China property buyers are the top among foreigners buying properties in Malaysia for 1H 2025
Total number of foreigners buying properties in Malaysia is small, that’s okay for me!
I would love for foreigners to appreciate our property market enough that they actually chose to buy properties here. However, I would not want the property market to be so attractive that the buying becomes rampant or over double digits in some countries. When someone super wealthy buys a property in another country, chances are, they will be willing to pay more and this will inevitably lead to higher property prices if every transaction is showing an increase in price. So, which are the countries buying a lot of Malaysian properties? Is it C, I and S? Haha. Read on:
Article in nst.com.my “Property buyers from China topped foreign residential transactions in Malaysia during the first half of 2025, recording the highest number of purchases with 329 deals worth RM834.64 million.
Housing and Local Government Minister Nga Kor Ming said this was followed by Singapore, with 320 transactions worth RM518.27 million, and India, with 47 transactions valued at RM87.16 million.
The United Kingdom recorded 20 transfers worth RM40.26 million.
“According to the residential property transaction report by state and ethnic groups for the first half of 2025, issued by the Department of Valuation and Property Services, property transactions by non-citizens amounted to 913 transactions valued at RM1.904 billion.
“This represents 0.76 per cent of the total number of transactions and 3.8 per cent of the total transaction value.
“Other countries in the top 10 were Indonesia (20 transactions, RM24.86 million), Hong Kong (15 transactions, RM30.27 million), the United States (14 transactions, RM41.11 million), Korea (13 transactions, RM27.67 million), Taiwan (12 transactions, RM20.34 million) and Australia (10 transactions, RM25.27 million),” Nga said in a written parliamentary reply today.” Article in nst.com.my
Attractive to buy is yes but please do not simply buy
When I saw the number of total foreign purchase here in Malaysia, I think that’s very healthy. It’s less than even 1 percent and the buyers are buying the expensive properties which explained why transaction value wise, it’s close to 4 percent of the total. China is top and Singapore is second and India is third. I personally think this is to be expected. China and India would find Malaysia to be easily adaptable for them while Singapore is still closely related to Malaysia. We have 350,000 people crossing the JB – SG immigration daily yeah…
I would continue to prefer that there are restrictions in place no matter which country the foreign purchasers come from. It could be of a certain price. It could be of the reason and purpose of the investment. As long as we have a mechanism in place, I think the price will not be pushed up indiscriminately by all these foreign purchases. Yes, if they could buy a RM2 million home here in Malaysia, their networth is easily 20 times more. Else, no one would date to take such a risk. Malaysia is not exactly next door to these countries except for Singapore.
Happy understanding.
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