Seriously me being from Ipoh, I could not understand buying condos within "Ipoh city" itself.
businesses are moving away from the town area to the suburbs, where premises are newer and have more parking. That is why u can see quite a number of abandoned shophouses without tenents around town.
Rental is dirt cheap and you could never cover your mortgage if you rent it out. New landed properties are not exactly expensive and not to mention the current housing projects includes integrated infrastructures like malls, shophouses, parks etc... Who would want to stay in the city? Unless you are renting it out to chinadolls. Even that, a whole project full of chinadolls would not do much good for your property's appreciation.
There's not much jam in Ipoh anyway, from one end to the next end, takes less than 40 min. Buy a prop in Ipoh only when you intend to stay put for good. Other than that, forget about it. Just my 2 rupiah