By your reasoning, Bill Gates might not be that rich cos he has not sold any of his shares? I think investments value should be marked to market, not necessarily sold to recognise the gain. Take a conservative approach, value at 800k for example. Definitely not remain at 300k lah, so drastic.

seems like people are getting more bullish about the prediction of a property pricing drop soon.
am sure the camps there are very happy since they have waited for such a long time.
so the big question is when does it starts, and how much is it gonna be?

yes, still flying. if u read any industrial magazines,  there are so many investments annoucement made everyday..  if this mnc know the economy not doing well in near future, do u think they dare to build more plants or expand their production capacity here in china??? wat we hear today is shortage, shortage...
my products (raw materials) was sold 2 years ahead.

Urbanization is getting serious in Malaysia, especially Chinese young generation prefer city life. In those days fr 1990-2000, still can see many graduates went back to their home state to work.
Secondly, the reducing in family size also indirectly increase the affordability of young buyers, FAMA contributes a lot

IMHO, it is very easy to say that mkt will drop, somehow someday it will become reality, I can give a statement like that as well. But for a so called property guru, it is VERY irresponsible to simply give a statement like that, an property expert shd dare to predict the ACTUAL correction date (year), or which sector, which area, % of dropping / increase, dun get fooled by these "experts"

Forget all these affordable housing projects. These are merely election gimmicks to try and show that we have a caring Gov. Same as all those MACC investigations into high profile corruption cases. All merely eyewash for the elections this year. Charged is one thing. Being convicted and put into jail is a different matter all together.

It's the Malaysian version of HDB flat?

very good articles written in 2005 accurately predicting the US housing crash.

Don't get caught in the housing bubble crash (part one)
http://www.naturalnews.com/016209.html

Warning signs of the housing bubble crash (part two)
http://www.naturalnews.com/016241.html

i doubt most of them are able to pull themselves out from the props    not many people are into the subsale.. unless they sell it near the market value.. jacked up price more than 20k++ is very hard for fresh graduate to buy from them    [without the help of rich FAMA]
the place i'm renting.. market value 240k.. and they're trying to sell it 330k..  LOL !

That wont happen in prime & matured areas. That is just wishful thinking. I think renting a property is always a waste as only the landlord profits. Anybody choosing to rent while waiting for the market to drop is just wasting their time and their money.

Just imagine this scenario. Say somebody rents an apartment for RM 1500 per month for 2 years hoping for the property prices to stabilise then. In that 2 years, the rental expenditure would have been RM 36,000. That is money out of his pocket and into the pocket of the landlord. But in 2 years time, does he actually think prime area property prices will be RM 36K or more lower??

Prime areas have not dropped in the pricing (generally). In bad times it would stagnate but waiting for a price drop in my opinion is just wishful thinking.

what i can't understand is the part that he has already paid off the loans ma. now purely rental income, no need to worry abt interest rates going up , maybe he is waiting for the kids to grow up then only start enjoying life 

i know a profit sharing partner earning more than RM40k per month and countless property but driving an old sangyong and another 20 year old mpv only..

the thread is almost coming to an end.
V3 is gonna be up soon.
am sure the camp is still going to be equally divided (perhaps more people camping on the bear camp).
maybe pyschologically it's something like gambling big or small. the banker already rolled out 4 big in a roll. the pundits are betting more and more on small with the next coming round. the banker will eventually open small. but by that time, maybe it's not worth winning anymore.
just another reminder (again!), when property does drop, remember, nobody wins. all loses.
you might save 10% or so from your purchase, but the country already loses.

you might win the battle but you would have lost the war.