My First Feng Shui Criteria Before Invest in Property

In my previous post, I mentioned that there are 4 different types of Feng Shui believer and I'm basically the "Type 3" of Feng Shui believer who makes a lot of common sense out of Feng Shui. However, regardless of you believe in Feng Shui or not, the property price will still be affected by Feng Shui. So, you still cannot completely ignore Feng Shui.

What I would like to share with you is  my first and most common Feng Shui or environmental factor that I look at before I invest in a property. Assuming I want to buy a residential property in a township, the first thing that I look at is how many different routes can enter to the township. It must have at least 2 different routes enter into your property area and the more the better. Let's see the following maps to illustrate this:


Example A: 1 route to the township

It is not good because there is only 1 way or 1 route to the township. Assuming if any thing happen that blocks the route, you have no way to go out or you have no way to go in. You basically stuck there!

Example B: 2 routes to the township

This is better than example A because there are 2 different routes to township and it is preferable at different entrance as shown. If it is a small area, one entrance is fine too. Of course, if there are more different routes and different entrances to the township, it will be better.


I'm not sure if that makes sense to you but this is the first thing how I evaluate a property before I decide to buy a property. I will usually try to avoid a property area with only one route and one entrance, and if property that has more than 2 routes entrance, I will usually give it higher weightage in my decision making.

Let me know what you think, what is your first "Feng Shui" or environmental criteria before you decide whether you want to invest in a property? What is the first thing that you look at?

Do You Believe Feng Shui in Property Investment?

Do you believe in Feng Shui? If you do, I’m sure you do consider Feng Shui as part of your decision making process before you invest or buy a property. But if you don’t, will you still take Feng Shui into consideration?

Before we can answer these questions, let’s look at what type of Feng Shui believers out there in the market. So I interview my friends, relatives and strangers too. The conclusion is there are 4 different types or 4 different level of Feng Shui believers:


Type 1: Person who does NOT believe in Feng Shui at all.

This type of person does not give a damn about Feng Shui at all. These people are usually my non-Chinese friends such as Malay and Indian friends. Well, I have one Indian friend who believe in Feng Shui too but I think that is the minority.


Type 2: Person who believes in Feng Shui only at surface

This type of person believes in Feng Shui only at surface level. They know the basic rules of Feng Shui and some basic Feng Shui’s fundamentals such as house should not face directly to the road and etc.


Type 3: Person who believes in Feng Shui based on common sense

This type of person do their own research about Feng Shui and make common sense out of it. For items or Feng Shui practices that are out of their common sense, they choose to NOT believing in them. These are usually an educated people with strong analytic skills (e.g. an engineer). So, I”m actually belong to this type.


Type 4: Person who very believes in Feng Shui by knowing the rules

This type of person are the strong believers in Feng Shui and they know almost all the Feng Shui’s rules. However, they need someone who they think is reliable to tell them the rules of Feng Shui. So, they listen from friends or relatives about all these Feng Shui’s rules. For those rich one, they usually hire a Feng Shui master to tell them these “rules”.


Which Type of Feng Shui’s Believer You Want to Be?

No matter which type of Feng Shui believers are you, ultimately you should always invest or buy property at least like type 3 or type 4 of Feng Shui’s believer. The reason is very simple because type 3 and type 4 are the superset for the rest of the types. Look at the diagram below for better illustration.

The diagram basically tells you few things:

• If you’re type 3 and type 4 of Feng Shui’s believers, you can sell your house to type 2 and type 1.
• If you’re type 2, you can only sell to type 1.

Note: The reasons why you see there is overlap between type 3 and type 4 is because there’re rules that doesn’t make sense to Type 3 and also Type 3 of Feng Shui’s believers tend to always create or invent their own Feng Shui’s rules.

So now, which type of Feng Shui believers you want to be? Even though you don’t believe in Feng Shui or even Feng Shui is a fake thing, you should also start to change by analysing your property with your Feng Shui.

This is a demand and supply rule and has really nothing to with whether you believe in Feng Shui or not. Good luck in your property investment!