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Changes to Housing Act favour buyers
01/12/2002 Sunday
Star
PETALING JAYA: Housebuyers can now terminate their sales and purchase agreements and get refunds for their payments from developers under the Housing Developers (Control and Licensing) (Amendment) Act 2002 which takes effect today.
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Buyers happy but developers brace for problems
02/12/2002 The Star
PETALING
JAYA: The changes to the Housing Developers (Control and Licensing) (Amendment) Act are consumer-friendly and will benefit both
house buyers and developers, said National Housebuyers Association (HBA) secretary-general Chang Kim Loong.
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Buyers must
sign new S&P agreement
02/12/2002 The Star
The 290 buyers of the stalled low medium-cost Seri Semarak apartment
project in Bandar Baru Air Itam have to sign a new sales and
purchase (S & P) agreement as a new developer has taken over the
project.
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Buyers have to pay four months’ service charge now
02/12/2002 The Star By Foong Pek Yee
PETALING JAYA: Property buyers will now have to pay four
months of service charge upfront, of which three months are
in the form of advance payment and the remainder as deposit
under the Housing Developers (Control and Licensing)
(Amendment) Act 2002 which took effect yesterday.
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Housebuyers ‘must decide’
02/12/2002 The Star By Ng Su-Ann
SOME 600 housebuyers of the stalled Fettes Villa project in
Fettes Park, Penang, have to make a decision. They have been
told to decide whether they want the project to continue or
try to get back their downpayment of between RM10,000 and
RM15,000 each.
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Persatuan sambut baik peraturan baru beli rumah
03/12/2002 BH
KUALA LUMPUR, Isnin - Persatuan Pembeli Rumah Kebangsaan menyambut baik peraturan baru yang mensyaratkan pembeli hartanah seperti pangsapuri,
kondominium, dan flet supaya membayar wang pendahuluan empat bulan bagi caj perkhidmatan. Presidennya, Datuk Zainuddin Bachik,
berkata peraturan itu diharap melindungi hak pembeli hartanah daripada menjadi mangsa pemaju perumahan tempatan yang hanya
mementingkan keuntungan pantas
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Builders must reimburse within 14 days
03/12/2002 The Star
PETALING JAYA: Developers must reimburse housebuyers who carry out rectification works on their own units within 14 days from the day they receive the buyers’ written demand under the Housing Developers Act (Control and Licensing) (Amendment), 2002 which took effect on Dec 1.
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Houses without CFs built before MPAJ was
set up
03/12/2002 The Star
OLD buildings and houses built prior to
the establishment of the Ampang Jaya
Municipal Council (MPAJ) is the reason
why a high number of properties in the
municipality are without certificates of
fitness (CFs).
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Close watch on hillside projects
04/12/2002 The Star By
Dharmender Singh
THE Subang Jaya Municipal Council (MPSJ)
will start monitoring all development
projects in areas it deemed sensitive
to ensure all technical requirements
are adhered to.
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Unit to handle strata title matters
04/12/2002 NST-CITY
THE Selangor Land and Mines Department, the authority with the power to issue strata titles, will set up a division to handle problems related to such applications. Deputy Land and Co-operative Development Minister Dr Tan Kee Kwong said the division would hasten the processing time for applications of strata titles.
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Developer to the rescue
05/12/2002 The Star
SIN Heap Lee-Marubeni Sdn Bhd, the
developer of Excelsa Apartments at Taman
Universiti Indah in Sri Kembangan has
promised to take measures to rectify
residents’ problems, especially in
security, water supply and possible
erosion. The company’s director
Christopher Ch’ng said the management
would consider the residents’ request
for an automatic gate at the apartment’s
entrance.
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Strata titles for PKNS flats
out next year
06/12/2002 MM
THE residents of the PKNS flats along
Jalan 17/1A, Petaling Jaya, should be getting their strata
titles next year. Bukit Gasing State Assemblyman Dr Lim
Thuang Seng announced that after more than 30 years, strata
titles will finally be issued to the
owners of individual units.
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Honest way to get rich
08/11/2002 NST By
Charisma Mendoza
There is not one among us who, at one
time or another, dreamt of being rich.
Some of us went to convert that dream -
you became rich, you made it! Some
others continue to dream of that
wonderful way to get rich! And really we
have ourselves to blame when you fall
under that category.
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Housing tribunal should be allowed to hear all cases 09/12/2002 NST By
Chang Kim Loong
THE National Housebuyers Association Malaysia (HBA) welcomes the announcement by Minister of Housing and Local Government
Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting that the amended Housing Development Act would take effect from Dec 1.
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Aduan mengenai Pejabat Tanah
banyak diterima BPA
09/12/2002 BH
KELEWATAN proses permohonan tanah,
mengeluarkan hak milik tanah dan proses pindah hak milik
tanah adalah aduan yang kerap diterima oleh Biro Pengaduan
Awam (BPA), Jabatan Perdana Menteri, terhadap Pejabat Tanah.
