Bought some Hektar today...... so boring..... 

There is little direct/immediate impact of the property gain tax on the reit side, as reit seldom/never sell their properties since the injection/introduction of reit.

But property gain tax does put some 'cold water' on the property transaction, which affect some on the property market. But I don't think the 5% will be a major issue across, yes it does have some impact, but 5% tax won't reduce the property transaciton too much.

Yes, it could hampen the properties sector across, but think longer term, RPGT is not a totally bad thing (after all 5% is not too bad either), it can prevent over-speculation in the properties market and potential creating bubble on properties, or people abuse the non-RPGT environment to do some 'creating' accounting side.

A lot of people (especially on medium to high end properties) bought properties for the sake making money.

I personally encounter (not me buying, I rather buy reit instead of personal own  ) a high sort properties that launching time was 395K (or 400K), now transaction is going on around 600-650K+ just after 2-3 years time period (properties completed).

So with RPGT introduced back, it makes people think twice about speculation on it although RPGT is never a hinder point for people to buy properties.

Over-speculation is never good for properties market on long term basic, although short term wise properties price can shoot up and people can make a lot of money, over-speculation can lead to crisis and properties slump for long period of time, US real estate bubble is the best example.

no insider news la.. she as quiet as a mouse.. won't leak out anything. but one thing for sure, she told me, i got more unit than her!!! hahaha

Insider trading is illegal throughout the world.

For normal ordinary company information revealing, it is not considered insider trading.

Insider trading occur when somebody inside the company know the news (good or bad) (before being revealed) and use the news to take advantage and move ahead in the stock market trading, which yield the person advantage on others.

In ordinary sense, director acquire or dispose shares are not classified of insider trading, although they knew about the company situation.

For example of insider trading.
The directors has known the company will be acquired by somebody else at 1.00 and negotiation hasn't been completed, but news has been announced, while share price is 0.70 in the market, the directors go to market to 'sapu' stock just 1-2 days before the news being announced.

In theory sound simple, in actual situation, it is not easy to prove insider trading, as intended person doing won't be so dumb to buy the share on their own and let authority caught them.

Also if you are directors of the company, it is not wise to do something illegal although it could make some money for you, but trustfulness as well as company job position might be in jeopardy afterwards. After all if the directors own part of the company, you already own millions, still want to do illegal stuff to make some little money? (Still people doing it, due to greed)

As a HEKTAR investor, Im abit worried about future DPU. Seems like they have a RM30mil refurbishment for Mahkota Parade. Most likely will eat into their profit and thus affecting their DPU. Anyone knows if the RM30mil has already been fully accounted or what?