外籍人士指南
The same handful of mistakes shows up in foreign purchases again and again — most of them cheap to avoid and expensive to discover late.
Most foreign-buyer problems in Malaysia aren't exotic legal failures — they are due-diligence gaps that a title search, a written confirmation or a calculator run would have caught. Here are the seven we see most often.
The most common dead end. Each state sets a floor (RM500k–RM2M depending on state and property type) below which state consent will simply be refused. Agents occasionally market sub-threshold units to foreigners anyway ("consent can be arranged"). It cannot. Verify the current floor with the state land office or your lawyer before paying an earnest deposit.
An MM2H pass is a long-stay visa, not Permanent Residency. MM2H holders:
Only actual Malaysian PRs pay the tiered duty.
A unit tagged "Bumi lot" can only reach a foreign buyer if the state formally releases it from the Bumiputera quota — a discretionary process that can fail. Malay Reserve land can never be transferred to a foreigner. A pre-signing title search (cheap, fast) plus a direct question to the developer or management office settles both. Never rely on a seller's assurance that release "is being processed".
Consent takes 3–6 months and refusal is always possible. If your SPA is not expressly conditional on it, a refusal can leave you in breach — deposit at risk — instead of walking away with a refund. Equally: check the consent conditions endorsed on the title after approval, because they typically bind your future sale too.
Three numbers foreigners routinely underestimate:
Run the full stack through our stamp duty calculator before falling in love with a unit.
Malaysia taxes disposals, not ownership. Sell in years 1–5 and RPGT takes 30% of the gain (foreigners); from year 6 it drops to 10%, never zero. The buyer's solicitor also retains part of your sale price for LHDN on account of RPGT when the seller is foreign. If your plan is a 3-year flip, price the 30% in — or plan a longer hold.
Malaysian listing conventions that trip up newcomers:
Treat the first month as due diligence, not transaction: title search, state floor confirmed in writing, consent-conditional SPA, bank margin indication, exit-tax math. Foreign buyers who do these five things almost never appear in the horror stories.
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