oz all the Taikors start the buying spree quietly without sharing more due to scarcity of quality properties ..kekekekeke..check the CLASSIFIED

be careful that CHERROY the moderator will say again this (lowyat forum - property talk) is not a news thread and delete your efforts here....wakakaka....

Whenever there are selling, there are buying too!!!

okie  but picture will eat more bytes

new trend is auntie uncle, and fresh new out of college investors buy buy buy all the new launch.

it is very true.  after investors bought few residential prop, they find troublesome to manage them and start to buy shops coz it is easier to manage. I am one of them , hehe.  so i foresee residential will be slower while shops will be very very hot.  now investors are not buying 1-2 shops but 5-10 shops in one go, eg those successful bizman.  (they used to buy 10-20 residence prop in one go). now i hardly find any good new shops to buy. Coz i dun have the power to nego with developers to buy 5-10 units.  (oni managed to buy subsale recently, sigh)

also many gerai-gerai will move to shops eventually.. noticed msia is the onli country that allowed so many gerai2 (even at parking lots, road divider, road side, kaki lima, under tree etc).  i never see this in HK, China, Singapore, Korea, Japan, Taiwan etc.

There is simply very little risk or even no risk for the developer to have any launching.

History tells us that developer only goes into trouble when they never manage their cash flow well especially when the money earned are used to buy even more land for further development. With the current ballooning property price, the developer would be able to cover their initial land cost and development cost easily even if their property are not fully sold. As far as balance sheet is concerned, it will always be positive for individual development. The way the developer could lose money is due to the drop in company share prices and if their fundamental is strong and prudent, they should be able to sustain. However, the biggest risk taker is actually the purchaser and when any problem strikes, the purchaser is the one that suffers the most. I do not think that the number of new launching and its prices could be taken as an indicator especially to show that the property market is healthy. And again the history tells us that all crashes are preceded by heavy purchases. It is my believe that our property market would be more affected by regional market performance and global condition rather than the local situation because our national GDP is simply too small for our country not to be affected when the globe coughs.

KL property may enter uncertain patch says DTZ
By Lee Wei LianJuly 26, 2011

While Malaysia does not have a housing affordability index, a rough calculation shows the average price of a KL residential property is now about RM485,000, or roughly nine times the average urban household annual income of RM54,000 and a possible sign that the market is experiencing a bubble.

The Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey rates markets whose property prices are 5.1 times median income or more, as “severely unaffordable”.

If QE3 materialized, inflation will be even higher. Price of commodities will skyrocket, including house. Bnm will raise rates, it will make owning a house even more difficult.

KL property may enter uncertain patch says DTZ
By Lee Wei LianJuly 26, 2011

The retail market meanwhile is expected to be impacted from more sluggish consumer sentiment as high inflation eats away at household disposable income.

“Strong wage growth and positive retail sentiment have boosted retail spending and real estate fundamentals in Kuala Lumpur,” he said.

will the asking price all around can reduce 10% now? let monitor Iproperty these few week?

This senario will take at least 2 years to complete STARTED NOW and repeated from times to times over years.

i think govt will go all out to support the prop market coz govt or their cronies still have lot of landbank to sell to private sectors to earn more $.  if the land price x5, their income will be x5 too. (govt no $ liao).

Industry players are bracing for the impact of the US and Europe debt debacles

PETALING JAYA: The outlook of the property market is mixed, with developers reporting firm sales while property agents report tell-tale signs of a slowdown in certain market segments.

bursa red at midday.

I wonder whether this is just a temporary thing or will it continue.  What we do know is the gov's of the world, are trying to reassure people that things will become better.

Take it this way, GOLD is money that the central banks can't dilute, they can't print GOLD, can't they? In this tough time ahead, GOLD should be a very good inflation hedge. All cash holders will lose a lot of their purchasing power, the only way the Eurozone/US to get out of the debt hole, is to devalue their currency in order to lower their debt load.

There is always a pattern buyers can detect before the actual property price cycle going down, that is developers will give more freebies (or even discounts) for new launches.
Anyone detect this sign in the market now?
I guess I don't see this sign in the market, not in Klang Valley at least.

@soongkm, Thanks for understanding.

I meant had bought a house without having to worry whether prices will continue to rise or fall. Worst case scenario being that market will fall, and my taman in the outskirts may turn into a ghost town. But that had been part of my consideration which I will accept and live with. I am at the mercy of speculators, either way I lose.