Category: ABCs of Property Investment
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Property Investment 101: 10 Reasons to start the property investment journey
Google for reasons for property investment and you will an unlimited number of articles about this topic. After having invested into property for the last 18 years or so and having properties in 6 cities / towns in Malaysia, here are 10 reasons I think are important for property investment. All the WHYs…
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Property Investment 101: 3 ways to invest into properties
People say, “never put all your eggs into one basket” because the risks are very high that if the basket were to fall, all the eggs would be broken. It’s the same for investments. Diversification is necessary. My personal opinion is that dieversification is necessary but investment into property is compulsory. The last I remembered,…
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Property Investment 101: Budget 2023 highlights for property
Property Investment 101: Budget 2023 highlights for property Let’s run through the Budget which was unveiled by PM Anwar Ibrahim recently. Source: theedgeprop.my (click here to read the full article) 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…
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People’s Housing Projects (PPR) should be for rent and not for sale
People’s Housing Projects (PPR) is built to provide homes to Malaysians who could not afford their own home as yet. Thus, all these PPR homes must be for the benefit of poor Malaysians and not to enrich anyone who managed to get a unit and is then sub-letting the unit out to foreigners and gaining…
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Property Investment 101: 10 tips on choosing a good tenant
Before I start, I need to remind everyone again that there is really such a thing as “Law of Attraction.” Somehow, we always seem to attract many people who’s just like us. Our friends… our colleagues… our tenants… They are like us! Be good to people, usually they will be good to us too. I…
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Property prices falling everywhere.
Malaysia property market is a small one. Ours is also not so advanced. People still think anywhere above 20km away from the city centre as VERY FAR. Haha. I always encourage everyone to take a look at the suburbs in some advanced countries to understand that even 50km is not considered as ‘impossible’ and meanwhile…
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Property Investment 101: 4 tips for First Time Home Buyer
Are you a first time home buyer? I was one as well, once upon a time ago. Are you worried because this is going to be a purchase of a few hundred thousand ringgit? I was as well. I thought buying my first property was very scary and buying my second property would cause me…
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Property Investment 101: Good News, Bad News, it does not change whether you buy or no buy
Seriously, during the Covid-19 times, even the news were all negative. As usual, kopiandproperty.my was one of the few media continuing to write from an objective point of view. 🙂 Haha. Nevertheless, it was tough because no one likes good news and the number of clicks when it is good news is much lower than…
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Property Investment 101: Property price will drop when we have many affordable properties, right?
“Charles, we have too many affordable apartments being built today. This will soon collapse the market.” I still remember this statement from a friend (not a good friend, not a close friend, just a friend) many years ago. Well it was before Covid’s arrival. It was at a time when every developer were telling the…
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Investing into an education township is attractive and possible
I graduated in July 1998. Yes, now you know my generation is known as the Gen-X. It was in 1994 that I started that I enrolled in Inti Subang Jaya for my degree. At the time, all the colleges in Subang Jaya or Bandar Sunway does not have the attractiveness of today. In fact most…
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Pavilion REIT: Acquisition of Pavillion Bukit Jalil
You can read more about it here in an earlier article too. REIT Advantages Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) is another way for invetors to start investing into the real estate world without the need to have big capital. Just buy these like we buy a stock from the share market. Enjoy the dividends which…
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Personal finance 101. Salary from KL. Property from Selangor.
As per Department of Statistics, Malaysia, the median salary of someone working in Kuala Lumpur is RM10,549 while the median salary for someone working in Selangor is RM8,210. That means one would earn up to 30% extra per month if one were to work in KL instead of Selangor. Just need to note that this…