Author: Charles Tan
-
Hold on first. There’s an appeal in the courts now.
It’s important to have all sides of the story yeah. Development will always be important because it can be a catalyst of growth to the economy for example. However, development at the expense of the environment may not be clever. This is why it’s always a delicate balance. By the way, there are so many…
-
Oh dear, 95,000 bookings cancelled due to coronavirus. How bad is this?
I was in Penang just last weekend and had the chance to catch up with my good friend Miichael Yeoh. He told me that he has news of many AirBnB booking cancellations due to the coronavirus. Actually, this is not the first time I heard of such cancellations. In fact this has cropped up in…
-
Press Release: iProperty.com.my reveals the 10 most expensive residential properties sold in Malaysia in 2019
Press Release: — iProperty.com.my has revealed the 10 most expensive homes sold in Malaysia for 2019. This is based on the review period between January 2019 to December 2019 and transaction data sourced from the Valuation and Property Services Department (JPPH). The data is compiled by iProperty.com.my‘s big data solution, iPropertyIQ.com. The properties are ranked…
-
The 2 in 1 solution to too many malls and too expensive homes?
As they say, there’s just too many malls? Some say online shopping will kill most of these malls. I disagree and my recent article here: Online shopping will not kill malls. Better malls will kill the uncompetitive ones Now, before we talk about the potential solution, here’s another problem. Many people say homes are too…
-
MAREC 2020 is a MUST-ATTEND event for all RENs. 30 Speakers and a Super VIP Keynote Speaker.
Before you even start reading this article, if you are really a Real Estate Negotiator who wants to move up in this industry, Click here and register asap. This is MAREC Summit 2020 where any REN will be able to learn from many hundreds of years of experience combined from all the confirmed speakers. This…
-
Press Release: PropertyGuru – Impact of Slower GDP Growth on the Property Market
IMPACT OF SLOWER GDP GROWTH ON THE PROPERTY MARKET by: Sheldon Fernandez, Country Manager, PropertyGuru Malaysia The slowdown in gross domestic product (GDP) growth to 4.3% is well below earlier estimates of 4.8%, and more recent projections of 4.5%. This is in line with our neutral outlook for property this year, with strong macroeconomic headwinds. Slower economic…
-
What’s the Base Rate for the loans I am about to apply?
If you are about to apply for a home loan, I think this information is useful for you. Take a look at the banks with a lower indicative effective lending rate and that monthly instalment may just be lower versus those banks with a higher indicative effective lending rate. Note, I say ‘may’ because the…
-
Luxury cannot be low-cost. True?
Someone read this article: Key theme is affordability (click to read) and said that luxury cannot be low-cost. Once it’s low-cost, then that luxury advantage is gone. Perhaps I share three examples instead to show the reason why low-cost is now the strategy because the world is now very much more connected and transparent than…
-
6 more weeks and coronavirus will affect the Malaysian economy hard.
This was one recent article about how the coronavirus will affect the world economy. The writer shared many points to show that the virus will not significantly affect the world economy unless of course the coronavirus is prolonged. Here’s that article: The coronavirus worry. How will it affect the world economy Needless to say I…