‘Liquidator bulldozed through procedures’ 02/02/2009 The Star
RESIDENTS of the Majestic Heights project’s phase one in Paya Terubong in
Penang are claiming that the liquidator did not go through the standard practice
when obtai-ning the Certificate of Fitness (CF) for the units. Their
UDA dirayu siapkan perumahan terbengkalai 03/02/2009 Utusan Online
BUKIT MERTAJAM 2 Feb. - Projek rumah banglo di dua projek perumahan berasingan,
Taman Mengkuang Heights dan Taman Orkid Indah di Jalan Maqbul di sini yang
terbengkalai sejak Julai tahun lepas masih belum diteruskan.
Fraudulent housing withdrawal offenders will be prosecuted 03/02/09
NST By Ivy Chang
The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) has hauled up 34 members to court for making
fraudulent housing withdrawals. Todate, three offenders have been fined between
RM600 and RM2,000 each, with one of them facing a
MM2H
programme constantly being enhanced 06/02/09 NST EDITOR'S LETTERS
I wish to refer to the article titled "Policy decisions that continue to confuse"
by Mr Andy Davison, which appeared in NST Property on Friday, Jan 30, 2009.
The feedback by Mr Davison on the Malaysia My Second Home or MM2H
Palm Court operators to sue 09/02/2009 Malay Mail By Kharleez Zubin
Several business operators in Palm Court Condominium, who claim to have suffered
heavy losses for more than a year since the new management committee put the
lid on outsiders patronising the gated and guarded community,
Tapak projek terbiar biak
nyamuk 10/02/2009 HM Oleh Mohd Azam Shah Yaacob
CHERAS: Peningkatan kes demam denggi yang sering berlaku di kawasan ini sejak
beberapa tahun lalu membimbangkan penduduk Bandar Tasik Permaisuri dan kini
mereka terdedah kepada satu lagi penyakit bawaan nyamuk iaitu chikungunya.
Lebih meresahkan mereka mendakwa penularan kes denggi yang banyak dicatatkan
di situ sebenarnya berpunca daripada sebuah tapak projek yang terbengkalai
lebih tiga tahun lalu.Kerajaan rancang ambil
alih projek rumah terbengkalai 12/02/2009 BH Oleh Nasir Abd Wahab
ALOR GAJAH: Kerajaan negeri merancang mengambil alih projek rumah terbengkalai
di Taman Bidara Palma, di Tanjung Bidara, dekat sini, selepas mengesyaki pemajunya
sudah melarikan diri bersama wang tunai berjumlah RM70,000 milik pembeli.
Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Perumahan, Pembangunan Pekan Kecil dan Pemulihan Projek
negeri, Datuk Abdul Ghafaar Atan, berkata selain itu, pemaju terbabit turut
disyaki gagal membayar cukai tanah dan mempunyai hutang premium tertunggak
kira-kira RM800,000 dengan Majlis Perbandaran Alor Gajah (MPAG).
Sikap
pemaju dikesali 13/02/2009 Utusan Online
ALOR GAJAH 12 Feb. - Kerajaan negeri kesal dengan sikap pemaju projek perumahan
Taman Bidara di Tanjung Bidara dekat sini yang tidak menunaikan janji untuk
menyiapkan projek itu yang tertangguh hampir 11 tahun.
Abandoned projects mar Seremban's image 13/02/2009 The Star Story
and photos by CHARLES FERNANDEZ
UNLIKE big cities and towns, there are not many tall buildings in Seremban
but unfortunately one of the tallest buildings located in the town is ironically
an abandoned project that sticks out like a sore thumb. The building,
Shopowners hope to get strata titles soon 14/02/2009 The Star By Christina
Low
AFTER 16 years of occupying shops without strata titles at the Kepong Entrepreneurs
Park, the owners are finally feeling hopeful about obtaining them soon. However,
Kepong community service centre head Yee Poh Ping said
Ex-major may sue to get landslide report 16/02/09 NST
KUALA LUMPUR: Dr Mohamed Rafick Khan Abdul Rahman, who caused a stir at a
press conference by Works Minister Datuk Mohd Zin Mohamed on Saturday, is
adamant on getting the Bukit Antarabangsa risk assessment
Minister heckled by irate Subang resident over hillslope threat 16/02/2009
NST By Adrian David
SUBANG JAYA, Sat: For the second consecutive day, Works Minister Datuk Seri
Mohd Zin Mohamed was involved in a drama with the public. This time he was
interrupted by a Bukit Antarabangsa resident during a Press
Revived project’s housebuyers to move in soon 16/02/2009 The Star
By SIMON KHOO
KUANTAN: Some 418 housebuyers in Taman Datuk Abdul Rashid Salleh near here
can look forward to moving into their new houses by next month, said Semambu
assemblyman Datuk Pang Tsu Ming. Pang said the project, which
Help,
our houses are sinking! Residents fear being buried alive NST 16/02/2009
By Sheila Sri Priya
Heng Bung Teik and his wife one of the residents, Chay Chee Sung looking at
the cracks in one of the affected houses. — Picture by Nik Rosli Ishak PETALING
JAYA: For the past 15 years, residents in Jalan SM1, Taman Sri
Experts called in to study Camerons apartments
17/02/09 NST By Jaspal Singh
CAMERON HIGHLANDS: Two independent consultants will study the structure of
three blocks of apartments in Kuala Terla which were evacuated last Friday,
after wide cracks appeared on one of the blocks. The Cameron
Company asks residents to pay outstanding bills before demanding for maintenance
services 18/02/2009 The Star By Stuart Michael
Isaiah Jacob who is secretary of the Taman Sri Murni Selayang residents safety
action committee, waiting for the lift
Foolhardy to forge on with hillside development 18/02/2009 The Star
WE refer to “Furore over lifting of hillside ban” (The Star, Feb 16). The
announcement by that Minister of Works that the “green light’ had been given
for hillside development carries an innuendo that there is a shortage of land
for the
Buyers left in a lurch by abandoned project 19/02/2009 The Star Story
and photos by ELAN PERUMAL
BUYERS of houses in a project at Taman Jentayu at Jalan Kebun, near Sijangkang,
in Kuala Langat have been left in a lurch after the project was abandoned.
