Category: Basics – Property Investment
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Get to know. Can I build 1,000 units on a 1-acre land?
Well, technically that’s possible since we can build high up, I mean very high up. Anyway, to know if we could or could not, we need to understand the plot ratio. So, what is a plot ratio? Well, very briefly, this is what is defined as plot ratio by the Town and Country Planning Act 1976.…
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Alarming development: Housing loan applications down tremendously
In April, many agent friends told me that that agents are staying home since no viewings were allowed during the Movement Control Order (MCO). They are not the only ones, even law firms and company secretary firms were asked to close their offices because they are no considered essential service. As for working from home,…
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Challenging times after moratorium ends end September?
First of all, I disagree that moratorium extension after 30th September should be for all just like the first round moratorium which was automatic for all and for 6 months unless one opts out of it. Any politician asking for it is NOT savvy to the fact the banks are not charitable organisations and has…
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Ervina – An Unrivalled Residence Above it All
[Branded] Bandar Sri Sendayan is a 6,000 acre freehold township development in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan. It is envisioned as a self-sustaining township where the residents could actually have all the conveniences, they want within minutes away. This is a development undertaken by Matrix Concepts Holdings Berhad (Matrix) which was a company which was established in…
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Really want to sell your property faster? 6 tips here.
Everyone says it is the buyers’ market today. By the way, that’s not really true. Many sellers continue to have strong bargaining power and if you try to offer some ‘foolish’ pricing which is out of this world, the seller will still tell you to go fly kite. As for sellers who are in financial…
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Spending money after retirement is a serious affair. Do we have enough?
This article was published a few days ago. “Let’s aim at EPF savings of close to RM900,000 ok?” (click here to read) A number of good friends commented and the below image would be some of the comments yeah. Clement said that RM900,000 could hardly buy a landed property in KL. Depending on the area,…
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Are you ready to pay? 30th September is not too far away.
It has been announced by many banks that they are not keen on extending the moratorium after 30th September. If you think it’s unfair, well if they extend, it’s also unfair to many thousands or hundreds of thousand of people. You see, banks have shareholders who will have to accept even lower profits if the…
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Lifestyle and Property Investing. How to Manage and Maximise? There’s a Bull Run too.
How times have changed. When property developers build a property today, they have to realise that the new generation and the previous one would have a totally different lifestyle. It would have been sufficient to have a field with a few swings and a few concrete chairs within the development probably 20 years ago. If…
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Base Rate (BR)? Base Lending Rate? (BLR) All here.
Do you sometimes wonder why you have awesome friends? I do. Here’s one of them, Ms. Jessica Jong who has diligently compiled all the Base Rate (BR) and Base Lending Rates (BLR) for our reference. Now you do not need to browse through pages after pages. It’s all in one place. By the way, she’s…