Author: Charles Tan
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Property Conference (PCON) 2019 (sign up asap)
My friends love to ask me ‘where and what to buy.’ My favourite answer has been and will always be ‘focus on the WHY instead.’ Instead of location, question ourselves first because that location that everyone loves may already be overpriced and in actual fact there are other cheaper locations which meet our needs! Instead…
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Press Release: Malaysia 100YC Programme
Ever wondered what it will be like to live in the city in the future? How about letting the next generation of working professionals tell us about it? UNIVERSITIES VISUALISE A BETTER FUTURE FOR MALAYSIA CITIES Malaysia 100YC (Year Cities) concludes with students presenting their ideas, solutions and concepts to address the challenges of future…
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4.7 pct for 2018 is healthy. (Of course it is)
I was sharing my thoughts about the property market in Melaka yesterday (Yes, it’s still doing okay of course) and I touched upon the economy. I shared predictions by our Finance Minister, the IMF, the World Bank but before that I asked if there are people who thinks Malaysia will be going into a recession…
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EPF’s 6.15% return? I think it’s great (for 2018).
I like the previous CEO of EPF. (Earlier article here). I think a good CEO can do a lot, regardless of company. For current one, we will only know in a year or two later on the results. EPF has just announced the payout for 2018. I know, everyone has their own version of what…
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Improving from 2019 onwards; means BOTTOM already? 🙂
This is the assessment from Valuation and Property Services Department (JPPH) director Ahmad Zailan Azizuddin. Article in edgeprop.my here. He predicted that the property market in H1 2019 to be resilient and then followed by a gradual improvement in market activity. This prediction is backed by JPPH’s data which showed positive increments or only marginal…
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National Housing Policy 2.0 can do with some tweaks.
Do you know there’s such a thing called the National Housing Policy 2.0? Hopefully readers of kopiandproperty.my do. 😛 National Housing Policy 2.0 (article here) was unveiled to the public last month. I think all policies are as good as the team and the time it was completed. With more views from other experts as…