now appear in our public sitemap so search engines can find them. Small fix to the Settings password change so the on-screen "at least N characters" text matches the actual minimum.
- New2 May 2026
Home page polish + clearer navigation
The home page now picks Featured auctions you actually have time to research (≥2 working days out) and tailors them to what you've been viewing. The 'Picked for your areas' rail is now 'From your watch areas' so it's clear it pulls from your saved areas, not your GPS. We trimmed the top counters down to two that are personal to you (your watchlist closing this week, new listings in your areas), capped Insights at 3 with a 'View all' link, and renamed Market Data to Market Data with a new explainer page covering Sold and Rental data with worked examples. The sidebar is less cluttered: profile, settings, and help collapsed into a single user pill at the bottom; Calendar moved to top-level; auction listings group is closed by default. Search is more precise — typing a place name like 'Kota Kemuning' no longer surfaces unrelated areas that share a single word. Calendar pages are now click-to-load per date instead of preloading every listing.
- Fixed2 May 2026
Watchlist no longer double-notifies when an auction ends
When a watched auction ends, you'll now get a single notification with the result instead of two — and we tightened how we read auction outcomes so a property isn't mis-stamped 'called off' just because the page mentions a prior round.
- New2 May 2026
Smarter search and clearer page intros
The home search bar now understands queries like "Kajang Bungalow" or "Cheras Corner Lot" — it splits the property type and the attribute from the area, and applies them as filters when you land on the listings page (with chips you can remove to widen the search). "Corner lot", "freehold", "renovated" and a handful of other attributes are now extracted by the listing scraper into a structured field, so as more listings get rescraped, search results for those terms get sharper. Every page in the app now opens with a short paragraph explaining what it's for and how to use it — no more bare titles.
April 2026
- Improved29 Apr 2026
Health audit and link cleanup
Tidied up the links in our automated emails so they always go to hartanahub.com. Also did a behind-the-scenes health audit covering 22 critical app endpoints — all green.
- Fixed29 Apr 2026
Recently Sold no longer surfaces admin-corrected listings repeatedly
Listings that we've manually corrected (e.g. marked Sold) no longer keep climbing back to the top of Recently Sold every day.
- Improved29 Apr 2026
Tighter market comp size matching: ±25 → ±50 → ±100 sqft cascade
Market Comps now prefer transactions within ±25 sqft of your unit's size first, only loosening to ±50 then ±100 when fewer than three close-sized comps are available. The header tells you which range is being used.
- Fixed29 Apr 2026
Email reliability fixes
Password reset, account verification, and other automated emails now reach all users reliably. We've also tightened email-address checks at signup so common typos are caught before submission.
- Improved29 Apr 2026
Behind-the-scenes monitoring upgrades
Set up daily automated checks that ensure account emails (verification, password reset) keep working — and silent failures get flagged before users notice.
- Fixed29 Apr 2026
Mobile browser theme polish
Cleaned up the mobile-browser theme colour configuration so navigation chrome stays on-brand without console deprecation noise.
- Improved29 Apr 2026
Sibling units of pinned schemes now show 'Admin-pinned' in market comps
When we pin one auction unit to its correct scheme, every other unit in the same building or cluster now shows the same canonical scheme name in the Market Comps header — instead of a generic 'Within 800m' label.
- Improved29 Apr 2026
More accurate market comps: pin honored, header reflects the matched scheme
When you pin a property to a scheme, the comp box now shows that scheme's transactions and label — even when the pinned scheme has fewer comps than nearby alternatives. The header now reflects the actual matched scheme name (e.g. 'Residensi Bukit Palma') instead of the generic 'Within 800m' when the cluster resolves to a single development. Some properties that previously failed to load comps (apartments in landed-dominant schemes, land lots in kampungs) now load via a smarter tier cascade that relaxes the property-type filter as a last resort.
- New28 Apr 2026
Changelog now public
We now publish a running list of what's new. Find it under Settings → What's new, or in the footer of any marketing page.
