Property Malaysia

Polling time. This one will run for a week, ending 18 October. Please tell all your friends to visit this page, our use this url:

http://propertymalaysia.blogsome.com/2008/10/11/poll-how-bad-will-the-us-credit-crunch-affect-the-malaysian-property-market/

(It will lead you directly to this poll)

we need as many respondents as possible. I think many Malaysians are already bracing themselves for a difficult 2009 in light of the credit crunch and subprime crisis in the US affecting the economy of many other regions including our country.

Thanks in advance for your participation! Results will be published immediately after the poll closes.

How to save money when building a hut - make it a lean against a rockface. Save half the cost of building materials, plus it looks awesome!!!

This beautifully taken photo is actually taken from here, they have other great shots.

Okay, holiday season over, back to the business as usual.

Last month September we managed to squeeze in 4 reviews listed below. As usual the reviews page has been updated. Go on, then, visit the page if you haven’t been there recently.

201.Juniper, Bandar Puteri Puchong
202.Residency @ Park 51, Petaling Jaya
203.Setia Walk, Pusat Bandar Puchong
204.Royal Regent (Sri Putramas 3), Jalan Kuching

October looks like to be a slow month, with the bad times and year end looming.

Eid mubarak and Selamat Hari Raya to all our Muslim readers here in Malaysia and across the globe.

As for us, we have some home repair projects to undertake in the next few days, maybe we can fit in one or two Hari Raya open houses.

Anyways, this raya we’ve been listening to this old song Cahaya Aidilfitri by Black Dog Bone a lot, the classics are always the best!

Enjoy!

What do you think this building is? A warehouse? Some kind of budget hotel?

Nope, its actually a taxidermy shop called Deyrolle in Paris. It was opened in 1831 by entomologist Emile Deyrolle, the shop has become a favorite haunt of the rich and famous, and budding scientists (source).

I doubt a building like this would get past our local council…

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It was a pretty slow two months for us at the blog, we were mostly bogged down by work matters that had to be dealt with. As a recap, the projects reviewed in that period are listed below. As usual, the reviews page has been updated.

196.Acacia @ the Park Residences, Bangsar South
197.Serenity Heights, Melawati
198.ResTrees, USJ17 Subang Jaya: Phase 3 (Type B)
199.Sutera Damansara, Sri Damansara (Phase 1)
200.Dolomite Park Avenue, Batu Caves

Some of you may have noticed that recently we’ve added a running number to the project listing, and in August we’ve reached the milestone of 200 reviews in just over 3 years. Wow, has it been that many?

With the concern lately about hillside development and the perils that come with it, this is a rather interesting concept that makes full use of the sloping terrain to build a house. It even shows the building plan and section, if you are interested…

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With all the problems of hillside projects in Malaysia recently, here are some stunning photos of clifftop communities that have been around for many decades, done the old fashion way.

For more photos and the full article, check it out here.

Selamat Hari Merdeka, and have a good weekend. For our muslim readers, selamat berpuasa too.

We’ll be taking a well deserved break lepak-king and eating.

Some of you may remember a post some time back about the smallest house in Toronto here on this website, which we also thought was the smallest house in the world, but now we found an even smaller house.

Despite looking like an outhouse, it actually is a proper dwelling unit. Albeit VERY small.

(Source)