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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.

Property Malaysia wishes all our Hindu readers a belated Happy Deepavali!

We had a good holiday on Deepavali, and this weekend we are planning to visit more new launches around the city, so watch out for new reviews coming starting next week. With the year end coming, most developers are still planning launches before the school holidays, after which there is traditionally a lull until after the Chinese New Year.

If you are always complaining your house is small and narrow, then maybe you should take a look at this house.

It is said to be the narrowest house in the world, just over a meter in width.

Kind of an incentive to stay slim if you want to stay in this house.

(Taken from here.)

Found this video clip at this great website.

It uses a wood framing technology, originally coming from Japan and now in use in the USA.

If it is a small house, you can finish it in a day, while bigger house may take up to 3 days. Nifty.

What a view from the restroom.

I think some people may having problems ‘going’ here…

Taken from here.