Author: Charles Tan
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Too many property fairs, good or bad for developers?
Penangpropertytalk.com founder, Ken Lim sent me a note that this weekend (24 – 26 Oct), there are three property fairs in Penang, by three different organisers, in three different venues. It was the very first time that this has happened. This weekend, I went to two malls in KL, both had property fairs and I…
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‘Severely unaffordable’, worst than Singapore, Japan and USA. US-based Demographia.
According to a research done by US-based Demographia, Malaysia’s residential housing market is ‘severely unaffordable’. The situation is worst than Singapore, Japan and United States. It said that housing are severely unaffordable if the median of house price to annual income is 5.1 times. Malaysia clocked 5.5 times compared to Singapore’s 5.1 and United States…
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HSR: KL – Singapore, 7 stops in Malaysia, buy, buy and buy now?
The 7 stops in Malaysia includes Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, Seremban, Ayer Keroh, Muar, Batu Pahat and Nusajaya. This has been confirmed by Malaysia’s Land Public Transport Chairman, Syed Hamid Albar. As written earlier, the meetings were as frequent as monthly. Constrcution could even begin within 2015. Possibly as soon as third quarter of next year!…
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Property Melaka – Today, Tomorrow and Beyond (For Investment)
Many property gurus travel to Melaka to speak about Melaka property market. More often than not, they do not stay in Melaka. Most of the time in property fairs in KL or Penang or even JB, it will be tough to pitch Melaka properties especially when people regard it as a secondary city when it…
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GST and Property, nothing much, sorry.
GST is a hot topic these days. Online, newspapers, radio, coffee shop chat topics. What’s in, what’s out, why so many items, why not make the list simpler? Why buy now? With GST, surely property market will slow down? Some say, with GST, property prices will increase instead because everything is up, how can property…
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Property Port Dickson? Tough. Just not enough action.
Last year, my wife told me that she wanted to visit Port Dickson as she has never been there before. I said, sure, let’s go. Well, nothing happened because I have many other preferred choices like Langkawi, Melaka, Tanjung Sepat, Sekinchan, Genting Highlands and more and because the weekends are limited, I have brought my…
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Bankruptcy before property, not after property, perhaps.
Youths aged 25 and below, 579 of them were declared bankrupt within the first 6 months of this year (2014). In many major dailies today, bankruptcy was a popular topic. In fact majority of the online medias has it as well. There were some comments from the online readers that the cause of this was…