Author: Charles Tan
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iProperty.com.my Provides Much-Needed Assistance to Property Agents
For Immediate Release: iProperty.com.my Provides Much-Needed Assistance to Property Agents Kuala Lumpur, 2nd April 2020 – iProperty.com.my have recently announced an assistance plan in an effort to help its partners, especially property agents, that are affected by the escalating COVID-19 outbreak in Malaysia. The initiative, #iPropertyCares support, is provided to its active property agents during…
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Alarming? Recession first in 2020, then only recovering in 2021.
Remember the recent assessment on the Malaysian economy just a while ago? Q1 GDP may be negative yeah Expectations from two local bank analysts are that it’s a negative Q1 for 2020. One says it’s as bad as 1.1% while another says it’s a negative 2.8%! As for the whole of 2020, this was one…
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Good value for me. Buying fish online.
This is my first time buying fish online and have it delivered to me. More about that shortly. When it comes to fishes, I have driven to Kuala Selangor a couple of times and bought a few hundred ringgit worth of fish and brought it back using an ice-box. Plus eating seafood in one of…
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How to get my client to decide faster? Buy or no buy?
This is part of Charles Tan’s Objection Handling 101: PLAN – PROBE – PROPOSE series. For this session on 4th April 2020 (Saturday) at 11am, it will be conducted in BM yeah. Yeah, I think more suitable for Malaysians instead of foreigners. Unless of course you also understand BM too. Actual scenario for sales people:…
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MRT SSP first phase starts in 15 months.
When would people start having another MRT line as their mode of transport? Image below shows the stations along the MRT Sungai Buloh – Serdang – Putrajaya (MRT SSP) or also known as MRT Line 2. MRT Line 1 is MRT Sungai Buloh – Kajang (MRT SBK). The first phase of MRT SSP will start…
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For Q1, GDP may just be negative. (erm… panic buying did not help?)
Remember the panic buying just 2 weeks ago? Where so many people were buying so much groceries as if they have to feed one whole school? It was as if the all the supermarkets were on sale except that it was not. When the Movement Control Order (MCO) was announced, the very next day, the…
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MIEA: Tough time for 25,000 Real Estate Agents and Real Estate Negotiators during COVID-19 MCO
PRESS STATEMENT: MIEA COVID19 PETALING JAYA, 2020: The Malaysian Institute of Estate Agents (MIEA) are concerned and worried for the wellbeing of an estimated 25,000 Real Estate Agents and Real Estate Negotiators in the country. The movement control order (MCO) has brought the real estate fraternity to a “Grinding Stop”. They are unable to help…
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Freeze! I mean, stop moving please. There’s a virus lurking.
In the current Movement Control Order (MCO) environment, could we move house if that was the initial plan? Actually the answer is a firm, no. For now, you can drive only out if you are under the essential services and has to go to work or you are the head of the family and you…
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House prices under pressure… and bargains?
Want to know something which always happen whenever the stock market is down? Or since February 2020 when COVID-19 starts to become so serious that Malaysia has our Movement Control Order (MCO)? Yes, when all these bad news happen, then there will be the potential for property prices to drop. When we really think a…