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Expert Series – Why Retirement Homes, Why Ipoh? – Part 2

Nov 14, 2017

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in Expert Series Q&A (Recommended), MM2H, Property Perak, Retirement Related

This is the Part 2 of the Expert Series – Why Retirement Homes, Why Ipoh – Part 1 published yesterday. Part 2 talks a bit more about the advantages of a purpose developed retirement homes versus other property types. John was also asked a few more tough questions. Personally, if my whole family stays with…

Unsold units up 40 pct. Strategy ahead?

Nov 14, 2017

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Charles Tan

in Basics – Property Investment, Kuala Lumpur / Selangor Props

Unsold units are up in Malaysia property market. Sorry, I failed to mention that it is up a lot. According to many news article yesterday, the number of unsold units as at H1 2017 is worth over RM12 billion. In units, it is about 20,000 units. (Fortunately this is not for affordable units, else, for…

Expert Series – Why Retirement Homes, Why Ipoh? – Part 1

Nov 13, 2017

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Charles Tan

in Expert Series Q&A (Recommended), Property Perak, Retirement Related

Readers of kopiandproperty.my knows that I am an Ipohan. A proud one as well. Frankly, I will definitely retire in Ipoh. However, I am nowhere near the retirement age yet. However, I wrote about retirement homes way back in 2014 and I recently have the pleasure to interview someone who is trying to change the…

Property wise, Malaysia’s not that bad. For how long? Well…

Nov 13, 2017

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Charles Tan

in Condos and High-Rise, Property Singapore related

A few years ago, a good friend told me that she was moving to Singapore. I congratulated her and told her to do her best. She asked me to also go Singapore because the life there is better. I fully agree that there are lots of aspects that Singapore is superior than Malaysia. Since kopiandproperty.my…

Love your job or lose your job.

Nov 12, 2017

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Charles Tan

in Career Related

A close friend was asking me about his career. He said he felt that he was doing way too many things and that perhaps he should just do one thing really well instead. I asked him if he likes all the things that he was doing currently. His answer was a YES. I shared with…

Money matters. S$36,700 to S$4mil in 50 years. Grandma vs grandson.

Nov 11, 2017

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Charles Tan

in Personal Finance, Property Singapore related

Two things for us to learn today, both related to money. This is the news article about it in The StraitsTimes. First one is about the attractiveness of property investment, over a very long period, say 50 years? If we had bought a S$36,000 landed property in 1967, how much would it be worth today?…

Balik Pulau? Some POTENTIAL insights.

Nov 11, 2017

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Charles Tan

in Uncategorized

I still remember the time when I was looking to upgrade to a bigger place from my small apartment of 700 sq ft in Relau. I considered many places and Balik Pulau was one of them. There were a few projects that my wife and I drove to and one of it was Botanica. CT by…

Kuching, Sarawak with a RM11 billion GDV development

Nov 10, 2017

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Charles Tan

in Sarawak Property

Yes, I am a Kuching lover. Too bad, I do not yet own any condo there yet. However, my next trip there is in December. Let’s see if I have at least a bit of time to view some projects. Secondary ones I guess since it should not be too far away from Kuching city…

Panic selling may still not work. Sometimes, just decide and move forward.

Nov 10, 2017

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Charles Tan

in Basics – Property Investment

A few months ago, an owner told my friend who is a Real Estate Negotiator that the lowest price he would ever let go is RM1.5 million. After some research, my friend pointed out the fact that the lowest price in the market at the time was RM1.25 million and even showed him the actual…

Bangkok has more international visitors than London!

Nov 9, 2017

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Charles Tan

in Kuala Lumpur / Selangor Props

Tourism is a foreign currency earning industry for any country. Imagine just RM1,000 per foreign tourist x 1 million tourists pear year? Plus the typical economic multiplier of 3 or 4 to the economy? Plus the demand for properties? This is especially when a country receives millions of foreign tourists every year. I still remember…

Eco World International: Expanding presence in London via 12 new sites

Nov 9, 2017

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Charles Tan

in London UK Property

Eco World International (EWI) is expanding its foothold in London. (Good news for a Malaysian developer.) This is the news article in TheStar. It says that it will be expanding from its 3 projects to 12 new sites in Greater London and the South East of England. (Yes, Greater KL is definitely a good idea because…

How to know if the GRR deal is a genuinely attractive deal?

Nov 8, 2017

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Charles Tan

in Basics – Property Investment, Kuala Lumpur / Selangor Props

For anyone who’s looking for some personal finance resources, I would recommend kclau.com This is one of the most prominent personal finance guru in Malaysia today. On a monthly basis, KCLAU.com receives on average over 100,000 visits. (Based on similarweb.com data as at end Oct 2017) This is definitely a leading personal finance site in Malaysia.…

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