06/06/2026
“The price of property only increase 2% a year leh… soooooo little OMG.”
I’m so appreciate of NAPIC for putting out excel files for us to tabulate our own graphs. And here I realised a few missing narratives:
(1) Our median property price hit RM500k for the first time. This includes all the kampung-kampung houses along with mega mansions yea within the country.
(2) The appreciate rate is calculated y-o-y. It means the appreciate rates are compounded. From 2009-2026, the median price went from RM200k to RM500k. That’s 2.5x on average in 17 years leh. Plus this is the median, which means any uncle auntie who bought any property in Malaysia would enjoyed that return.
(3) But how come some of us lost money? The only possibility is when we overpay for the property. If we pay above the median price for a property, there will be risk. However, it’s tough because most of us are driven by FOMO and will never expect the music to stop in the game of musical chair.
So indirectly it means anytime is a best time to buy property AS LONG as we are buying at the median price in accordance to on the location. If we paid Mont’Kiara price for a Segambut property, GG. If we pay KLCC price for Kampung Baru property, habis.
01/06/2026
“At least you’re not ChatGPT or Claude…”
An audience recently asked several questions which were really interesting:
1) How did you learn about property investment because your approach is very different compared to the suggestions provided by AI models?
- Well I was from an era before smart phone and Waze were invented. So it was all from observations and discussion from seniors within the industry, but not many people are willing to share honestly. Technically property industry is a very micro focused investment as it behaves differently in accordance to local guidelines and policies. So every city will have different strategy, and mine is only sensible to Malaysia’s context.
2) Why don’t you start teaching formally?
- Well I think the theories and rule of thumbs are rather simple. It’s the context and access to deals that’s the challenging part. Start investing with nothing versus RM50k is gonna be very different. Single versus with family is different. That’s why I prefer to share “how to think” rather than just sharing directly which project to buy🤣
3) Why don’t you own a sports car? Or a super mansion?
- I cannot afford loh hahahaha🤣 I’m still technically ‘renting’ the house I’m staying in. Will I ever want a super car? Not really. Will I want a Patek Celestial? Of course😆 But seriously I don’t think I’m really that rich compared to the other influencers or business people who openly shared about their mega mansions berjuta-juta, or their 6 figure monthly incomes… If I’m that rich, no need to do YouTube already lah😆😆😆 But I’m very grateful for my current state as I’m already living beyond my wildest dreams.