Author: Charles Tan
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Dinosaurs have ‘invaded’ Melaka Zoo. Family fun.
First day that the dinosaurs roam alongside all the animals here in the Melaka Zoo. Yes, Melaka Zoo is a nice place to be for families. It’s clean enough, small enough and friendly enough. Food and drinks are also NOT monopolised and the prices are also comparable to outside the zoo. They also do not…
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Finding it hard to sell your property? You are not alone
It is not easy to sell your property today, many say. I think they are wrong. We had over 75,000 residential property transactions within H1 2020 alone. Surely many are still selling and many are still buying and banks are still lending too. However, it is NOT easy to sell at the price we wanted.…
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MIEA Supports Residential Tenancy Act
Press Release: MIEA SUPPORTS RESIDENTIAL TENANCY ACT Petaling Jaya, 23 December 2020: The issues of racial discrimination among landlords in the renting of their properties is of great concern in our practice. If unchecked, this may cause a divide among races and eventually break the core existence of a plural society. While Malaysia is proud…
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Illaria Gamuda Gardens: 80% of Phase 2 sold
Press Release: Phase 2 of Illaria, Gamuda Gardens 80% Sold Petaling Jaya: Despite a soft property market, Gamuda Land has continued its strong momentum following the success of the first phase of Illaria Hillside Homes in Gamuda Gardens, which achieved 100% uptake. Virtually launched on Dec 12 via the Gamuda Land Facebook page, the second phase…
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Press Release: OIB Group Inks Deal with MTT Shipping for Sale of Industrial Space in Arym Pulau Indah
Press Release: OIB Group Inks Deal with MTT Shipping for Sale of Industrial Space in Arym Pulau Indah In light of the pandemic this past year, and the e-commerce boom that has taken place as a result, demand for industrial spaces and facilities have been at a high with the logistics industry facing immense pressure…
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Major reasons to buy a commercial property for your business or investment
[sponsored] These days, if we are looking at commercial properties, beyond just the typical specs (which we will look at later in the article), we needed to also look into 4 important factors too. Let’s understand that we may have the best business plans but we really needed to have the highest understanding that what…
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Gamuda Quayside mall opens. My visit report here.
Gamuda Quayside mall opens. What? Another mall? There are already too many malls already. Stop building more malls. Well, perhaps you tell that to the buyers who are always attracted if the new township happens to come with a community mall. Where most of the things they need could be just a few minutes away.…
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5 reasons for property market recovery in 2021
Many people ask me if the property market recovery will happen in in 2021 since I wrote this article: Property market transactions for WP Putrajaya, KL and Selangor showing V-shaped recovery. By the way, property market recovery does not depend on property market alone. It depends on the economic growth, on the actions taken by…
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PropertyQueen: Recap on the property market of 2020 and what to expect in 2021
Update. The full video is here. You can start from 5 minute onwards. PropertyQueen will be asking me a lot of questions later. I will have to answer all of them later on. If you like to know about the happening in 2020 for the property market from someone whosnot from the developer, not from…
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Malaysia’s Home Ownership Campaign is Successfully Boosting First-time and Bumiputera Buyers
Press Release: Malaysia’s Home Ownership Campaign is Successfully Boosting First-time and Bumiputera Buyers KUALA LUMPUR, 15 December 2020 — New data from Juwai IQI reveals that Malaysia’s renewed Home Ownership Campaign (“HOC”) is successfully boosting first-time and Bumiputera buyers, with 91.4% of real estate agents surveyed in agreement. Just 2% of agents surveyed believe the campaign…
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When funds are looking for value buys, what should we do?
Are there property value buys today? A good friend had teh tarik with me yesterday evening. Full social distancing yeah. He said his friend was telling him that the property auction market is now extremely attractive. I told him just within H1 2020, there were over 75,000 residential property transactions. People were already in the…
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I wonder if one day people would realise valuation on startups (after 5 years) should be based on profits…?
How is the valuation on startups calculated?How long should startup be a startup? These days, it seems that some startups could be a startup like forever…? Much longer than 5 years for many of them. Everyday, I read about how this startup or that startup getting a new high in their company valuation when another…