Mthc kor... yes , 45% net paper gain, but from SnP selling price it would be 28.5% ... 5 yrs later ppl will compare their offer to purchase price w the existing SnP price and almost nobody would know if the owner got rebate or not, except for the owner themselves.
Ok ...What if those "investor" willing to let go as fast as possible at 598k which is 1200psf ? (why not 600k ? Bcos nowadays "investor" are very good at playing numbers

) So net paper gain will goes to 33% and 19.8% from SnP selling price.... and most of the buyers will think tat - I buy a property at 20% increase only from existing SnP price after 5 dramatical yrs which gone through the crisis (year 2017~2019... I assume only ya)... sounds ok wat ...some more now year 2020 is the year to pickup liao, still got space to make profit ma

.... and then the return to the owner will goes to 598k - 450k - 12k - 5k = 131k / 25k ... 525% over 5 yrs selling 1200psf instead of selling 1300psf....
AND WHAT IF some really really desperate owner (mainly just goreng only) selling 548k at around 1100psf ? .... I think these kind of "good" units (chinese call die chicken) will kena sapu first bcos less than 10% increase from SnP price over 5 yrs !!!

(Hope there will be least owners sell at this price lar else I foresee Price War then

) ...with this selling price the return to the owner will goes to 328% over 5 yrs ..... still better than FD rate ma (best rate 4.2% yearly now) rite ??
Maybe .... just maybe bcos of the above maths (simple calculation everyone can do wat

)... that is why I see tat some of the buyers still wanna to grab at least one unit although the choices given are so called bad units .... they might think - So WAT ... BAD units I sell cheaper lar...I will still make sure tat I can earn at least 250~300% over nx 5 yrs
The fact is eventhough some taikors here mentioned tat how bad is this developer's first project in KL - Arte Kuchai Lama, I know one of the transacted price for 1700+ sf sold close to 1.1mil from SnP price 750+k, which is 45% gain from SnP, but we guess tat the owner earn at least 350% in return over the downpayment after deducted all the cost even with 15% RPGT, but not included the rebate yet...if he got only 5% rebate , his return would be 700% over 4yrs. Well we can say tat this owner is damn lucky lar this lar tat lar....yet I think he is a smart "investor" bcos he took a high floor unit with good view and good unit number, which he has more advantages to sell than others owner when ppl criticized the quality of the building....
The other fact is an owner did not sell it but rent it out and he managed to refinance the unit, from purchase price 750k to 1mil bank value, he get 200k cash out to invest into another project. This Arte MK he took 2 units.
I would say having good units in the right timing could be a lot helpful during bad time like slow down season lar, GST came lar, 1MDB lar , even crisis expected to come lar...
Tis project if for own stay buyer, I think need to put more factor in .... personally think tat 90% of the buyer is for flip only not for own stay
I noticed tat even though some taikors dun think tat this project is premium (so so only) and dun look good at it (mayb due to the bad quality work on previous project), they still grab whatever units they can have with tis project... mayb bcos of the low cost entry (25k~50K per unit is nothing to them lar) and the sales package 10% rebate some more with commercial title, which they can get 85% loan margin instead of can get 70% only on residential (most of the "investor" taikor already own more than 2 residential ma

)... Have to admit tat it's kind of smart from the developer side, not only sapu the "investor" also the newbies, agents and bankers...
I personally think tat Naza is using tis project to test water....if tis project selling well, then maybe they will launch faster with their 17 blocks office tower and 3~4 residential condo projects and also the highest building within Metropolis... else Naza will start to develop themselves already, why hv to let tis developer start first ? Weather it is a good move ...it will tell by the time when Arte MK is official launching...
Anyway the above statement is just my personal opinion ... if taikors and sifu and "investors" dun agree or dun feel comfortable ...please just ignore ya.....
Damn long wey.. I rwrealreally meant it when u said you gave a very thoughtout analysis and calculation but 45% net gain on paper maybe no la.. Probably 20% to 30% max.