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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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