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Meter migration plan hits a snag
01/08/2007 The Star By K.W. MAK
Many condominium owners were outraged when water rates were increased for high-rise properties last year.

Tempat letak kereta tak cukup
01/08/2007 BH Oleh Hanisah Selamat
KUALA LUMPUR: Mereka menanti hampir 10 tahun untuk memiliki kediaman sendiri. Bagaimanapun, apabila kediaman itu mula diduduki tiga tahun lalu, penduduk kecewa kerana pemaju hanya menyediakan 80 petak letak kereta, sedangkan unit kediaman yang dibina adalah 252. Inilah masalah yang dihadapi penghuni projek pangsapuri sembilan tingkat Blok P20 Taman Bukit Angkasa, di sini.

Buyers distraught over unfinished apartments
02/08/2007 The Star By Priya Menon and Vivienne Pal
Buyers of the Sri Puteri Service Apartment located in Section 20, Shah Alam, lose precious sleep each night worrying about their unfinished homes.

MBPJ to meet condo owners and builder to resolve problems
03/08/2007 The Star By K.W. MAK
THE Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) will arrange for a meeting between the council, residents and the developer of Flora Damansara to resolve issues involving shoddy workmanship of the condominium.

REHDA Seeks Help For House Buyers Affected By Abandoned Projects
03/08/2007 Bernama
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 3 (Bernama) -- The Real Estate and Housing Developers' Association (REHDA) is urging Bank Negara Malaysia to consider its proposal that financial institutions waive the interest and capital repayment for affected purchasers of property projects deemed abandoned by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government.

Penduduk bimbang tangki septik terbuka
03/08/2007 BH Oleh Siti Nor Saadah Mdh Yusof
JASIN: Sebuah tangki septik kumbahan milik Indah Water Konsortium (IWK) yang penutupnya dicuri sejak dua tahun lalu menimbulkan kebimbangan kepada kira-kira 2,000 penduduk Taman Kesang Indah dan Taman Kesang Damai, dekat sini. Jawatankuasa penduduk kedua-dua taman perumahan itu pernah mengambil gambar tangki septik berkenaan dan mengadu hal itu kepada IWK, malangnya ia tidak dihiraukan.

Pembeli rumah terbengkalai dapat pembelaan
04/08/2007 BH
KUALA LUMPUR: Lebih 60,000 pembeli rumah dan hartanah yang masih terbengkalai kini boleh menarik nafas lega apabila permohonan menghentikan sementara bayaran ansuran rumah dan faedah pinjaman bank diluluskan Bank Negara tidak lama lagi. Permohonan menghentikan sementara bayaran sehingga premis siap dibina sepenuhnya dikemukakan Persatuan Pemaju Hartanah dan Perumahan Malaysia (Rehda) kepada Bank Negara bulan lalu.

Rehda minta ketepi faedah
04/08/2007 BH
PERSATUAN Pemaju Perumahan dan Hartanah (Rehda) meminta Bank Negara Malaysia menimbang cadangannya supaya bank mengetepikan faedah dan pembayaran semula pinjaman bagi projek hartanah yang dianggap terbengkalai oleh Kementerian Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan.

More about strata management
04/08/2007 NST
THE National House Buyers Association (HBA) too will be hosting a seminar of its own during the Mega Malaysia Property Showcase 2007 extravaganza at the Matrade Exhibition & Convention Centre. On Aug 11 it will address the topic "Strata Property Management: Who's in Charge" and has invited lawyers Viola de Cruz and Kuna Sekaran to shed light on the roles and rights of the different bodies involved in running a stratified development.

Sepakat bina hentian `haram'
06/08/2007 HM Oleh Md Fuzi Abd Lateh
BUKIT BERUNTUNG: "Kami sudah bengang dengan pelbagai kerenah birokrasi termasuklah sikap pemaju yang sering lepas tangan dengan janji mereka sebelum ini. Ini memaksa kami melakukan sesuatu mengikut permuafakatan penduduk seperti membina perhentian bas `haram' di taman ini. "Kami merayu kemudahan awam sementara ini tidak dirobohkan Majlis Daerah Hulu Selangor (MDHS) setelah penduduk bermandi peluh membina sebuah pondok menunggu bas di jalan utama dekat sini," kata penduduk, Ishak Daim.

