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doi: 10.5267/j.msl.2019.5.016
Management Science Letters 9 (2019) 1341–1348
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Factors influencing customers’ purchase decision of residential property in Selangor, Malaysia
Dwi Rachmawati
a*
, Sakinah Shukri
a
, S. M. Ferdous Azam
a
and Ali Khatibi
a
a
Post Graduate Centre, Management and Science University, University Drive, Off Persiaran Olahraga, Section 13, 40100, Selangor,
Malaysia
C H R O N I C L E A B S T R A C T
Article history:
Received: April 16, 2019
Received in revised format: April
28 2019
Accepted: May 15, 2019
Available online:
May 15, 2019
This paper investigates the factors influencing on customers’ purchase decision of residential prop-
erties in Selangor, Malaysia. The study measures the effects of quality, price, location, promotion
and corporate image on purchase decision by distributing some questionnaire among 312 randomly
selected residents from some selected destinations at Selangor, Malaysia. Descriptive analysis and
multiple regression analysis are used for analyzing the data. The findings reveal that quality, price,
location, promotion, and corporate image positively and significantly influence on customers’ pur-
chase decision. The results also indicate that location is the most important factor followed by price,
quality, corporate image and promotion plays the smallest role on customers’ purchase intention.
The study discusses the results and give constructive suggestions for promoting sales figures.
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Keywords:
Quality
Price
Location
Promotion
Corporate image
Purchase decision
Residential
Property
1. Introduction
Property development can be considered as one of the important activities that drive out the stability and
enhances human being lifestyle. Nowadays, in buying a property, people not only look at the price, but
also consider other factors such as location, building, and environmental perspectives. The large number
of products in market that have the same form, usability and other features make it difficult for consumers
to differentiate between various products (Salleh et al., 2015), so it is necessary to locate different at-
tributes which could motivate customers to choose real states. An appropriate marketing is one the pri-
mary tools to increase the property sales (Paniandi et al., 2018). Therefore, business owners, managers
and marketing executives must be able to design and develop the most suitable offers that reflect market
demand (Albattat & Romli, 2017). Marketing should be able to apprehend the nature and characteristics
of market segment when dealing with strategies for promoting their products and services to the market
(Haque et al., 2018). These days, customers are very selective and require considerable time in making
purchasing decisions since there are several sales opportunities (Salleh & Zoher, 2015). The Malaysian