Malaysia: Court rules that management corporation may sue developer for latent defects in common property

/ Owner - June 15, 2021

A statutory duty to “properly maintain the common property and keep it in a state of good and serviceable repair” shifts between a developer, a joint management committee and a management corporation subject to the timeline provided in the Strata Management Act 2013. However, when the baton is passed to a management corporation, does the management corporation have standing to sue the developer for any defects in the common property? A high court recently addressed this question in Dua Residency Management Corporation v Edisi Utama Sdn Bhd.(1)     Read the entire article……………………………….

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