Author: Charles Tan
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Property Bubble everywhere
There has been nearly no talk about property bubble in Malaysia. Except for Forbes report recently. Is this because there is no property bubble yet? Or is the market too small and thus, not many analysts are covering it? The worst scenario predicted was that the market would be flat till 2016 before prices start…
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MORE opinions on ‘property market Malaysia’
After the first article was published about the different opinions on the property market in Malaysia, it garnered no less than 1,000 views within few days. I think everyone loves it if someone can read ten different articles from ten different places, summarises them into just one article. Ok, I am doing the second summarising…
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Greater KL – Sungai Buloh
I am a firm believer in buying value. In terms of value, I am not talking about buying a property worth RM1 million and earning RM200,000. (20% return) I am more inclined on buying RM200,000 and earning RM60,000 which gives me 30% return. I know, some of you would disagree. That’s great for me too.…
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Long term uptrend intact – HLIB
HLIB (Hong Leong Investment Bank Research) said that there are still many projects that continue to register high take up rate and gave an example of Paloma by Tropicana Corp Bhd which achieved 60% sales within one month of launch. This is still happening despite the tightening of the property market with more cooling measures…
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Penang property market – Number and Values of Transactions
Thanks to Michael Geh, the Senior Partner of Raine & Horne, we have this chart comparing the number and value of transactions by category of market in Penang from 1H2010 to 1H2013. We can see the actual sudden increase was from H1 2010 to H1 2011. The primary market transactions grew nearly 700%! This however…
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Penang new launchings in 2014
Would there be lesser property launches in Penang for 2014? Would Penang be the least affected property market? Thanks to Mr. Michael Geh, Senior Partner of Raine & Horne, we can view many of the upcoming official new launches easily within one page. Some of the projects below were already unofficially launched earlier where buyers…
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Huh? 128km bridge between Malacca and Dumai?
I am always for development. The more linkages that we can have with Singapore and Iskandar, the better. The bigger Penang airport, the better. The more world class universities opening in Malaysia, the better. The more private hospitals built, the better. However, a 148km bridge? It stopped me as I try to make sense of…
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Condo transactions slow down and possible price correction
According to VPC Alliance Malaysia Sdn Bhd, James Wong, condo transactions would slow down and most probably face price correction. If this is true it will affect condo buyers like myself. Yet, somehow I agree. I think with the high growth in transactions beginning 2010 – 2011, the total number of completed condos should be…
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Recent property outlook opinions by property gurus
So many people have said so many different things. Predictions ranges from frothiness or potential bubble or prices continuing to go up. Recently, the highlight was on the potential for secondary market to start shining after being overshadowed by new launchings since 2010. This coming weekend, I will start sharing some very enlightening and interesting…