Property Investment 101: Budget 2023 highlights for property

Let’s run through the Budget which was unveiled by PM Anwar Ibrahim recently.

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Houses for the rakyat

In line with that, there was a list of allocations for affordable housing programmes:

1. RM389.5 million to build People’s Housing Project (PPR) and People’s Rented Housing Programme

2. RM358 million to build 4,250 Rumah Mesra Rakyat units

3. RM463 million to build Malaysia Public Housing Project (PPAM)

4. RM50 million to repair run-down lifts in low-cost strata houses

5. RM460.2 million for building new and renovating houses in rural areas

6. To build 7 million units of affordable houses for armed forces under Satu Anggota Satu Rumah programme (SASaR)

7. More than RM500 million to maintain Rumah Keluarga Angkatan Tentera and repair the living quarters and institutions under the Ministry of Home Affairs

Stamp duty exemptions for first homes maintained

For first-time homebuyers, the following measures announced in the October budget have been maintained as follows:

1. Full stamp duty exemption for homes priced RM500,000 and below

2. 75% stamp duty exemption for homes priced between RM500,001 and RM1 million

Housing credit guarantee scheme increased

The housing credit guarantee scheme has been given an allocation of RM5 billion to help up to 20,000 borrowers with no fixed income from the gig economy to get loans. This is a significant increase from the RM3 billion budgeted in October.

Stamp duty on property transfer by way of love and affection revised

The stamp duty of only RM10 for transfer of properties between parents and children, and grandparents and grandchildren, which was proposed in the October budget, has been revised to the following:

1. First RM1 million – full exemption

2. Balance above RM1 million – subject to an valorem duty rate and given 50% discount

They are applicable for transfers signed from April 1 this year, and only where the recipients are Malaysian citizens.

Stamp Duty Exemption continue to be the highlight

First-time homebuyer deserves as much help as possible. 100% stamp duty exemption for RM500,000 homes and below and those between RM500,001 to RM1 million gets a 75% stamp duty exemption. Some may say the ones who could afford properties more expensive than RM500,001 should be quite rich already. Well, I think it’s okay lah. This is just for the first property. Just need to remember to ensure ONLY the first time homebuyers get it yeah. Let’s not have the ones who are buying the second property also pretending to be the first time and then also getting the stamp duty exemption yeah.

Unfortunately I did not know if there was any such help given to first time homebuyer when I bought my first property in 2002. Yeah, I bought my first property just before I got married because that was a firm requirement from my father-in-law. Yes, I intend to tell my future son-in-law the same demand too. We must always learn from good things yeah. That firm requirement was one reason why I started my property investment journey too.

All the best.

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