Aduan lain ialah kelewatan pecah sempadan, masalah batu
sempadan dan pembayaran wang pampasan bagi tanah yang
diambil kerajaan.
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30-year wait for strata titles
10/12/2002 NST-CITY
RESIDENTS of the PKNS
(Selangor State Economic Development Corporation) flats at Jalan 17/1A in Petaling Jaya will get their strata titles next year -
after waiting for more than 30 years. Bukit Gasing Assemblyman Dr Lim Thuang Seng said the strata titles were expected to be
issued by the middle of, or late, next year as they were in the final stages of being processed by the Land and Mines Department.
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Tribunal ready to hear cases
10/12/2002 The
Star
KUALA LUMPUR: The Tribunal for Housebuyer Claims formed under the new Housing Developers (Control and Licensing) (Amendment) Act 2002 is now ready to hear cases.
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Good
deal turns sour for clerk
10/12/2002 BY K.
Suthakar
A CLERK who thought she had landed a good buy of an apartment in a public
auction had a rude shock when she was asked to pay about RM10,000 extra to
settle outstanding bills relating to the property in Penang.
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DPM: Check incompetence
10/12/2002 The Star
KUALA LUMPUR: The Land and Co-operative Development Ministry has been instructed to intervene in the handling of land matters following incompetence shown by some land offices
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S & P to give itemised list of expenses
11/12/2002 The Star
By Clarence Chua
KUALA LUMPUR: The sale and purchase
(S&P) agreement for apartments will now
include an itemised list of expenses
that will give buyers a better idea of
what the maintenance fee actually
covers.
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Desa Pakar to get CF soon
11/12/2002 NST-CITY
THE Desa Pakar complex and apartments along the Sungai
Besi Highway will soon be issued temporary Certificates of Fitness, once clearance letters on the project have been issued by the
Fire and Rescue Department. "Kuala Lumpur City Hall has in principle agreed to issue temporary CFs for the apartments. We are just
waiting for clearance from the department," said Khong Chee Seng, secretary to Seputeh MP Teresa Kok, during a recent Press
conference at the project site.
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Prices fixed for houses on state land
12/12/2002 The Star
IPOH: Developers building double-storey
houses and shophouses on state land will
have to sell them at RM100,000 and
RM150,000 respectively from next year so
that bumiputras can afford them.
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Principle is now ‘caveat venditor’
12/12/2002 The Star
I REFER to the letter, “Build first, sell later,” (The Star, Dec 10). For the information of Frustrated, the recent amendments to the housing development laws have already taken care of the “build-then-sell” concept by encouraging developers to adopt it.
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Tribunal hanya terima kes aduan selepas 1 Disember
12/12/2002 BH
KUALA LUMPUR, Rabu - Tribunal Aduan Pembeli Rumah (TAPR) yang mula beroperasi 1 Disember lalu hanya boleh membantu memfailkan tuntutan pembeli yang menandatangani perjanjian jual beli rumah (S&P) selepas tarikh itu. Pengerusinya yang baru dilantik, Kamardin Hashim, berkata pihaknya hanya boleh mendengar aduan pembeli mengenai masalah berkaitan jual beli bagi urusan S&P yang dibuat sebelum 1 Disember dan perkara itu kemudian dirujuk kepada bahagian pengaduan Kementerian Perumahan dan
Kerajaan Tempatan.
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Hope for housebuyers who
had completed purchase before Dec 1
13/12/2002
NST
KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. - The door has not
been permanently shut for thousands of
aggrieved housebuyers who purchased
their homes before Dec 1. The Housing
and Local Government Ministry is working
towards making the Housing Tribunal
accessible to buyers who signed their
Sale and Purchase Agreements (SPA)
before the the tribunal commenced.
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Ong: We will clarify position of tribunal first
13/12/2002 The Star
The Housing and Local Government Ministry will seek the advice of the Attorney-General’s Chambers on whether the Housing Tribunal can hear cases involving transactions made before Dec 1, its minister, Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting, said.
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Pastikan tribunal tiada had masa kes
13/12/2002 BH
KUALA LUMPUR, Khamis - Kementerian Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan akan mendapatkan penjelasan dan nasihat daripada Jabatan Peguam Negara sama ada Tribunal Aduan Pembeli Rumah (TAPR) boleh menerima kes yang berlaku sebelum 1 Disember lalu. Menteri Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan, Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting, berkata kerajaan tidak akan bersikap lepas tangan terhadap masalah yang berlaku sebelum 1 Disember sebaliknya akan mencuba sedaya upaya untuk membantu pembeli rumah menyelesaikan masalah mereka.
