Category: Condos and High-Rise
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The Story of Grace Residence @ Jelutong, Penang
[Paid Review] Today, we have with us the person behind Grace Residence, Annie the MD for Nova Mulia. We will look at all the WHYs for Grace Residence, from before it happened to when it was happening and what’s up today and future too. The Story of Grace Residence @ Jelutong, Penang Annie, first of…
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No, house price increase was not 15% or 1.5% per year
No, house price increase was not 15% or 1.5% per year A good friend who’s a super good startup senior management asked me if it’s true that home prices were increasing by 15% per year for the last 10 years or so. I said, it could not be so high. It should also not so…
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Landed vs High-rise. Buy which one? Why need to debate yeah.
The debate about landed vs high-rise. Every time someone tells me one more time that landed is better than high-rise, I will smile and ask what do they actually mean? Better to raise a family? Better as in capital appreciation? better as in rental yield? Better as in they just want to be right? For…
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Top 10 most searched areas for rental in Malaysia?
Are you renting a home or a room today? Searching for areas for rental? By the way, renting is a good idea since rental has been under pressure for the last few years as there has been many who bought during those booming years from 2009 – 2013 and these units started to hand key…
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Condo. Low floors vs high floors. Buying which?
The highest level for a high-rise which I have bought thus far is 21st floor. Lowest? Level 1. The rest are in-betweens but except for that 21st floor, all the rest are below 10. What have I learnt from buying all these low floors over the years? It does NOT have to be high floors.…
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Strata unit owners? We get to pay compoundable offences faster!
This should be a good news to strata owners, the good ones. For the bad ones; the ones who does not bother to pay their maintenance fees on time, beware… For the developers who still have unsold units but does NOT bother to pay their contributions on time, beware… Now, there’s no need for a…
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Melaka for property investment? “I thought it’s just a holiday destination.”
Where are the 4 major property investment destinations in Malaysia? The Klang Valley (or Greater KL), Iskandar in Johor, Kota Kinabalu in Sabah and Penang island. If one has invested in a property, it’s most probably within these four places. When it comes to property investment, it’s always about identifying opportunities earlier than others. Else,…
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Over 20,000 units (properties)with attractive discounts in March 2019.
To buy and wait or to wait and buy? For those who have listened to my talk(s), the answer I gave may no longer be true. Sometimes the answer may not be so direct. Maybe it could be to wait first before buying as per Reported in Edgeprop.my Housing and Local Government (KPKT) Minister Zuraida…
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13 things to check before buying a secondary high-rise unit
Updated. These days, it has become a buyers’ market as everyone was saying. So, is it then a buy, buy and buy then? Briefly, no. As for buying for own stay, it’s also not about location, location and location only because if we are expand the search just 10 minutes from the area we love,…
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So, I wait till March 2019?
After someone read this article: Waiting for cheaper properties, March 2019, he asked a simple question. “So, this means I should wait till March 2019 to buy? In brief, NO. The reason is simple, if you have found a place you like in a mature neighbourhood and somehow the price is 10% below the usual…
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Advantages of buying new property vs sub-sale
Buying new property and sub-sale advantages. Let me start with a story, I was on a business trip to Melaka recently and met a good friend from the real estate industry in a new property sales gallery there. Then he was telling me that the property market is slow these days but actually the sales…
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HBA: To reduce unsold units, stop building non-affordable ones.
National House Buyers Association (HBA) have some sharp comments recently. It said that developers need to stop classifying affordable homes as those priced from RM500,000 and below. HBA secretary-general Chang Kim Loong said, “The situation of unsold properties or ‘overhang’ is only going to get worse if those in the Real Estate and Housing Developers’…