Haggle over lower
fees
01/12/1992 MM
THE Petaling District Council is still looking into ways of solving
the Bandar Puchong Jaya certificate of fitness (CF) issue involving
177 housebuyers. Councillor Datuk Yap Pian Hon said he would contact
the developer's architect to negotiate over the lower fee demanded
by house-buyers.
Victim of shoddy work by Ipoh
housing developer
01/12/1992 NST By Frustrated house owner
MUCH has been heard and said about housing developers who
shortchange buyers by providing sub-standard houses and even late
delivery of completed houses. I am one of those unlucky buyers of
a low-cost double-storey house in Taman Klebang Jaya, Ipoh, which
is developed by Syuen Corporation Sdn Bhd.
Pembeli
dinasihati usah tandatangani
02/12/1992 HM
JOHOR BAHRU: Lebih 1,000 pembeli projek perumahan Taman Puteri
Wangsa, di sini, yang terbengkalai sejak enam tahun lalu,
dinasihatkan supaya usah menandatangani perjanjian pilihan yang
diberi oleh pemaju, semalam, bagi mengelakkan sebarang kerugian.
Sekiranya berbuat demikian, perjanjian jual beli di antara mereka
dan pemaju akan terhapus dan proses membawa kes itu ke mahkamah
sudah tidak bererti lagi
Call to review method of strata
title issue
02/12/1992 BT
THE mechanism of issuing strata titles must be reviewed to allow for
faster issuance and processing of this document. Without this, it
would be difficult to enforce a comprehensive management strategies
that are allowed under the Strata Titles Act 1985. Mr Gurjit Singh,
the secretary-general of Institution of Surveyors Malaysia said the
slow process of issuing strata titles means that a management
corporation cannot be formed.
HDA against foreign speculative practise
02/12/1992 BT
THE Housing Developers' Association (HDA) of Malaysia fully supports the
Government's move to curb foreign speculative practices on local property
market to ensure that local house purchasers and national interest are
protected. The association had all along been addressing this issue and
proposing pragmatic thresholds to be strictly observed by foreign
purchasers, HDA said in a statement released in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
Foreigners own 12pc of local condos: Survey
03/12/1992 BT
FOREIGN buyers still make up a good proportion of owners of condomimiums in
Malaysia, said Encik Mohd Radzif Mohd Yunus, chief executive officer of
Shapadu Properties. A survey by Rahim & Co showed that 12 per cent of
condominiums in Malaysia are owned by foreigners while they also accounted
for about 60 per cent of the occupancy rate, he said in a paper on
"Financing the Condominium" delivered at the last day of a two-day
conference on condominium development in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
Pemaju perlu hati-hati di masa
hadapan
03/12/1992 HM
PETALING JAYA: Tindakan penduduk Seksyen 11 di sini mungkin boleh
dijadikan pengajaran kepada pemaju projek pembangunan supaya lebih
berhati-hati dan mengambil kira kepentingan penduduk sekitarnya.
Penduduk kawasan itu menuntut pemaju projek kondominium supaya
membayar ganti rugi terhadap `kesengsaraan' yang mereka hadapi
berikutan projek itu.
Pemaju perumahan setuju baiki
kerosakan
03/12/1992 BH
PETALING JAYA, Rabu - Majlis Perbandaran Petaling Jaya (MPPJ)
mengarahkan pemaju projek `Menara Universiti', Abinas Sdn Bhd,
menghentikan kerja setiap hari pada jam 6 petang, mulai hari ini.
Yang Dipertua MPPJ, Iskandar Astar, berkata arahan itu perlu
dipatuhi kerana kerja pembinaan menara itu menyebabkan bunyi bising
dan gegaran sehingga mengganggu penduduk sekitar kawasan itu.
Hangat, kecoh...
03/12/1992 HM
PETALING JAYA: Perjumpaan untuk membincangkan masalah pembinaan
kondominum di sini, yang dikatakan menjejaskan keselesaan dan
ketenteraman penduduk sekitarnya, kecoh apabila pemaju dan
penduduk saling menuduh di antara satu sama lain. Penduduk mahukan
hak mereka dibela dan menuntut pemaju membayar ganti rugi kepada
mereka. Sementara pemaju pula mempertahankan bahawa mereka
menjalankan kerja mengikut peraturan.
