QUOTE(bcpbeancounter @ Apr 5 2014, 11:19 PM)
Intersting to know that china money is in malaysia prop market since 2009.
it's called asset propping. Housing growth/bubble cause the biggest bubble of all, because people can borrow more equity of the house that they hold.
when big nations central banks does one thing, the small nations will usually follow.
Like lowering interest rates, and allowing massive loans to be released.
It's simple, if u borrow 2% from china, our banks still offer 8% FD, there will be carry trade, means they borrow Chinese money to throw into our FD. If our banks have too much money in FD, they also cant generate back so much of returns.
So smaller countries follows what big nation central banks does.
US Federal Reserve has already hinted of tightening, and over Asia, about USD 1,000 Billion has been shifted away from SEA markets altogether, all these money are in form of bonds, shares, loans and so on.
So all the chinese buyers went to HK, Singapore, UK to sapu their properties. So singaporeans come here to sapu ours.
In line with Najib's economic plans which is by housing growth.
In context of debt figures, when Abdullah stepped down, our nation's debt was at about RM 200+ bil.
now after 5 years, our nation debt is at RM 550bil.
Household debt is at 83% already.
The only way to continue this "enormous growth" is by 2 generation loan. Means prolonging the duration of loan.
You pay 30years, your son continue paying for you like in Japan.
I say very simple things. Everybody wants to have big bungalow, nice big cars.
Most of the people borrowed money from banks to buy all those above.
If banks dont want to lend money, where u find buyer ??