Author: Charles Tan
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Bank, Law, Tax Seminar. Free tickets all snapped up
Latest Update: ALL free tickets have been snapped up. For those who missed this, it’s really worth the time and the tiny little investment. See you there. The BLT (Bank, Law, Tax) Seminar is just one month away. This time, it’s in Putrajaya. I will be there too, how about you? Lots of good tips…
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Affordable units now available to all, but buyers pay extra
Penang’s State Housing Committee chairman Jagdeep Singh announced recently that even those who do not qualify for a unit in an all-affordable housing project can buy these units from the open market. The total units made available for these buyers would be 30% of the total project. These buyers can buy without needing any state government’s…
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Hua Yang terminated Penang land buy, still loves Penang
Many years ago, I heard a story from an agent friend that the land prices in Penang increased suddenly when the KL based developers started to focus on Penang. The prices offered by Penang based developers and KL based developers showed such a huge gulf that suddenly many developers woke up and quickly try to…
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Early Christmas joy with Sunway Property?
Sunway Property invited kopiandproperty.my as part of the media to join their “Christmas Wonderland by the Lake” this coming Saturday, December 5th from 3pm to 8pm. It’s at their Sunway South Quay Lake. Unfortunately, I have a Toastmasters event at the same time and thus would have to miss this event. I would have loved…
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2 years of content and the result today; top 8 in Malaysia
I was pleasantly surprised when a close industry friend tagged me in Facebook about a ranking of the Top 8 Property Portals in Malaysia. It was a chart published by Ken Lim, the founder of Penangpropertytalk.com using Similarweb.com data as at end October 2015. Similarweb.com is a very popular choice for sites to benchmark themselves against…
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PTMP: Reclamation alone is RM7 – RM8 billion
Yes, RM7- 8 billion is the estimation given for the reclamation of the two islands measuring 3,400 acres. Read here for the plan earlier: Penang is getting bigger, 3398 acres or even bigger? This is as per SRS consortium, the Gamuda Bhd-led project delivery partner for Penang Transport Master Plan (PTMP). It’s project manager said…
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EPF alone is definitely not enough, BEWARE
I just read an article about EPF encouraging people to save as early and as much as they can. Truth is, every employee provident funds or equivalents in all countries are saying the same and this is not just applicable for EPF of Malaysia. Most of the time, the usual recommendation is to save a…
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Penang is getting bigger, 3,398 acres or even bigger?
I love the fact that Penang has a huge Penang Transport Master Plan (PTMP) worth RM27 billion. I hate the fact that every reclamation must be met with huge objections from everyone who’s affected directly, not affected directly and hope to be affected somehow indirectly. I love the fact that Penang has adopted the Project…
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China’s Renminbi is now IMF’s reserve currency
The world is really changing for the better. Renminbi (RMB) will join IMF’s basket of currency reserves. This meant it is now on the same level as US dollar (THE MOST USED), Euro, Yen (Japanese) and Pound. The last change made to this basket was in 2000, when the Euro replaced the German mark and French…
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Saving, budgeting and investing by a 10-year old
A colleague enlightened me a few weeks ago when we met for a cup of coffee. She said, she told her son that he must move out after he has finished his secondary school. He has to somehow finish his university on this own with loans or working part-time. She told him that by then,…