Whether a property is a leasehold or freehold has no bearing on the stamp duty payable on the Sale and Purchase Agreement or the Deed of Assignment. It may affect however the legal fees and registration fees.

If you are purchasing a property under master title through sub-sale transaction then upon issuance of the individual document of title to the Property, you are only required to pay a nominal fee of RM10.00 only. Your solicitors will know how to obtain the stamped original Deed of Assignment from your financier for endorsement of the then Memorandum of Transfer.

You are right.

If you are purchasing the property through a subsale transaction, you are required to pay the full stamp duty on the Deed of Assignment (by way of Transfer) based on the purchase price. The stamped ORIGINAL Deed of Assignment will be forwarded to your financier for safekeeping (if you are obtaining a loan) and when the individual document of title has been issued, your solicitors will request from your financier the same for endorsement so that the Memorandum of Transfer will only be stamped RM10.00 (nominal fee to give effect of admissibility in court).

BUT if you are purchasing the property by cash then the stamped ORIGINAL Deed of Assignment will be given to you then please be reminded to keep it somewhere safe and a place in which you will not forget otherwise you are going to have a bad time later on.

Pay once.