Date: 9 April 2026
Venue: Concorde Hotel Kuala Lumpur
Organiser: Logic Plus Sdn Bhd
Strategic Partners: Chee Hoe & Associates; BurgieLaw
BOVAEP / LPPEH: 5 CPD HOURS APPLIED

This 1-day intensive seminar cum workshop is the first seminar in our Housing Development Seminar Series for 2026. It will lay the way forward by equipping participants with the knowledge and solutions to deal with the recent challenges faced by housing development industry.

The speakers will deal with the important issues such as: what are SPA defects; what is the main difference between defect to parcel vs common property; what are the possible defences for the defects; what are the Developer’s duties in relation to Housing Development Accounts; what is E-SPA and what is the process of E-Signature & E-Stamping.

The KEY TOPICS include:

HOW DOES ONE DEAL WITH DEFECTS UNDER THE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ACT
HOW TO DEAL WITH COMMON PROPERTY DEFECTS ACCOUNT AND ITS MECHANISM
WHAT ARE DEVELOPER’S DUTIES IN RELATION TO HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNTS?
HOW DOES ONE DEAL WITH E-SIGNATURE AND E-STAMPING IN THE E-SPA?
RECENT LANDMARK DECISIONS AFFECTING HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Property Developers
Legal Practitioners / Consultants
Project Managers
Local Authorities & Commissioners
Property Owners / Investors
Valuers, Appraisers and Estate Agents
Planners

PROGRAMME

9.00am – 10.30am HOW DOES ONE DEAL WITH DEFECTS UNDER THE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ACT

By Lai Chee Hoe

Managing Partner, Chee Hoe & Associates

What are SPA Defects?
How to file a claim for defects?
What are the possible defences for defects?
Is discolouration a defect
Is rust a defect?
Can a developer enhance the property on goodwill?

10.30am – 11.00am Coffee Break

11.00am – 12.30pm HOW TO DEAL WITH COMMON PROPERTY DEFECTS ACCOUNT AND ITS MECHANISM

By Lai Chee Hoe

Managing Partner, Chee Hoe & Associates

What is the main difference between defect to parcel vs common property?
Who has the locus standi to claim for defect to common property?
What are the available defences to rebut the claim for common property defects?
Can a purchaser claim for defects to common property ?

12.30pm – 1.30pm Networking Lunch

1.30pm – 3.00pm WHAT ARE DEVELOPER’S DUTIES IN RELATION TO HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNTS?

By Siti Sara binti Jamil

Senior Accountant, Housing Development Licencing Division at the National Housing Department, KPKT

What is a Housing Development Account?
When does a developer require to open a HDA account?
How much does a developer require to place a deposit?
How soon must the purchaser financer pay the progressive payment to the Developer?
What are the conditions of withdrawal of money from the HDA Account?
When can a developer withdraw the surplus monies in the HDA Account?
When can a developer withdraw all remaining monies in the HDA Account?
Can the Controller use the monies in the HDA Account?

3.00pm – 3.30pm Tea Break

3.30pm – 5.00pm HOW DOES ONE DEAL WITH E-SIGNATURE AND E-STAMPING IN THE E-SPA

By Mohd Faizuri bin Abdul Aziz

` Senior Assistant Information Technology Officer, Information Technology Division at the National Housing Department, KPKT

What is E-SPA?
What is E-Signature & E-Stamping?
What is the process of E-Signature & E-Stamping?
Who can be the E-SPA checker?
What is the digital signature process?
Who are the stakeholders in the E-signature?
What is E-KYC?
How does one verify the identity?
How to generate the digital certificate?
How to generate the digital pin?

5.00pm – 6.00pm QUESTION & ANSWER

Full Brochure can be downloaded below:

Housing Development Seminar 2026 (Series 1) – BL Download

PEAKER PROFILE

Lai Chee Hoe

A Certificate of Legal Practice (“CLP”) Book-prize winner for General Paper, author of “Strata Management Practice & Procedure” published by CLJ Publication 2019 edition, admitted and enrolled as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 2005.

In year 2019, he sat on the previous focus committee amending the Strata Management Act 2013 and the Strata Management (Maintenance & Management) Regulations 2015. In year 2024, he was appointed by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government as one of the panel of advisor to assist in the amendments to the Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Act 1966 [Act 118] and Strata Management Act 2015. [Act 757]

He specialises in strata management and housing development disputes. He also advises developers on strata related pre-emptive actions and provide a comprehensive advisory from the stage of SIFUS and drawing up the schedule of parcels.

He argues complicated strata management issues in court regularly and is constantly sought after to provide training and talks. He acts for joint management bodies (JMB), management corporations (MC) and developers.

He acted as the main counsel for:

Obata Ambak v Prema Bonanza which the Federal Court (with a panel of 5 judges) delivered a landmark decision distinguishing Ang Ming Lee.
Pearl Suria case where the Court of Appeal (and leave was not allowed in the Federal Court) delivered a landmark decision in allowing a developer (during preliminary management period) and Management Corporation to apply different rates of charges.
Gas Malaysia case where the Court of Appeal (and later affirmed by the Federal Court) opined that the Management Corporation has no power to supply Gas to the development area.

He also acts for the Bar Council on various cases. He also regularly updates Strata related cases on https://blog.burgielaw.com/

Siti Sara binti Jamil

Siti Sara binti Jamil is the Senior Accountant with the Housing Development Licencing Division at National Housing Department, KPKT. She has been with HDA Branch since April 2022.

She has 16 years of working experience as a Public Sector Accountant and prior to National Housing Department, she was an accountant at Ministry of Health and Public Service Department. She was also a secondment accountant at Kumpulan Wang Persaraan (Diperbadankan) KWAP for 2 years.

She graduated from Islamic International University Malaysia in Bachelor of Accountancy, a chartered accountant and a member of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, CIMA.

Mohd Faizuri Bin Abdul Aziz

Mohd Faizuri bin Abdul Aziz is the Senior Assistant Information Technology Officer with the Information Technology Division at National Housing Department, KPKT. He has been with the IT Division since January 2017.

He has 16 years of working experience as a Public Sector Information Technology Officer and prior to National Housing Department, he was an IT officer at Public Service Department.

At the National Housing Department, he is responsible as the system administrator for BLESS, IDAMAN dan e-Pemaju. In 2019, he served as the System Analyst in the development of Housing Integrated Management System (HIMS), which was successfully launched and “go-live” on 31 January 2022.

REGISTRATION FEES

RM950 – Early Bird Registration: Payment received by 3 April 2026

RM1050 – Normal Price / HRDC Registration

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