After the slew of incentives announced by the Malaysian government since the beginning of the year to boost the property sector, the Kuala Lumpur market has gone quiet in recent times. However, the lull is not expected to last, as several property developers are targeting the last quarter of the year for their new launches. Read further .
The number of entries for the Malaysia Property Awards has been boosted by the many innovative new concepts being implemented in the Malaysian property sector and the construction boom over the last three to four years, read further.
It was reported that Malaysia property-buying process is ’simpler than eastern Europe’, read further .
THE International Real Estate Federation (Fiabci) Malaysia wants to play a major role in assisting the Government to promote Malaysia as a preferred destination for property investment.
For more details, read article from The Star .
Applications for the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme will be fast-tracked for those who had bought properties worth RM1 million and above in Malaysia.
For more detail, read article from The Star .
With effect from 1 Jan 2008, EPF members can make monthly withdrawals from Account II (equivalent to 30% of total EPF contribution) to finance the loan repayments on one house. This will potentially unleash almost RM9.6 billion annually for home purchases. RM9.6 billion is more than double the amount of Malaysia’s residential property stock overhang, which is estimated at RM4.2 billion. For more information , you may want to read the article from The Edge Daily
The real estate or property agent deals with sale or rental of properties on behalf of property owners. They normally have huge database of properties entrusted to them by house owners.
To make known the available properties to the public either for sale or for rental, the property agent normally resort to regular advertising in the local newspapers. They normally would need to advertise over a long term period as potential buyer or renter may not notice the properties if the agent only advertise for a day or two. In fact, many of them advertise everyday.
Advertising over a long term period is going to incur a lost of cost for the real estate agent. It is also not possible to advertise all the properties in their database as doing so would further escalate the cost.
When the agent only advertise a handful of properties out of the many they have, they would still need to attend to enquiries from public as to whether they have certain property at certain location for sale or for rent. This will put strain in the operation of the agent as the agent will be so busy to attend to calls that he has no time to carry out his other tasks. The ratio of enquiry materialising into actual sale is rather small thus imagine the number of enquiries a agent would have to handle before he clinch a sale.
Moreover, it will also be difficult for the agent to keep track of his own database if the database is large.
Having a web site with database will make life of the property agent much easier. The agent will only need to submit every new property to his web site and it will be immediately available for viewing by the public, it will remain in the database and the web until it is removed. The real estate web site can be equipped with advance search feature so that by input in the criteria such as location, price range and type of house, the web users or public can search for the property of their choice. Which means that the advertising is immediate and live 24 hours every day, every year until it is deleted.
Moreover the advertising on the web has world wide presence. It also allow the agent to manage his database more efficiently as he will be able to track his database, add property into his database or delete property from his database at any place or any time as long as he has internet connection.
The internet advertising allow the public to view the complete list of properties the agent has at any time or any place with internet connection connection without troubling the agent, the amount of phone enquiries will reduce and this will enable the agent to lead a more quality life and has more time to carry out other tasks thereby ultimately reduce stress of working.
It is now a norm that owner of new houses install security alarm system to protect their house from theft.
There are many types of security alarm system available in the market and they mainly consist of magnetic contact and vibration sensors to be installed at doors or windows to detect any intrusion. There are also infra red sensor to detect any movement within any particular space such as living room etc.
While the magnetic contact or vibration sensors will trigger the alarm whenever there is an intruder entering through the door or window. Infra red sensor will detect movement but that include the movement of pet or rat.
Some intruder may choose to enter the house through the roof by removing the roof tiles. The infra red sensors can be used for the space below the roof tiles within the roof truss area above the ceiling but that will cause a lot of inconvenience to the occupant of the house as alarm will be triggered when ever there rats moving above the ceiling area. So most owner will compromise safety for the sake of convenience.