Fraudulent land transfers rarely occur
06/08/2007 New Straits Times
KUALA LUMPUR: Fraudulent land transfers are rare, according to the deputy director-general of the Land and Mines Department (development and operations), Datuk Mazbar Abu Bakar.

Kondo mewah retak, pemaju lepas tangan
06/08/2007 HM
PETALING JAYA: Seorang pemilik kondominium mewah di Jalan SS7, Kelana Jaya di sini, kesal kerana pemaju kediaman itu dipercayai membina dua pam dan satu tangki air secara haram sehingga menyebabkan rumahnya mengalami gangguan bunyi bising akibat getaran kuat serta berlaku rekahan pada dinding sejak setahun lalu. Leong Mun Kwong, 42, berkata dia sudah membuat aduan kepada pemaju dan pengurusan kondominium itu tetapi sehingga kini tiada sebarang tindakan diambil sebaliknya mereka mengambil sikap berdiam diri.

Housebuyers' rights: Builder turns gift into a huge burden
07/08/2007 NST By T.L.L., Muar
I BOUGHT a condominium and the sale and purchase agreement was signed with the developer in 1995. I took a housing loan to help me complete the purchase.

Nepalese ex-soldiers, Gurkhas allowed to be guards
07/08/2007 The Star By ROYCE CHEAH
PETALING JAYA: Nepalese ex-servicemen and Gurkhas are the only foreigners allowed to work as security guards in Malaysia. Pakistanis are definitely not on the list, said Deputy Internal Security Minister Datuk Johari Baharom.

K Euro enters pact to sell Talam stake
07/08/2007 The Star By C. S. Tan
In an announcement yesterday to Bursa Malaysia that departs from the norm, K Euro's directors highlighted several observations.

All over the world, the Gurkhas are highly respected for their bravery
08/08/2007 The Star By Manjit Kaur
RECENT announcement by the Deputy Internal Security Minister Datuk Johari Baharom that only Nepalese ex-servicemen and Gurkhas are allowed to work as security guards in Malaysia have placed these brave men in the limelight.

Check fraudulent change of land ownership, department told
09/08/2007 The Star
SHAH ALAM: The Selangor government has asked the Land and Mines Department to investigate claims that some land office workers are involved in fraudulently changing land ownership after the original owners have died.

Residents object to condo project
09/08/2007 The Star
RESIDENTS living in and around Abadi Indah condominium at Taman Desa in Jalan Kelang Lama are disappointed that the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has approved a project to build a yet another condominium in their neighbourhood.

Owners urged to settle 20 pc margin
10/08/2007 MM
"PAY up or your apartment will be auctioned off." This was the ultimatum given by AmBank to the owners of Rhythm Avenue apartments in USJ19 Subang Jaya, who have yet to pay the 20 per cent cost difference for the project to be revived.

House purchase: Opt for build-then-sell system
10/08/2007 NST By Brig-Gen (R) Datuk Goh Seng Toh, Vice-president, National House Buyers Association
I read with a heavy heart the story  T.L.L of Muar had to tell about her condominium-buying problems ("Builder turns gift into a huge burden" - NST, Aug 7).

Smokescreens and detractions
11/08/2007 NST
FROM time to time, we've read of rather bizarre reactions by developers to changes in certain government policies. One of them is the move to allow the 10:90 variant of the Build-Then-Sell (BTS) system of housing delivery to run alongside the conventional practice of selling, then building (STB) houses.

Unlawful ‘roadblocks’
11/08/2007 The  Star
WHERE do you want to go? Friend’s house? Address? Don’t know, but know which house? If you don’t know, you cannot enter! Sounds familiar?

Strata title practice common in M'sia
12/08/2007 The Electric New Paper
http://tnp.sg/speakup/story/0,4136,138473,00.html
WE refer to the report, 'Where Are Our Strata Titles?' (The New Paper, 6 Aug), and would like to elaborate on some points on behalf of our client, Leisure Farm.

