Dr Koh ingatkan pemaju rumah
01/07/1991 BH
NIBONG TEBAL, Ahad - Kerajaan negeri mengingatkan
pemaju perumahan swasta bahawa tindakan tegas akan diambil terhadap mereka yang gagal menyediakan kemudahan infrastruktur di
setiap projek perumahan yang dibina di negeri ini. Ketua Menteri Dr Koh Tsu Koon, berkata, kerajaan tetap bertindak tegas terhadap
pemaju terbabit demi kepentingan pembeli rumah
exhausted.
$12m needed
to complete abandoned Menara Stadium
01/07/1991 NST-CITYX By Harris Iskandar Taib
THE abandoned 26-storey Menara Safuan in Jalan Ampang will take seven
months and cost an estimated $12.3 million more to complete. The tower
block was 80 per cent complete when it was abandoned in 1984.
28 keluarga setuju
jelas tunggakan 01/07/1991 BH
SERDANG, Ahad - Dua puluh lapan keluarga yang menghuni rumah teres kos
rendah di Taman Sri Timah di Jalan Balakong di sini, hari ini, akhirnya
bersetuju membayar $140 bagi menjelaskan wang tunggakan bekalan air yang
berjumlah kira-kira $4,000 kepada kontraktor projek itu, Y C Chin
Enterprise Sdn Bhd. Persetujuan itu dicapai dalam perjumpaan dua jam di
antara pembeli dengan Pengarah Urusan syarikat berkenaan, Encik Chin
Yoke Chew. Majlis itu bermula dengan suasana tegang apabila pembeli
rumah berkenaan berselisih faham mengenai kedudukan sebenar projek
berkenaan.
Pemaju dikesali
01/07/1991 HM
KUALA LUMPUR: Pembeli rumah pangsa Cempeling di Jalan AU3, Hulu Klang
dekat sini, kesal terhadap kegagalan pemaju projek itu menyediakan
pelbagai kemudahan asas, walaupun mereka sudah tinggal di situ lebih
lima tahun. Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Penaja Persatuan Penduduk Rumah
Pangsa Cempeling, Encik Abu Said Ali, berkata syarikat pemaju Juru Utama
bukan saja gagal menyempurnakan kemudahan asas, malah langsung tidak
menghiraukan masalah penduduk setempat
`Blame builders for two fire
policies'02/07/1991 NST
SOME unscrupulous developers of sub-divided
buildings should be blamed for the insistence of financial institutions on buyers of apartments and condominiums to take up
additional fire insurance policy. The buyers end up with two such insurance policies because the units are already covered under a
master policy by the developers or the management corporation set up under the Strata Titles Act 1985 and are only entitled to one
claim if the units were damaged.
Wang sudah dibayar, rumah belum dapat
02/07/1991 BH
SAYA telah membeli sebuah rumah di
Projek Desa Permai yang dimajukan oleh
PKNNS dan bayaran tanah melalui pinjaman
perumahan kerajaan sebanyak $16,000
telah dijelaskan pada akhir 1989. Apa
yang mendukacitakan ialah sehingga
sekarang rumah yang dibeli belum dibina
setelah hampir 18 bulan harga tanah
dibayar dan lebih 24 bulan selepas surat
perjanjian ditandatangani.
Special grilles
03/07/1991 MM
COLLAPSIBLE grilles for windows to
enable occupants to escape in case of
fire will be ready by early next year. A
special committee given the task of
coming up with designs and find ways to
promote such grilles will meet for the
second time this month.
Getting Barisan
MPs to explain Bill
04/07/1991 NST
KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. - Deputy Prime
Minister Encik Ghafar Baba will call on
all Barisan Nasional MPs to explain the
rationale of the bill to amendd the Land
Acquisition Act 1960 to the people,
Minister in the Prime Minister's
Department Datuk Abang Abu Bakar
Mustapha said today. He said the
proposed amendments, already tabled for
first reading, would enable the
Government to acquire land for
commercial development by the private
sector. The decision cannot be
challenged in court.
Strata title: Flat buyers in a
dilemma
05/07/1991 NST
SOME 500 people who bought flats in a
project in Rasah Jaya are now in a
quandary over whether they should pay
the developer survey fees for strata
title application. They were shocked to
receive a letter dated June 17, asking
them to pay $349.91 as survey fees and
an additional $300 as deposit against
damage to common property.
