Author: Charles Tan
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RM3 Billion new town centre, are you ready?
For those who do not know Kwasa Damansara is the master developer of the RM50 billion township development in Sungai Buloh. There were 20 Tier 1 developers selected earlier for the submission of proposals for the development of a town centre project. However, despite the deadline being 27 May which is a matter of days…
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En bloc sales, property market and maturity readiness
Recently, I read an interesting article by Chris Tan of Chur Associates. I have listened to him 2 times, both times I felt that his presentation is easy to understand and he is indeed a passionate guy in the legal aspects of real estate. His recent article touched upon en bloc sales and he gave…
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Setia City Mall, a mall I like, more than Paradigm Mall.
Last month, i went to Setia City Mall in Shah Alam. Was there for over half a day, finishing with dinner. I told my wife then, this mall is better than Paradigm Mall, which was right next to our condo in Kelana Jaya. She agreed. In fact, even the toilets in terms of cleanliness…
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Good news for real estate agents, one unlicensed one arrested.
Okay, the arrested one was not in Malaysia but it is ok, just spread this news as wide as possible. In Singapore, one person by the name of Tan Yang Po was charged by The Council for Estate Agencies (CEA) for allegedly acting as an estate agent without being licensed by the CEA. Tan is the first…
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Speculators, Interest Rates and Over-Leveraging
“Prudence is a key accounting principle which makes sure that assets and income are not overstated and liabilities and expenses are not understated.” I seriously think this should be a personal principle that one should have when investing. Reason is because there are so many people who are so desperate to know if the interest…
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New mall; DPulze, Cyberjaya.
Cyberjaya has nothing. No one is staying there. No one is there during the weekends. People are there because they needed to work, that’s why they are there. I do not wish to debate on all these statements which may be true or may start to be false. However, there’s another piece of good news.…
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Penang, LRT, Tram or whatever transportation system
My Penangite friends said, the jam is becoming worst in Penang! I think, not yet. However, it has deteriorated significantly if compared to when I first arrived in Penang to work in 1998. At that time, even the town areas are ok and I can be in Tanjung Bungah within less than 30 minutes, most…
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Strange, Special, Dangerous Houses?
Have you ever been to other countries and see some of the strange houses they have? Something it looks so special especially when out of the whole row, there’s only one of them. Somethimes it looks like it is about to fall and yet not fall as yet? I have been to the leaning tower…
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Q1 2014 – 6.2% – Domestic demand plus net exports
It was an extremely healthy growth by any standard. 6.2% for Q1 2014 for Malaysia. In fact, the consensus by a poll of 22 economists by Bloomberg showed the expectation to be 5.7%. In the last quarter of 2013, the growth was 5.1%. Bank Negara governor, Tan Sri Zeti Aziz said that the first quarter growth…