{"id":6936,"date":"2025-12-25T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assets.flexstargroup.my\/v4\/2025\/12\/25\/epf-account-2-can-be-used-for-buying-a-home-should-you\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:00:00","slug":"epf-account-2-can-be-used-for-buying-a-home-should-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assets.flexstargroup.my\/v4\/2025\/12\/25\/epf-account-2-can-be-used-for-buying-a-home-should-you\/","title":{"rendered":"EPF Account 2 can be used for buying a home. Should you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, for my first ever property, I used the amount I have in Account 2. It helped because I did not save much and thus, the money comes in handy for the downpayment of 10 percent. It was just a property of RM123,000 but at the time, I have only worked for 5 years. So, the actual amount I have in Account 2 is definitely very small. From the total, 30 percent goes into Account 2 while 70 percent goes into Account 1. That was then, now, it&#8217;s 15 percent. We also have an Account 3 which is 10 percent of our the total contribution.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, for my first ever property, I used the amount I have in Account 2. It helped because I did not save much and thus, the money comes in handy for the downpayment of 10 percent. It was just a property of RM123,000 but at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-property"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assets.flexstargroup.my\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assets.flexstargroup.my\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assets.flexstargroup.my\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assets.flexstargroup.my\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assets.flexstargroup.my\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assets.flexstargroup.my\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assets.flexstargroup.my\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assets.flexstargroup.my\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assets.flexstargroup.my\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}