Author: Charles Tan
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Baby boom did not happen in 2020. Oh dear an ageing Malaysia by 2030.
Baby boom did not happen in 2020. Oh dear an ageing Malaysia by 2030. Malaysia’s fertility rate was 1,976 in 2020. This meant that as a nation, our population is no longer able to arrest the decline of population in the future. There was that thinking that with the lockdown, Malaysians would be more productive…
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Landed homes getting smaller, can we park 2 Honda Accords?
If we are alert with new launches of landed properties, we would have noticed that landed homes are getting smaller. Especially the width. The question is this, with the ever reducing width, “Can it park two cars?” Specifically, two Honda Accords? Image below comes from honda.com.my These days, when most people talk about landed home,…
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Press Release: Sime Darby Property’s ‘Siap, Sedia, Raya’ Campaign Achieves RM572 Million in Sales Bookings
Press Release: Sime Darby Property’s ‘Siap, Sedia, Raya’ Campaign Achieves RM572 Million in Sales Bookings – 662 units of residential property bookings in 14 townships during the campaign period; – Contributions were mainly from the newly launched products of Elmina Green Four, followed by Lyra 2 and Hevea Phase 2; – Planters’ Haven in Negeri…
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On cloud nine with Alibaba Cloud’s decision
I start with this statement, “According to the research study, the global Cloud Computing Market was estimated at USD 321 Billion in 2019 and is expected to reach USD 1025.9 Billion by 2026. The global Cloud Computing Market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18% from 2019 to 2027” Please do read the…
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KopiTalk Exclusive: Get your home loan approved and also pay off your loan faster
In this upcoming KopiTalk which is sponsored by KSL Bandar Bestari, I have many very important questions for my invited panelist, Miichael Yeoh. These questions are important for first time home buyers and even property investors. Some examples include, “How do we make sure our home loan has the highest chance of approval?” “What is…
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Investors Make Up 81% of Residential Property Purchases in Klang Valley in 2020; more than first time home buyer.
PRESS RELEASE: Investors Make Up 81% of Residential Property Purchases in Klang Valley in 2020; Records Highest Number of Subsale Transactions in 5 Years Kuala Lumpur, 9 June 2021: According to MyProperty Data, Malaysia’s largest online property data company under PropertyGuru, investors make up a majority of residential property purchases in the Klang Valley in…
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Free Talk: Cracking the Mortgage Code?
[Paid Post] Learn how to improve your mortgage approval with Miichael Yeoh About this event 2020 was a year most of us would like to forget because of COVID-19. Hopefully, it does not return. The pandemic created havoc around the world. Travelling stopped, lockdowns started, businesses close and unemployment soared. Never in my 23 years…
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Most Liveable City and the effects from Covid-19.
First of all, we need to understand that most liveable city and best retirement city does NOT mean the same thing. The former simply meant that it’s super liveable and nothing about the cost of living and the latter meant that it’s affordable enough and has all you need after you retire and income may…
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Will buy very soon. Will buy when it’s low. 2 greatest reasons of all time. Agree?
I have a good friend who asked me what I thought about property investment when he was 24. After an hour of sharing, he told me he understood more about all the risks and potential returns. He purchased his first property after a few years’ of working and I do think he has a number…
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How to save a lot of money? Over RM200,000 every 21 years without much effort?
One word. Car. How to save RM200,000 every 20 years? Need that first car for the first 7 years? We have just started working not too long ago and now we need a car just to drive to office because we do not want to take the public transport. Well, a Proton Persona 1.6 (RM45,000)…
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Tokyo Olympics and Tokyo real estate potential
I have visited Japan 3 times. I enjoyed the trips very much and it remains one of those countries on top of my next to visit list as soon as travelling is allowed again. Many people whom I met are older than me. Well, Japan is also a super-aged nation which meant that over 20%…
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When property prices rise too quickly, please worry.
We should be afraid if property prices rise too quickly Personally, I am against double digits property price growth every year. I do know that if prices rise very fast, I would be very happy because my properties would give me faster capital appreciation. When the property price goes up and I sell the property,…