Category: Kuala Lumpur / Selangor Props
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Big in size, Small in price, Available?
Some months back, a friend was very surprised with the size of my condo. He said the size is really uncommon and there should not be too many of these choices around. I did a check over a year ago and I just refreshed that search today. I concentrated on just condos with a minimum…
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One hour or more of travelling to work? It’s the norm.
I think I am a spoilt Malaysian employee. I realised this when I traveled to Bangkok recently. When I had lunch with my colleagues, I came to know that majority of them take over an hour to travel to arrive on time in office everyday. Most of them were not driving. They were taking public…
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Going long term, objective and firm: Greater KL
“A conservative, long-term plan for Malaysia” This is the title of an article in TheEdge online which I read today (1 Aug 2015). It refers to what Agile Property Holding Ltd had in their mind when they decided to start their Malaysian development plans. It is China’s third largest developer and according to Wilson Ren, CEO…
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Property investment: It’s not always rosy.
I think I read about this development when I was still working in Penang. At the time, I was also attracted by the Guaranteed Rental Returns (GRR) that they were offering. I am talking about Hotwer Development’s The Boss project in Klang. Recently, I read about it again and this time, it’s bad news. The…
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Selangor property? Average price RM442k – Q1 2015
All charts were provided by Michael Geh , Senior Partner of Raine & Horne and also the Vice-President of FIABCI Malaysian Chapter with numbers from NAPIC. What’s your hunch about property market in Selangor today? It’s okay, since majority are quite negative anyway, let me confirm that you are right. Total number of property transactions…
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Residential property transactions sees a slight drop nationwide in first quarter of 2015
Article sent to kopiandproperty.my for publishing. All charts were provided by Michael Geh , Senior Partner of Raine & Horne and also the Vice-President of FIABCI Malaysian Chapter with numbers from NAPIC. GEORGE TOWN – The number of residential property transactions nationwide saw a slight drop from 60,760 transactions last quarter to 59,626 transactions for…
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Electrical goods manufacturer, a developer too!
Another non-developer entering the market to become a developer. This time is is a electrical good brand manufacturer for which I am quite familiar with in Malaysia. I once bought its electric oven for a close friend’s house-warming party. In it’s announcement to Bursa Malaysia, it said that the original plan was to developer the…
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Landed, Kajang. RM500k to RM600k.
A friend showed me his future Kajang home which was bought for his retirement. He said his wife and him would be walking in the park within the development. I added, ‘how about hand-in-hand under the stars?’ He just laughed. Anyway, it piqued my interest to take a look at Kajang which has never been…
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KL Gateway – University monorail station. Cool.
A property developer’s marketing knows no bounds. Remember my earlier articles about how the developers are getting ever more imaginative? Read here: Perhaps marketing is getting more sophisticated This was preceded earlier by all the awesome TV advertisements during the Chinese New Year of 2015. Read here: Emerging Trend or Desperation? Well, the latest one involved taking…
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Why are there interest with Bandar Malaysia?
When I was out for lunch the other day with a group of friends, we passed by Tun Razak Exchange site. One mentioned that this project may fail as 1MDB is going bankrupt. I did not bother to reply. Everyone is entitled to say whatever they wanted to say based on whatever they read or…
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Kelana Jaya? Few condo choices below RM500,000 left.
Kelana Jaya is my favourite property ‘hotspot.’ Even if, it’s not really considered one by many. It’s a place I love and a place where I bought my first KL condo many years ago. It took one call, one view and deposit was tt within the same day itself. Of course, not to the agent…