Ask your parents what
an acre cost back then.

"Too expensive." "Too far." "Let's wait and see."
Your parents' generation had people saying all three too.

The ones who kept saying it are still saying it today.
The ones who didn't have land.

This isn't a push to act on impulse. It's a reminder of something easy to forget: the reasons that land looked "not worth it" back then sound exactly like the reasons today.

Road one: the bank. Fixed-deposit rates are about 2.5–3.5% now, inflation about 3%. The number grows each year, but it doesn't buy more — a deposit preserves value, it doesn't grow it. That's decided the day you put the money in.

Road two: buy land. This area conservatively appreciates about RM0.70 per sq ft a year. On this parcel's base of 421,225 sq ft (9.67 acres), that works out like this:

Take a second look at the 10-year row.

Cumulative growth of RM7.00 per sq ft — exactly what you paid for it. In other words: hold ten years and the land has earned back your capital on its own — and it's still whole to pass down.

Not everyone can truly hold for twenty years. So let's say it up front.

A freehold parcel in a growing area won't lock you in if you ever need cash — but that isn't the point.

The point is: you don't have to sell.

This is the most solid part of "leaving it to your kids" —you're not tied down. The road stays open; you just don't have to walk it — and if you don't, it passes down whole.

For passing down, leasehold doesn't work from the start — the difference isn't today, it's twenty years out:

Want to look at the title question more closely? Read Freehold vs Leasehold.

9.67 acres freehold, around Bagan Serai / Parit Buntar, about an hour to Penang. Asking RM7/sqft, roughly RM2.95M for the whole parcel. The sources for the area figures are here.

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