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In Malaysia, land leasing applications have extended to housing and commercial property development, particularly high-rise building development. It has given new possibilities to create the strata lease scheme. A strata lease scheme is a strata scheme that has a registered lease on all its strata titles. However, on these strata titles, the strata lease scheme’s purchaser is registered as a lessee instead of a proprietor like any regular strata scheme purchaser. In the strata lease scheme, purchasers are given the right to enjoy the purchased strata parcel for possession of a 99-year lease. It has sparked debates among scholars on the issue of safeguarding these purchasers as lessee and their rights to property ownership. Hence, this article reviews the legislation on property rights in Malaysia's strata lease scheme. Two objectives of the study are to identify which Malaysian laws uphold property rights to strata lease scheme purchasers and to see if these property rights laws support the notion of a strata lease scheme. The study found that although a lease is not construed as a proprietorship, the rights may come into many forms, which can be a possession of a registrable interest, a 99-year lease term reflected onto the strata title.
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Zainal, N. H., Samsudin, S., & Azmi, F. A. M. (2024). A Review on Property Rights Legislation in Malaysia’s Strata Lease Scheme. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 14(4), 636–644.
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