Author: Charles Tan
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Tallest Sea view condo in Penang? Probably.
We love ever taller homes so that we have the bragging rights that I live higher than you. I can see further if I stay higher. I can see more! Haha. Anyway, the tallest I have ever bought is just 10th floor. I currently stay in one on the 1st floor. So, obviously height does…
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End 2015, end of Fairchild’s Penang plant.
This was reported much earlier but recently many have posted this on their Facebook page. Fairchild Semiconductor’s plant in Penang is closing down end of 2015 and 1,000 workers including 500 full-time staffs losing their jobs is quite a huge thing. This number of 1,000 is however lower than what was reported last year. Then,…
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Selangor property? Average price RM442k – Q1 2015
All charts were provided by Michael Geh , Senior Partner of Raine & Horne and also the Vice-President of FIABCI Malaysian Chapter with numbers from NAPIC. What’s your hunch about property market in Selangor today? It’s okay, since majority are quite negative anyway, let me confirm that you are right. Total number of property transactions…
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Residential property transactions sees a slight drop nationwide in first quarter of 2015
Article sent to kopiandproperty.my for publishing. All charts were provided by Michael Geh , Senior Partner of Raine & Horne and also the Vice-President of FIABCI Malaysian Chapter with numbers from NAPIC. GEORGE TOWN – The number of residential property transactions nationwide saw a slight drop from 60,760 transactions last quarter to 59,626 transactions for…
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Blogging can earn you millions, really.
I read an interesting excerpt on my flight from Kuala Lumpur to Jakarta. Can you earn millions from blogging in something that you are interested in? Make your blog the top read blog for that topic that you blog about? This is definitely not a dream. I just learnt that Michael Arrington earns USD500,000 to…
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Setapak condo choices: RM400k – RM500k
A reader wrote in to ask me about PV6 in Taman Melati, Setapak. It’s a condo of 1,328sf and prices range from RM550,000 – RM600,000. Price per sf is thus only RM414 – RM451. Looks attractive, right? Now do you understand why I still think the secondary market is worth considering, especially if you are…
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Lifting cooling measures? Too soon: MAS
Many different parties have either voiced out or predicted that the cooling measures in Singapore would be lifted soon. Singapore: Easing of cooling by end 2015 – DBS Well, this has been dampened by views from Ravi Menon, the managing director of Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) He said that any actions to lift the…