Author: Charles Tan
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Skills to survive? If jobs are gone? How to multiply what we have?
I am in Perth, so naturally must write one or two articles for kopiandproperty.my from Perth, right? I enjoyed it a lot thus far,my second trip within 2 years. Yesterday morning, I was having my breakfast and noticed this. The world is changing fast. Jobs come today, gone tomorrow. Many traditional and manual kind of…
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Investable antiques, get to know what, why and how.
Scarcity helps prop up value of properties. That’s why some of my friends would tell me that landed is forever good. High-rise meanwhile depends on the maintenance after some years. What about antiques then? I think it’s even more scarce and most of the time, it comes with ’emotions’ too. Perhaps some famous families have…
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Selling a tenanted property, minus the stress
A good friend asked me two questions a few weeks ago. First question was whether it’s a good time to sell his landed terrace. Second question was how to talk to his current tenant to allow people to view the unit. It is currently tenanted. Good time to sell? Actually, a better question may be…
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The malls in Penang and the biggest regional one in JB?
I was invited to give a talk in Penang last weekend. The venue was Sunway Carnival mall. This is a mall which I have been to, many times in the past, when I was still based in Penang. I am now based in KL for the past 4 years. Finding a car park has always…
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IKEA Penang? It’s really coming – 24 months away?
Updated with latest update from Penangpropertytalk on 11th may 2017. A few Penangite friends say it’s the key reason for them buying a property in Batu Kawan. Some say this will bring Penang mainland’s property attractiveness up to be on par with the island. It’s that brand called IKEA. (Yes, I love IKEA even if…
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Don’t miss these award winning developments. PIPDA 2017.
I was honoured to have been invited by Dato KK Chua to join property industry people in the Property Insight Prestigious Developers Awards (PIPDA) 2017. This is a night where the winners finally get to show to the world an award for their efforts in building better and greater properties, be they for stay or…
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My personal finance and discipline, during those early years
First of all, I am still not as disciplined with my finances as my good friend, Suraya. She knows in full details of the 4Ws and 1H of her monthly spendings. This helps a lot in reducing the unnecessary. Want to learn from her? Here’s her insightful blog. www.ringgitohringgit.com However, I can safely say that from…
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VR theme park in Damansara Perdana by 2018
I was in Universal Studios Singapore 2 months ago. Accommodation was provided by my two Ipoh pals and both have doctorate degrees! You know who you are, thank you! One of the rides I enjoyed the most was the virtual reality (VR) ride as part of a rescue mission in a Transformer’s setting. It was exhilaratingly…
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Bandar Malaysia: Positive possibilities?
Positive possibilities. Quite some time back, I wrote about Bandar Malaysia when some colleagues remarked that they have NO IDEA at all why people get excited with Bandar Malaysia. It’s here: Why are there interest with bandar Malaysia? I argued that this is an interesting piece of land. Well, yesterday I wrote about the termination notice…