Sinkhole danger
07/07/1991 NST
KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. - Twenty
occupants of five shophouses at Jalan
Pasar, Pekan Batu Arang, 40km from here,
have been alerted to vacate their homes
after a sinkhole occurred there. Pekan
Batu Arang Village Security and
Development Committee chairman Encik
Mohd Hussain Mat Yassim, 43, said a
15-metre stretch of the road in front of
the shophouses sunk last midnight.
Government buildings `not so safe'
08/07/1991 NST
MALACCA, Sun. - A member of the Dewan
Negara has expressed concern over the
safety of Government buildings
throughout the country as they are
exempted from the uniform Building
By-Laws enacted by the local
authorities. Senator Ng Peng Hay said
these premises were being used although
their building plans had not been
submitted and no certificate of fitness
(CF) had been issued.
Housing law covers payouts
08/07/1991 NST By Alex Choong
KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. - From Aug 26,
developers may withdraw 10 per cent of
the purchase price of a house from the
Housing Development Account if 55 per
cent of the price has been paid up. This
is provided for by the Housing
Developers (Housing Development Account)
Regulations 1991 which comes into force
on that date.
House buyers to seek police help
08/07/1991 NST
KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. - A group of people
who bought houses in the abandoned Taman
Kobena project have decided to refer the
matter to the police following a meeting
this morning. The 30 house-buyers also
agreed to give the mandate to Sungei
Besi MP, Mr Tan Kok Wai, who is also
their adviser, to send a memorandum to
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir
Mohamad asking him to include Koperasi
Belia Nasional (Kobena) affairs in the
agenda of Wednesday's Cabinet meeting.
House buyers miffed over defects
08/07/1991 MM
THERE seems to be no end of problems to
buyers of the Taman Ampang Pecah
low-cost housing project in Kuala Kubu
Baru. After a delay of four years, the
400 buyers were elated that they could
finally move into their own homes early
this year, but not before having to pay
"payment of interest" to the developers.
Penduduk bantah bina pangsapuri 08/07/1991 BH
KUALA LUMPUR, Ahad - Lebih 200 penduduk
rumah jenis Hexagon di Jalan SS 15/6,
Bandar Baru Subang Jaya, Selangor dan
kawasan sekitarnya membantah pelaksanaan
projek membina 63 unit pangsapuri empat
tingkat di kawasan tanah lapang di
tengah kawasan itu. Mereka tidak puas
hati dengan pengurusan Sime-UEP untuk
membangunkan tanah di situ dengan projek
itu.
400 unhappy house buyers seek
Selangor MB's help
08/07/1991 NST
KUALA KUBU BARU, Sun - Four hundred
Taman Ampang Pecah low-cost housebuyers
here who claim to have got a raw deal
from the developer are seeking the help
of Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri
Muhammad Haji Muhammad Taib. The
housebuyers action committee chairman,
Mohamad Daud, said they had to resort to
this move as nobody appeared to be
sympathetic to their plight.
Sinking town: Authorities urged to
act
08/07/1991 NST
RAWANG, Sun. - The State Government
has been urged to take immediate steps
to save Pekan Batu Arang from danger
of sinking. Residents said the
appearance of a sinkhole believed to
be several metres deep about midnight
last Friday was the fifth experienced
in the town.
Sinking town: Authorities urged to
act
08/07/1991 NST
RAWANG, Sun. - The State Government
has been urged to take immediate steps
to save Pekan Batu Arang from danger
of sinking. Residents said the
appearance of a sinkhole believed to
be several metres deep about midnight
last Friday was the fifth experienced
in the town.
21 lodge report against co-op
09/07/1991 NST
KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. - Twenty-one people
who had booked houses in the abandoned
Taman Kobena housing scheme in Cheras
lodged a police report today against
the management of Koperasi Belia
Nasional. They alleged the Kobena
management had misused the money in
the co-operative's fund.
Sinkholes: Tests to find out cause
09/07/1991 NST
RAWANG, Mon. - Tests will be carried in
certain parts of Batu Arang town to find
out the cause of sinkholes and cracks in
homes of residents, MP for Selayang
Datin Paduka Zaleha Ismail said today.
She said experts from a 15-member
committee formed today to look into the
problem would carry out the tests soon.
Seeing red over housing project
10/07/1991 MM Compiled by Kamala
Nagappan; Radziah Abdul Rahim
* BUYER of Bangsar Baru wants to know
when the abandoned Taman Sri Puchong
housing project would be completed. "The
developer initially said it would be
ready by December 1986 but because the
project stalled, the completion date
kept changing," he says.
