Category: Property Singapore related
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Scrapping the High-Speed Rail: ‘It’s not beneficial.’
Our Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir has just confirmed to all medias that the High-Speed Rail (HSR) with Singapore will be scrapped. What is also confirmed is that this has not been discussed with Singapore and Malaysia will have to talk to them about it as well as the compensation to be paid. Tun said, “It’s…
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Singapore private home prices in 2030, population, prices and size.
How much could property prices in Penang grow to? What about Greater KL? Perhaps to the government, how much should it rise to? Perhaps some form of control instead of just leaving it fully to the market forces of demand and supply? The reason is because sometimes the numbers from overseas look scary. One such…
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Positives. Indirectly showing the potential for Kuala Lumpur
When I started travelling to Singapore for meetings 20 years ago, there were just one choice of flight. The ‘partnership’ of MAS / SIA. The price was also exorbitant. If I remember correctly, around RM800 per return trip. These days, I could fly 4 return trips and still have change for many lattes in Starbucks.…
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2018 PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards (Singapore) nominations open
I have often been asked the question of whether award winning projects are worth more in the future. I think it’s even more important to note the reason for these developers in winning such an award in the first place. If we want to buy into a new huge integrated project (with a long term…
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Biggest jump in eight years. Singapore property prices. Good?
Could you feel the positive sentiment in the next sentence? “Moving into 2018, we can feel that buyers and investors are now taking action, propelled by the ongoing market exuberance with the bullish land bids and continuous collective sales in the market.” Propnex Realty CEO Ismail Gafoor said this in an article in channelnewsasia.com It…
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Land cost, gross REdevelopment value and future
Occasionally, we hear of projects with a gross development value (GDV) of RM1 billion. For an affordable unit of RM250,000 each this meant that there are a total of 4,000 units for this development. Yeah, super duper high-density even if overall is still dependent on the land size. Smaller number of units and a very…
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Warming ties? Economically appropriate lah.
Should the two smaller nations in ASEAN be better friends? I meant my Malaysia and Singapore which are surrounded by Thailand (nearly 70 million population) or Indonesia (over 260 million population) or even the nearby Philippines (103 million population). Of course, we are some distance away from being best friends but I think we are…
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M+S. Successful start for Marina One and Duo.
Briefly, M+S is a jointly owned company by Khazanah Nasional and Temasek Holdings. They own 60 percent and 40 percent respectively. This joint venture company was set up in 2011 by the sovereign wealth funds to develop land parcels in Marina South and Ophir-Rochor. This was a land swap deal which ended a 20-year impasse…
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What types of Mortgages are people are getting? (SG market)
Article written by Redbrick Mortgage Advisory of Singapore. What types of Mortgages are people are getting ? 1. Mortgage type acquired Of the four types of mortgage types available, Fixed Deposit Mortgages has been found to be the most popular, taking up 74.5% of the pie. Interest rates of these mortgages are pegged to…
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Property wise, Malaysia’s not that bad. For how long? Well…
A few years ago, a good friend told me that she was moving to Singapore. I congratulated her and told her to do her best. She asked me to also go Singapore because the life there is better. I fully agree that there are lots of aspects that Singapore is superior than Malaysia. Since kopiandproperty.my…
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Money matters. S$36,700 to S$4mil in 50 years. Grandma vs grandson.
Two things for us to learn today, both related to money. This is the news article about it in The StraitsTimes. First one is about the attractiveness of property investment, over a very long period, say 50 years? If we had bought a S$36,000 landed property in 1967, how much would it be worth today?…
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Is the property market really ‘coming back’?
I just came back from Singapore. It is still as clean and as efficient as ever. Roads, MRT and even the airport. During this trip, my colleague bought me good local coffee with customisation of Gao Siew Dai. (it means thick and less sweet). The price per cup ranges from S$1.20 to S$1.60 Surprisingly though,…