Berkorban untuk kesenangan rakan
01/08/1991 HM
KLANG: Berkorban apa saja ... Falsafah
ini sukar untuk dilakukan, apa lagi jika
ia membabitkan pengorbanan wang ringgit
dan harta-benda milik sendiri
semata-mata untuk kepentingan orang
lain. Bagaimanapun, ia bukan mustahil
bagi sekeluarga pemilik tanah di Taman
Nakhoda Yusuf dekat sini, apabila mereka
dengan rela hati menyerahkan 27 unit
rumah kepada sebuah bank tempatan
sebagai cagaran bagi memastikan pemaju
asal dapat meneruskan kerja membina
rumah yang terbengkalai di situ seberapa
Cukup sekali sahaja
02/08/1991 HM
KUALA LUMPUR: Kementerian Perumahan dan
Kerajaan Tempatan menyenaraihitamkan 99 pemaju perumahan dan 23 pengurus syarikat di seluruh negara kerana gagal menyiapkan projek
masing-masing mengikut jadual. Serentak itu, permohonan mereka untuk melanjutkan tempoh sah lesen bagi menyambung projek yang
terbengkalai atau hendak memajukan projek baru, tidak akan dilayan berdasarkan rekod buruk mereka.
Panel: Batu Arang unsafe
02/08/1991 NST
BATU ARANG, Thurs. - A State-appointed
technical committee looking into the
problem of sinkholes in this town has
recommended evacuation of the 10,000
residents for their safety. Its
chairman, Mr Tang See Hang, who is also
the Rawang Assemblyman, said today the
recommendation would be submitted to
Menteri Besar Tan Sri Muhammad Haji
Muhammad Taib soon.
Pemaju lesapkan $7 juta
02/08/1991 HM
KUALA LUMPUR: Pemaju perumahan Taman
Orkid Desa Cheras Fasa Dua dipercayai
melesapkan lebih $7 juta wang milik
pembeli rumah kos rendah projek itu yang
tidak disiapkan, sejak sembilan tahun
lalu. Projek yang terletak di Jalan
Cheras itu sepatutnya disiapkan pada
Ogos 1984, iaitu 24 bulan selepas
perjanjian ditandatangani antara pembeli
dan pemaju.
Pembeli terpaksa jadi pemaju
02/08/1991 HM
DAMANSARA: Biasanya pembeli hanya
menandatangani perjanjian dan
mengeluarkan belanja untuk membeli rumah.
Kemudian mereka menanti masa sahaja
menduduki rumah baru itu. Urusan
pembinaan rumah bukan masalah mereka,
yang mereka tau, duit sudah diserahkan
dan rumah mesti ada pada waktu yang
dijanjikan.
`Surat merah' bimbangkan pembeli
02/08/1991 HM
KUALA LUMPUR: Pembeli rumah di Taman
Sungai Pinang dekat Pelabuhan Klang,
dikenakan cukai pintu walaupun rumah
yang dibeli `belum siap-siap'. Itulah
yang menghairankan, malah setengahnya
sudah menerima `surat merah', iaitu
notis amaran membayar tunggakan cukai
pintu.
Reviving projects
07/08/1991 BT
THE Penang Government has relaxed several conditions for housing and other
abandoned projects to meet increasing demand
for houses and office space. Chief Minister Dr Koh Tsu Koon said the
Penang and Prai municipal councils have been directed
to give special attention to applications to revive abandoned projects.
Such a move will hopefully help developers speed up
revival of projects which were abandoned due to economic recession five
years ago, he told reporters after officiating the
scheme to revive an abandoned project, the Wisma Tahwa, yesterday. He said
the demand for houses and office space has
increased following rapid development and efforts to revive abandoned
projects should be given due attention. "In meeting future
demand, planning of new projects and revival of abandoned projects should
start immediately," he said.
Pembeli rumah kecewa
07/08/1991 HM
SEMENYIH: Dua ratus pembeli rumah kos rendah Taman Semenyih Jaya dekat
sini, tidak dapat menduduki rumah mereka berikutan kegagalan pemaju
mendapatkan Sijil Kelayakan (CF). Mereka sepatutnya menduduki rumah itu
tiga bulan lalu, tetapi gagal berbuat demikian kerana pemaju belum
mendapat kelulusan CF daripada Majlis Daerah Hulu Langat (MDHL).
