After considering several places and you have decided to buy a house and the price is agreed by both parties, you will need to pay some earnest deposit (min 2%) for booking purpose. My advice, don’t pay the 10% straight, just in case you changed your mind later.
After paying the earnest deposit, you will need to appoint your lawyer for the Sales & Purchase Agreement. It may take up to 2 weeks to prepare. Once the SPA is ready, you will need to make the balance 8% of the purchase price upon signing of SPA. (Assume your applied loan is 90%)
Besides, you must prepare some funds to pay the legal fees for S&P(Travelling, Stamping, Photocopying, Miscelllanous fees), which are relied on the purchase price of your property. Basically you should be able to estimate your lawyer fees based on the following:
Note: This is payable to your lawyers to get the land title transferred to your name.
What To Do After Signing The Sales And Purchase Agreement?
After that, you have 3 months to shop for housing loan. You may get extra 1 month extension if you really can’t find any housing loan.
The bank will assess your credit history, income and assets to determine what loans you qualify for. Thus, make sure that you have clean financial record in order to get faster approval.
If everything run smoothly, then you will required to sign bank offer letter which states how much of the interest rate the bank is willing to offer you, based on the purchase price and the type of property.
But, if you do not sign the offer letter, it will lapse after a few days to 2 weeks, depending on banks. And once it lapses, you would have to submit an application for loan all over again.
Hi there I like your post
Hi there,
I m planning to sell my house. I had a buyer whom hv agreed with the price.
My questions is can I collect the initial 2 or 3% deposits from him? Or my solicitor will collect from him.
Rgds.
Hi there,
i wish to buy a secound hand house, the seller ask to pay the deposit about RM3000. what should i do now, just pay need require seller to sign anything ?
Hi,
I purchased a 2nd hand house. Already paid the 1st 10% and i am taking 80% bank loan. Need to pay the balance but not sure when i should pay and who should i pay to. Thank you for advice.
Hai,
I already sign the (SPA)and my loan approve.When can i get the key?.
thx for this article. nice blog and some helpful informations….well done
I want to say – thank you for this!
Hi, is there any restriction on selling condo/aprtment after vacant possession for both freehold and leasehold? Do we have to wait after few years than we are allowed to sell our unit?
If i have lost my s&p what to do. how to get a duplicate
I’ve paid deposit 4 months ago and till now the vendor still not willing to sign SPA. Not reachable, and vendor lawyer also playing game. Can suggest me a good lawyer to sue the a** out of the property agent, vendor lawyer and the vendor?
@Keith Deposit paid via broker with a Letter of Offer & Acceptance form?
You better engage a lawyer to do a Private Caveat on that property. Then, the owner might willing to “surface”….
1. paid via property agent, both side sign acceptance form.
2. My lawyer mentioned we cannot do a private caveat. Guess that he do not want to do it. Can you recommend me a lawyer to perform this private caveat ASAP?
@Keith
1. A licensed agent should act professionally else their license is at a risk of “kena gantung” – Why is the agent so daring?
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3) They have connection with bankers and lawyers and valuers
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Hi,
My case terbalik. We agreed to buy a house from individual. Then we find the loan. Approved and have sign the offer letter. Now bank ask us to prepare the S&P. What document shall I need and where to do that. We need to withdraw money from KWSP for the differences. What shall we do?
Hi, I am selling my unit and looking for a lawyer. Can you help? I wish to know how much will the lawyer will charged if the buyer and me are using the same laywer. Is there any other fees I need to pay? What kind of documents should I prepared for the lawyer? Due to no agent and currently in overseas, the buyer refuse to pay the 2% deposit, he only pay 2k and promised after I engaged with the lawyer, he will pay the balance of deposit, is it secure for me? My unit is mor than 5 years and selling price around 240k. thanks.
Hi mun, contact me. We can help you.
Can we contact thru email? because currently I got company assignments in overseas.
Yes. I can’t post my email address here, I believe the administrator block it.
Email me at chong @ chongkonghui dot com
i am a house seller about to sign the s & p . buyer lawyer asking for the geran to be handed over on the day we sign the s & p . My house loan is fully paid up . what is the the lawyer charges ? i am using the buyer lawyer service
i am suppose to hand over the geran on the day i sigh the s& p . the buyer is taking loan from bank
I m in the process of selling my house in Jb, the buyer has obtained in principle bank loan . The question is that , the bank loan officer is asking to have a copy of theGeran of my house. Yet I have Not collected anything from the buyer. I would like advice whether should I ask for the 10 percent deposit before I handover the photo copy of the Geran for the S&P to be prepared by the buyer lawyer. I planned to engage my lawyer for this deal.
Please advise. Thanks.
I was sign the letter of offer 2 months ago from agent and already paid 2% deposit. My loan is approve with 90%. When should I paid for another 8% to my vendor? The house I purchase is ready, in what condition I will get penalty? Actual my S&P and SPA is the same lowyer, is that allow? And until now is already 2 months ++ the S&P still not yet ready, what can I do?
my questions are
1)Can s&P expired?
2)Can seller increase the property price after the S&P expired
3)If the S&P expired during and coz of the process of getting individual title for the property delayed.If in this situation can the seller increase price of property.
i already pay the balance of the house,and waiting the bank lawyer to pay the seller,is all the balance have to pay only i can get the house key?
I am going to sell off the current house but found out I’ve lost the Sales and Puchase agreement.Can I get a duplicate copy of the Sales & Purchase Agreement or is there any other alernative document to proof ownership ?
Mr Chong,
signed SPA 21.11.2011…valid for 4 months
if after 21.3.2012, the seller’s lawyer still not obtain the consent to transfer the name to me, can i get back the my lawyer fees back?