Penang Property and Real Estate

A good friend of mine is planning to get marry this year and I am very happy for her. They had been dating for almost 10 years now and to us (and I am sure to their parents as well), it is about time they got married! They were college sweethearts and were each other's first boyfriend / girlfriend. How sweet...

Since both of them are from Penang, they will be having the wedding in Penang. Yippee, and I get an excuse to go up to Penang. Perhaps I can persuade hubby to take a few days off and we can stay a little longer. It has been ages since I last visited Penang.

As for my friend, she said that they will be moving back to Penang after they are married. She will be working at her husband's family business and so, now they are looking around for some good Penang property. She had been checking online for some properties to buy or at least rent around Gelugor. There is this website called Propwall that she had been frequenting and she was telling me that it was one of the better ones so far. She gave me a few condominium names and asked if I could give her my opinions about them. So I happily went into that website and looked at some of the condos that she had mentioned. Gosh, some of them are asking for over RM1 million for a furnished condo!! I hope her husband is a wealthy man! :-)

As for the website, I like the layout and it' s pretty well-organised. There are quite a lot of different properties ie condominiums, houses, offices, shops, factories and even lands, though there are more of the first types of properties than the others. What I find most helpful about this website is the amount of pictures and also the vast information available about the properties, from location to maintenance fee to nearby amenities and so forth. What I also like is that the articles are unbiased. They do not concentrate only on the positive parts of the properties but also highlight the cons as well eg if it is near polluted areas. So I guess I would recommend this website to those who are seeking properties around major cities in Malaysia, especially if you don't have the time to personally visit all these properties yourself.