Author: Charles Tan
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A Smooth Home Journey to Myra Alam
Press Release: A Smooth Home Journey to Myra Alam Myra partners with Maybank Islamic HouzKEY to make homeownership dreams come true. Owning a home is one of life’s most momentous occasions. The euphoria when receiving the keys to your first home comes second to knowing that through the ups and downs of life, you have…
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Right focus is essential. Use the right chart please for Covid-19.
Right focus is essential. Use the right chart please for Covid-19 Do you know what will happen once the SOPs are relaxed? Covid-19 total cases will rise. This is quite guaranteed and has happened in many countries all over the world. Whether it’s U.S, whether it’s the UK or many European nations. As soon as…
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Covid-19 infections may STILL get higher, okay?
I have shared a few times in a few Whatsapp groups and I think I should also share here too. By the way, in case we did not know, UK had over 50,000 cases per day yesterday (16th July). Are they implementing a full lockdown? No… Are they NOT vaccinated then? NO… they are well…
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House prices? 3 important things: savings, preference and interest rates
House prices? 3 important things: savings, preference and interest rates. By the way, there are many other factors affecting house prices, not just these three stated in the title of the article but we look at these three for this article as these are the three main factors said to be pushing UK’s home prices…
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Salary is down by 15.6%. Oh dear, what now?
A close friend showed me the front page of a Chinese language newspaper. It showed the median salary of Malaysians dropping in 2020 by a whopping 15.6%. The below are taken directly from the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM). The mean (average) income which does not mean much dropped 9%. The median income meanwhile dropped…
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When demand increases, rent increases too
When demand increases, rent increases too. Sometimes, we think too much. We look at the property price, seems expensive. Then again, we got attracted because the property developer was giving cashback. The amount was also significant. Enough to buy many things we had wanted to buy but did not have the money to do so.…
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Bandar Malaysia? What’s up? Or Nothing’s Up?
Bandar Malaysia? What’s up? Or Nothing’s Up? Remember this project? Where there were supposed to be 10,000 affordable homes to be built for Malaysians? This was the article stating this fact in 2019. Let’s just hope all will still happen for the benefit of many Malaysians needing an affordable home within 10km away from KL…
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USA: 99.2% of COVID-related deaths in June involved unvaccinated people.
USA: 99.2% of COVID-related deaths in June 2021 involved unvaccinated people. This means the vaccinated people accounted for just 0.8% of deaths. In terms of new cases (image below) , we could see that with increasing vaccinations, there has also been a decrease in the number of new cases too. Recently, it has started to…
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MIEA – Estate Agents are ready to Kickstart the economic under the recovery plan with 41.68% having their first dose.
Press Release: MIEA – Estate Agents are ready to Kickstart the economic under the recovery plan with 41.68% having their first dose. A. The impact of Covid 19 Survey on the Real Estate Services Sector Recently, the Malaysian Institute of Estate Agents (MIEA) conducted a survey among its members and the fraternity at large to…
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4 important things to understand for first time home buyers
4 important things to understand for first time home buyers 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, just that my first property was merely…
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Knight Frank: Investors’ Confidence anchored by Logistics and Healthcare Sectors
Press Release: Investors’ Confidence anchored by Logistics and Healthcare Sectors • Thriving logistics and growing healthcare sectors amid the COVID-19 pandemic • Penang looks at medical tourism revival with vaccine passports • Malaysia’s growing silver hair market sees senior living / retirement home emerging as a popular alternative investment choice 7 July 2021, Malaysia –…