Author: Charles Tan
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Luxury? Property? Well, it can also be just a home-sweet-home for all of us.
Luxury? Property? Well, it can also be just a home-sweet-home for all of us.
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The TO-DO list for inspecting your new home.
About to get the keys to your new home sweet home? Well, it pays to comprehensively check all the potential defects and get them fixed before your dream renovation starts. Remember, if the defects are found later after your renovation has been completed, the developer’s contractor may blame your contractor instead for the defects. Plus…
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HSR’s RM864 million expenditure by Singaporean side by Dec 2018.
This was an earlier article on High Speed Rail KL – SG when it was first announced that it should be scrapped. (HSR) Scrapping the High-Speed Rail: It’s not beneficial.’ It was then reported by many media that if it’s cancelled, then Malaysia would have to pay compensation as per the agreement for HSR between…
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Making sure public transport remains cheap is not easy but can be done!
This is what KTMB chief executive officer Mohd Rani Hisham Samsudin said in an article in NST, “TOD is the best method of development to integrate residential and retail with railway stations. Not only can we unlock the land value, the stations will also be upgraded with new look and facilities. This will add value…
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Malaysians within B40 and M40, a special loan scheme is coming by August 2018? Hmm…
Housing and Local Government Minister (KPKT) Zuraida Kamaruddin said that her ministry has met agencies such as Bank Negara Malaysia, bankers and the Employees’ Provident Fund on the rolling out of a loan package for the M40 and B40 income level group. To compare loans from 15 banks at the same place, click here. This is also…
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I would love my future office to be like this. Even for a Gen-X.
Some years back, when I was still with a company I served for a total of 14 years, a colleague told me that a few junior programmers have rejected to join our company because of our office condition. I was like, ‘Huh? For real?’ I asked if our salary was competitive and the answer was…
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More roads, great. More choices, now and future. New PIA, please.
Good news for Penangites. In less than 12 months, the Ayer Item – Lim Chong Eu Expressway will start construction. The builder, Consortium Zenith Construction Sdn Bhd (CZC) senior executive director Datuk Zarul Ahmad Mohd Zulkifli shared, “There is still land acquisition to be done by the Land Office on 10 plots of Federal and private…
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Another RM1 billion investment coming into Johor from China.
Here’s one pretty big issue happening with Johor now. The state government says that it will raise the issue of raising the water price to Singapore. Its Menteri Besar Datuk Osman Sapian said the new price is likely to be the same as the raw water price set for the Melaka government that is RM0.50 sen…
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Sunway Geolake: 65% bookings and 90% signing the S&P on the same day.
Press Release by Sunway Property SUNWAY GEOLAKE RESIDENCES 65% BOOKED AT EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW Low density development with 420 units of condominium and 44 units of townhouse on 6.5 acres of land (70 units per acre) Landscape designed by award-winning landscape architect – Seksan Design Safe and secure environment, opposite Sunway’s healthcare and education facilities…
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Not saying these things, just like the rich, shall we?
According to an article in Reader’s Digest, there are 13 things that the rich never, ever say. Here’s that article in rd.com Let’s look at just 4 of them which I think is applicable to property investment. First one, “Can I afford it?” I did write something similar earlier. Here’s that article: Stay safe, buy within…
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Yes, I want the MRT Line 3. Later better than never. What about you?
I was speaking in Ipoh for iProperty’s Home and Property Fair a couple of days ago. Instead of speaking about the state of Ipoh property market (which is okay lah), I focused on the effects of the 4Ps (People, Price, Policy, Preference) to the property market instead. The crowd in Ipoh nodded their heads when…