Upset over leaking roof
in new home
07/08/1991 MM
* NEARLY a year after moving into his new Taman Setapak Indah home in
Gombak, Lam finds the roof leaking. "It offers excellent shelter from the
sun but not the rain. It leaks during a downpour," he says.
Tubuh institut
penyelidikan
09/08/1991 BH
PETALING JAYA, Khamis - Institut
Penyelidikan Perumahan mungkin
ditubuhkan untuk menjalankan
penyelidikan memperbaiki mutu pembinaan
rumah di seluruh negara, kata Menteri
Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan, Dr Ting
Chew Peh. Menurutnya, antara tumpuan
penyelidikan institut berkenaan ialah
memperbaiki bahan serta teknik binaan
dan mutu rumah di samping mengurangkan
kos pembinaan.
Housing research institute to be set
up
09/08/1991 BT By Bahaman Kamaruzzaman
THE Housing and Local Government
Ministry plans to set up an institute to
undertake housing research and
developmetit activities. The Malaysian
Housing Research Institute (Mahri), as
it will be known, will among other
things find ways to improve the quality
of houses. Minister Dr Ting Chew Peh
said with R and D, the Government hopes
the proposed institute can develop
methods that can reduce the cost of
building houses to make them moe
affordable to a wider cross-section of
the public.
Ministry eases up on
housing account rules
10/08/1991 NST
KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. - The Housing and
Local Government Ministry has agreed to
make some "adjustments and compromises"
regarding the Housing Development
Account Regulations 1991, which is
scheduled to be enforced on Aug 2
Federal Territory and Selangor Housing
Developers Association chairman Alan
Tong Kok Mau said today. Mr Tong said
one of the adjustments touched on a clause regarding the withdrawal of money
from the housing development account by the developer for payment to
contractors
Seek advice of Ministry, Ting tells
developers
12/08/1991 NST
IPOH, Sun. - Housing developers who
have yet to fully understand the Housing
Development Account Regulations which
will be enforced soon are advised to
approach the Ministry of Housing and
Local Government for clarification. He
said his Ministry welcomed all enquiries
about the regulation.
Jamin harga rumah tidak
naik
13/08/1991 HM
PETALING JAYA: Harga rumah tidak
akan naik. Itulah jaminan Menteri
Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan, Dr Ting
Chew Peh berikutan penguatkuasaan
Peraturan Akaun Pemaju Perumahan 1991.
Katanya, peraturan baru itu yang
menghendaki pemaju membuka akaun bagi
menyimpan deposit pembeli dan pembayaran
lain, tidak akan menyebabkan kenaikan
har
Ting warns greedy builder
13/08/1991 BT
DEVELOPERS
seeking to "capitalise" on the impending enforcement of the project account regulations by raising the prices of houses will risk
being priced out of the market. Housing and Local Government Minister Dr Ting Chew Peh said the present market situation does not
justify any price rise.
Ting: No excuse to up house prices
13/08/1991 NST
PETALING
JAYA, Mon. - Developers will have no reason to raise house prices when the Housing Developers (Housing Development Account)
Regulations 1991 are implemented on Aug 26, Housing and Local Government Minister Dr Ting Chew Peh said today. He said he could
not understand how the development account could have any bearing on house prices.
Banks asked to help buyers
17/08/1991 NST
KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. - The Housing and
Local Government Ministry has asked banks to consider reducing or waiving the accumulated interest on loans given out for
purchasing houses in projects which have been abandoned by developers. In disclosing this today, Housing and Local Government
Minister Dr Ting Chew Peh said the number of abandoned housing projects had increased by 33 to 310.
33 more projects on abandoned list
17/08/1991 BT
By Anna Taing
AN ADDITIONAL 33 projects involving more than 1,600 purchasers have been
added to the list of abandoned housing projects as at June 30 this year, Housing and Local Government Minister Dr Ting
Chew Peh said yesterday. As at December 31 1990,
there were 277 abandoned housing projects but of these, 42 were revived by
June 30 this year, leaving a net 268 abandoned
projects.
