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It has already trickled down to fringe areas like Nusa Duta, Nusa Idaman, etc. Prices have gone up substantially over the last 2 years. Horizon Hills is considered part of Nusajaya as well, in fact HH is the first of these developments that experienced the price surge due to the ready golf...

Yes the buyer mix is good. Apparently they surveyed the market both in Malaysia and SG and concluded bungalow units would be sellable at 3m plus, hence the plan to go ahead with more bungalows. UEM is also fearful a higher mix of terraces leading to increased density lowers the image of the...

Oh well... unless of course the house is costly and interest expense is being paid towards it, in which case i would rush to rent out

"Three factors that impress her are the country's democracy, effective government and continuous economic growth" "Democracy" - don't you agree? Malaysians can vote for opposition without fear of losing their pants. Singaporeans cannot. The majority of Singaporeans simply complain and...

Its amazing how long people leave their property vacant. At Nusa Idaman Phase 2 (the earliest!) which has been around for 2 years plus, i am just seeing the last of the corner units doing their renovation. Malaysian people takes ages to renovate their house. I know of some people who spend...

Inner cities are exception, but you do have a choice to stay a little further away. In SG even if you stay at CCK the rental is still pretty high by intl standards.

Even in OZ the rental are pretty stable and landlords are selective with tenants. Call it socialist you may but it does improve the overall well being of the majority of population. We don't have to emulate the west but some control to prevent runaway asset inflation surely helps.

Have personally bumped into both CSJ and JBJ selling their books in Centrepoint years back. Personally i do not believe they are as bad as the press painted them to be. CSJ might have been a bit impulsive esp the "where is our 17 billion" stunt, but his book is quite ok. I missed those years...

Too much alcohol? Its CSJ and not CST. Who is CSC?

I spotted Captain Davies Jones and the Black Pearl among the ghost ships.

Quite hard to believe PR gets involved in politics, unless she is referring to new citizens (former PRs) then she needs to use her terminology correctly. It is ok to write about neighbour's politics since all columnists are kpos by nature, but facts need to be right.

Singaporeans are born with silver spoons hence not well-versed with bread and butter issues :-p

Strictly speaking new citizens are citizens all the same and should not be beaten up for opposing the govt. But i doubt PAP could swallow that.

The phase 8 row facing the garden are all type 30, hence the popularity. All said, MYR800k is still pretty affordable to Singaporeans. Extra land is charged at MYR75 psf. The UEM folks seems to have mastered the technique. They bring in buses of Singaporeans in the last few weekends prior to...

Ok... i hope no one is going to accuse me of having vested interest or trying to stir up the market. Today we dropped by East Ledang again, for the xxxth time (lost count). We wanted to snap some pictures of the show houses ID before they remove everything. Oops! They blocked up the road...

The growth in average wage is about 30% from year 2000 to 2010. They should breakdown the data to workforce earnings in the bracket < 5k, 5k to 10k, 10k to 20k and above 20k per month. Most likely you will see high wage growth for the top brackets, and least in the middle bracket.

Sorry to hear of your plight. But good lesson learnt, and you will move to "new-world" henceforth. Even if you chose to use a travel agent, use a reliable and profitable one, New Shan is an example.

As long as advertising revenue is growing its fine. I will buy a few more lots if the prices drop more. You can't get another SG stock with 5-6% dividend.

True. Thanks for your enlightenment. Bad debt itself is not necessarily bad, as long as the country can withstand it. But if i were the Chinese govt, i would be selective in which banks i would bail out. Let the rest failed. Afterall, i'm sure lotsa greedy dumbo foreign institutions would have...