52 projek perumahan terbengkalai
11/07/1991 HM
SEJUMLAH 52 projek perumahan mengandungi 13,640
unit rumah, membabitkan 7,435 pembeli, terbengkalai di Selangor, tahun lalu. Di Wilayah Persekutuan pula, tujuh projek perumahan
dengan 4,463 unit terbengkalai, membabitkan 1,507 pembeli.
Tougher laws to protect house buyers
11/07/1991 NST
THE Housing Developers (Housing
Development Account) Regulations,
approved by the Government in August
1990, will come into force next month to
ensure that monies collected by
developers are solely used for their
respective projects. The Plan says that
the regulations will prevent the misuse
of money collected from house buyers and
to protect them against mal-practices of
developers.
`Houses built to specifications'
11/07/1991 MM
THE 400 houses in the Taman Ampang Pecah
low-cost housing project in Kuala Kubu
Baru were built to specifications in the
sale and purchase agreement, the project
management consultant said yesterday.
Referring to a recent report that buyers
were unhappy with their houses, the
consultant, Horizon Towers Sdn Bbd, said
any defects would be touched up
according to defect liability as spelt
out in the agreement.
Road rises by a metre overnight
11/07/1991 NST
ALOR STAR, Wed. - Residents,
particularly businessmen in a row of
shophouses at Taman Kota Jaya, near Kota
Sarang Semut, had a shock today when
they found part of the road in front of
the building higher by almost a metre.
It is understood that sand, stones and
concrete used at a near by construction
site had caused the problem.
Workers may lose homes
13/07/1991 MM
TWENTY-TWO families of Kamasan Estate
in Kuala Selangor may end up homeless
four years after shifting to their
low-cost estate houses. The reason - a
local bank has asked them to settle
between $5,000 and $7,000 in payment
arrears by the end of the month, and
the meagre-income families cannot
afford to pay.
417 pembeli buru pemaju
16/07/1991 HM
KUALA LUMPUR: Empat ratus tujuh belas
pembeli rumah fasa tiga Taman Cempaka,
Kampung Pandan dekat sini sedang "memburu"
pemaju perumahan yang hilang sejak dua
tahun lalu. Pembeli berkenaan
menyifatkan mereka "teraniaya"
berikutan kegagalan pemaju berkenaan
menyiapkan rumah mereka yang mula
dibina sejak lima tahun lalu.
KM cadang sistem pengawasan
16/07/1991 BH
MELAKA, Isnin - Ketua Menteri, Tan Sri
Haji Abdul Rahim Tamby Chik, menyarankan Kementerian Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan mewujudkan sistem pengawasan bagi mengesan
kemajuan projek pembinaan serta perumahan di negara ini. Beliau berkata, ketika ini kementerian itu tidak mempunyai satu mekanisme
khas untuk mengawasi pelaksanaan sesuatu projek perumahan yang diluluskan pembinaannya.
New loans for affected house buyers
17/07/1991
NST
THE Government will allow civil servants who were victims of abandoned
housing schemes to top up their existing housing loan
in order to buy a second house, Deputy Finance Minister Abdul Ghani Othman
said. He said this would apply to buyers who
had obtained Government loans and where the abandoned schemes were only 30
per cent completed.
Pekerja awam ada empat pilihan
17/07/1991 BH
KUALA LUMPUR, Selasa
- Pembeli rumah yang menerima kemudahan pinjaman kerajaan diberikan empat pilihan jika projek perumahan mereka terbengkalai, kata
Timbalan Menteri Kewangan, Haji Abdul Ghani Othman. Pilihan itu ialah: * membeli rumah lain dan membuat gadaian kedua jika rumah
asal siap 30 peratus; * Kementerian Kewangan membantu menyelesaikan rumah terbengkalai yang siap 80 peratus dengan pembeli
menubuhkan sebuah jawatankuasa; * pembeli membayar balik pinjaman dan boleh mendapat baki pinjaman; atau * pembeli membayar semula
semua pinjaman yang dikeluarkan bagi membolehkan layak
meminjam seratus peratus pada masa depan.
Satu rumah ramai pembeli
17/07/1991 HM
KUALA LUMPUR: Sekurang-kurangnya 20 unit
rumah di fasa tiga Taman Cempaka,
Kampung Pandan mempunyai lebih daripada
nama seorang pembeli. Siasatan pembeli
terbabit mendapati nombor rumah yang
dibeli oleh mereka, mempunyai nama orang
lain yang tidak dikenali.
