Author: Charles Tan
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Approved. Wage subsidy for nearly a million employees.
When people need money for food, they really need the money. Mortgage payments may have moratorium of 6 months but it’s impossible to skip meals without becoming sick, unhealthy and more vulnerable to COVID-19 infection. Rental would also have to be paid too even if the worker has been asked to take unpaid leave at…
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Malaysia’s property market in one word? Resilient.
Media release by FIABCI Malaysia: ”Property sector to remain resilient due to government’s economic stimulus package” FIABCI Malaysia believes the property sector in Malaysia will remain resilient with a projected soft landing this year due to the various measures introduced in the government’s economic stimulus package. FIABCI, the international real estate federation, Malaysian Chapter President…
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Some countries have started their ‘reopening’
The image below shows the COVID-19 cases as at 20 April 2020. We could look at it very negatively and see the huge 2.4 million number of infected people. It means there’s a long time more to go before countries can say they have it under control. We could also choose to only look at…
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Press Release: National Residential Property Prices to Recover from Coronavirus, Climb 8.6% by 2021: Industry survey by Juwai IQI
National residential property prices will stall this year with just a 1.1% rise before climbing again next year to 8.6% above current levels by 2021, according to a new nationwide survey of the real estate industry by Juwai IQI. Meanwhile, at least one agent has sold seven new apartments to buyers online, sight unseen. Juwai…
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Good sales team / RENs increases the chance to close potential buyers. Equip them!
This article gives an idea to the sales and marketing heads of the potential of your people to close more sales or far fewer sales even if the sales team seems to be working hard or working long hours. This is even IF hundreds of people come to your show gallery every week because you…
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CEO’s views and all the potential demand.
I shared recently that it’s not all doom and gloom and COVID-19 is NOT going to bankrupt all offices. Companies are not going to allow all employees to work from home unless the circumstances force them to. The reason is simple, the cost of monitoring the effectiveness and efficiency will go up and come on……
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Press Release: Myra : Caring for Its Homebuyers and Doing The Part Against Covid-19
Press Release: CARING FOR OUR COMMUNITY BECAUSE WE CAN AND WE SHOULD Myra donates supplies for homebuyers, front-liners and community members The lives of Malaysians have been deeply affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. In light of the commencement of movement control order (MCO), everyone, be it individuals, communities, businesses, corporations, and authorities, will play an…
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Guys ah, moratorium do not delay the desperate sellers, fyi.
You know, there was this quite viral piece of news just a few days back. It says that the property prices may fall 10 – 20%. My views about it here: Property prices expected to fall due to COVID-19 and recession Some agents say that their buyers have started to ask them about such properties.…
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Dream home? It does not happen now.
What’s your dream home? A bungalow with lots of land around the house and you could even drive a car around the house? A luxury condo with a 12 feet ceiling height and an olympic size swimming pool within a super low density development of say 100 units? An affordable apartment of 900 sq ft…
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1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines by September 2020?
In 1997, my Honours project paper was on pharmaceutical firms. Thus, I understood then that for a new drug to be developed, it may take years. This is because way before the human testing stage, it would have had to pass many different stages of testing so that it will be safe for human testing.…