How about property in sg? For the same amount, you able to generate higher rental yield after conversion.

International publication cannot Anyhow publish lor... If FDI is not coming in, of course the country is in trouble. But Malaysia FDI is rising and will stimulate the economy.

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Added on February 2, 2012, 11:26 pm

Read this one too...
http://www.propertyshowrooms.com/malaysia/...all_311903.html

I am not sure how this will help to answer the question.
To answer the question, two pieces of data are needed :
1.  KL House prices (subsale and new) increase within the last 5 years =  50 - 70%  (? am I correct?)
2.  KL Salary level increase within the last 5 years = ? %

If data 2 >= data 1 then everything okey dokey.

In my days, max loan margin 20%, max tenure 25 years. Now can go to 95% for 40 years.

We are repeating what happened in UK - houses prices increase b'cos buyers willing to take bigger debts.
When there is crisis, price drop drop drop. Then EPF goes in and pick up dead London chickens 

Malaysia is not economically unique. What happened elsewhere can happen here also.

hmm... I haven't posted for a while

It seems like our banks are starting to issue 40 years home loan with nothing down (100% margin). Banks are even offering overdraft facility tied to mortgages, or use home mortgages as personal ATM when home prices go up to buy another house, a bigger car or plasma screen that can be seen from the moon (sounds familiar? home equity extraction or personal housing ATM happened in the US before their housing bubble burst).

Hmm... this will create an economy boom and keep inflating the property prices for sometime. until the oversupply due to heavy speculation comes home to roost. Everyone q overnight to buy property and wants to flip it out upon completion, if everyone thinks the same way, who will be the next sucker?

Sigh... easy and cheap credit will never end well. Mark my words.
http://www.pbebank.com/en/en_content/perso...oans/5home.html

http://www.maybank2u.com.my/mbb_info/m2u/p...sonal/LOA-Loans

http://www1.uob.com.my/personal/loans/prop...i_mortgage.html

if & if only lah :-
Q4 2011  --> Down
Q1 2012  --> Down
Q2 2012  --> Down
Q3 2012  --> Down
Q4 2012  --> More ppl will declare b....upcy

I love to read these stuff, it's very entertaining indeed!

Please ask your buddy reporter to write more and publish in main stream media, so we can have more laugh here 

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Added on March 9, 2012, 6:27 pm

I have no idea about the price movement in MK, this is what the article says anyway.
該行指出，過去數年來，住宅房產新供應成長大幅度縮減，不過，屋價卻沒有相應揚升。2001年的常年住宅，包括巴生河流域地區的供應成長介於12至13%，惟2010年卻萎縮至2至3%水平。該行預估目前完整磚屋住宅短缺接近200萬間

Also what is the population in KV, 6 million? I presume the 2 million "housing shortage" is refer to nationwide? It just doesn't make sense if only for KV, 2 million homes are sufficient to house 6 million people.

When there is economic recession, gomen will photostat paper money to pay debts and boost economy. This is the reason why people put their money on golds to maintain their wealth.

Yes the newcomers (be the outstation or foreigners) will still flock to klcc for work. this newcomer may not like the heavy traffic (if they live outside klcc), or they have no car and need to live near to workplace, or they not familiar with KL and prefer to live within klcc.  (especially foreigner)

when i was living in Shanghai, i chose to live in the city centre (even the rental is much higher than outskirt, 2-3x). coz i am not familiar with outskirt shanghai. travelling by taxi also easier and cheaper.
my colleagues (from other province ) also prefer to buy home not too far from shanghai city centre (where the offices are located). most of them take mrt + short distance taxi to work. very few buy home far from mrt , i mean short distance by taxi or city bus to mrt station. home near to mrt is very much higher price. many still prefer to buy a little further away from mrt. 

i still think that future jobs opportunities will be concentrate in city centre area.  look at big cities like Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Taipei, Bangkok, Jakarta etc.
there are so many new coming office in KL Sentral, klcc and nearby. many MNC, big local co, GLC will eventually fill these offices. we dont see much office building in outskirt kl. new comers , foreigners, MNC employee still prefer to live near office. driving to work will be expensive, eg traffic jam, oil, car park, car maintenance, time etc.

These are some to share for now...  notice i said if we can turn back time.. at the moment i think more careful consideration is needed before more measures are implemented. The bubble has already burst.  I suspect if anything, there will be more curbs post election as policymakers for sure is taking into account that the election is a 'risk point'.