Without an agent?
Good luck, you'll be needing a lot of it.

Here's a true story that happened recently in JB.

A few years back, an Indian lady want to buy a townhouse. Cost around 140k.
She like the place and place 20k deposit with the owner.
After that the owner run away.

So she stayed in there a few more years until recently the bank wanted to auction the unit she is staying.
Which belongs to the owner that run away.


This is the price for not getting a reputable agent to represent you.
Most of the time it doesn't happen the way this Indian lady encounter, but you got to be lucky not to be the victim.