Author: Charles Tan
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What is a V-shaped economic recovery?
Macroeconomics is a branch of economics that studies how an overall economy—the market systems that operate on a large scale—behaves. Macroeconomics studies economy-wide phenomena such as inflation, price levels, rate of economic growth, national income, gross domestic product (GDP), and changes in unemployment. This definition is a comprehensive one provided by investopedia.com (click any of the links to read)…
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House sales will COLLAPSE. Prices will drop by 3%.
Falling property transactions and property price. Looks like a familiar situation in the Malaysian property market? That 70% property price reduction prediction By the way, it’s quite a foregone conclusion that property transactions for 2020 will likely drop yeah. Already we have the Movement Control Order (MCO) for over a month and our Prime Minister…
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Press Release: Malaysian Property Market 2019 and other reports
MALAYSIAN PROPERTY MARKET 2019 AND OTHER REPORTS, JPPH Malaysia 2019 Jabatan Penilaian dan Perkhidmatan Harta Malaysia (JPPH Malaysia) launch nine reports today. These are Property Market Report 2019 (PMR 2019), Property Stock Report 2019, Property Market Status Report 2019, Malaysian House Price Index 2019, Commercial Space Availability Report 2019, Purpose-Built Office Rental Index (PBO-RI) Klang…
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Press Release: iProperty.com.my reveals the 10 most viewed properties in Malaysia by home buyers during MCO
iProperty.com.my reveals the 10 most viewed properties by home buyers during the Movement Control Order (MCO). The list comprises the nation’s top high-rise properties with the highest number of views (site-wide) between 18th March 2020 to 18th April 2020. The views compiled are non-unique which means multiple views on the same listing are calculated and…
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It’s progressing. That Prihatin stimulus package.
When the economy stalls (not slows…), countries come up with stimulus plans to give businesses and the most vulnerable that breathing space. By the way, it is not supposed to provide the businesses with any profits or even the employees with the same salary they used to enjoy. It’s meant to help, that’s all. Thus,…
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Media Release: Berkeley Group St George & Knight Frank Malaysia launch landmark London development Grand Union
Berkeley Group St George & Knight Frank Malaysia launch landmark London development Grand Union Berkeley Group St George has launched its new development Grand Union, a landmark new waterside development that will see the regeneration of a 22-acre site into a vibrant new neighbourhood for North West London, delivering much needed homes and jobs in the London Borough…
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Yea, you can now operate at full capability.
My good friend sent me this image below. He is the owner of a factory here in Selangor is classified as a Small and Medium sized Enterprise (SME). As he was unable to continue his production, he had a very frank discussion with his people. All of them agreed to take a 40-50% pay cut…
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Will MCO spell the end for shopping malls?
There has been news about hotels closing down because of the Movement Control Order (MCO) which has now been extended to 12th May 2020. When we read a little more, then we realised the hotel was already suffering losses for the past few years even before the MCO. There has also been news about some…
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RM270 million is a lot of money. Good deal.
You know why some young people today have a lot of spending power? It’s because of what their parents did long time back yeah. It’s like if someone bought a house in 2007 for example, today the house would have given them lots of EXTRA in capital appreciation. Even if everyone is talking about buyers’…
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Property sector recovery starts in Q4 2020?
I was speaking to a Chinese national working as a regional manager based in Shanghai, China just a few days ago. He was sharing about the situation in China after the COVID-19 situation. He said that he has been back to work in his office for 2 months. Nevertheless, he is still wearing a face…