Selangor records highest number of housing complaints
27/03/2007 NST

KUALA LUMPUR, TUES:

The Housing and Local Government Ministry received 4,542 complaints from housebuyers last year and about 45 per cent of them in Selangor.

The ministry’s Monitoring and Enforcement Director Dr G. Parameswaran said most of the 2,029 complaints in Selangor involved late delivery and that 988 of them had been solved.

Other complaints included the failure of housing developers to observe the law and building regulations, he told a press conference here today.

He said that nationwide, 1,591 of the complaints had been settled.

He also said that from 2003 to December last year, 3,834 cases of default by the developers to comply with decisions of the Housing Tribunal were recorded while 680 claims had been dealt with and another 2,970 were either under investigation or pending trial.

Last year, 384 housing developers were issued with compound fines and 95 cases were brought to the court, Parameswaran. BERNAMA