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Buy property, get wife free.
In an article in Singapore’s major property portal PropertyGuru.com.sg, one property in Yogjakarta has attracted huge attention because when you buy that house, you can also get a wife free. No, it’s not a spelling mistake for WIFI. It’s the correct spelling for WIFE. Yes, buy that said property at the price the owner is…
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Selling property with ambassadors, does it work?
Maybe six months ago, I got to know of a local developer with a project in a secondary town in Malaysia using ambassadors to sell its high-rise properties. The result was not good because even when my friend told me about the ambassador, I had to ask, ‘who is she?’ Can ambassador really sell a…
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World Talent Report 2014 – Malaysia
As usual, most of the awesome online medias love negative news. Thus, when there’s a positive news for the country in the world arena, it was somehow, missed by many. Haha. Please google IMD and you would find huge number of articles related to them. Financial Times, one of those extremely famous ranking charts ranked…
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IOI and 101 – Deal off.
Since I wrote about this earlier, today is a conclusion. IOI’s proposed purchase of 101 Taipei is off. Yes, they proposed to buy 37.17% stake in Taipei Financial Centre, better know as Taipei 101, for RM2.74 billion from its owner, Ting Hsin International Group. Earlier, negative signs were already showing when the government (Taiwan’s Finance…
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Poor year for commercial, 2014 and 2015.
Let’s keep abreast with commercial properties. Latest survey from Knight Frank showed that over half of developers, fund managers and lenders polled said that commercial real estate market had poor yields last year due to the overpricing. Meanwhile another 43 percent said that they did not invest in commercial last year because of poor returns.…
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Another happy news. Good increment in 2015.
According to Hays Asia Salary Guide, Malaysia is second only to China when it comes to salary increases in Asia. In fact, 10% of employers will be offering more than 10% salary increment to their staffs in 2015. In other words, you should get that increment letter soon, should you have performed very well and…
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Penang: Prices up 8.6%, Income up 5.4%.
In his speech during the Malaysia Property Exhibition (Mapex) 2015, the chairman of the Real Estate and Housing Developers’ Association Malaysia (REHDA Penang) Datuk Jerry Chan Lim revealed that the house prices in Penang have been increasing by 8.6 percent annually while the average household income has increased by 5.4%. This meant that the gap…
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Developer’s Open Showhouses. Chinese New Year.
The number of visits to kopiandproperty.my for the day before and 1st day of Chinese New Year has dropped. Of course this has been expected because the same thing happened last year. Thus, let’s focus on something related to Chinese New Year holidays this time. During Chinese New Year holidays, the property advertisements increased many…