Landed project are like gems nowadays, rare and precious!

This is proven again and again, bad time is short but landed property value will increase day by day.

Think about it.

Some of them are active investor and some of them are in business world, they felt banks are not so wiling to approve loan ( tight rules) and business is slowing down, collection is worse, so.. Economic down turn loh

what is yr purpose? stay or invest?

if stay, ok lah.
if invest, depends on yr holding power, at least 5yrs.

or, if u have confident that yr extra money can get higher return frm somewhere else, why not.



Everyday Market hv all kind of opinion, we may listen,
but choose something suit us, suit our situation.

No doubt, market is getting slow now。
BUT
in bear market, there is some "black horse"(means good pick in bad market)
in bull market, there is some "die horse" can not move at all.
its all depends on ones "insight"

gambateh~~

IMHO ur concern is valid. This is definitely not the time to invest in ANY opportunity which crosses your path. But a wise investor doesn't stop investing even if the economy is/maybe slowing down. Sometimes, one must take calculated risk to gain. Don't just listen to ignorant/malicious ppl who dare not take any risk themselves. I might be wrong, but I carefully chose to invest in EM now bcos I know that it is a potential project. And it is an investment within my means and I nvr plan to flip upon VP. My hubby and I actually are considering to move to EM if we can find a good school for our children. We are not worried about the property market in the following 2 years cos the market may or may not go down. Especially for Klang Valley, it most probably will be stagnant for awhile. That means, in your case, you have an option to wait and see. But the property that you like might be taken and sometimes once you missed a good quality project you will not get it back at the same price anymore. I believe EM is the case. EW will deliver whatever they promised if not more, since these few yrs are crucial for them to prove themselves. To me, this investment may turn out to b recession proof.

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It's good to be prudent - always look at the downside too apart from the upside. The market has currently slowdown and I believe this will persist at least for another year to come. Nevertheless, I believe the property price will at least remain stable particularly the landed products. Property investment in general requires long investment horizon. So long as you have the holding power, what happen in the next 2 years in a way is "rather irrelevant" as you are not going to let go your unit then. EM in particular being a new township it is unrealistic to dispose the invested unit upon VP. I will say wait for at least 6 years, wait till there are commercial activities ready then and more house owners move in after Cradleton, Tenderfields, Merrydale and other coming precints VP. And remember there are thousands of units from the neighbouring SEH too would have VPed then.

As for the completion risk, I have faith with the current management team who have demonstrated their capabilites and track records in the past, though not under the current platform. Some of them have weathered through the financial crisis and experienced the ups and downs of the market.

Sorry, just wondering, are your husband's friend and colleagues the pure investors of buying for flip immediate and only began their investment portfolio not more than 5 years ago?

+1

Calculative risk is very crucial into any aspects of investments, included property investment.

in bear market, there is some "black horse"(means good pick in bad market)

Invest KL/PJ lah....economi crisis come the price wont affected much

When market slow down , some ppl.said hold first as the market might be crash soon

When market up, some ppl said hold first as the price is too expensive. Can nt afford. Waiting for bubble to come

those ppl only talk n think... when are they going to buy. In fact, they also dun know. Worst is they act like expert.. advise here n there.. this is the problem

I think not only kl or pj.. still many place can invest. Now the key word is the holding power.

Hope that you can share your thought too after you have made your final decision.

Well written.

If economy crisis, everywhere in KV also hitted.

Be remember that prices in KL/PJ are the highest and on peak period, although the demand is higher but when these crisis comes, almost everyone not willing to spend such so many cash esp high price prop.

Big sizes ( > 1800 sq ft ) condo, semi d and bungalows are already moved downwards since last year.

I dun kno much

Danny Goh telling me that time US economi crisis, New York and Washington property not affected at all cos is a major town in US.....issit??

studio in location PJ/KL price will drop is we facing crisis like 1997/98??

I thought you are an agent and supposed to have better knowledge in general? More importantly when give your view pls have some substantiation to support otherwise it could be quite misleading...

I m not agent, blow water oni ........hard to give many substantiation cos too new......

Holding power is not a problem but again for investment, we need to take into consideration the opportunity cost. We were thinking if we could wait a bit longer when property cool down next 2 years , probably is a better time to enter again cause we think we manage to choose what we really want instead of buying for the sake of buying,,