Shocked by `rejected' booking
03/12/1992 MM
* HAVING booked a house in the Serdang Perdana housing estate that
is under construction, YOONG received a shock when he was told
that his booking has been cancelled. "I don't understand what they
are trying to do. When I visited their site office they told me
they accepted bookings for the house and I wrote them a cheque for
$1,000."
Wajib tanam pokok untuk dapat CF
04/12/1992 BH
JOHOR BAHRU, Khamis - Majlis Perbandaran Johor Bahru (MPJB) akan
meningkatkan usaha menanam pokok dan menambah kawasan hijau
menjelang Johor Bahru di naikkan taraf sebagai bandaraya, tahun
depan. Jurucakapnya berkata, sehubungan itu pemaju perumahan dan
pengusaha kilang dalam kawasan MPJB diwajib menanam pokok serta
mewujudkan kawasan hijau di tapak masing-masing sebelum memperolehi
Sijil Layak Menduduki (CF).
Completion period for houses may be extended to 24
months
04/12/1992 NST
KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. - The Government may extend the period for the
completion of houses from the present 18 months to up to 24 months to ensure
the keys and certificates of fitness (CFs) are distributed to buyers
simultaneously. Deputy Housing and Local Government Minister Osu Haji Sukam
said the actual period of extension would be decided at a meeting between
the Ministry and the Housing Developers Association (HDA) next week.
Fikir dua kali!
04/12/1992 HM
JOHOR BAHRU: Pembeli rumah di projek yang terbengkalai diminta berfikir
dua kali sebelum mengambil sebarang tindakan membawa kes itu ke mahkamah
kerana ia akan menyebabkan kelewatan pembinaan semula. Pengerusi
Jawatankuasa Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan negeri, Datuk Bahari Haron,
berkata orang ramai tidak wajar membawa sebarang kes kelewatan pembinaan
rumah ke mahkamah kerana ia boleh diselesaikan melalui perundingan
Condo developers
concerned over strict guidelines
05/12/1992 NST
A TOTAL of seven upmarket condominium projects worth $595 million in
the Klang Valley is at risk of being abandoned following the Foreign
Investment Committee's (FIC) strict enforcement of the 1974
guidelines. The FIC guidelines which require foreigners to seek the
committee's approval before making a purchase has caused uneasiness
and apprehension as well as the adoption of wait-and-see attitude
among foreign and local investors in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur,
Housing Developers Association of Malaysia Kuala Lumpur/ Selangor
branch chairman N. Antonysamy said.
Market uncertainty may hit many condo projects
05/12/1992 BT
DEVELOPERS in the Klang Valley may be forced to abandon their condominium
projects shortly because of the uncertainty in the market arising from the
narrow interpretation and strict enforcement of the 1974 Foreign Investment
Committee (FIC) guidelines. The Housing Developers Association (HDA) Wilayah
Persekutuan (Kuala Lumpur) and Selangor chairman N. Anthonysamy said there
are signs that many housing projects will be abandoned soon as many
foreigners have threatened to withdraw their money from the projects.
7 projek kondo terjejas
05/12/1992 BH
KUALA LUMPUR, Jumaat - Tujuh projek pembinaan kondominium di Lembah Klang,
khususnya sekitar bandaraya bernilai kira-kira RM595 juta, didakwa
menghadapi masalah berikutan tindakan Jawatankuasa Pelaburan Asing (FIC)
mengetat dan tidak menjelaskan garis panduan 1974 secara terperinci. FIC
dipertanggungjawabkan memberi kelulusan terhadap sebarang permohonan jual
beli hartanah di negara ini oleh rakyat asing mengikut garis panduan yang
ditetapkan.
Tindakan jika lewat keluar CFO
06/12/1992 BM
BATU PAHAT: Kementerian Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan akan
mengambil tindakan tegas terhadap pentadbir majlis daerah dan pihak
berkuasa tempatan yang lewat mengeluarkan Sijil Menduduki Bangunan
(CFO) kepada pembeli. Timbalan Menterinya, Daud Taha, berkata
tindakan itu bertujuan memastikan setiap permohonan menerusi Borang
E yang dihantar oleh pemaju dan pakar runding bangunan diluluskan
dengan segera.
Boys will be boys,
but architects must be accountable 07/12/1992 NST
HUMAN nature is generally predictable. It is this predictability
that provides the basis for civilised society and all human
endeavour. Systems and laws work because they reflect common values.
