SINGAPORE, 6 December 2012 – PropertyGuru’s Malaysia Property Show (MPS) gains a stronger foothold as the popular property exhibition returns to Singapore on 8th & 9th December 2012 at the Orchard Hotel from 10am to 7pm.
Projects featured are freehold luxury developments centred within strategic areas with excellent infrastructure as well as recreational and urban amenities for leisure and business. Prospective investors and homebuyers can expect to view the latest property projects from 10 major Malaysian developers including Andaman, UEM Land, Plentitude, Sime Darby Property, MRCB, The Haven, Denia Developments, Pulai Spring, Tanah Sutra and Encorp Iskandar.
MPS will feature a series of informative seminars covering a variety of topics like mortgage planning and investment tips to provide a one-stop shop for local property enthusiasts looking to purchase Malaysian properties for their own residential or investment goals. The panel of speakers include:
1. Mr. Khairudin, Senior Manager of Ho Chin Soon Research, “Malaysia Property Market Outlook for 2013”.
2. Mr. Adrian Un, Director of Mortgage Broker, “Grow rich by choosing the right property and
mortgage leveraging – secrets revealed”.
3. Mr. KC See, The Founder of MasteryAsia, “Money is made when you buy, not when you
sell”.
4. Mr. Ahyat Ishak, Founder of The Strategic Property Investor (TSPI) Programme, “The 4 millionaire strategies of a strategic property investor”.
5. Ms. Elizabeth Siew, Advocate & Solicitor; Managing Partner of Messrs Iqbal Hakim, Sia &
Voo, “Property investment in Malaysia; legal aspect”.
Pleased with MPS marking its presence in Singapore again, Steve Melhuish, Co-Founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of PropertyGuru notes, “Our previous two Malaysia Property Shows were very well-received with over 1,400 visitors contributing total sales worth RM$44.5 million combined.”
“With property prices skyrocketing in Singapore, demand for Malaysian properties continue to grow in appeal for residential use due to close proximity to Singapore. The comparatively low cost of purchase and maintenance is a driving force for Singaporeans and Singapore-based foreigners to look towards neighbouring Malaysia as a tenable outlet for property investment, a source of demand we are looking to tap into”.
For more information on MPS, visit http://www.propertyguru.com.sg/events-tps. Lucky visitors stand a chance to win a Samsung Galaxy SIII if they pre-register before the event.
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About PropertyGuruHeadquartered in Singapore, PropertyGuru was co-founded in 2006 as a self-funded company, with a vision to make the property search process a breeze for buyers, sellers and investors. Taking advantage of Asia’s growing affluence for property and the online boom, it received its first VC investment funding in 2008. Since then, the company has grown rapidly, reaping profits and positive cashflow in 2009 and doubling revenue growth in 2011.
PropertyGuru is now Asia’s leading online property portal group, with a high-volume of online real estate presence across nine territories in Asia, including offices in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and partnerships with leading property websites in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Vietnam and China. It has a current inventory of electronic-driven properties including 82 million property pages with 500,000 residential and commercial properties listings from 200 developers to attract 9.8 million buyers and 25,000 paying real estate agent subscribers and developer advertisers, generating close to 300,000 advertiser enquiries monthly.
To date, PropertyGuru has also created 12 mobile applications in 4 countries and 3 languages which garnered 370,000 mobile application downloads, is the first to integrate website with social media as well as circulate Singapore’s only dedicated property print publication with dispersion outreach of over 3,500 key locations island-wide.
Executive BiographySteve Melhuish, Co-Founder and Group Chief Executive Officer
Steve is an award-winning entrepreneur.
For the last two decades, Steve built profitable companies throughout Asia and Europe and in 2006 along with his partner Jani Rautiainen, founded PropertyGuru Group.
Under the auspices of this newly established holding group, PropertyGuru.com.sg was started with the aim of providing a one-stop online shop for the listing and sale of residential properties to individual and institutional home buyers and investors respectively.
Prior to Steve’s current role, he held executive positions in various venture capital firms including Skype, AOL, Virgin Media, Vodafone, Extreme Media, iPass and Ariadne Capital. In all, Steve’s expertise in leading global teams resulted in a US$500 million turnover for a business unit for Cable & Wireless. In 2007, Steve was awarded the Spirit of Enterprise Award, in recognition of his contributions to entrepreneurship in Singapore.
Steve is a non-executive director for two other firms, an angel investor and member of the Business Angels Network South East Asia.
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