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PEER REVIEW
PEER REVIEW
The Malaysian Surveyor

“There is a need to educate the parcel on what is to be expected. The the Strata Management Act 2013
owners about the laws.” main objective of the developers (Act 757). However, there are still
nowadays is mainly to dispose their certain complex issues which need
- Interviewee 1
properties as quickly as possible to be overcome in the near future
Although there are few seminars to gain profit quicker. Thus, making to improve the management of the
held in cities like Kuala Lumpur and purchasers unhappy. mixed use strata development. This
Penang, these seminar’s tentative are not only applies to the governing
not properly arranged to allow JMB “There are a lot of developers who are body, but also the public, property
committee members, MC committee unscrupulous out there.” managers and the professionals who
members and parcel owners to - Interviewee 3 are involved in a mixed use strata
get the most of these seminars. development.
Topic sessions are relatively short
and ineffective. Attendees of the 4. Conclusions and The interviews revealed that there
seminars can only learn the gist of Recommendations still some minor flaws in the property
the property management of the management of a mixed use strata
strata development. According to the interviews development. Improvements
conducted with the strata can still be made to the laws. For
“Every year, year in year out, I will be management professionals, the instance, there should be more
training people in Kuala Lumpur for laws implemented to manage the involvement between the developers
short sessions under COB DBKL, and mixed use strata development has and general practice surveyors to
most of the time, I will be seeing the improved tremendously since the work out with a proper and precise
same faces for a couple of years.” introduction and implementation of formulation of share units so that
parcel owners of different uses pay
- Interviewee 3 a considerable amount of charges
“Seminars are held in KL for JMB and in accordance to the ownership of
MC committee members, but the their parcel. This can also prevent
sessions are very short for each topic the complicated process of revising
and then followed by a Q&A session.” The governing for a more equitable share unit
through the application of the court
body should
- Interviewee 1 order. Moreover, Limited Common
Developers also play a role after allocate more Property should be formed in the
Joint Management Body period
handing the vacant possession instead of after the creation of the
to the purchasers. Apart from the resources to Management Corporation in a mixed
owner’s kit, house rules and the use strata development. This can not
by-laws, developers should also organise training only prevent the hassle to employ a
be given a handbook on the act to sessions and Licensed Land Surveyor again, but
inform the owners that they are to also helps in preventing incurring
comply to the Strata Management educational additional cost to subdivide the
Act as they are entering into a strata building again.
property development. seminars for both

“Every purchaser must have a the parcel owners In terms of regulation and
enforcement of the laws towards a
handbook on the act.” and the property mixed use strata development, there
- Interviewee 3 is still some space for improvements
managers on that the government can work out
Despite the responsibilities that to further enhance the strata laws.
should be carried out by the living in mixed In the case of enforcement, the
developers prior to handing over the use strata major problem that comes from the
vacant possession to the owners, enforcing of the strata laws towards
developers were not forthcoming. developments. the mixed use strata development
Developers were not truthful to is the enforcing body which is the
owners and are not explaining to Commissioner of Building (COB).
make things clear from the start The COB is currently in charge

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