{"id":584,"date":"2023-05-05T21:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/?p=584"},"modified":"2023-05-05T15:14:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T07:14:25","slug":"584","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/slider\/584\/","title":{"rendered":"[Property] What should I do if I change my mind after buying a house and the developer refuses to refund the booking fee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/qoala.my\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/shutterstock_1270775542-768x512-2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>What should I do if I change my mind after buying a house and the developer refuses to refund the booking fee?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In most cases, in order to purchase the desired unit, buyers will first pay a booking fee to the developer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Did you know that this is actually illegal?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Section 11(2) of the Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Regulations 1989\uff1a<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">No housing developer shall, except for the amount stated in the sale and purchase agreement, collect any sum of money in any name or pretext whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What are the consequences for the recipient of such payments?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Section 13 of the Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Regulations 1989:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The recipient may be liable to a fine not exceeding RM50,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or both.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">If the developer still refuses to refund the deposit, what can you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You can file a complaint with the Tribunal of Home Buyer&#8217;s Claim to recover the full booking fee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What should I do if I change my mind after buying a house and the developer refuses to refund the booking fee? In most cases, in order to purchase the desired unit, buyers will first pay a booking fee to the developer. Did you know that this is actually illegal? Section 11(2) of the Housing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[175,55,177,61,60,59,58,33,50,53,36,51,52,18,54,57,56,176,178,170,172,38,67,34,169,171,74,75,72,69,173,174],"gutentor_comment":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}