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Walls that exclude
06/03/2004 NST-PROP
THERE is a growing
number of Klang Valley residents who are
moving out of their homes in the "open"
and settling into gated communities with
their twin attributes of privacy and
security.
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Tenants
from hell
17/04/2004 NST-PROP
If you have been blessed with extra cash
(or have access to an easy-term
financing scheme) and property
investment is your cup of tea, you’ve
probably amassed a portfolio of
properties which you’re renting out -
residential, commercial, and may be
industrial as well.
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Solving the
low-cost housing woe
15/05/2004 NST-PROP
Units may be priced too high while
buyers still face the threat of abandoned projects.
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Identifying the black
sheep
22/05/2004 NST-PROP
Assurance needed that developers
with bad track records do not repeat their
wrong-doings
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Premier boost for build-then-sell
05/06/2004 NST-PROP
WHAT are the chances of the
build-then-sell (BTS) method becoming law in the
near future?
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Balancing speed with safety
03/07/2004
NST-PROP
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Towards
better land administration 24/07/2004 NST-PROP
My congratulations to the senior management and staff of the Land
and Cooperative Development Ministry (its former name, for as long
as I can remember) for having a new minister and a new name, the
Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment?.
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Clear
path for the Housing Tribunal
31/07/2004 NST-PROP
It was good news indeed for house buyers when the
nation's highest judicial body, the Federal Court, declared that the
newly established Tribunal for Homebuyer Claims is empowered to hear
all disputes related to the Sale and Purchase Agreements (SPAs)
between house buyers and developers that are brought before it.
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Duties of
a housing developer
04/09/2004 NST-PROP
The duties of a housing developer can be put into two broad
categories.
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Avoiding legal pitfalls
11/09/2004 NST-PROP
THERE is an old common law doctrine
called "the freedom of contract" which,
simply put, means that people are free
to make their own contracts.
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Know what you're signing
18/09/2004 NST-PROP
A quick tour through the laws governing the sale
and purchase of a house
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Misplaced generosity
09/10/2004 NST-PROP
The law regulating landlords and tenants in
Peninsular Malaysia is not too difficult to learn,
or too complicated to comprehend.
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Questions over Malay reserve land
30/10/2004 NST-PROP
Earlier this month, I spent a couple of days in
the midst of more than 250 senior officers from
Land Offices around the country, at a seminar on
land administration in a five-star hotel in Kuala
Lumpur.
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The abuse of knowledge
14/02/2004
NST-PROP
It is indeed a pity that the people behind the
fraudulent land transfers recently discovered in
Selangor had no qualms about abusing the knowledge
they have on the computerised land registration
system for their own benefit.
