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Cukai Tanah in English: Quit Rent Malaysia Guide + How to Pay Online

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); When it comes to real estate, it is not just about the initial costs when buying a property, but also the additional costs that comes with owning one. In Malaysia, these are the costs (or taxes) to take note of: quit rent (cukai tanah), parcel rent (cukai petak), and property assessment tax (cukai pintu or cukai taksiran). Watch YouTube...

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Quit Rent in Malay: Cukai Tanah, Cukai Pintu & Cukai Petak Explained

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); When it comes to real estate, it is not just about the initial costs when buying a property, but also the additional costs that comes with owning one. In Malaysia, these are the costs (or taxes) to take note of: quit rent (cukai tanah), parcel rent (cukai petak), and property assessment tax (cukai pintu or cukai taksiran). Watch YouTube...

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Cukai Pintu in English: What It Means & How to Pay in Malaysia

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); When it comes to real estate, it is not just about the initial costs when buying a property, but also the additional costs that comes with owning one. In Malaysia, these are the costs (or taxes) to take note of: property assessment tax (cukai pintu or cukai taksiran), quit rent (cukai tanah), and parcel rent (cukai petak). Watch YouTube...

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Cukai Taksiran in English: Malaysia Property Assessment Tax Guide

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); When it comes to real estate, it is not just about the initial costs when buying a property, but also the additional costs that comes with owning one. In Malaysia, these are the costs (or taxes) to take note of: property assessment tax (cukai pintu or cukai taksiran), quit rent (cukai tanah), and parcel rent (cukai petak). Watch YouTube...

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BNM Decreased OPR to 3.00%: How Will it Affect Your Housing Loans?

On 03 May 2023, Bank Negara Malaysia announced the increase of the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) by another 25 bps from 2.75% to 3.00%. Since then, and for the next 12 consecutive meetings (over 2 years), BNM kept the OPR at 3.00%. On 09 July 2025, Bank Negara Malaysia announced the decrease of the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) by 25 bps from 3.00% to 2.75%. What does this mean to home buyers...

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BNM Decreased OPR to 2.75%: How Will it Affect Your Fixed Deposits?

On 09 July 2025, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) announced the decrease of the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) by 25 basis points (bps) from 3.00% to 2.75%. Much, much earlier in 2023, BNM announced the last increase of the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) to 3%, in line with “the sustained reopening of the global economy and the improvement in labour market conditions continue to support the recovery of...

First Impressions of The Exchange TRX

Last Sunday (02 December 2023) which was also the first weekend of The Exchange TRX’s life, we joined “1 million people” there or so, as my friend enumerated it.  Walking over from Lot 10 in Bukit Bintang (yes it’s walking distance from there despite the Malaysian humidity); it was a short 10 to 15 minutes walk, minus the somewhat long waiting time at the Jalan Gading-Jalan Imbi-Jalan Barat...

Connect Wise Multi-Currency Card to Apple Wallet in iPhone

If you use that bright, green, Wise prepaid card and you happen to travel internationally alot; Wise now supports Apple Pay in Malaysia. You can add both the physical and virtual cards in your Wise account to Apple Wallet. In Malaysia, that is I know of, currently. I did a tutorial video, you can watch it below on YouTube. To sign up for a Wise multi-currency account, you can use my referral link...