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Tiram Realty - Your Trusted Registered Estate Agency in Johor, Malaysia Primary Format : International Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Johor Bahru State/Province : Johor Country : Malaysia Region : AS User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Malaysia Property Channel Podcasts Methings.com listings of Malaysia Property Channel Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Malaysia Property Channel Iskandar Malaysia - The Rise of A New Metropolis MIEA Johor Convention 2009 shall be held in Johor Bahru with the followings:- Theme : Iskandar Malaysia - The Rise of A New MetropolisDate : 31st October & 01st November, 2009 (Saturday and Sunday)Venue : The Puteri Pacific Johor Bahru Hotel (Permata Ballroom) Johor Bahru, Johor, MalaysiaCPD points ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MIEA Johor Convention 2009 - Programme Summary MIEA Johor Convention 2009 - Programme SummarySaturday, 31st October, 2009 (Day 1)8.00am Registration and Networking9.00am Arrival of Guest of Honour – Y.A.B Dato’ Haji Abdul Ghani bin Othman, Menteri Besar Johor (Chief Minister of Johor)9.05am Official Remarks by MC9.10am Address by Mr. Lim Boon Ping, Convention Chairman9.20am Address by Ms. Julie Wong, President MIEA9.30am A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Iskandar Malaysia (formerly IDR) a MYTH or VISION? I gave a talk on the topic matter pertaining to "Johor Property Market Outlook 2009" early January 2009. During the talk, I was surprised to find there are still many local Johorean who knew very little on Iskandar Malaysia (IM) and/or hardly have any interests in understanding what IM is all about. From what I've gathered so far, foreigners seem to be more "excited" with IM as compared to locals. I do not wish to elaborate too much on why this is happening, the fact is, there are s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "I want to sell my property according to the value indicated in my assessment (cukai pintu)." "My assessment (cukai pintu) says my house is worth RM300,000, please sell my house at the value indicated by government valuers."Yes, we still receive numerous selling instructions with the abovementioned manner and I was always puzzled by this type of instruction. My answer isNOdue to the following two (2) major reasons:(1) Purpose of valuationThe purpose of valuation when the local government valuers did the valuation is for the purpose ofassessment, not for the purpose ofsale negotiati ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Real estate blogs and you Recently, i came across some blogs concerning real estate investment in Johor Bahru. Interesting blogs as they may be seen, and i am happy to see more blogs of this nature to come into existence, as they provide a good platform for investors at large to pool in their opinions with regards to Johor Bahru property market. Be cautious however to their opinions, as they are not accountable to any real estate professional body to what they have said whatsoever, be it ethicals or real estate prof ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tiram Realty awarded Top Real Estate Agent Award 2008 (Southern Region) We're proud to have been received the Top Real Estate Agent Award 2008 (Southern Region) from CIMB on 13th February 2009. The podcast is brought to you by Malaysia's Real Estate Selling, Buying and Auction Tips website.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Malaysia My Second Home - MM2H MM2H is not really an open license for everything in Malaysia, especially with Johor State pertaining to property ownership. The general MM2H rule of foreigner owning property of priced at RM150,000 doesn't apply to Johor. If i may clarify, all land matters are state matters in Malaysia. In other words, land laws are under the jurisdiction of the different state governments. Take Johor for instance, foreigner can only purchase residential properties of minimum RM250,000 and above with ma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to get satellite images of your property? Thanks to Google Maps, obtaining a satellite image of your property is as easy as lifting your finger, and and it's FREE! Though the image may not be real-time, it's already a technological wonder that many of us could benefit from.View Larger MapIf you have noticed, Google Maps has now included many street names in major cities in Malaysia. Hopefully very soon we could find detailed driving directions through Google Maps, as what millions of users in United States and many other countries ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Auction cancelled 20 minutes AFTER HAMMER DOWN In response to our article entitled "Can someone cancel the house I bought in an auction?", one of our website visitors is kind enough to share with us a personal experience: It happened to me 2 years ago. For my case, 20 minutes after the hammer down, the bank cancelled. I was not even given the chance to sign S&P. Nevertheless, I proceeded to sue the bank and won the case in KL High Court. The difficult tasks are finding a lawyer that is willing to sue and a valuator willing to prov ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Property Auction #4: I've bought a house at an auction fair by the bank, but they cancel the deal 2 months later! Can they do that? This was the question posted to us by one of our client who bought a single storey terrace house at Taman Desa Jaya, during a property auction fair conducted by the bank. For those of you who have read my previous articles on property auction before, you all knew this is what we called a Laca case, i.e. properties without individual titles issued. After two months signing the contract of sale, and he has signed the loan agreement,and he has started doing the renovation (i would not advise t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Real Estate Tips #10: Glossary - Overhang property We all know that from the property report from Valuation Department that Johor has got the most overhang properties. How do we know a property is considered overhang or not?Definition:Overhang - Property completed with Certicate of Fitness (now Certificate of Completion and Compliance) remain unsold for more than 9 months. Are there any real estate terminology that you wish me to further explain? Drop me a mail.