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Category: ABCs of Property Investment

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ABCs of Property Investment

Property Investment 101: First Time Home Buyer and Stamp Duty Exemption

This was announced earlier but I think many may have missed the news because I do not read that many articles about firs time home buyers being super excited with it. Yes, this is definitely good news for many potential homebuyers. Not sure how many first time homebuyers were waiting for this extra savings when they buy their very first property. Please note that full exemption is only for properties priced RM500,000 and below only. This is valid until end of 2025.

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ABCs of Personal Finance

Personal Finance 101: Property Investment is no longer necessary

Someone shared that investing into the stock market is easy. He showed many success stories. Someone shared that his crypto-currency is starting to show positive signs again. Someone shared that when it comes to the current situation, it’s best to rent because we could save more money versus buying a property. Renting may be RM2,000 but paying repayment for the same property could be 50 percent higher, or at least 20 or 30 percent higher. Everyone has their say because they may have achieved something positive and thus they are sharing what they know. I just like to ask three easy to answer questions.

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ABCs of Property Investment

Property Investment 101: Increasing monthly rental versus paying higher monthly rental

From an article I read where the link is provided just below, it tells me that it is not just the working professionals who may face rental increase when the demand is higher than the supply of homes. Even the wealthier ones are also affected by rental increase. Yes, the wealthier ones also rent and does not necessarily own the place. 🙂 Imagine the person these wealthy ones are renting from. Below is a chart showing that Singapore has beaten New York in terms of luxury property rental growth.

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ABCs of Property Investment

Property Investment 101: 7 reasons it does not need to be a new property

A close friend who’s a senior manager in a US MNC asked me about purchasing a property as she wanted to advise her staff who’s looking at new properties and mentioned to her that the prices are beyond his budget. She said her staff showed her many property brochures and the prices and told her that all these properties are priced beyond his salary.

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Renting News

Renting news: Riyadh versus Dubai for the expats

During the recent Chinese New Year, I visited my primary schoolmate. Yes, based on number of years, we have known one another for nothing less than 35 years. All these years, I have always known him as an expat working in United Arab Emirates (UAE) and he has worked in both Dubai and Abu Dhabi too. Many years ago, he also said that Dubai is an amazingly cosmopolitan city and that I should definitely visit him there.

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ABCs of Property Investment

Renting News: When ‘neighbour’ increased the rental, I will follow too. Does it happen like this?

If rental in KL city centre increased very quickly, people may rent at the fringes of KL city centre. If the whole KL city is very expensive, people will rent homes with a Selangor address. This is common and this is why prices always rise from the place with the most demand first. When the supply can no longer keep up, the supply would have to be expanded somehow. Else, the rental will increase until the market collapses. Either people stop coming to KL to work since rental is just too high or the owners start to reduce rental voluntarily. 🙂

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ABCs of Property Investment

Property Investment 101: It’s the tenant’s market. It’s also the buyer’s market.

If I have a home which I am not staying and yet I am paying, I would be desperately looking for a tenant to rent it from me. You see, every month that I could not rent it out, I would have to pay for it. If I could rent it out, even if I could not cover my monthly repayment, at least I do not have to bear the full repayment by myself. I am very sure there are homeowners who are in this situation.

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ABCs of Property Investment

Property Investment 101: 3 Learnings from a landlord.

My tenant called me one day and said, “Charles, I intend to move out in 2 months time. I have bought a new place.” For 4 years, the tenant (a Malaysian Indian engineer) was diligently paying his rental for my 730 sq ft apartment. He was driving a Proton Iswara though he is already a senior engineer in a multinational company. He was telling me that he will stop renting because he is buying a landed property from the secondary market. His new home is easily 2.5 times bigger than the apartment he is renting. Probably 2.5 times the price of the apartment he’s renting too.

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ABCs of Property Investment

Property Investment 101: 6 reasons to sell your property

Many friends love to ask if they should sell their property now? My answer has always been “do you have a reason to sell your property now?” They would then give some reasons such as, ‘if can sell at a good price, why not?’ Well, if can get a good price, then what’s stopping them to sell, right?

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ABCs of Property Investment

The Dynamic Duo: Property Investment and Healthcare Demand

The median age for Malaysia is 30.4 years (DOSM 2021 data). We can go into any supermarket today and take a look at the diaper brands. If you did not notice, the number of brands and diversity are still increasing. It meant that the demand for healthcare from the new babies are still increasing.

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ABCs of Property Investment

Overhang Properties in Malaysia. Going up or coming down?

A few years ago, a friend asked me whether it’s still a good time to buy a property. I asked him why he asked such a question. He said the overhang is getting higher and higher. I asked him if he’s interested in any of the overhang properties. By the way, this is how overhang properties are defined.

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