Category: Basics – Property Investment
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It’s always best to start investing 5 years ago. Agree?
This article was first published in August 2016 issue of Ivory Living. Not too long ago, a friend posted the image on the left. It was ‘liked’ by many and I think we should all remind ourselves again. Regret is good if we learnt something from it. Else, it’s just nothing but regret. Let me…
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Gifts are good, just remember to build on it; invest.
I watched all the badminton matches during the Olympic Games from the quarter final onwards. Yes, every single match involving Malaysian shuttlers. This time, everyone played well beyond what is expected from them based on their world rankings. Our mixed-doubles, Chan Peng Soon and Goh Liu Ying entered the final and eventually lost to a…
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Buying homes for the first-time? Go for government schemes
We have often heard of the ever harder to obtain mortgage approvals. Seriously, is this due to the applicant or the bank? Actually, not entirely true but assuming we could not get one from the private sector, we should goto the government. As per the advice from The Association of Banks in Malaysia (ABM), first-time home…
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Dividend yield for REIT? Sunway REIT’s at 5.5 percent
First of all, I do not own a single unit of Sunway Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT). However, I have always believed that if we want to enter the property market but we are worried with volatility, REITs provide that opportunity. If I tell you that a property related stock has a dividend yield of…
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South East Asia Property Awards (Malaysia) – All the winners
It was an honour to be invited for South East Asia Property Awards (SEAPA) held in Intercontinental Hotel yesterday evening. Thank you propertyguru.com.my and would love to be invited every year. I enjoyed the evening thoroughly as I met many developer and media friends. The top honour in SEAPA (Malaysia) went to Sime Darby Property…
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Buying vs Renting a House: Which is a Better Value-for-Money Decision?
The following article has been contributed by CompareHero.my This is a website I frequent occasionally when I needed to do some comparisons of financial products. Check them out. As young professionals who always striving to achieve your short and long term goals, there will come a time when you will eventually ask yourself: is it…
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Evaluating what to buy is better than guessing when to buy
I read an article in Public Mutual’s Calibre magazine. There’s this one liner. “Investors who opt to stay out of the market during the consolidation periods are not able to profit from capitalising on low market prices.” What it says in brief is that when we chose to follow the majority and skip the market…
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The waiting game is best played after we own something
This article first appeared in Property Insight magazine July 2016 issue. Yes, this magazine contains lots of other great articles too. Buy to learn. Or read a few here: www.propertyinsight.com.my In 2002, I bought my first property, a 700 sf apartment in Relau, Penang. In 2005, I bought a 1,258 sf condominium. When my friend…
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Integrated developments with education element is always a plus
Even before I moved to KL, I love malls. Buying a property with a mall or nearby malls was always something on my mind. However, these days there are way too many malls which does not have anything special from other nearby malls. Due to competition, many malls are struggling to gain traffic and for…