Author: Charles Tan
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Lower foreign buyer threshold is loved by the real estate agents.
Press Release: Lower Foreign Buyer Price Threshold WINS APPROVAL OF 71% of Malaysian Real Estate Agents: SURVEY Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (December 5, 2019) — The real estate industry views positively the government’s recent Budget 2020 announcement to temporarily reduce the minimum price threshold for foreign buyers. That is the conclusion of the Juwai IQI survey of…
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“Oversupply” of developers… Bad?
When the market has an oversupply of properties, it will be bad for property prices. Theoretically, prices will fall when supply exceeds demand tremendously. I say tremendously because if the supply is just slightly more than demand, as long as there was little speculation in the first place, prices will stay stagnant while waiting for…
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Buy REAL books at Big Bad Wolf @MIECC (6-16 Dec 2019 and it’s open 24 hours)
I have bought a number of e-books. Sorry, it’s not for me. I continue to love the feeling of holding the actual book and I believe I could read better with a physical copy of the book. Kindle is just not for me, regardless of what many of my friends say. One reads via Kindle…
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HOC’s success from the number of sales? Will it be extended then?
Home Ownership Campaign (HOC) is ending in around 3 weeks’ time. Has the results been positive thus far? Briefly, yes. Many have also been asking me if I believe the HOC 2019 may just become HOC 2020 as well. I think they may be thinking if they should proceed now or wait till next year.…
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Property staging. What’s that? How do it well.
Briefly, property staging means making sure our property is at its best looking state when prospective buyers / tenants are viewing it. I had this first hand experience when I was selling my condominium in Kelana Jaya many years ago. I did not think it was important to clear all my remaining stuffs in the…
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Malaysians, we will have salary increments in 2020. Erm… how high? (or low?)
Even when we do the same thing, year after year, most of the time we will continue to have salary increments. Thats good even if very dangerous since productivity did not increase but we are paid higher. Somehow, when some countries could do what we do for lower pay, we will lose the job to…
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If you leave it empty, I will Tax / Charge you.
There’s a potential for Hong Kong to have Vacancy Tax for developers because the government does not want the developers to hoard unsold units. They prefer for all the units to be sold instead. “Under the bill, first-hand units that remain unsold and have not been rented out for more than six months during the…
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Prediction on GDP growth for Malaysia in 2020?
Too many people asked me if Malaysia’s economy is in trouble. Actually, it’s very tough to answer with a one-line question. What’s the meaning of ‘in trouble?’ Recession? Even during a recession, some sectors remain fine. The many closures by some supermarkets? Well, there’s also lots of opening of supermarkets too… Anyway, let’s look at…
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19 years with Maxis… my second month with U-Mobile. How’s the experience?
This article is personal experience yeah. Not selling any telco and I do not have any packages from them to sell as well. By the way, if there’s a telco which is perfect; best coverage, fastest speed and lowest price, then it would have won all customers already. Thus, choosing a telco is also like…
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This may become ONE (used to be two) HUGE developer. RM150 billion GDV. (if it happens…)
I read with interest with the headline of ‘RM150 billion GDV developer’. This sentence is like, WOW. A developer with projects with a gross development value of a few billion ringgit are considered pretty large in comparison to the thousands of developers in Malaysia today. However, what if the GDV is now RM150 billion? According…
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S P Setia’s FY19 RM6.8 billion worth of launches
S P Setia is a developer I personally follow because of its size. (GDV wise). So yes, you will usually read about these few biggest developers in Malaysia and their happenings in kopiandproperty.my Let’s understand that if Malaysia’s largest few developers are doing okay, I think the market is not as bad as what people…
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Do it successfully or stay back and enjoy
When we google for some information, google will return some results. Most relevant ones on the first page and so on. When we click into one of those results, the website we clicked to may get the ‘search term’ we used. This helps google to learn and the website to churn out more relevant contents…