The likelihood of property transactions breaching the RM100 billion mark is definitely possible.
For the period, January to November 2010, a record RM96.77 billion were transacted according to Knight Frank Malaysia managing director Eric Ooi.
He remarked that this was the first time transactions value has reached such figures.
Considering the penchant of Malaysians for property investments, Ooi is of the opinion that it is unlikely that property values would fall. He believes that even if it may not rise as much as it did last year, the uptrend is there.
Ooi, together with Henry Butcher chief operating officer Tang Chee Meng, said property value rose between 30% and 40% last year.
Tang added that he had never seen such record growth for the property market in 30 years.
“The condominium market saw a price rise of between 60% and 100% between 2003 and 2008. This pales in comparison to the rise in value of landed units which rose as high as 40% in just one year. If one were to average out the rise in condominium prices, it is about 20% a year,” Tang said.
Earlier, in his overview of the Malaysian economy and the Malaysian property market, director general of Valuation & Property Services Department Abdullah Thalith said it was very significant that the transaction volume between the 11-month period increased 12.2% year-on-year, but the value of transactions increased at a higher rate of 35% from RM71.67bil to RM96.77bil.
“The recovery of the Malaysian economy has reinvigorated the overall property market,” he said.
In terms of lending in the broad property sector, the purchase of residential property took up the lion share of bank loan, at 58.8% compared with the purchase of non-residential property, at 22.1%. Construction took up 9.6%.
“Credit expansion for the broad property sector in the banking system increased from RM342.09bil as at the end of September 2009 to RM391.25bil as at end-September 2010,” he said.
“This means the residential property sub-sector remained the main mover of the property market,” he said. In this residential market, transactions in Kuala Lumpur recorded a growth of 8.2%, Selangor 7.2%, Johor 3.6% and Penang (island) 9.7%.
Terraced houses continued to dominate the market, especially in Selangor with 27,165 transactions, Johor with 12,555 transactions and Penang 4,358 transactions.
The city of Kuala Lumpur recorded more condominiums changing hands, 10,333 units versus terraced housing at 3,756 units.
Let us see how the trend pans out in 2011.
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