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Housing ministry to speed up procedures
for approval of construction projects
14/12/2002 The Star
THE Housing and Local Government is
aiming to speed up the procedure for
approval of construction projects via an
electronic ecosystem. According to
Housing and Local Government Minister
Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting, the Sepang
district council in Selangor has been
chosen to carry out a pilot project
called virtual approval environment (VAE),
built by AsiaBuild Online Sdn Bhd. It is
expected to go full-scale in June next
year.
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Close watch on hillside projects
14/12/2002 The Star
THE Subang Jaya Municipal Council (MPSJ)
will start monitoring all development
projects in areas it deemed sensitive to
ensure all technical requirements are
adhered to. Council president Ahmad Fuad
Ismail said when developers failed to
follow the requirements during the early
stages of the development, the structure
such as slopes posed a problem after six
or seven years.
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Pinjaman rumah selesai, tapi tiada hak milik
16/12/2002 BH
PADA
1971 arwah ibu saya (termasuk 44 pembeli lain) membeli banglo dua tingkat di Taman Datuk Keramat daripada Perbadanan Kemajuan
Negeri Selangor (PKNS). Pinjaman rumah daripada PKNS diselesaikan pada 1983, namun sehingga ini hak milik rumah itu belum
dikeluarkan.`
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Stop threatening borrowers, CASSA tells banks
16/12/2002 MM
THE Consumers Association of Subang
and Shah Alam Selangor (CASSA) has called all financial institutions to stop threatening borrowers - whose housing projects are
abandoned by developers - with property auction, blacklisting and bankruptcy notices. In a statement, its president Jacob George
said in many cases, the association found the banks were equally liable for releasing loans of more than 95 per cent of the
purchase price without determining the state of the project
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Service apartment buyers not protected by new law
16/12/2002 The Star By Clarence Chua
PETALING JAYA: With the demand for
service apartments on the rise, many
buyers of such property are unaware that
they do not enjoy the protection
accorded to purchasers of condominiums,
apartments and other non-commercial
property under the law.
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Developer of stalled project
gets summons 18/12/2002
NST-CITY
THE developer for the abandoned Rhythm Avenue apartment project in Subang
Jaya, Selangor was served with a writ of summons last Friday. Those named
as co-defendants were Rhythm Avenue developer Sanjung Utama Sdn Bhd,
company directors Yap Kwee Huat and Yap Kwee Chai and project architect
Goh Day Ren.
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No nod for blasting at Tiara Intan
20/12/2002 The Star By Esther Chandran
BLASTING works carried out by developers
should have the approval from the local
authority, which takes into account
consent from the police, Department of
Environment and Mineral and Geoscience
Department.
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Ministry to monitor new buildings
without disabled-friendly features
20/12/2002 NST
KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. - The issue of new buildings without disabled-people features will be addressed at the Disabled Persons' Advisory Council in February, said National Unity and Social Development Minister Datuk Dr Siti Zaharah Sulaiman today.
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Guarded approval for new Act
21/12/2002 NST-PROP
WITH the Housing Developers (Control and Licensing) (Amendment) Act 2002
coming into operation on Dec 1 together with the regulations governing the
new standard Sale and Purchase Agreements, housing development accounts and
the tribunal, the legal overhaul of the property development industry is now
complete.
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New Housing Development Regulations
21/12/2002
NST By Shamsulbahri bin Ibrahim and
Roger Tan Kor Mee
Background
The Housing Developers (Control and
Licensing) (Amendment) Act 2002 which
was gazetted on 31 January 2002 came
into operation on 1 December 2002. With
that, the Housing Developers (Control
and Licensing) Act 1966 will now be
known as the Housing Development
(Control and Licensing) Act 1966 (“the
Act”).
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Buyer-friendly Act
21/12/2002
NST By Shamsulbahri bin Ibrahim and
Roger Tan Kor Mee
The Housing Developers (Control and Licensing) (Amendment) Act 2002 which
was gazetted on Jan 31, 2002 came into operation on Dec 1, 2002. With that,
the Housing Developers (Control and Licensing) Act 1966 is now known as the
Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Act 1966 (the Act).
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Build more low-cost houses instead of
flats
26/12/2002 NST
IT is good to learn that the Federal
Government has taken over the
responsibility for the construction of
houses for the lower-income group. It
has set aside RM1 billion. Of this
amount RM700 million is for 64 projects
to relocate squatters in Kuala Lumpur
and Selangor by 2005. However, generally
speaking, developers are crass
businessmen who only look to maximise
profits. If they can avoid building
low-cost units they will gladly do so.
This is where the authorities must come
down hard on the defaulters.
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Developers issued show-cause letters
over delay
29/12/2002 NSUNT
MUAR, Sat. - The Johor Government has issued show-cause letters to several housing developers over the delay in building 39,000 units of low-cost houses, mostly in the RM25,000 category in Johor Baru. State Domestic Trade, Consumer Affairs and Housing Committee chairman Abdul Samat Aripin said the Government wanted to know why construction of these houses washeld up when medium and high-cost units could be completed in time.
