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Buying a house is mission impossible for many Americans

Home for sale. To become the proud owner, simply make a quick offer, and outbid all interested buyers by US$100,000. In the red-hot US housing market, homebuyers are facing sticker-shock as prices have soared, and now they also have been hit with a surge in borrowing rates. “I’ve visited approximately 150 houses since 2019,” frustrated...

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The time to invest is now

“BE fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful,” is a famous quote by billionaire investor Warren Buffett (pic) made more than three decades ago. This quote is relevant now. Some investors fear the impact of the 40-year record high inflation which is driving up prices of goods and services, and in...

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Inflationary consequences

  SARAVANAN, a minimum wage worker, complains about how he has to pay almost RM10 more for five kg of cooking oil in a span of just two years. “The price of vegetables, poultry products and processed items have all increased significantly. The only thing that doesn’t increase as much is my salary. “I’m not...

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You can now buy a home as an NFT

PARIS: Real-world real estate in NFT form? That’s right, forget the craze for buying virtual real estate in the metaverse, now it is the purchase of bricks-and-mortar properties through non-fungible tokens that is starting to emerge. In February, a house in Florida was sold via NFT at auction for $653,000. And this is just the...

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Sunsuria purchases agricultural land in Ijok for RM74.17mil to expand

Sunsuria Bhd is paying RM74.17 million for a parcel of leasehold agricultural land in Ijok, Kuala Selangor, to expand its property development and property investment businesses. According to a filing with the Bursa Malaysia last Friday, the proposed acquisition represents an opportunity for the company to accumulate strategic industrial land. The developer has proposed purchasing...

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OCR ties up with Magna Prima to develop eCommerce hub

PETALING JAYA: OCR Group Bhd will be developing its first integrated eCommerce logistics hub via a proposed joint venture with Magna Ecocity Sdn Bhd. The integrated property developer said its wholly-owned subsidiary OCR Avenue Sdn Bhd yesterday signed a conditional joint venture agreement (JVA) with the 70%-owned subsidiary of Magna Prima Bhd to develop the integrated logistics hub on...

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A bubble that never pops

  THE National Property Information Centre recently released statistics on the performance of the Malaysian property market for 2021. While the headline numbers showed the number of transactions surpassed the 300,000 unit threshold level, up by 1.5% year-on-year(y-o-y), the data is still below the pre-pandemic level when the number of transactions hit 328,647 units in...

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