Since you are in Taiping, get a flock of geese.... most robbers will stay out of your house.

Anyway, my taiping house is only worth 150k in Taman Sri Hijau, single storey with small 10feet of land, so I dont think the property prices are increasing dramatically across the whole town (probably hype too).
However, it is a good place especially for me and my family to go back once in a while to get away from the hustle and bustle of ibukota.