LEGALITY QUESTIONED: Abang Johari, flanked by assistant housing ministers Datuk Francis Harden (left) and Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah, at the press conference.
KUCHING: Sarawak Housing and Real Estates Developers Association (Sheda) has agreed to submit full details of supplementary agreement signed between house buyers and private housing developers.
Minister of Housing Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg said the agreement would then be discussed in the State Cabinet.
Abang Johari said such agreement had not been at the interest of house buyers, and that some house buyers were even unaware of it, as indicated in the cases brought before the Housing Tribunal.
“Based on public statements the agreement (supplementary agreement), signed together with the sales and purchase agreement, is not valid in the interest of house buyers in the low-cost and low-cost plus houses,” he told a press conference at the premises of Housing Development Corporation in Jalan Sultan Tengah yesterday.
“So, we are clarifying our stand (on the supplementary agreement) and Sheda is considering it.”
Abang Johari said the Cabinet would look at the statement holistically and pragmatically and would work with banks to work out a solution.
He added that not all private housing developers issued such a supplementary agreement, adding that such agreement was actually only valid with the consent of house buyers.
“Our ministry has received several complaints about the supplementary agreement,” he said.