But if you are renovating your house and if your renovation works include the replacement of roof tiles, then you can take the opportunity to install a layer of galvanised iron steel sheet or plywood immediately below the roof tiles location to completely cover the roof area before the roof tiles are being relaid on the galvanised sheet or plywood. The steel sheet or plywood will prevent easy entry of thief as any cutting of those material will create noise and takes time which the thief surely do not want.
Moreover if you choose to use galvanised iron steel sheet to cover the roof below the roof tiles, the roof will be almost completely leak proof thus serving two purposes of theft prevention and leak prevention.
While it is very useful and important today for a real estate & property agent to have web presence, many have not much knowledge of designing a web site and depend on others to prepare one for them. While a complicated real estate web site with database and admin control is the most ideal as it is most versatile and complete but it may be costly to have one done by an IT specialist. To have a simple web site done with simple HTML require constant updating in the page format and page linking structure as new content are constantly added. For those who are not very familiar with web design, having the need to constantly updating the site can be a daily pain.
There are many web site that offer free blog site for web users and one of those is none other than blogger.com. But what has a blog site got to do with real estate web site ? The blog site such as blogger.com is free to use, just register for an account with a sub-domain name that you like and start posting right away. Every property for sale or for rent with photo can be uploaded as a posting. Information for each property can be included as detail as possible together with the photo in each of the posting. Whenever the agent is entrusted with a new property for sale or for rent, all he need to do is just to post the property with full details. There is no need to worry about the linking structure between the pages as it is automatically taken care of by the blog script. Moreover there are many available templates to choose from and agent can choose the look that he likes. there is also no real need to do regular backup and it save the agent a lot of hassle.
In addition, the agent can register for an google adsense account and start making money through pay per click internet advertising straight away.
As the number of listings increase, a google site search can be included to falicitate visitors of the site to search through the site.
So it sound like killing two birds with one stone, the blog site can serve as a well presented real estate web site with beautiful linking structure and adsense allows the agent to begin buiding his money making empire through the internet.
Does it sound too good to be true, not really, a check or search in cyberspace will reveal that many have already taken and adopt this approach.
Setting up a real estate web site is easier than most people think. A real estate web site with portal, classifieds, blog, real estate directoty, article directory & forum can be set up in a matter of days.
But what is the use if no body know of the existence of your web site. After completing the web site, there is always satisfaction that finally one is able to be part of ever booming cyberspace where news and articles everywhere suggested that there are indeed great earning potential, moreover not being in the web is kind of stange these days, many people have their own blog or for that matter blogs. However reality soon set in, sitting in front of the computer, checking the various stastistic generated by the server provider or the script you have inserted into your web page, can be a very frustrating affair as suddenly you find to your horror that nobody or not many people are visting the beautify web site or the best web site you claimed to have built in your lifetime, the worst is that you may find that majority of the traffic to your site is none other than yourself.
So, no wonder there are so many web sites out there that try to outdo each other by offering the best tips in SEO, short for search engine optimisation, meaning that web site has to be optimised for the many search engine out there that determine the life and death of your web site. If your web site is consistently being shown at the front page of the search results of the major search engine for the targeted key words, then you can be rest assured that you may have your fair share of success with your web site. But then how do we ensure that our web site will be returned in the search results instead of other web sites, the main method is to improve the search ranking of your web site by increasing the back link to your web site or simply known as link popularity.
The most common method is to trade link with other web sites or simply to submit your link to directories but you only get one back link for each effort and it is unknown if the back link that you have obtained will still be linking to you six months down the road. The method which most SEO advocate now is the writing of articles and submit them to article directories. By writing good articles, there is a good chance that your articles may be adopted by other webmasters as additional quality content for their web sites, as all users of article directory are required to use the article in its original state which include a resouce box which usually contain the link to the authors’ web site and when one article you have written is used by 100 webmasters, then you have 100 one way back links and yes that is leveraging effect being exploited to the fullest in buiding back links. So instead of spending a lot of time carrying out the tedious link trading, why not sit back and write one good real estate article and submit it to a real estate article directory and begin the journey of building back link in a more effective way.