- Improved28 Apr 2026
No more iOS keyboard zoom on key forms
Tapping into password and phone fields on the registration, agent signup, and account settings pages no longer triggers iOS Safari's annoying auto-zoom.
- Fixed28 Apr 2026
Smarter address search across the app
Searching by area or development now finds matches even when the words don't sit next to each other in the address. Saved areas under Watchlist, Add Area, Near Me, My Properties, and the admin search all use the same matching now — so a search like "Era Segambut" returns every property in Era residences off Jalan Segambut, not just the rare ones with the words adjacent.
- Improved28 Apr 2026
Improved overall accuracy of location tagging
Property locations on the map are more accurate. Buildings with similar names across different areas now resolve to the correct one, and we expanded comparable-transaction coverage so more properties get nearby price reference points.
- New28 Apr 2026
Attach receipts directly to expenses
When adding or editing an expense for one of your properties, you can now attach a receipt (PDF, JPG, or PNG up to 10 MB). Receipts stay tied to that expense, so the documents library is no longer a list of unlabeled files.
- Security28 Apr 2026
Security hardening across write endpoints
Tightened protections against direct API access on a number of endpoints, fixed a rate-limit edge case in login, and strengthened admin file downloads.
- Fixed27 Apr 2026
Fixed: bank info not showing on some properties
An issue where bank and lawyer details didn't load for a small number of properties has been fixed. All affected listings now show correctly.
- Improved25 Apr 2026
More accurate market comparables
Market comparison data on each property is now more accurate, especially for newer developments and properties with similar names across different areas.
- Improved25 Apr 2026
Round-by-round auction history on every property
We now show the full round-by-round history for re-auctioned properties — past prices, dates, and outcomes — so you can see how a listing has evolved.
- Security25 Apr 2026
Big security and accessibility pass
We reviewed every page against an external audit and fixed dozens of small issues — better contrast, screen-reader support, tighter login protection, and stricter file-upload validation.
- Improved24 Apr 2026
Faster, more reliable WordPress posting pipeline
Behind-the-scenes improvements to how we publish properties to settlers.com.my — fewer duplicates, fewer stale drafts.
- New23 Apr 2026
Self-service registration for end users and agents
Sign up directly without waiting for admin approval. Agents upload proof of registration and get reviewed within a day.
- Security23 Apr 2026
Account security improvements
Email change now verifies both the new and old addresses, and we strengthened protections around password resets and login attempts.
- New22 Apr 2026
Property management for owners and agents
Owners can now track their properties, expenses, and rentals. Agents can co-manage on behalf of owners with explicit consent.
- New12 Apr 2026
New sidebar layout, portfolio dashboard, and settings
Major UI refresh — full sidebar navigation, a tier-aware dashboard with portfolio summary, a standalone watchlist page, and a self-service settings page (profile, preferences, password change).
- New4 Apr 2026
Mobile property cards, map clustering, and share button
On phones, properties now render as scannable cards instead of squashed table rows. The map clusters nearby pins, and every property card has a share button.
March 2026
- Fixed30 Mar 2026
Status badges, MYT-aware day counter, soldPrice safety
Auction-day counter now uses Malaysian time, status badges render correctly for upcoming listings, and previously-sold prices are no longer overwritten when a re-auction is announced.
- Improved29 Mar 2026
Modern dashboard with status filters and badges
Redesigned dashboard with Upcoming / Past / Sold / Unsold filter chips, land vs built-up size badges, and clearer pagination.
- Improved28 Mar 2026
Faster searching and more accurate sold price
Searching matches all keywords independently (any order) and the Sold tab now only shows listings that actually sold.
- New27 Mar 2026
Self-service registration with tiers
Sign up for a free Hartanahub account. Premium and Agent tiers unlock more listings and tools — including the commission badge and full Past auction history.
- New26 Mar 2026
Hartanahub Property Tool launched
First release of the Property Tool — search Malaysian property auction listings, save favourites, and view sold prices.