Malaysia Property Blog
Guide for Malaysia Property Buyers & Investors
MalaysiaPropertyNews.net
Nov 9th
www.malaysiapropertynews.net
Your one-stop source for property news and advertisements from Malaysia’s top publications.
malaysiapropertynews.net brings you the latest Property News and Property Advertisements from Malaysia from publications such as The Star and New Straits Times. We also cover real estate news, exhibitions and trade fairs, the latest property deals and promotions and much more – all the info you will need as a property investor.
Property gains tax (RPGT) makes comeback
Oct 25th
THE Government has proposed to reimpose real property gains tax (RPGT) for gains arising from property disposal.
Based on the Finance Bill, disposal within two years of acquisition will be taxed 30%; in the third year, it will be 20%; in the fourth year 15%, while disposal within five years and beyond will still be subject to 5% tax.
The latest measure, which will come into effect in January next year, has been described as “a knock-out punch” by Deloitte Malaysia country tax leader, Ronnie Lim.
“It was merely four short sentences in the 2010 Budget speech. However, that short reference to RPGT carried a knock-out punch,” Lim said in a statement yesterday.
He pointed out that from the speech itself, many would have thought that a low rate of tax of 5% would apply to most gains arising from disposals of real property.
“Be prepared for a shock – this is not the case and the highest rate of RPGT will be 30%,” he said.
Most rates of RPGT from January 2010 will be restored to those prevailing immediately before its suspension in April 2007.
iProperty.com Malaysia has got new look!
Oct 23rd
www.iproperty.com.my
iProperty.com Malaysia is the country’s No.1 property and real estate website in all key metrics (as confirmed by: ComScore, Frost & Sullivan, Alexa.com and most recently, Google Ad Planner). Working with Malaysia’s top developers and more than 2,000 real estate agents, the website offers the largest online database of properties for sale and rent in the country.
In 2009, Google ranked iProperty.com Malaysia as the country’s top property portal, with over 300% more unique visitors and 1750% more page views than its closet competitor. iProperty.com Malaysia also publishes a monthly magazine.
Mudah.my – The marketplace of Malaysia
Oct 23rd
www.mudah.my
Mudah.my is another classified website in Malaysia. Due its simplicity it has gained a lot popularity among the Malaysian. Mudah.my probably the No.1 Classified website in Malaysia at the moment. And guess what? It’s FREE!
Due to its popularity, it will be a good place to advertise your properties. Your Ad may get rejected at first due to its very strict rules on advertising but trust me it’s worth trying a couple of times before your Ad get thru.
Top 5 Property Portals in Malaysia
Mar 12th
MalaysiaPropertyBlog used to be a blog to review property and real estate related websites in Malaysia. We have been doing this from December 2007. With this new face lift we’re going to expand our focus into more areas of this industry. As an humble beginning, we’re proudly present to you a list of 5 most popular real estate websites in Malaysia. This list is based on the hits and ratings that we have collected from our database.
If you think we have missed any website to be included in our list, kindly email to us for review.
Transact.com.my
Dec 17th
Transact Properties, a real estate agency firm based in Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia (located within Iskandar Development Region – IDR) was established in 1998. Transact Properties provides a wide range of real estate agency services for all types of properties: residential, commercial, industrial and land.
Estate888.com
Dec 17th
A simple website without much hassle to advertise your property. It’s a fairly new website with decent amount of listings. There are room to grow for this website. It has very limited search filters and there is no keyword search. Keyword search probably the most important search criteria to look for property. And looks like the advertiser not able to upload property images to the ad!
Asset.my
Dec 7th
Asset.my is a new Malaysian property classifieds website. With a simple and clean interface its very easy to navigate for properties in www.asset.my. Posting an advertisement is free of charge like other many classifieds advertisement websites in Malaysia.
Alexa Rank: 3,942,048 as of 7 December 2008
Hartanah.Intrena.com
Oct 6th
PutraProperty.com
Sep 24th
Another free property portal with very good traffic. Alexa rank shows 679,451 as of writing this article on 24th September 2008. Real estate agents, property developers, property owners and also home service providers can advertise their product & services in this website.
Some of the features of the website are search engine friendly pages, live chat, up to 5 images per listing, satellite image using Wikimapia, YouTube video and many more…