Alienation of lands for housing development projects: Some emerging legal issues in Malaysia

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A housing developer needs land to develop it into housing development project.The land which is to be developed into housing development project may be originally owned by the housing developer itself or the developer got it through purchase from interested seller or through alienation of land disposed by the State Authority. The alienation of land is made on the approval of the State Authority the application to alienate land of the applicant housing developers.There are cases whereby the State Authority approved the applications to alienate land to applicant housing developers without taking into consideration, seriously, the capability of the applicant housing developers concerned in carrying out the intended housing development projects and the suitability of the project locations.These incapability and unsuitability, to the extreme cases, may result in the abandonment of housing development projects.The questions are: Why had the State Authority approved the applications to al

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