Category: Basics – Property Investment
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Property investment: Low risk = low returns? Think again.
Someone I respected for his expertise in the stock market spoke about property investment to a few young professionals. Frankly, I hope this article can set some records straight because the assertion of property investment being low risk = low returns is incorrect. There are a lot of reasons why the stock market or many…
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Own a property? Banks rejected me. FundMyHome fulfilled me.
FundMyHome is a property funding platform where a buyer needed to pay just 20 percent of the house price while the remaining 80 percent is funded by institutions. Earlier article about it here. In other words, this is NOT the typical home loan that we are so used to. Is it popular? Briefly, I have…
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Knight Frank: 2019 will be a good year for property
Statistically speaking, when I write negative stuffs, the number of clicks are higher. So, this article may get fewer clicks. 🙂 Knight Frank Malaysia says that the sentiment in Malaysia’s property market will improve in 2019. The reason is due to the many policies outlined in budget 2019 which will strengthen demand, especially from first-time…
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Stop looking at a home as a liability or asset. For some, it’s still a must.
Someone searched this term “Is house a liability or an asset.” and Google referred them to kopiandproperty.my Haha. I know, there’s a super famous book which says that as long as the house does not give you any returns, then that’s a liability. Only when a house gives you a positive return that it should…
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100,000 affordable homes per year to be built. (Yes, 100k)
I shared with a room of over 150 property investors on 5th Jan (Sat) that Malaysia is actually facing a shortage of homes and not really an oversupply of homes today. Fortunately for me, this room of people were all members of the KL & Selangor Property Investors Club. (Someone told me that combined, the…
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Get Rich Through Properties in 2019
They say when it comes to property investment, it’s best to start as early as possible. This is to ensure that if we were to make mistakes, we have time to make a comeback. If you ask me as a working professional, we should instead learn from those who has done it successfully before we…
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Property investing in 2019? Get inspired first. 🙂
Like many people, I love to read something positive and inspiring to start my 2019. Here’s a compilation of inspiring quotes for property investments from famous people, except the last one. (That’s mine) “Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.” by John Stuart Mill, English philosopher and economist (Okay, property prices…
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Unsold property news? Answers from a working professional to all.
“With so many unsold units, it’s just time that property prices will fall.” A statement which is potentially true as long as that particular property that you are looking for is inside the unsold category today and that particular property developer holding the property is aiming at just selling and not about the margins anymore.…