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Malaysian homes are more expensive than Perth? I agree.

Nov 27, 2014

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There has been a few recent reports about Malaysian properties being much higher priced in terms of affordability when compared to developed countries. I think there are truths to this as I happened to have just visited Perth. Note, I said some truths because it is not all truth as well. In Perth, I was…

Perth – City with Parks or actually Parks with a city?

Nov 26, 2014

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Charles Tan

in Property Australia

I like Perth. I used to think Perth is pretty boring as it is somehow not as prominent as Sydney or Melbourne. After 6 days here, let me declare this. I like Perth and yes, I did browse through realestate.com.au to understand more about the properties here. On a scale of 1 – 10 on…

Non Performing Loan – Still safe or danger on the horizon?

Nov 25, 2014

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Charles Tan

in Personal Finance

Negative news sell. Positive news less. I know because all the negative news writeups are more popular than all the good news. For example, the articles on crisis will beat the articles about Malaysia being ranked more competitive etc. Thus, that’s why newspapers love to use negative news as headlines too. As long as it…

GST for new properties. Higher than 3%? Try it and see.

Nov 24, 2014

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Charles Tan

in Malaysian economy and BNM

While the government has announced that GST will be effective from 1st April 2015, there has also been lots of other announcements by everyone that this may not happen. Or this may happen but it will push up house prices. Some say GST will cause transactions to go down. Whatever is said is not really…

Already MOST unaffordable but prices will continue rising?

Nov 23, 2014

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Charles Tan

in China and Hong Kong Property related, Crisis News

Which is the most unaffordable property market in the world today? Hong Kong. Who said so? US-based Demographia based on their survey. According to them, Hong Kong’s median hoe price was more than $S4.02 million compared to the median income which was only HK$270,000. Few weeks ago, Malaysia was said to be severely unaffordable at…

When you do not know enough, it’s more gambling than investing.

Nov 21, 2014

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Charles Tan

in Personal Finance

There is one very important lesson I learnt on Sunday (16th Nov) on the second Penang Bridge. If you did not train enough, do not try and run the FULL Marathon! It’s 42.195km. Three years ago, I completed the half-marathon barely. Gotten the medal of completion and I thought, surely full marathon is similar, just…

Second behind Hong Kong is still pretty amazing, really.

Nov 20, 2014

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Charles Tan

in China and Hong Kong Property related, Iskandar / JB Property, Property Singapore related

A report by Cushman & Wakefield said that Singapore is the second most preferred outbound destination in Asia by mainland Chinese investors. The main reasons include an abundant liquidity among wealthy investors, investment institutions and developers, coupled with the currently strong renminbi. Another reason was because of the slowing real estate market back home in…

1 million trees instead of more high-rise buildings or hotels?

Nov 20, 2014

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Charles Tan

in Property Perak

According to the Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Seri G. Palanivel, a programme to plant one million trees in Cameron Highland will be started instead of more high-rise buildings or hotels. This one million trees will be planted to reduce soil erosion and avoid landslides. I think this is a response to the recent…

Who’s more powerful or nothing built forever?

Nov 19, 2014

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Charles Tan

in Uncategorized

Remember an earlier article about 1MDB’s huge piece of land in Air Itam Penang which was earmarked for 9,999 units of affordable housing? It was said that the Chief Minister of Penang Lim Guan Eng said that nothing else must be built except for the 9,999 units of affordable housing. Since this is within the…

Next crisis is looming – PM of 6th largest economy in the world

Nov 19, 2014

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Charles Tan

in Crisis News, London UK Property

What if the Prime Minister of the 6th largest economy in the world tells the world that the next crisis will be coming soon? Yes, we are talking about United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, David Cameron. Would you believe it? He said the eurozone is possibly going into its third recession because of high unemployment, falling…

Oversupply concerns? Nah, it’s still ok in Johor property market

Nov 18, 2014

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Charles Tan

in Iskandar / JB Property

Eventhough there are oversupply concerns, the property market in Johor remains positive. This is the comment from Malaysia Institute of Estate Agents (MIEA) Johor State branch chairman Vadeveloo Suppiah. In fact the cooling measures announced in Budget 2014 were effective in Johor and this is shown from the contraction of 1.6% quarter-on-quarter house price index.…

11,900 into Singapore and 50,000 out into Iskandar everyday.

Nov 17, 2014

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Charles Tan

in Iskandar / JB Property, Property Singapore related

I waited for over an hour for a friend when I was in Singapore one month ago. She apologised profusely when she arrived saying the jam was bad. Area was Bugis. I always thought that in Singapore not many people would drive. To my surprise, I found out a lot of them actually drive in…

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