Category: Basics – Property Investment
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Supply concerns will lead to price correction?
I read a study which was done sometime back (let’s not mention the actual report here). It says that with the oversupply situation, it will lead to price correction. On a big picture basis, perhaps that is true. However, if you stay in some VERY SOUGHT AFTER neighbourhood today, did your neighbour just sold off…
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Yes, we should have a NATIONAL database but for now…..
When it comes to the property market, I really dislike the average numbers that is often quoted by all the media. Seriously, we need to be like Australia where the property prices are always in median. In brief, average means the central point. So, if there were 10 transactions, five at RM1 million and another…
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What you gonna do when they come for you. Bad boys.
I seriously hate people who skip paying their maintenance fees. They think it is their right, I think they ought to be taught what’s right. Someone from the authorities may be helping me to teach them what’s right now. Here’s a report about it in TheStar. Using the Strata Management Act 2013 the authorities could…
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Banks are refusing to lend or buyers are unable to buy? Different things… ok.
If we like a property and we need a place to stay, would we buy? If we apply for a home loan for that particular property that we like with the bank, would they lend us? The answer to both is a YES. The similarity to both would be ‘affordability.’ We read about articles that…
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‘A ray of hope’ for property market Malaysia
I am just quoting Knight Frank Malaysia executive director research and consultancy Judy Ong. She said that the recent rebound in Malaysia’s economy and strengthening of the Malaysian ringgit offer a ray of hope for recovery in the local property market. (we were not exactly having negative growth rates in previous few quarters, so recent…