News by Datuk Chang Kim Loong

At that time, housing abandonments were aplenty and aggrieved buyers had problem getting their voices heard by the governing authority, i.e. ministry of housing. 

Recently, the Federal Court, in the case of Remeggious Krishnan vs SKS Southern Sdn Bhd (previously known as MB Builders Sdn Bhd) Civil Appeal no. 02(f)-50-09/2021(J), confirmed that homebuyers can bring separate claims involving the same property in order to stay within the RM50,000 jurisdictional limit of the Tribunal for Homebuyers’ Claims or Tribunal Tuntutan Pembeli Rumah (TTPR), and that the RM50,000 limit is for each separate claim, not the total combined claims for the same property.

The HBA has time and again highlighted the untold misery of the victims and called on the authorities to address this issue urgently, so the minister’s attention to it is certainly welcome.

Ketika membeli rumah daripada pasaran utama, mereka jarang siap dibina - di mana kita boleh melihat kualiti sebenar pembinaannya atau sekelilingnya. Oleh itu, sebagai produk yang belum wujud, mereka dijual dengan menggunakan gambaran artis, model skala dan pelbagai skim pemasaran.

Developers are required to submit mock-ups to the housing ministry to check if there are any deviations between the advertisements and the approved versions.

Since 2013, banks have somehow been “selling” and “billing” the security documents to lawyers for prices ranging between RM100 and RM600.

There has been no shortage of complaints from homebuyers over the years on the deviations found in their end-products, where their completed units of stratified high-rise or landed residential houses and their surrounding habitats differ from those represented in the marketing materials and even plans attached to the standard sale and purchase agreements (SPA) signed between them and the developers.

Apex Court held that the ‘threshold’ under Section 96 of Courts of Judicature Act has not been met. Hence, ‘leave of court’ to escalate to Apex Court denied.

The new laws, which came into force on June 1, 2015, tightened the process of the segregation of the master title by the developer.