Category: Basics – Property Investment
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Buy on fundamental, not based on speculative stuffs? Why not based on WHY?
Suddenly friends started to say, ‘we should buy based on fundamental, should not buy based on speculation.’ The reason? Well, the High-Speed Rail KL – SG (HSR) – read here has been scrapped and a day after, the MRT Line 3 (Circle Line)- read here has been scrapped too. Apparently they were referring to friends…
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Do you buy-to-live or buy-to-leave?
There are newly completed developments today where the occupancy may not be that high, not even 50 percent. A close friend’s condo in Penang was completed last year. He has moved in and has stayed in the new condo for slightly over a year. Yet, every time I dropped by, the number of cars parked…
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IDEAL home for Malaysians? The WHATs and WHYs.
What’s an IDEAL Malaysian Home? We can ask me or we can ask a lot of Malaysians. LAFARGE and EdgeProp did a MYHOME survey to learn more. Here’s that infographic for our reference. Briefly, these are some interesting results from the survey yeah. Perhaps this is why there are so many unsold units? My personal conclusion…
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Focus on owning a home. Many may be homeless somewhere else.
Do we believe the government will be able to provide us with a home? For free? Actually, not even in advanced nations that the government could provide a home for every citizen. In fact as we know, sometimes the property prices spiral out of control and the incomes just could not catch up and in…
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Malaysian’s affordable home mission by the government. Views.
I think by now people who read property related news would have heard that Pakatan Harapan intends to build 1 million affordable homes within 2 terms. Roughly, that’s within 10 years. Some would say that this is a lofty goal because this comes up to 100,000 homes every year, all within the affordable segment. Here’s…
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Not going to invest, regardless of the government of the day.
Many friends, way before the 9th May 2018 election say that they were very cautious in buying a property because it is too illiquid. What if something bad were to happen and they could not dispose it off quickly? One of the bad thing that could be happening? Well, the economy of Malaysia going bankrupt…
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The 6 steps of AirBnB property investing
Do you know that there are now over 31,900 AirBnB listings by property owners in Malaysia? (Latest report in TheStar, dated 17 March 2018) Would you like to venture into this potentially lucrative short-term rental business? Many successful AirBnB property owners have reported profits which are above what they could from the longer term rentals.…
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Kids are really ‘rich’ these days. In future, ‘poor’ for property?
I had a dinner appointment in Plaza Batai, Bukit Damansara, KL with a bunch of university mates (juniors). Since I arrived very early, I dropped by Yellow Brick Road for a drink. The Mixed Berry Lemonade is RM15. I think it’s expensive but still better value for money than the bottled fruit juices in Starbucks.…
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When earnings are low, ability to buy is limited too.
Do you know that only 32 percent of the total working population here in Malaysia have tertiary education qualification? That’s a minimum of a diploma or higher. If you are reading this and has a degree, you are already within the top 20 percent of all working Malaysians. I assume half of the 32 percent…