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ABCs of Property Investment

Property Investment 101: Do you enjoy more as a home owner or a tenant?

Sorry, the answer is not ONLY the home owner. In fact you will soon see why home owner does not necessarily enjoy more when they are compared to the tenant. As usual, these are my views as both a home owner and also a tenant since my college days all the way to my working days. In fact, I told my wife that maybe we could become a tenant again after we retire! Haha. Truth is, when we are 60 etc, there is really no need to stay at one place and that one place only. Just my thoughts. We could move a bit more.

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ABCs of Property Investment

Property Investment 101: Here are 6 good reasons to buy a property, if these are your reasons too

My blog tells you very clearly I am passionate about property investment. However, I am very much against buying any property because someone famous or popular tells us too. Sorry, that’s very scary! How could we pay many hundreds of thousands for a property because of the words people say? Especially if these people may profit from us buying that property in the form of commissions from the property developer? So, what are some of the reasons to buy a property? Below are some of the reasons. If many of them matched what you need, then you may consider buying that property yeah.

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ABCs of Personal Finance

Property Investment 101: 5 things NOT to do for property investment

Overpriced property is always in the market. Somehow some of these overpriced properties could still continue to rise in price because people just love to buy them. I say overpriced because the rental could NOT even cover the interest payment for the repayment yeah. I also do not personally think we should calculate yield based on constructing additional rooms. In other words, if we need to build additional rooms in order to get a positive yield, then this property is overpriced. Find the ones which you have compared, benchmarked and know that the price is okay.

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Affordable Properties

REHDA: Full block or two Madani housing within projects will increase prices

When a developer buys a piece of land and their gross development value (GDV) is around 10 times of the land price, the price they want to sell will be adjusted based on the size, the number of units, the type of properties etc. The bigger units they build, the fewer units will be built and the more expensive the units would be. The smaller the unit size, then more units could be built and in fact the prices tend to be lower because the GDV is now divided by a larger number of units. Let me explain.

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ABCs of Property Investment

8.8 million population has been reached! (what an auspicious number indeed)

We are talking about the city which I have made my home 11 years ago; Kuala Lumpur. Every time someone asked if I miss Penang since I have worked there for 15 years, I told them a firm no. It’s not an apple to apple comparison yeah. Penang is a great place for engineers for example. However Kuala Lumpur attracts diverse companies and thus provide a lot more diverse job opportunities.

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ABCs of Property Investment

HLIB Research: Property upcycle has started

I am someone who does not believe too much about buying properties based on the cycle. I don’t know when is the lowest point and I certainly would not know when is the highest point. I am very sure when I bought a property way back in 2007, I did not know that the upcycle would be coming in 2008 and it will continue until around 2013.

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ABCs of Property Investment

Property auction market is attractive. Help buyers to buy auction properties.

I have not bought any auction properties before. I do think if the price is right, then property auction market is a good hunting place too. Especially for the ones with deep reserves of cash. I have been to countless of property auctions and have seen properties without any bid and properties where the bidding went up to even beyond the market price. Maybe there’s something special, maybe it’s emotion but it’s always interesting to sit inside a room full of bidders, especially for some selected super undervalued properties.

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ABCs of Property Investment

150 units of same development in the same auction. Oh dear or wow, got opportunities?

I follow the postings from KL Selangor Lelong Properties in Facebook and I just saw this yesterday. Many weeks back, when I was in Melaka, I stayed at a homestay unit from which I could see this building (in the image). In my mind, I was thinking that this is a very big building and it may take some time for the whole building to be occupied. Even if I am a business, I need to have staying power so that the whole mall have time to build up its visitors number. Now I saw this auction listing.

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ABCs of Property Investment

Khazanah Research Institute (KRI) says Build-and-Sell is better for home buyer protection. My say?

Firstly I think if I am a buyer and the developer has fully completed my unit before I decide whether to buy, that’s going to be a huge plus for me. Build-and-sell may protect buyers in the sense that they will actually know what they are buying. However, this can also happen if the buyers buy from the secondary market too. These days, there are many secondary properties which could be purchased for around the same original price or sometimes even lower if the original price was overpriced to begin with.

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ABCs of Property Investment

Property Investment 101: Falling Average House Price in Q1 2024!

Home prices are falling lah. Especially the high-rise units. Only the landed properties will always be increasing in price lah! Yes, I hear all these statements all the time and it does not change my views much. How I invest remains the same and how others invest is up to them. As long as everyone continues to do well in their investments, I am already a happy man. It does not need to be that I am the only one whos right. Everyone can be right!

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ABCs of Property Investment

Maximum rental increase only 5 percent BUT…

I read this earlier but I was also guilty of not reading the details. When I first read this news about rental increase, it says that current President of the United States, President Biden will call for a limit of 5 percent to the annual rent increase. The reason is because many voters are struggling with high rental and they need help as soon as possible. Actually, if they say they want to cap at 5 percent, it meant that without this cap, the increase could be much higher!

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