Pekerja awam ada empat pilihan
17/07/1991 BH
KUALA LUMPUR, Selasa - Pembeli rumah
yang menerima kemudahan pinjaman
kerajaan diberikan empat pilihan jika
projek perumahan mereka terbengkalai,
kata Timbalan Menteri Kewangan, Haji
Abdul Ghani Othman. Pilihan itu ialah: *
membeli rumah lain dan membuat gadaian
kedua jika rumah asal siap 30 peratus; *
Kementerian Kewangan membantu
menyelesaikan rumah terbengkalai yang
siap 80 peratus dengan pembeli
menubuhkan sebuah jawatankuasa; *
pembeli membayar balik pinjaman dan
boleh mendapat baki pinjaman; atau *
pembeli membayar semula semua pinjaman
yang dikeluarkan bagi membolehkan layak
meminjam seratus peratus pada masa depan.
Terbiar sejak 6 tahun lalu
19/07/1991 HM
KAJANG: Penduduk di Kampung Baru Sungai
Chua di sini meminta pihak berkuasa
campur tangan bagi menyiapkan segera
empat blok projek perumahan dekat situ
yang kini terbengkalai. Projek perumahan
itu yang dipercayai dimajukan oleh
pemaju swasta kira-kira enam tahun lalu,
kini terbiar dan dikelilingi semak-samun
Flat buyers flare at title delay
19/07/1991 MM
RESIDENTS of Taman Alam Jaya flats in
Cheras yesterday lodged a police report
against the developer for failing to
submit strata title applications as
stipulated in the Strata Title Act 1985.
The angry residents - who moved into the
flats six years ago contend the police
should "look into" the developer's
activities which they allege amounts to
"cheating".
$500j diguna pulih projek terbengkalai
21/07/1991 BM
BUTTERWORTH: Sejumlah $500 juta sudah
dibelanjakan bagi memulihkan projek terbengkalai mengikut Tabung Pemulihan Usahawan (TPU) setakat Jun 1991, kata Menteri Kewangan,
Datuk Seri Anwar lbrahim. Menurutnya, dalam dialog di antara kementerian dan Dewan Perniagaan Melayu di Kuala Lumpur, baru-baru
ini, kerajaan juga bersetuju mempercepatkan proses kelulusan sesuatu permohonan kepada dua bulan.
Anwar: Be thankful for the helping hand
22/07/1991
NST
By Rohiman Haroon
PENANG, Sun. - Finance Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said last night
the introduction of several funds and schemes,
aimed at helping out financially-plagued entrepreneurs and reviving
abandoned housing projects, have shown the Government's
sincerity and seriousness in its struggle for the people. He said he
believed there was no other Government like the one in
Malaysia which was ready to help the people when individuals or the
private sector failed to complete certain public projects.
11 pemaju perumahan
gagal dikesan 22/07/1991 BH
ALOR STAR, Ahad - Kerajaan Kedah masih
belum dapat mengesan 11 pemaju perumahan
yang gagal memulakan projek perumahan di
beberapa kawasan di negeri ini, walaupun
kebenaran sudah diberi kepada pemaju
berkenaan pada 1986. Pengerusi
Jawatankuasa Perumahan dan Kerajaan
Tempatan negeri, Encik Abdul Rahman
Ibrahim berkata, kerajaan cuba mengesan
pemaju perumahan terbabit, tetapi
sehingga kini belum berjaya.
Pemaju seleweng disiasat
23/07/1991 HM
SUBANG: Kementerian Perumahan
dan Kerajaan Tempatan akan menyiasat dakwaan pemaju perumahan yang dilaporkan menyeleweng dengan mencatatkan lebih daripada satu
nama pembeli bagi sebuah rumah di fasa tiga Taman Cempaka, Kampung Pandan, dekat sini. Menteri berkenaan, Dr Ting Chiew Peh,
berkata siasatan itu perlu bagi membolehkan unit penguatkuasa kementerian mengambil tindakan wajar terhadap pemaju berkenaan.
Ting: New
rule will not raise price of houses 26/07/1991 NST
KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. - The implementation of the Housing Developers
(Housing Development Account) Regulations 1991 will not result in an
increase in house prices as claimed by certain quarters, Housing and Local
Government Minister Dr Ting Chew Peh said today. He said developers should
not use the new regulations as an excuse to raise house prices
Houses won't cost more with new
regulations: Ting
26/07/1991 BT
THE Housing and Local Government
Ministry has dismissed claims by
developers that houses may cost more
under the new regulations requiring them
to open separate accounts for each
project. Its minister, Dr Ting Chew Peh,
said under the regulations to be
enforced on August 26, there will be no
additional cost involved as banks will
not impose extra service charges.
