BY LEE SHAW WEI & GABRIEL LIHAN
KUCHING: A total of 189 houses in Sentoria, Borneo Samariang Garden (BSG), Phase 7, which were under construction, have been abandoned since 2019 although their buyers are still paying for the housing loans every month.
So far, only the exteriors of the houses have been completed.
A 33-year-old civil servant, Abdul Rahman Abdul Hamid, who represented the house buyers, said that the last time they received a notice from the developer was in September 2021.
He said,”The developer said he would start the construction process again in the fourth quarter of 2021.
“But as you can see here right now, nothing was done.
“Some of us have paid our housing loans for two to three years. Most of us have been paying more than RM1,000 and some even up to RM2,000 per month in the past two to three years.”
When asked whether the buyers had followed up their cases with the developer, he said they did until the developer’s office completely vanished from
the city.
“All we know is that the developer has an office in Kuantan, West Malaysia.
“Initially, the developer had an office in one of the shoplots in Bandar Baru Samariang and after that, it moved to Samariang Water Park before disappearing from Kuching altogether,” said Abdul Rahman.
“Based on the contracts, the houses were supposed to be ready by now but as you can see, they have been abandoned.
“This is the third year we are celebrating our Raya without the houses and this will be the first time that we are having our ‘open house’ right in front of our abandoned houses,” he said.
Abdul Rahman hoped that Sarawak government would assist him and other buyers by stepping in to complete their houses.
“We have suffered financially. We have been renting while waiting for our own houses to be ready,” he said.
