Author: Charles Tan
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Iskandar as Singapore’s output hub, seriously.
Read carefully and read more and you will see many manufacturing facilities in Singapore are starting to move to Iskandar. The reason is very clear. It is never going to be cost efficient when the land that you are buying to build your plant is many times more than the rate of exchange due to…
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MRT and the Ampang Park shopping mall
I really am not sure if all the retail unit owners within the iconic Ampang Park shopping mall are happy with the latest announcement that the Ampang Park shopping mall will now have a new design option and thus no longer need to be demolished. This is as per announced by the Mass Rapid Transit…
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‘OSCAR’ night for developers, the FIABCI Malaysia Property Awards
It was the ‘OSCAR’ night for the developers in Malaysia. I was honoured to have invited to this prestigious event. Thus, I am writing this piece of property news with real life experience. The night was the 23rd Malaysia Property AwardTM by FIABCI Malaysian Chapter. There were 13 winners tonight including two individual awards, the Property…
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Only smaller units can be affordable
In a news article about Penang property market in The Malay Mail, Penang Real Estate and Housing Developers Association (REHDA) chairman Datuk Jerry Chan said that Penang’s house prices are certainly not going to come down. This is because of high costs which the developers would have to bear. These high development costs would have…
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Malaysia: Consumer confidence drops to new low
I personally do not believe consumer confidence is low. This is especially when I look at all the colleagues surrounding me in the office today. Every one of them have just changed to the latest Samsung or iPhone. I am the only one still using an old OPPO for the past 20 months. Do not…
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Malaysia: Better signs or better understanding?
If you have followed kopiandproperty.my for a while, you would note that I do not share the ‘about to go bankrupt‘ sentiment by many people about Malaysia. I think they are influenced too much by knowing too little. In fact over half of the callers to a radio show just a few weeks ago said…
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Not easy to make decision, easier to do nothing?
I have forgotten how many times I asked myself, ‘is this property really worth buying?’ Milan Doshi asked his Facebook friends about the greater fear between the “The Fear of Losing Money” versus the “The Fear of Missing an Opportunity to Make Money.” Many of his friends replied and majority opted for the number two,…
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Standard Chartered reducing 15,000 headcount
Earlier, some Malaysian banks started ‘right-sizing’ which will help the bank to have better cost efficiency. For example, read about RHB’s one here: RHB offering voluntary exit option to permanent staffs Reported in many medias, Standard Chartered said it would be reducing its headcount after it’s third-quarter loss. Total number of the affected staffs number…
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HBA: Not hoping for prices to come down suddenly
The National House Buyers Association (HBA) said that whatever it has been proposing is for the government to stop property prices from going up too fast. It said that is is not hoping for prices to drop suddenly. This is because if it does, it will trigger a property bubble to burst which is a…
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Bank, Law, Tax (BLT) Series: Property Outlook 2016
When Miichael told me about his Bank, Law, Tax (BLT) seminar series, I told him that this is useful to help give more knowledge to potential investors. It should be done on a continuous basis. The reason is because besides the sharing, it should also continue to provide updates from all the changes in the…