Codes of conduct are useful because they are accepted practical
expressions of what is proper in particular situations. The rules
which society makes, and updates, from time to time, provide it with
formal structures, explicit procedures and principles to distinguish
wrong from right. Rules are important because in a civilised society
they are our only protection against the predictable human weakness
for the temptations of illicit behaviour
No CFs yet for
flat owners
07/12/1992 NST
TAIPING, Sun. - About 60 owners of the Taman Bersatu housing flats
in Kampung Boyan have yet to get their Certificates of Fitness (CFs)
despite having signed their sales and purchase agreement eight years
ago. Their spokesman Saw Lee Tong said today the project was earlier
abandoned and put into receivership under Majaya Enterprise Sdn Bhd.
Housebuyers to bear added costs of
soil treatment 08/12/1992 NST
HOUSEBUYERS will have to bear the increased costs incurred by
housing developers if the Petaling Jaya Municipal Council makes it
mandatory for them to conduct soil treatment for their projects.
This will mean that house prices in the township will increase.
Penduduk belum
dapat bekalan elektrik
09/12/1992 BH
MERSING, Selasa - Lebih 400 penduduk di dua taman perumahan di
sini, Taman Sri Endau Fasa Tiga dan Taman Bahagia, dekat Endau,
masih belum menerima bekalan elektrik walaupun sudah mendiami
rumah itu, sejak tiga bulan lalu. Sehubungan itu, mereka meminta
Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) menyalurkan segera bekalan elektrik
ke kawasan itu.
Pembeli kesal
sikap pemaju
09/12/1992 BH By Pembeli Tertindas
SAYA adalah pembeli rumah teres kos sederhana di Bandar Lahat Baru.
Apa yang mendukacitakan saya ialah sikap pemaju yang kononnya
begitu akur dengan peraturan hingga menyusahkan pembeli. Pertama,
pemaju mengenakan faedah atas cek bayaran berperingkat yang
dikatakannya lewat. Pada hal cek berkenaan dikeluarkan oleh
Perbendaharaan Malaysia dan masih dalam tempoh yang mereka
kehendaki.
Rumah tidak
dapat CFO dikaji
11/12/1992 BH
KLANG, Khamis - Kerajaan Selangor akan mengkaji masalah 36 projek
perumahan di negeri ini tidak mendapat Sijil Kelayakan Menduduki
(CFO) dalam mesyuarat Jawatankuasa Tetap Kerajaan Tempatan,
Perbandaran dan Alam Sekitar, Isnin ini. Timbalan Menteri Besar,
Datuk Abu Sujak Mahmud, berkata jawatankuasa itu perlu
membincangkan masalah berkenaan untuk mengenal pasti punca projek
perumahan itu tidak mendapat CFO.
200 desak pemaju
segera siapkan rumah 13/12/1992 BM
KUALA LUMPUR: Kira-kira 200 pembeli rumah di Taman Cuepacs, Batu
12, Jalan Cheras, Kajang kesal dengan pemaju kerana lewat
menyiapkan projek perumahan di kawasan itu. Menurut mereka, projek
perumahan membabitkan 200 unit rumah teres itu, sepatutnya siap
1990, selepas memohon pada 1987. Bagaimanapun sehingga sekarang
hanya cerucuk di kawasan tanah lapang yang kelihatan
`Build drains first' 14/12/1992 MM
SOME big-time housing developers have been directed to change their
construction schedule to solve the worsening problem of soil erosion and
silting at building sites. Industry sources said the Department of
Environment made this call after studying the environmental impact
assessment (EIA) reports submitted by the developers.
Residents seek
info on window grilles
14/12/1992 NST
IPOH, Sun. - Residents of 244 units of three-storey Mewah Flats
here will seek clarification from the City Hall and the Survey
Department in Taiping whether they are allowed to install grilles
on their windows. Their quandary began after the housing
developer, through its lawyer, issued them notices on Nov 28
directing them to remove their grilles within 14 days.
Tak rela
dibohongi lagi 14/12/1992 HM
KUALA LUMPUR: "Kami tidak rela dibohongi lagi," itulah antara
kata-kata yang dilemparkan terhadap Koperasi Serbaguna Cuepacs
Tanggungan Berhad, pemaju sebuah projek perumahan yang
terbengkalai. Bagaimanapun, wakil koperasi berkenaan berjanji
kepada pembeli bahawa usaha-usaha sedang dilakukan untuk
meneruskan kerja pembinaan di projek perumahan di Taman Koperasi
Cuepacs di Kilometer 19.2, Kajang.