More than 100 buyers bought the houses in 2004 only to find out that five
Developer given two months to submit report on defects
20/02/2009 www.dailyexpress.com.my
Kota Kinabalu: The developer of a residential park in Telipok near here has
been given two months to inspect and submit full reports to the authorities
on defects to two of its semi-detached houses there.
SPNB
Berjaya Baikpulih 73 Projek Terbengkalai 21/02/2009 Bernama
KUANTAN, 21 Feb (Bernama) -- Syarikat Perumahan Negara Berhad (SPNB) berjaya
membaikpulih 73 projek perumahan terbengkalai di seluruh negara, merangkumi
23,089 unit rumah, sehingga Januari lepas.50,000 rumah terbengkalai
diselesai 21/02/2009 BH
MELAKA: Kira-kira 62.5 peratus atau 50,000 daripada 80,000 kes rumah terbengkalai
di seluruh negara sejak lebih 12 tahun lalu, sudah diselesaikan menerusi bantuan
Kementerian Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan.
Belenggu pinjaman rumah 22/02/2009
MA Oleh Samsudin Awang
KUANTAN: Kira-kira 6,000 pembeli dibelenggu masalah pinjaman berikutan rumah
yang mereka beli gagal disiapkan pemaju di negeri ini sejak 10 tahun lalu.
Difahamkan, sekurang-kurangnya 16 projek perumahan terbengkalai kerana pemaju
gagal menyiapkan mengikut tarikh ditetapkan.
SPNB baik pulih 73 projek rumah 22/02/2009
BM Oleh Irwan Shafrizan Ismail
KUANTAN: Syarikat Perumahan Negara Berhad (SPNB) berjaya membaik pulih 73
projek perumahan terbengkalai merangkumi 23,089 unit rumah di seluruh negara
setakat 31 Januari lalu. Pengerusinya, Datuk Azian Osman, berkata sepanjang
tempoh berkenaan, 19 projek perumahan berjaya dibaik pulih menerusi bantuan
kewangan manakala 54 projek lagi menerusi khidmat nasihat serta kepakaran
SPNB.
’We
are not paying you to pass the buck’ 23/02/2009 NST By W. L. J., Vista
Angkasa, Kuala Lumpur
ON Dec 3, 2008, the telephone cables at three residential blocks of Vista
Angkasa were cut and stolen from their respective cable rooms in the middle
of the night. Because of this unfortunate incident, the telephone lines of
the
Heart-wrenching
stories of housebuyers 23/02/2009 NST By Es Tung
I SYMPATHISE with the plight of Taman Sri Manja residents in Old Klang Road,
whose houses are sinking. Reading their story recently reminded me of the
predicament faced by my father-in-law in Malacca 15 years ago, although on
Syabas:
Residents' duty to keep tanks clean 26/02/2009 NST
SUBANG JAYA: Syabas Corporate Communications and Public Affairs general manager
Abdul Halem Mat Som said the company was not responsible for the maintenance
of water tanks. "We have advised the public and the
Eat first, buy later for house buyers 27/02/2009 NST Kongster
I WAS once hungry for a house, so hungry that I would rather miss breakfast
and lunch just to queue up at a developer's office in Subang Jaya for many
hours with a big crowd. Those were the bad old days of the early 1990s
Buyers of abandoned project need help
28/02/2009 The Star
I WRITE on behalf of 700-odd buyers in a project that once promised attractive
returns but who are now burdened with servicing bank loans that must be repaid
whatever the cost.
Adopt
system to safeguard housebuyers 28/02/2009 The Star
WE read with despair the report entitled “Buyers left in a lurch by abandoned
project” in StarMetro dated Feb 19. Many unwary and unfortunate buyers are
suffering such a fate with no one to turn to. |