33 more projects on abandoned list
17/08/1991 BT
By Anna Taing
AN ADDITIONAL 33 projects involving more than 1,600 purchasers have been
added to the list of abandoned housing projects as at June 30 this year, Housing and Local Government Minister Dr Ting
Chew Peh said yesterday. As at December 31 1990,
there were 277 abandoned housing projects but of these, 42 were revived by
June 30 this year, leaving a net 268 abandoned
projects.
Lebih 260 projek rumah terbengkalai
17/08/1991 BH
KEMENTERIAN Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan
sudah mengenal pasti 33 lagi projek perumahan terbengkalai membabitkan lebih 1,600 pembeli sejak Jun lalu, menjadikan jumlah
keseluruhannya meningkat kepada lebih 260 di seluruh negara. Menteri Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan, Dr Ting Chew Peh, berkata
projek terbengkalai yang baru dikenal pasti itu membabitkan pelbagai jenis rumah kediaman.
Strata titles uncollected
19/08/1991 MM
SOME 20,000 strata titles Selangor Development
Corporation (PKNS) houses some of which were ready a early as 1987, remain uncollected. "We urge houseowners to collect the titles
as soon a they receive notification from our lawyers," said PKNS public relations manager Encik Yusof Othman.
Auction risk for 20,000 defaulters
19/08/1991 NST
TWENTY thousand property owners
who have yet to claim the land titles from the Selangor Development Corporation (PKNS) run the risk of having their property
auctioned. PKNS spokesman Yusof Othman said action to auction off the property could happen as some of these titles were issued
two years ago and had accumulated quit rent payment
Decent thing to do
20/08/1991 MM
THE Federation of Malaysian Consumer Associations (Fomca) welcomes the
suggestion that banks reduce or cancell
accumulated interests on housing loans for abandoned projects. Fomca
president Hamdan Adnan said it is about time
commercial banks decided on the matter as they, too, have a social
obligation to ensure that abandoned housing projects be
revived and completed.
10 seek compensation
20/08/1991 MM
A JOCKEY and nine women, cheated of $468,000 by two lawyers in separate
housing deals five years ago, are seeking compensation from the Bar
Council's compensation fund. A housewife, who declined to be identified,
said she was cheated of $19,500 by the two lawyers who handled the sale
of her house in 1987.
Pembeli rumah masih
tunggu CF 20/08/1991 HM
SERDANG: Mana CF kami? Soalan ini ditujukan kepada Majlis Daerah
Petaling (MDP) yang berjanji memberi sijil menduduki rumah kepada
penghuni Taman Perumahan Kembang Sari fasa 2A di sini. Kira-kira 168
unit rumah di taman itu siap sejak 1985 lalu tetapi sehingga ini, MDP
belum mengeluarkan sijil berkenaan, walaupun pernah berjanji akan
memberinya pada Februari lalu.
Tidak seindah nama!
20/08/1991 HM
SERDANG: Taman Kembang Sari tidak seindah namanya ... Jalan berlubang,
lalang liar tumbuh setinggi 1.8 meter, lombong terbiar dan bau busuk
longkang yang tersekat berterusan sejak lebih empat tahun lalu. Kawasan
perumahan Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Selangor (PKNS) itu berdekatan
dengan Taman Seri Serdang dan dibahagikan kepada beberapa fasa.
3,000 housing loans each month
22/08/1991 NST
KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. - More than 3,000
applications from civil servants are
approved by the Housing loans Division
of the Treasury each month. The division
also issues 20,000 cheques for payment
to housing developers each month for
loans taken by Government servants.
Beli rumah: Hanya
tiga minggu diperlukan
22/08/1991 BH
KUALA LUMPUR, Rabu - Kakitangan awam
yang memohon pinjaman membeli rumah
hanya perlu menunggu tiga minggu untuk
menerima cek mereka selepas semua
dokumen lengkap yang dilulus, diserahkan
kembali kepada Bahagian Pinjaman
Perumahan Perbendaharaan. Sebelum proses
pembayaran itu, Bahagian Pinjaman
Perumahan hanya memerlukan seminggu
untuk memproses permohonan hakmilik
individu manakala tiga minggu diperlukan
bagi melulusnya selepas diteliti oleh
Bahagian Penilaian dalam masa dua minggu
untuk memastikan semua butir tepat dan
benar.
