Author: Charles Tan
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HK$5.6 billion? “You can’t bring the money in your bank account with you after you die.”
To those who may not know him, this is a HK famous actor who’s now famous throughout the world after appearing in many Hollywood movies. An earlier article tells of how frugal Chow Yun-fat is. Here’s that article: It’s about being comfortable and not how much we spend Hespends just roughly HK$800 (RM426) per month.…
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PIP Property Summit 2019
Press Release by PIP Property Summit 2019. Dear Penangites, we welcome you to PIP Property Summit 2019 in SPICE Arena. The dates are 5th and 6th January 2019. (Saturday and Sunday) The time is from 11am – 7pm. Get to view all the best projects side by side so that it’s easy for you to…
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Property market declining AND recovering within 2019. 🙂
Okay, good news and bad news. Good news for people with ready downpayment for a home. Bad news for owners of properties in places where there’s an oversupply because demand is not big enough. Property prices will continue to decline in 2019 says PropertyGuru Malaysia country manager Sheldon Fernandez. Article in TheMalaysianReserve here. He said,…
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Unsold and completed rises by 10,000 units. Worry now?
Is this the time to worry about the property market? Honestly, if you were that someone who bought 4 properties at one go in 2012 and just got the keys to all the 4 properties this year, you should be worried. It’s likely that the prices are going to be weak because there are suddenly…
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The tallest tower in Malaysia definitely needs to have a mall too.
Do you know which is the tallest tower in Malaysia today? Nope, the tallest tower is NOT Petronas Twin Towers. That remained the tallest twin tower in the world and Malaysia too. The new tallest tower in Malaysia will be PNB’s Merdeka 118. Thus far there has not been too much news about the tower…
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Changing government will not fix affordability issue IF
A very confident friend told me the other day that the POWER to CHANGE the government is firmly in our hands. We were talking about the property prices and he said that the new government must ensure property prices are affordable to Malaysians. Else, the new government can also be the ex-government too. Actually, he…
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Knight Frank: Improving sentiment due to stamp-duty waiver.
I guess everyone who’s involved in the real estate industry knows that the market is slow. Somehow people are taking a longer time to decide what to buy. There’s good news ahead according to Knight Frank Asia Pacific Forecast 2019 that was released yesterday. Knight Frank shared that market sentiments are projected to improve as…