Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Build HOME.....not house

Ok,I know it have been months since my last posting... and I am already on the move of deleting my blog away...but on the way home today, out of sudden I realise I needed this blog.... I will turn this blog around soon.....Will set up one travel blog that will feature all the trip I been and will revive back my food blog soon. This blog will turn around to discuss more on opinion, social, politic and one things that close to my heart which is the agenda of social responsible eitherby corporate or public at large. Today posting is really interesting...Is all about House....or easily mistaken as HOME... House is an essential item in life. Is a place where a roof protect us and provide comfort. Home is being in a house serounded with love under a roof that protect us and a place you find comfort and create bounding amount family and friends. OK....enough of the non harvard oxford cambridge english defination above....my point now is house nowadays are so expensive. How could one easily build a house? Everyone that know me well, will know that I have been in property industry for the past 3 years and I had yet to see any full stop yet. I remember i tell my boss during the interview that I love those house model....I love the fact house provide shelther from rain and shine....but most important working with property developer is like helping hundred if not thousand of family building their home. I once talk to a friend whose father is owner of a smaller size property developer somewhere a bit ulu....but he told something that shock me, and probably the reason that drive me into property development company. He told me...."He build HOME....not house" House in Malaysia is rather cheap compare to Hong Kong and Singapore. I have to say that many investor either from oversea or richer local will own more than 2 house as part of investment. It is true that the house is cheap, but it is also true most people can't purchase any house now. If you got the chance to come across the owner of most property at the newly launch property, you will get shock to see the same person name appear not once, not twice but lot of time. This prove Malaysia house have already been use as tool for speculation or investment. Back in 2006, a normal 22x80 link house can be purchase at the price of 200k and maybe below....But now, not just that the location is a bit ULU, the house size strink to 20x70 but the price tripled to 600k and above. Mind you I am refering to Klang (which is not part of Klang Valley) or Shah Alam.... The latest survey from iProperty show that Malaysian have the highest number of owner that owned 4 house and above compare to Singapore, Hong Kong and Indonesia. Frankly this never surprise me. To me owner of 4 houses is consider small because I got to see an owner purchasing 10 units of house in just a launches. What more suprisingly is some house agent swipe few units for investment and not forgetting the ever growing property investment company that buy house and sold it on second hand market. So...by end of the day, we might not be buying first hand house, but in reality house that had already been traded in few hands even prior to the hand over of the house. I kinda pity those poorer or lower income citizen as the rising price of essential item would have hit them badly. Essential item like rice, flour and sugar is increasing but what is a proper family if they can't even have a proper shetler. Working in this industry I could only agree that the richer get richer while the poorer remain status quo or even worst, depleting......Low cost house is not a solution and will never be a solution. Please, someone go and flip through the purchaser of low cost house in Malaysia.....Have the authority make enough checking or screening on those buyer? Why is people earning big buck buying a low cost , medium cost or even P1RMA house??? Gosh...why am I talking about house when my main point is HOME..... Look, what is a HOME without a house. I know those who can't own a house, would rent a house. But in reality who want to rent if they can buy. Again on another side, those who own more than one house would prefer their house to be rent out at higher price so they can earn money.So at the end of the day, is again those without houses that will be in losing point. SO think again....Is there any developer now that really helping family to built their dream HOME......or they just built home?.....to me, they neither do both of them, they just sell House.... Remember, is home that you can't buy.... So let rest the case, and we will see, are Malaysia slowly pushing the citizen to stay HDB flat and those richer will owned more and more property.....