Category Archives: En-bloc / Collective Sales

En bloc sales: Help minority objectors keep their homes

Posted on 29 Aug 2009 | Comments Off on En bloc sales: Help minority objectors keep their homes

I COMMEND Ms Jeannette Chong Aruldoss on her letter on Tuesday, “Questions on collective sale laws”.

Like her, I too, have reservations about the Ministry of Law’s letter, “Rights of all owners adequately protected” (Aug 21).

I live in an HUDC unit that was involved in a collective deal. The agreement was endorsed by 80 per cent of the owners. I was among the remaining 20 per cent who did not sign the agreement because my family and I like our home.

When I bought my apartment some years ago, I thought this would be my home for life. There were no collective sale laws then.

Now, we have such laws in the Land Titles (Strata) Act, which gives the 80 per cent majority owners the legal right to force me to sell my home, which I have no intention of doing.

How is my right as a minority owner “adequately protected”? I do not feel protected by the Government. And I certainly do not feel protected by Continue reading →

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Not remorseful? Prosecution seeks stiffer sentence

Posted on 29 Aug 2009 | Comments Off on Not remorseful? Prosecution seeks stiffer sentence

Mr Lee Kok Leong had vandalised his neighbours’ padlocks over an en bloc sale dispute. — ST PHOTO: SHAHRIYA YAHAYA

THE former management committee chairman of Laguna Park has already been fined $1,200 for committing mischief – vandalising his neighbours’ padlocks.

But prosecution lawyers have pounced on comments he allegedly made to reporters – that he was not remorseful – to push for a stiffer sentence for him.

Yesterday, two reporters were put on the stand so they could tell the court what Mr Lee Kok Leong, 62, said to them.

The general manager of a logistics firm had pleaded guilty to two counts of mischief and was fined in April. He could have been fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to a year in jail on each charge.

He committed the acts of vandalism in August last year amid a row among Laguna Park residents over whether the condo should be sold en bloc. Continue reading →

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