No absconding by developers
26/07/1991 MM
THE Housing
Development Account which comes into force on Aug 26 will end the problem of developers absconding without completing a project.
Housing and Local Government Minister Dr Ting Chiew Peh said the account's withdrawal procedures ensured developers could not
withdraw money easily.
Buyers in the dark over abandoned
project
26/07/1991MM By Esther Tan;
Radziah Abdul Rahim
* HOUSE-BUYER hopes Pembinaan Wangi
Sdn Bhd will honour its contract and
complete its housing project in Kajang
which has been abandoned since 1986.
"I signed the sale and purchase
agreement for a medium-cost house at
Taman Pasir Emas that year and the
project was to be completed in two
years," he says.
Advice for flat owners
27/07/1991 BT
PENANG Deputy Chief Minister Dr Ibrahim Saad yesterday
advised owners of flats still without strata titles to complain to the authorities. He said this will help authorities take action
against developers who fail to apply for them. The Government will not hesitate to act against such errant developers to safeguard
the interest of house buyers, he told a press conference in Penang. He said one problem faced by owners of units without strata
titles is that they cannot use their property as collateral for loans. Dr Ibrahim said he has heard public grouses on the problem
of no strata titles but stressed that authorities can act only if provided with sufficient information. He dismissed allegations
that the Government is not issuing strata titles. The State Government has approved applications for strata titles of 64 projects
involving 4,954 units out of the 88 projects (6,864 units) that applied for them.
Abandoned project to be revived
27/07/1991
NST
MALACCA, Fri.- The controversial Taman Selasih Sayang Phase II housing
project here will be revived next month after being abandoned since 1989, the Malacca State Economic Development Corporation
said today. SEDC deputy chairman Datuk
Mohamed Ali Rustam said the project, involving 160 double-storey link and
single-storey semi-detached houses, would be
completed after 15 months.
Projek gagal agensi kurang tegas
27/07/1991 HM
MASALAH perumahan bukan saja
dihadapi oleh warga kota. Ia turut dihadapi oleh rakyat di seluruh negara, terutama golongan berpendapatan rendah. Apa yang
mengecewakan, selain golongan itu sukar memiliki rumah sendiri, mereka juga sering ditipu oleh pemaju berikutan kegagalan projek
dan sebagainya
State to act on strata title delays
27/07/1991 NST
PENANG, Fri. - The State Government will take legal action
against developers of high-rise projects
who refuse to apply for strata titles
although their projects have been
completed for several years.
Price control for houses a necessity
now
27/07/1991 BT
THE rules seeking to curb misuse of
house buyers' money by developers are
essentially a confidence-building
measure in the wake of the rash of
abandoned housing schemes. Much as they
dislike having to undergo a scrutiny
every time they dip their hands into the
buyers' funds, the genuine developers
need the regulations. The assurance to
buyers that their money will be used
only for the particular scheme and under
the supervision of the bank concerned
should give people less cause to
mistrust developers. Developers have
been saying that the cost of houses is
going to go up because the requirement
to open accounts for individual projects
will cause additional Costs. Housing and
Local Government Minister Dr Ting Chew
Peh has debunked that airy claim by
pointing out that banks will not impose
extra service charges to handle these
accounts. The Housing Developers
Association (HDA) had contended that the
extra cost will come from banks hiring
consultants to certify the completion of
phases of housing projects. A follow-up
argument by the HDA does not hold much
water either - that the wait for the
bank's certification will force
developers to borrow first from
alternative sources, thereby incurring
further Costs
Pembeli rumah mahu jumpa menteri
31/07/1991 HM
KUALA LUMPUR: Empat ratus pembeli rumah
fasa tiga Taman Cempaka Kampung Pandan,
akan menemui Menteri Perumahan dan
Kerajaan Tempatan, Dr Ting Chew Peh
kerana pemaju gagal menyiapkan rumah
mereka lebih lima tahun. Mereka juga
tidak puas hati dengan tindakan pemaju
yang menipu sekurang-kurangnya 20
pembeli. Pembeli berkenaan mendapati
rumah yang mereka beli mempunyai nama
pembeli lain.
House owner wants refund
31/07/1991 MM
* HOUSEOWNER DAVID of Taman Kinrara in
Puchong says the payment of assessment
and maintenance fees is burning a big
hole in his pocket. He says he paid an
annual maintenance fee of $240 to the
developer last December, thinking the
company was the one maintaining the
place.
