News about Chur Associates

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 30): Renting out residential property carries inherent responsibilities for owners, particularly in ensuring that units are used for lawful and intended purposes.

Chur Associates founder and managing partner Chris Tan equates buying a property like buying a car, where regular maintenance is needed to upkeep the performance of the car, and the same applies to properties to preserve and enhance their value.

Panellists discussed what investors and consumers should watch out for when buying into stratified integrated development.

“Real estate agents are reporting institutions, which have obligations to carry out, among others, customer due diligence measures if there is reasonable suspicion of the commission of a money laundering offence or a terrorism financing offence.

Chur Associates managing partner and founder Chris Tan: Why do you pay more to be regulated? Because you believe in orderliness and compliance.

So, you own a strata property.

PETALING JAYA (April 10): During the new normal in the context of a Strata - or regulated community living, it is always important to know what can and should not be done during this extraordinary time involving Covid-19.

“Sustainability” shouldn’t be just a beautiful word for any property development.

Is a developer still liable to rectify defects that appear way after the defects liability period (DLP)? According to Chur Associates founder and managing partner Chris Tan, the DLP is not a deadline to claim for defects and hence the answer is ‘yes’.

On a scale of 1 to 10 (with 1 being the best and 10 the poorest), Architect Centre accredited building inspector and trainer Anthony Lee Tee ranked most properties he has visited in Malaysia, a 7 to even 10.