MANAGEMENT OF HIGH-RISE APARTMENTS: Power back in hands of owners
13/08/2007 NST By K. Harinderan and Sri Kuehnlenz
KUALA LUMPUR: At least once a month, the lifts stop working at the high-rise apartment block where Liew See Lan lives. "There is little we can do as the developer is the only one with the power over the management company," she said.

Housing safe even without warranty
13/08/2007 NST-PROP By Zuhaila Sedek
The absence of a warranty does not mean that a house is not safe for occupation. So said developers in response to questions from reporters at a media briefing on compliance issues in hillside developments, held in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, recently.

13 projek rumah dikategori terbengkalai
14/08/2007 Berita Harian
SEBANYAK 13 projek perumahan awam dan swasta membabitkan 2,810 pembeli di seluruh Pahang masih dikategorikan sebagai terbengkalai, kata Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Perumahan dan Pusat Pertumbuhan, Datuk Mohd Soffi Abdul Razak.

Housebuyers' rights: Builder turns gift into a huge burden
13/08/2007 NST By T.L.L., Muar
I BOUGHT a condominium and the sale and purchase agreement was signed with the developer in 1995. I took a housing loan to help me complete the purchase.

Frustrated apartment owners air grouses
13/08/2007 MM By Kalbana Perimbanayagam
IT'S a little weird to have serviced apartment units on residential land. It's even bizarre when the apartment management demanded that residents pay RM12,000 for a private parking lot. Residents of Serdang Skyvillas Apartment in Seri Kembangan were seeing red when they were told to pay the amount for a single parking lot in the basement.

MB janji ganti bumbung
13/08/2007 HM Oleh Md Fuzi Abd Lateh
KUALA KUBU BARU: Kerajaan Negeri Selangor berjanji akan menyelesaikan masalah bumbung rumah penduduk yang hilang dalam kejadian ribut sejak tiga tahun lalu di bandar Bukit Sentosa dan Bukit Beruntung tidak lama lagi. Menteri Besar, Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo berkata, kerajaan negeri juga memutuskan mengambil alih tanah yang dimiliki pemaju sebagai ganti rugi membantu penduduk mendapat bumbung rumah yang lebih selesa.

2 projek rumah terbengkalai
14/08/2007 BH Oleh Amin Ridzuan Ishak
Selangor mahu ambil alih siapkan kediaman untuk program penempatan semula setinggan di Lembah Jaya, Hulu Klang Projek terbabit ialah Projek Perumahan Kos Rendah Kuari Golden Plus, Lembah Jaya dan Projek Perumahan Kos Rendah Sungai Sering, Hulu Klang.

Squatters waited five years to get keys to houses
14/08/2007 The Star BY PARVEEN GILL
SOME 800 squatter families who were relocated by City Hall to the KTM longhouses in Pantai Dalam will receive keys to their new homes soon.

Better late than never
15/08/2007 The Star
A family who owns five single-storey terrace houses in Batu Feringghi, Penang, are relieved that their problems with the developer have been solved, thanks to the Penang MCA Complaint and Service Bureau.

Townships fail to live up to expectations
16/08/2007 NST By C. Nadarajah
A FEW years ago, a property developer launched the "second PJ" in Bukit Beruntung and Bukit Sentosa in the Hulu Selangor district of Selangor with pomp and great promise. Thousands of investors put their money into homes in these two townships.

Filipina fined for threatening manager
17/08/2007 The Star
KUALA LUMPUR: Filipina Ederlina Hampac Katzengruber was getting frustrated over the time her condominium management was taking to fix her unit's leaking roof.

Good response to tribunal
21/08/2007 The Star
KOTA KINABALU: A deluge of housing woes poured into the Sabah House Buyers Claims Tribunal immediately after it was launched yesterday. Chief Minister Datuk Musa Aman said there were a large number of people seeking redress.

Taman Daya folks still waiting for land titles
21/08/2007 The Star By Stuart Michael
RAWANG assemblyman Datuk Tang See Hang has given Developer Sedaya Sdn Bhd three months to settle a Land Premium of about RM400,000 to ensure that over 1,500 land titles in Taman Daya, Kepong, would be given to residents.

