QUOTE(Showtime747 @ Nov 25 2014, 12:38 PM)
Property investment is a long term game. I am not speaking on behalf on those flippers who borrow 110%. They are high risk group, but they are the minority.
I have been in property investment for >20 years. The time when a DSL in KL area is <RM200k. Apartment & Condo only RM150k. Now it has appreciated to at least RM1m and RM600k respectively
My point is in property investment strategy, nobody can buy at the lowest point and exit at the highest point. It is actually a long term game. Buy when you are financially capable. Don't time the market. Yes, property price may drop, but if you have holding power, at the end, it is still profitable.
Eg. the DSL I bought for RM200k. It appreciated to RM500k at 1 point, then stagnant and drop back to RM400k+. Then for the past few years, it shoot up to RM1m. Property has its ups and downs. But eventually, the value will shoot up. It will not drop back to RM200k unless there is Nuclear World War 3.
Whereas you gambled a wrong strategy. You are too short term. You treated property investment as stock market. When you exited too early and took your RM200k and then wait for the crash. Crash didn't happen, and your property have appreciated to RM400k-RM500k. Too bad you missed the boat. You may interpret your case as getting off sinking ship. But from outsider point of view, you missed out RM200k-RM300k profit.
Bro, for all it is worth, take it as a lesson. Review your strategy in property investment. If you still have short term view in property market, you will be better off heading to the stock market. Property investment is not for you
You are wasting your gas talking to the brick-fields graduate.
Whatever we have been saying here is fact and already proven. Each of my parents bought 1 property when they were young. They just bought that for sake of owning a property. Now, both unit is worth 4 times they bought 20 years ago.
With that amount of cash they have in hands,can barely buy one unit only for now if they had not bought 20 years ago.
Even both of my parents always lament that salary increment
Will never catch up with the property price hike.