Your core essentials like aircon, kitchen, wardrobe, white goods is like 30k minimum already. This is needed whether you are rumahwip or 1k psf. If you want a bit better quality or with some design then it’s north of 50k already. I suppose some people can really cheap out and use shopee kitchen racks etc but to me it’s not functional.

Hence partially furnished like kitchen and aircon is very helpful.

This post has been edited by Cavatzu: Jul 18 2024, 01:02 PM

Possible if you’re not lazy and you hunt for bargains or negotiate with contractors. Minimise built ins unless essential ones.

This post has been edited by Cavatzu: Jul 18 2024, 02:31 PM

80k is ownstay/expat class type budget for 1k sqft. Your Reno budget should be commensurate with the location and target tenant asides from ownstay.

Then you need to set an ultimate budget then work backwards from that. There are shortcuts you can take by not furnishing one room for example.