Bawa ke mahkamah
15/12/1992 HM
AMPANG: Tindakan undang-undang adalah cara terbaik bagi
menyelesaikan masalah 35 penduduk yang dikatakan `ditipu' oleh
syarikat yang berjanji untuk melaksanakan projek pembangunan di
Kampung Kemensah berhampiran Zoo Negara, Hulu Klang. Penduduk yang
sudah menyerahkan geran masing-masing empat tahun lalu dengan
janji pampasan memberangsang tidak mempunyai jalan lain untuk
mendapatkan habuan mereka, kecuali mengheret syarikat terbabit ke
muka pengadilan.
MB akan campur tangan 15/12/1992 HM
SHAH ALAM: Menteri Besar, Tan Sri Muhammad Muhd Taib, mungkin campur
tangan bagi menyelesaikan isu Kampung Kemensah. Bagaimanapun, ketika
ditemui selepas melancarkan projek perumahan Masalam Sdn Bhd di
Seksyen 9 di sini, semalam, Muhammad enggan mengulas lanjut walaupun
sebelum ini beliau dilaporkan sudah dimaklumkan berhubung isu itu.
Penduduk kesal
rumah tidak siap
16/12/1992 BH
JENIANG, Selasa - Penduduk di pekan ini kesal dengan kegagalan
pemaju perumahan menyiapkan 12 unit rumah kos rendah di Jalan
Jeniang-Felda Lubuk Merbau dan membiarkan kawasan sekitarnya semak
samun, sejak tiga tahun lalu. Tinjauan Berita Harian di kawasan
itu mendapati 12 unit rumah kos rendah separuh siap itu kini
dipenuhi tumbuhan liar.
Tindakan jika gagal keluar CFO
17/12/1992 BH
BATU PAHAT, Rabu - Kerajaan Johor akan mengambil tindakan disiplin
terhadap pegawai atau kakitangan pihak berkuasa tempatan yang
sengaja lewat atau gagal mengeluarkan Sijil Layak Menduduki (CFO)
kepada pembeli. Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Perumahan dan Kerajaan
Tempatan negeri, Datuk Bahari Haron, berkata tindakan itu akan
diambil jika siasatan mendapati pemaju, pakar runding bangunan dan
pembeli sudah mematuhi segala syarat binaan.
Mixed views on raising price of low-cost
houses
21/12/1992 NST
KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. - The Government's proposal to increase the ceiling price
of low-cost houses from $25,000 to between $32,000 and $37,000 in urban and
suburban areas has received mixed response. While the proposal was welcomed
by developers, potential low-cost house buyers felt the increase was "too
extreme."
BPR siasat jika lewat beri CF
21/12/1992 BH
JOHOR BAHRU, Ahad - Badan Pencegah Rasuah (BPR) Johor akan menyiasat
pentadbir majlis daerah dan pihak berkuasa tempatan serta pemaju
perumahan di negeri ini yang sengaja lewat atau gagal mengeluarkan
Sijil Layak Menduduki (CF) kepada pembeli. Pengarah BPR Negeri,
Nordin Ismail, berkata langkah itu bagi mengenal pasti punca
kelewatan menyebabkan pembeli menanggung faedah bayaran berjadual
kepada institusi kewangan.
Pemaju sukar dikenakan tindakan
21/12/1992 BH
GEORGETOWN, Ahad - Kerajaan negeri tidak dapat berbuat apa-apa jika
pemaju yang membina lebih 150 rumah sengaja mengelak daripada
menyediakan 30 peratus rumah kos rendah. Timbalan Ketua Menteri, Dr
Ibrahim Saad, berkata kerajaan juga tidak dapat berbuat apa-apa jika
pemaju hanya membina 149 atau 148 unit rumah untuk melepaskan diri
daripada syarat berkenaan.
Sour note to
inspection
22/12/1992 MM
* BUYER of Puchong claims that he was threatened by the site
officer of a developing company from which he bought a
double-storey link-house in Bandar Puchong Jaya on Dec 17. He says
the incident happened when he went to inspect the house he bought
two years ago.
Lawyer held
in land sale fraud 23/12/1992
NST
KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. - Police have detained three men including a lawyer
for allegedly selling a choice 19-hectare land in Rawang for more than $1
million without the owners' consent. Sources told the New Straits Times
today that Federal commercial crime branch officers picked up the trio
from their homes and offices over the weekend.