Flat owners `storm' office to demand
strata titles
22/08/1991 MM
SOME 80 low-cost flat dwellers of Alam
Jaya in Cheras `stormed' a developer'
office at Lorong Yap Kwan Seng yesterday
to demand their strata titles. The
residents said they had waited for far
too long for the titles for their four
blocks of five-storey flats which were
complete in 1986.
Protection for house buyers from tomorrow 25/08/1991 NSUNT By Alex Choong
KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. - Chances of housing developers abandoning their
projects will hopefully be remote with the coming into force of the
Housing Developers (Housing Development Account) Regulations 1991 on
Monday. The long awaited regulations - seen as an important step to check
irresponsible housing developers from absconding with purchasers' money or
leaving house-buyers in the lurch, are aimed at ensuring that every
ringgit paid by a housebuyer is accounted for in a housing project.
Housing development account not a
solution
26/08/1991 NST
THE
Housing and Local Government Ministry, despite exhaustive studies into the problem of abandoned housing projects obviously cannot
see the wood for the trees. It assumes the primary and sole reason for projects being stopped mid-stream is the avarice of some
developers who abscond with the buyers' money. Out of this assumption comes the presumption that the Housing Developers (Housing
Development Account) Regulations, 1991, which comes into force today, is all encompassing enough to ensure that instalments and
financing raised by buyers are safe in the tightly controlled accounts, if the developer is insolvent and cannot continue with the
project. The assumption and the presumption, to be sure, are both manifestly baseless.
Kementerian tarik balik lesen pemaju 26/08/1991 BH
PETALING JAYA, Ahad - Kementerian Perumahan
dan Kerajaan Tempatan akan menarik balik lesen pemaju yang memaksa pembeli membayar lebih untuk pengubahsuaian kepada rumah-rumah
kos rendah, kata Menterinya, Dr Ting Chew Peh, hari ini. Beliau berkata, pemaju tidak boleh memaksa pembeli membuat pengubahsuaian
atau membayar untuk kerja-kerja pengubahsuaian tanpa persetujuan pembeli.
Developing accountability 27/08/1991
NST
SHELTER ranks second in importance as man's basic requirement after food.
Never mind if the shelter is a $500,000
condominium or a $25,000 low-cost unit, the fact is it hurts monetarily
and mentally when a person enters into a legal contract
with the developer to build that unit for him and later finds that he has
been cheated. Whatever justification or reason might be
forwarded for developers abandoning their projects, the crux remains that
the buyer is the victim. It is grossly unfair that it is
the buyers and the Government who have to shoulder the responsibility if
they want their projects revived. But that was, and is,
the situation. This certainly cannot continue, considering that housing is
a necessity and building has to go on all the time.
Now that the Housing Developers' (Housing Development Account) Regulations
1991 have at long last come into effect, after a
prolong period of "refinement" following numerous sittings with the
powerful Housing Developers' Association, will this
imbalance in accountability be corrected? There certainly is a lot of hope
pinned on it as a means of reventing irresponsible
housing developers from absconding with purchasers' money.
List of people being
prepared
27/08/1991 MM
THE developer for the Kelompok Camar Apartments in AU3/8, Ampang, is
preparing a list of all the faults found in the buildings and expect to
start repairs next week. A spokesman for Jurutama Sdn Bhd said their
engineers started collecting data on the defects three weeks ago in a
door-to-door survey
4,299 rumah terbengkalai
29/08/1991 BH
KUALA LUMPUR Rabu - Tiga puluh
tiga lagi projek perumahan bernilai $210.64 juta mengandungi 4,299 unit rumah dikesan terbengkalai sehingga Jun lalu, kata Menteri
Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan, Dr Ting Chew Peh. Katanya, projek terbengkalai itu menimbulkan masalah kepada 1,765 pembeli
apabila rumah mereka tidak dapat disiapkan mengikut jadual.
