Property Malaysia

Michael Dell of Dell Computers - 33,000sq.ft. castle in Austin, Texas, 20-acre compund.

Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison has $100 million home, a 23-acre, 10-building Japanese-inspired imperial villa in Woodside, California. Also has $200 million snapping up a dozen commercial and residential properties in the ritzy beachside enclave of Malibu, Calif.

Bill Gates? 66,000sq.ft. in Medina, Washington.

George Lucas.

Sean Penn.

Donald Trump.

You can see their billion-dollar homes here.

When you think pre-fab homes, you think of low cost homes built on the fly to save cost and time. But this one defies convention.

In Tomoyuki Sakaguchi’s night photos of suburban Tokyo, familiar landscapes of densely arranged middle-class prefab homes, tightly parked cars, small gardens and anonymous street corners are somehow rendered strangely unfamiliar under the artificial glow of street lights.

Click here to see the interesting photos.

If you think your apartment is getting too small, and need more space, here’s a ingenious way to add an additional room.

Its actually a sculpture project and it looks really awesome.

Taken from here.

£100million penthouse.

Hyde Park, London.

£6,000 per square foot.

Private wine-tasting facility.

One awesome view.

Read it here.

Happy New Year and happy holidays, everyone!

Drive safely and enjoy yourselves.

It’s been a mixed year for all of us here at Property Malaysia, full of ups and downs together with the property industry.

While there were some interesting projects that really piqued our interest, by and large most of the developers were more involved in producing homes that lacked inspiration and creativity, in a bid to appeal to large market rather than push the envelope in terms of architecture and design.

So what’s in store for 2008 for this blog? More reviews, we hope. December is usually an off month for us, so we hope to come back for business as usual come January. So see you guys, and have a great New Year’s party.

Here’s something cute for the fans of the TV series The Simpsons.

Someone built an near exact replica of the Simpsons’ house in Springfield, with th matching interior right down to the cartoon coloured scheme. You can see the pics here.

I wonder how many episodes did they watch over and over again to get the details right?

Found this photo on Flickr.

A nice infinity pool in your own apartment…

Wouldn’t we want to own one…

We’re now in the last month of 2007, everyone’s busy with their holidays and shopping. Last month, November, we did four reviews and we’ve updated the reviews page.

The four new launches reviewed in November were:

Austral Yarra Link, Puchong
Villa Park, Taman Bukit Serdang
Parkville, Bandar Bukit Puchong
Idaman Villas, Damansara

Some selection of strange and interesting homes from around the world.

Colourful, but note the cars sticking out from the walls!

Egyptian themed home. Like a very small version of Sunway Pyramid.

Not sure if its a house shaped like a ship, or a ship turned into a house!

This is very sure not a real alien spaceship. Or IS it…?

Well, if you don’t like neighbours…

“There was an old woman who lived in a shoe…”

So how DO you tell your house from the others…?!

Looks like Frodo’s burrow in LOTR.

Low maintenance fees guaranteed.

I suspect this isn’t really a house.

Nice.

Taken from here.