Buyers feel let down by developer
The Star 5/8/2005 By Frederick Fernandez

PETALING JAYA: More than 100 buyers of property lots of the stalled Port Villa/Taman Perkasa Indah mixed development project in Port Klang claim they have been short changed as the developer did not have the proper licences and permits from the authorities.

The buyers claimed that the company did not have a developer's licence from the Housing and Local Government Ministry or the approval from the Klang Municipal Council to start the project.

The buyers, some of whom had lodged police reports at the Klang district police station last month, said the developer Perkasa Indera Sdn Bhd had failed to submit structural plans for the construction.

According to the company's brochures, it planned to build over 100 units of double-storey shoplots, medium-cost shoplots, semi-detached houses, medium-cost apartments and low-cost apartments in two plots not far from Westport.

The affected buyers, who held a meeting at Taman Bayu Perdana in Klang on Wednesday night, also alleged that the developer did not have an advertising and sales permit.

A spokesman for the buyers, Alan Lui, said that Pengurusan Danaharta Nasional Bhd had since taken over the non-performing loan of the developer who owed a local bank RM6.85mil.

Lui said that in a letter dated June 29 to the buyers, the company said the entire management had changed and that the new team would revive the project as soon as possible.

The buyers were also told to forward all correspondence and enquiries to FG Constructions Sdn Bhd at Jalan Raja Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur.

One of the new management's directors Liew Ah Onn said it took over the Port Villa project in November last year, about a year after it stalled and his company was determined to complete the project.