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Just my own opinion as my spouse younger sister live in JB. Typically the condos are not so hot among the Msian locals but those taman units are more favored. Not sure why but it seems high rise flats in their minds are govt built for poor ppl aka cheap housing equivalent to our HDB concept. In fact when they first hear my spouse and I live in govt built HDB they link to their own Msia "HDB" which are for poor ppl until they come into Spore see for themselves the Spore HDB vs their Msia "HDB"

As JB has a lot of lands, there are always new condo or taman housing projects on-going so competition can be very high. Due to oversupply a lot of them are left vacant and some are priced beyond local means. That is why the developers turn their attention to Spore and China which they presume got the spending power to buy.

I am not against nor for Sporeans to go and buy to live or invest but just to give some background picture.