MAINTAINING & MANAGING BUILDING AND COMMON PROPERTY

As a Building Surveyor, you guys really have to familiar with all the stages involved in managing and
maintaining of strata titled buildings and also common property as stipulated under the Building and
Common Property (Maintenance & Management) Act, 2007 and Strata Titles Act, 1985. Here I will
summarized all the 3 stages you have to know:

STAGE 1: DEVELOPER RESPONSIBILITY
1. At this preliminary stage, the developer is exclusively accountable for the appropriate
maintenance and management of building and common property.
2. Headed for this, the developer would typically ask for the purchasers to enter into a Deed of
Mutual Covenants which sets down a range of rules and regulations and charges to be paid by the
purchasers for the maintenance and management of property.
3. Though, the developer must note that it is firmly proscribed from collecting any charges unless
and until:
(i) Vacant possession of the property has been delivered; and
(ii) the Building Maintenance Account has been opened for each development area on which the
building is erected. The developer shall not open and maintain a Building Maintenance Account
together with any other building outside the development area.
4. The entire charges collected from purchasers shall not form the developers property and must be
deposited into the Building Maintenance Account within 2 working days of receipt of such excise by
the developer.




STAGE 2: JOINT MANAGEMENT BODY RESPONSIBILITY
1. Afterwards, in 12 months from the release of vacant possession of parcels to the purchasers, the
developer is required to form a body comprising both the developer and purchasers, known as the
Joint Management Body.
2. The JMB would capture the responsibility to manage and maintain the property from the
developer; and hence, the developers right to collect charges from the purchasers shall cease.
3. To all intents and purposes, the developers Deed of Mutual Covenants would no longer be
applicable as it would in turn be replaced by the Joint Management Bodys own set of house rules
and charges.
4. In line with the handing over of its responsibilities to Joint Management Body, the developer is
required to transfer to Joint Management Body any surplus in the Building Maintenance Account
within 1 month from the establishment of the Joint Management Body.



STAGE 3: MANAGEMENT CORPORATION RESPONSIBILITY
1, At this stage, it will involve the process of opening the strata register book.
2. Upon the opening of such book, the Management Corporation consisting of all parcel proprietors
comes into existence to take over the management and maintenance of the property from the Joint
Management Body.
3. The Joint Management Body will transfer all its assets and liabilities to Management Corporation
not later than 1 month from the date of the first meeting of the Management Corporation.
4. Subsequently, within 3 months from the date of the Management Corporations whispered first
meeting, the Joint Management Body is dissolved.