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Real Estate Tips #11: Property Investment - Tenantability Say you are a property investor, and you are given by your Registered Estate Agent the following properties for consideration:Option 1:Alex has got a double storey shopoffice at Jalan Dedap, Taman Johor Jaya selling at RM400,000 with rental income RM2000 per month, i.e. 6%p.a. return. All shops on the same row are fully tenanted. From your survey, you are told that tenants are always on queue for this row of shops. Option 2:Brian has got a double storey shopoffice at Jalan Rosmerah, Taman J ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Real Estate Tips #12: Property Investment - Property Management The long awaited Common Property (Building & Maintenance) Bill has been passed in December 2006. Once this specific law is introduced, developers and owners are expected to form a joint management committee to manage and maintain the common properties. This will give owners a say in how the common properties will be managed. Owners will get to see more transparency in the made up of their contributions towards the management fund & reserve funds for major repairs. Henceforth, you as a prop ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Landlord and Tenant #1: My tenant doesn't pay utility bills! I've rented a firstfloor office in Taman Molek to a tenant, after a almost a year, the landlord came back to me and inform me that the tenant has owed electricity bills over RM2000, which has way exceeded the utility deposit paid to the owner. Tenaga Nasional Berhad has also sent out warning letter few times indicating that they are going to disconnect the electricity supply. Later i found out, the tenant didn't really owe anything. What happened here was that, the TNB meter is inside the b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Property Auction #4: I've bought a house at an auction fair by the bank, but they cancel the deal 2 months later! Can they do that? This was the question posted to us by one of our client who bought a single storey terrace house at Taman Desa Jaya, during a property auction fair conducted by the bank. For those of you who have read my previous articles on property auction before, you all knew this is what we called a Laca case, i.e. properties without individual titles issued. After two months signing the contract of sale, and he has signed the loan agreement,and he has started doing the renovation (i would not advise t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Real Estate Tips #13: Changes in house design over the past 10 years Some of you might find this interesting, here's some of the changes:(1) Single carporch to twin or even triple carporch- Most families now own more than one cars, in order to cater to these needs, all developers now opt to build more spacious carporch.(2)Traditional kitchen to Wet & Dry kitchen- Many would use the dry kitchen for display purpose, where the actual cooking is done in wet kitchen.(3)Cement/parquet flooring to tiled/timber strips flooring- Many finds cement/parquet floorings t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Landlord and Tenant #2: How many of you actually read through your tenancy agreement before signing? I'm very surprised to hear that many people never actually read through the tenancy agreement before signing it, be it professionals or some people from corporate background. Both landlord and tenant normally have many issues to be agreed upon, and in many instances, the issues are agreed upon verbally at initial stage. Please make sure these terms and conditions are duely noted and worded properly in the tenancy agreement to avoid any future disputes. To my knowledge, there are some so-cal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Landlord and Tenant #3: Fire insurance - notification on change of tenants This has always being neglected by property owners. Under the fire insurance terms and condition, you as a property owners are obliged to submit changes to the tenancies to your insurers promptly. That is to say that you will be paying different premium for the fire insurance. For example, if you have a carpentry as your tenant, you will be paying tariff at approximately 0.7% whereas a storeroom carries a tariff of approximately 0.2%. Yes, higher risk's tenant will cost you as a owner to pa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Real Estate Tips #14: Mortgage Reducing Term Assurance (MRTA), have you bought it? MRTA is designed exclusively to protect against the outstanding balance of housing mortgage in the event of the loan holder’s unexpected death or TPD (Total Permanent Disability). In other words, it will pay off the mortgage thereby securing the repayment of the housing loan.Over my 8 years involvement in the real estate industry, I've come across two typical true cases related to the issue of MRTA. Case one:Mr. A lost his eye-sights due to work injury, and he still has to carry a househol ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Real Estate Tips #15: Seminar on Southern Johor Development Malaysian Institute of Estate Agents , Johor Branch together with the cooperation of University of Technology of Malaysia and Land & Mines Johor are conducting a seminar on SOUTHERN JOHOR DEVELOPMENT: PROSPECTS & CHALLENGES IN THE 21ST CENTURY at The M-Suites Johor Bahru, 27th & 28th June 2007. The seminar topics are as follows:1. Iskandar Development Region - Embarking into a New Horizon;prospects and challenges2. Iskandar Development Region - The need for a balanced development3. Challeng ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website