Relief for 1,500 house buyers

The Malay Mail 27/3/2006

SUBANG JAYA: Some 1,500 purchasers of Lagoon Perdana apartments and Belvedere condominiums in Bandar Sunway here are relieved that their abandoned projects will continue from April and July respectively.

Belvedere selVice condominium purchasers' pro-tern committee chairman Muhamad Faizal Zainuddin said work on the project had stopped since March last year.

"This condo was supposed to be ready by July this year but it did not progress beyond the groundworks stage," he told The Malay Mail.

Another buyer, Azura Lokman, said she bought a unit of Belvedere in July 2003 and she was promised delivery within three years.

"This is the first property I ever bought and now I have to wait about two more years for it to be completed," she said.

Mohd Lukhman Ghani, another of the 500 Belvedere purchasers, said he only knew the Belvedere project was abandoned when he received an invitation for a dialogue session with the developer yesterday in Subang Jaya.

"All this while, I thought the project was on-going as the developer did not keep us informed of the situation," he said.

At the dialogue, Tenaga Gagah Sdn Bhd's chief executive officer Ibrahim Mohamed said both projects will soon resume.

Ibrahim said Tenaga Gagah was part of the Talam Group, out since November last year, it has come under a new management.

"We will complete the Belvedere project within 20 months starting this July," he said, adding that the Lagoon Perdana project will resume next month.

Lagoon Perdana apartments were originally supposed to be ready by June 2003.

"Two blocks of Lagoon Perdana will be completed by October this year, while another two will be ready by June next year," said Ibrahim.

Also present at the dialogue was Subang Jaya State Assemblyman Datuk Lee Hwa Beng who urged the purchasers to co-operate with Tenaga so that both projects would be completed.