Peeved over week's delay 23/12/1991 MM
* AD feels he should be compensated by a developer for the delay in
handing over the keys to his new house in Subang Jaya. He booked the
two-storey house, which was completed recently, two years ago.
Pemaju wajib sedia taman rekreasi
24/12/1992 BH
GEORGETOWN, Rabu - Pemaju perumahan di negeri ini wajib menyediakan
tempat lapang untuk dijadikan pusat rekreasi di setiap projek
perumahan baru, kata Yang Dipertua Majlis Perbandaran Pulau Pinang (MPPP),
Datuk Tan Gim Hwa. Beliau berkata, keputusan itu bertujuan
meningkatkan keselesaan penduduk kawasan perumahan di samping
memberi faedah kepada MPPP yang kekurangan kakitangan untuk menjaga
kawasan itu.
Question mark over workers' skills 26/12/1992 MM By Faridah
Yaacob
THE demand for workers following the construction boom has led most
contractors and sub-contractors to employ men with lesser skills. And the
lack of an accreditation system to determine the level of skill a worker has
compounds a situation that is at best tolerated because there is no
alternative.
60 builders
booked for breaking advertisement regulations 26/12/1992
NST By R.V. Veera
KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. - The Housing and Local Government Ministry has booked
60 developers for allegedly contravening rules on advertisement about
their housing projects. A majority of these developers from the Klang
Valley are alleged to have committed the offence between 1989 and October
this year.
Villagers want UDA to
honour pledge
27/12/1992 NST
PENANG, Sat. - Twelve of the original 100 Kampung Nyak Puteh residents
whose homes were demolished to make way for the Urban Development
Authority's flat project have been given an assurance that their problems
will be resolved soon. The assurance came from Deputy Chief Minister Dr
Ibrahim Saad in a meeting with the village's Umno branch and the Kampung
Nyak Puteh low-cost house action committee chairman Abdul Hamid Aziz.
Move to build low cost units cheaply
28/12/1992 NST
JOHOR BARU, Sun. - The State Government is considering taking over land
given to developers to build low-cost houses and appointing sub- contractors
to construct such houses on it. It feels that this would help to keep the
price of low-cost units down.
Tanah rumah kos rendah dikaji
28/12/1992 BH
JOHOR BAHRU, Ahad - Kerajaan Johor sedang mengkaji kemungkinan mengambil
alih tanah yang diperuntukkan bagi kuota perumahan kos rendah di kawasan
projek pembangunan swasta dan menyerahkan kerja subkontrak pembinaan sebagai
langkah mengekalkan kadar harga rumah terbabit. Menteri Besar, Tan Sri
Muhyiddin Mohd Yassin, berkata kerajaan negeri sudah mengadakan pertemuan
dengan Persatuan Pemaju Perumahan (HDA) berhubung cadangan mengambilalih
tanah yang diperuntukkan bagi projek perumahan kos rendah dalam pembangunan
percampuran dan membina rumah kos rendah menerusi subkontrak.
Buyers in bid to revive housing project
28/12/1992 NST
A GROUP of disgruntled house buyers of the abandoned Taman Seri
Raya in Cheras has formed a seven-man committee in an attempt to
get the developer to revive the project. Work at the project, a
joint venture between the Selangor Development Corporation (PKNS)
and Kausar Corporation Sdn Bhd, has stopped for the past year.
Mazlan tidak tahu projek
kondominum tergendala
29/12/1992 BH
KUALA LUMPUR, Isnin - Datuk Bandar Kuala Lumpur, Datuk Dr Mazlan
Ahmad, berkata beliau tidak mengetahui 30 projek pembinaan
kondominium bernilai kira-kira RM2 bilion, tergendala. Menurutnya,
selepas mengambil alih jawatan itu daripada Tan Sri Elyas Omar, 17
November lalu, beliau difahamkan Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL)
tidak meluluskan sebarang permohonan untuk pembinaan kondominium.
Ikut pelan asal
30/12/1992 HM
AMPANG: Projek pembangunan Kampung Kemensah, Hulu Klang, di sini,
perlu diteruskan mengikut pelan asal yang membabitkan pembinaan
2,605 unit kondominium dan padang golf 18 lubang. Pemaju projek
itu difahamkan perlu membina padang golf itu untuk mengimbangkan
keuntungannya.