200 former residents of Suleiman Court reminisce at gathering
21/08/2007 The Star By CHARLES FERNANDEZ
THE feelings of nostalgia ran high as more than 200 former residents of Suleiman Court, the first high-rise building in Kuala Lumpur, where the Sogo Shopping Complex stands today, held a gathering at the PDRM golf course in Titiwangsa.

Two Bodies Object To Move To Raise Price Of Low-cost Houses
22/08/2007 Bernama
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 22 (Bernama) -- Two associations today stated their objection to a proposal by the Real Estate and Housing Developers Association (REHDA) to raise the price of low-cost houses from the current RM42,000 to RM60,000.

Condo resident wants better maintenance
23/08/2007 The Malay Mail (Hotline)
MAC, of Kuala Lumpur, is displeased with the maintenance at Villa Puteri Condo. “The facilities are not well-maintained. The elevators are slow and sometimes I have to wait for almost five minutes for the lift to get to my floor. They also break down frequently,” he says.

Flats lacking facilities
23/08/2007 The Malay Mail (Hotline)
RESIDENTS of Impian Baiduri in Petaling Jaya claim that the facilities at their flats leave much to be desired although they are paying monthly maintenance fees.

Stuck many times in faulty lifts
24/08/2007 The Star
HOUSEWIFE Woo Ai Din has lost count of the number of times she has been trapped inside a malfunctioning lift at the Kinta Heights flats in Ipoh.

Developer gets court nod to revive project
25/08/2007 The Star By Koay Shiann Huah
THERE are plans to revive the Bayan Central project in Bayan Baru, Penang, after it was abandoned for nearly 10 years.

Banglo baru `banjir'
26/08/2007 MA Oleh Abdullah Wahab
KUALA LUMPUR: Seorang ahli perniagaan kerugian hampir RM1 juta apabila banglonya bernilai RM3 juta di Lorong PJU 1 A/ 50 B, Lorong Jati 2, Damansara Idaman, di sini, digenangi air selepas paip utama yang menyimpan 3,785 liter air dari tangki utama bocor. Lebih memilukan, kejadian berlaku selepas dua bulan dia berpindah ke situ, manakala beberapa perabotnya baru beberapa minggu tiba dari luar negara.

End in sight for longstanding housing woes
27/08/2007 The Star By Koay Shiann Huah
THE longstanding housing woes faced by hundreds of flat dwellers in Villa Mas Ewani in Jelutong, Penang, will soon be over. The state Commissioner of Building (COB) is coming in to help them.

Stop roadblock nonsense now
27/08/2007 The Star
I REFER to “Unlawful roadblocks” reported recently (The Star, Aug 11). I am shocked to read that these guardhouses and barriers erected over public roads are unlawful.

Pemaju pasang sistem cegah jenayah RM1j
28/08/2007 HM
WANGSA MAJU: Dengan dilengkapi sistem keselamatan dan pencegahan jenayah terkini bernilai RM1 juta, bandar Wangsa Link di sini, pasti menjadi igauan ngeri setiap penyangak yang memasang niat jahat untuk melakukan jenayah di tempat itu. Penyediaan sistem berkenaan dilakukan sendiri pihak pemaju Wangsa Link, MSL Properties Sdn Bhd (MSL), selaras garis panduan yang ditetapkan kerajaan menerusi Kementerian Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan.

Turn to written law over legality of guard posts
30/08/2007 The Star
ONCE again the topic of the rights of many versus the rights of a few has re-emerged with the issue of security guard posts on public thoroughfares.

Living in fear of our guards
30/08/2007 The Star
I LIVE in a Klang suburb and subscribe to the guard services that patrol my area. These guards have become more gangster-like by the day.

2nd progress report on housing one-stop centre
30/08/2007 The Edge Daily  by Sharon Tan
KUALA LUMPUR: The Housing and Local Government Ministry submitted its second progress report on the housing one-stop centre (OSC) to the Cabinet yesterday, said its minister Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting.

A feeling of deja vu
31/08/2007 The Star
PENANG: A Proton Saga was partially crushed by a boulder following a rockslide at the car park of the Wayton flats in Paya Terubong here.

Houses affected by landslide require CF
31/08/2007 The Malay Mail
HOUSE owners in Taman Zoo View affected by a landslide on May 31 last year, have to apply for a certificate of fitness for occupation for their houses.

 

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