Be A Balanced All Rounder

Don’t Just Learn How To Borrow & Invest.  Learn How To Earn More Too! Happy Chinese New Year! For those of you newly acquainted to me, I believe in being a Balanced All-rounder.  I am a father and husband, senior employee, investor & writer.  I do my best to excel from a family, career and…

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Ishihara Shotaro – A Japanese Investing Pioneer

When it comes to finding properties and good deals in the market, the information comes to him, and not the other way around  The Japanese are always known to be disciplined and wise. This seemed truer than true when we spoke to Ishihara Shotaro who moved to Malaysia in 1992 to develop a golf course…

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Understanding Sales And Purchase Agreement

While purchasing a property, one will not feel secure by merely signing only the Letter of Offer and Letter of Acceptance, notwithstanding the vendor or the purchaser. This insecure feeling of will persist until the signing of the formal agreement – Sale and Purchase Agreement (‘SPA’). SPA is the main contract governing both parties and…

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Affordability And Sustainability

Getting what you have been wanting using clay bricks Affordability goes hand in hand with sustainability. In this current market, we all would choose to buy the things we can afford or the things that can sustain us. Why? Because they will give us less trouble and trust me, you would want to stay away…

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Rich Debt, Poor Debt

What is a Debt? It seems to give a negative impression. Sometimes it even gives some people a chill just hearing this word. The dictionary, both layman and business, defines debt as something which someone gave permission to borrow but with the condition to repay back. From a business dictionary perspective, a debt is usually…

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University Townships

Capitalising on the college craze through property investment Looking for a signature address to live? Does the idea of living in a culturally vibrant community, well-educated population, rising property values even during economic crisis and mingling with people from all over the state and world seem like an intriguing choice? Nestled away from metropolitan centres;…

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Connecting The People Of Greater Kuala Lumpur

The railway revolution is about to hit Malaysia Increasingly Light Rail Transit (LRT) is seen as an appropriate solution for transportation challenges and heavy traffic faced by suburban residents of suburbs. The convenience to access LRT, in turn changes the strategy for urban planners. With more routes set to be launched in the upcoming months;…

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Airbnb: Riding The Wave

A home away from home Have you heard of Airbnb? The ‘in’ thing in the Online Travel Agency business! I was looking for destinations to go to for the recent long holidays and came across a website called Airbnb.com. The first thing I saw on the home page attracted my attention, it said ‘Welcome Home’.…

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Titijaya Land Holdings – Building Bridges Of Success

Titijaya’s stronghold is within its land banking. They have developments concentrated in Klang Valley as their initial headquarters were there. “We focused on Klang because we were already there, and we knew the market. Our first high-rise development was E Tiara Serviced Residences in Subang Jaya. Then we moved but now we have land secured…

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