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JMBs and MCs advised to comply with SOPs during pandemic

Chur Associates founder and managing partner Chris Tan: If you want the authority to exercise discretion, you have to be reasonable. If you are supposed to renew certificates within the MCO (Movement Control Order) period but you can’t do it, you need to show you had tried to do so and have the evidence to prove that for instance you contacted the authority via phone call, email or registered post.

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Market recovery thrown off by Covid-19

For the property industry, like most sectors which were considered non-essential, business came to almost a standstill during the full MCO period. If not for the Covid-19 outbreak, the 2019 market performance could have indicated a light at the end of the tunnel for a property market which has been in a slowdown since 2015/16.

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