Understanding the Housing Development Act & Its Regulations: Land Titles and Implications

Talk Points

Housing Development Act & Its Regulations

1. Housing Development Amendment Act 2012.
2. Housing Development Act 1966.
3. Housing Developers (Control and Licensing) Regulations 1989.
4. Accounts of Housing Developers.
5. The entitlement to amend the statutory Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA)?
6. Delay in the handover of vacant possession.
7. Pre-determined liquidated damages.
8. Period for defect liability and the correction of defects.

Types of Land Titles and Its Implications

1. What constitutes a Master Title?
2. What defines a Subdivided Title or Strata Title?
3. What are Leasehold and Freehold Titles?
4. Limitations on interests in land.
5. Malay Reserve Land and Bumiputra Lots.
6. Different types of titles – Registry Titles, District Land, Office Titles, Final Titles, and Qualified Titles.
7. The concept of Indefeasibility.
8. Encumbrances and other related interests.
9. Various types of Caveats, Easements, and Leases.