Legal issues every homebuyer should know

Don’t just leave it to your lawyers and agents. Let’s go through six legal aspects of buying property. Tan Hui Yee
Figuring out your options
THE option to purchase is the right to buy a property at a specified price within a specified period of time.
To secure this, the buyer must pay an option or [...]

Lawyer used shopping vouchers to tout for business

Yet another lawyer has admitted to touting for business, this time by handing out shopping vouchers to property agents in exchange for conveyancing work.
But lawyer Yap Kok Kiong, 42, was spared a fine or disciplinary action. A disciplinary committee appointed by the Chief Justice to look into the case found there was ‘no cause [...]