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Bought a property June 2018, pay 20% downpayment on (4/6/2018, 26/7/2018, 10/8/2018),
22/6/18: Being ask by Sales to sign S&P to remain the offer by developer (stamping date 27/6/2018), Sales promise verbally to waive all the interest charges
20/7/2018: Sales or Bank found Valuer to accept the Selling Price equal to Property Market Value
27/7/2018: Letter Offer from Bank approved date in system (delay mainly due to Selling Price higher than Market Value, takes time to find valuer to accept the Selling Price)
30/7/2018: Inform by bank loan is approved with details
8/8/2018: Sign letter offer
30/10/2018: Bank release loan to developer
1/11/2018 until 13/6/2019 (keep chasing sales to waive interest, but was told to be waive during the time handover key, and the sales was told resigned at 29/5/2019, no one but myself to follow up the issue)

Question: Developer charge interest from date 24/7/18 until 30/10/2018, is this reasonable? As told by bank fastest loan release processing time by (Bank, Lawyer, Developer & State Consent) is 2 and Half Months or 3 Months.
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David Wong Lai Kwong
Some developers use to bear the interest under the acronym DIBS (Developer Interest Bearing Scheme) but no longer allowed or scrapped. The Sale & Purchase Agreement (SPA) that you signed will spell out clearly that the developer will charge late payment interest and any waiver that you requested should also be in writing. It will be difficult to argue your case if the developer had not agreed to waive the late payment interest in writing to you as the SPA is a contractual obligation. Read More
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